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Title: Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Davis Wilson
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1875
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Group portrait, from left to right: Edward Hereford (Mrs. Wilson's son by first husband Dr. Thomas Hereford.); Mrs. Wilson; Benjamin Davis Wilson (Don Benito); and Tom Hereford (Mrs. Wilson's nephew.) Benjamin Davis Wilson served as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1851-1852. Wilson also organized the first Los Angeles police force. President Millard Fillmore appointed him Indian agent and as a result of his experience wrote a history of the Indians of the area. In 1855 and 1869, he was elected to the California Senate. Mount Wilson was named for him.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00034036
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Portraits-Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. (W) Benjamin Davis (Don Benito).; BS-000-248 4x5
CARL0000036647
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97359
Subject: Wilson, Benjamin Davis,--1811-1878
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1871-1880

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