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The photograph is mounted on a cream cardboard stock. #4 of 5 in file. From the other photographic materials in file: T.P. Lukens "A Public Leader, Had great interest in Reforestation, served as mayor of the city [Pasadena]"Lukens was born in Ohio on October 6, 1848. He was an American conservationist, real estate investor, civic leader, and forester, known as the “Father of Forestry”. The Lukens family settled in Pasadena in December 1880. Theodore Lukens was active in his new community and by 1884; he was elected Justice of the Peace, as well as a member of the new Republican Committee. Two years later, the Southern California land boom swept Lukens, the first real estate agent in Pasadena, into a wealthy position. He is credited with selling his large interests in the Raymond Tract, one of the earliest subdivisions of acreage at the time. He wrote the first advertising booklet for the town, entitled, “Pasadena, California, Illustrated and Described,” in the hope of getting hotel guests to settle in Pasadena. Lukens worked for the US Forest Service from 1900 to 1906 where he was acting supervisor of the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve and the San Bernardino Forest Reserve. His first association with the agency was through John Muir, who recommended him to Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1899. Lukens served as president (mayor) of Pasadena twice; the first two-year term was 1890–1892 and a partial term from 1894 to 1895 when he was replaced by John S. Cox. Lukens's second term as Mayor ended on January 2, 1895 as he was summarily "retired" from office because he refused to endorse a resolution allowing a franchise by Southern Pacific Railroad for a railway through Arroyo Parkway to Broadway Street to Green Street. (Wikipedia.org, 2014).
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