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William ('Don Julian') Workman (January 15, 1802–May 17, 1876) was born in Temple Sowerby, Westmorland, now Cumbria, England, to Thomas Workman (1763–1843) and Nancy Hook (1771–1830). When William was eleven years old, his father inherited a substantial home and property in nearby Clifton from a childless aunt and uncle and relocated his ...
The earliest documented date is the burial of founder William Workman's older brother, David, in November 1855. A year later, artist Henry Miller, touring California to visit and sketch the Spanish and Mexican-era Roman Catholic missions, stayed at the Workman House and prepared sketches for a chapel contemplated by Workman.
Rowland and Workman informally divided the grant in about 1851, with Rowland taking about 29,000-acre (117 km 2) in the east portion and Workman receiving the 20,000-acre (81 km 2) western part. In 1867 they received a US patent for their land, resulting from a 15-year protracted struggle to legitimize their land claim as required by the 1851 ...
The Rancho was eventually acquired by John A. Rowland and William Workman in 1845 via a Mexican land grant, and eventually acquired by Elias "Lucky" Baldwin in the mid-1870s. [6] In 1912, his descendant, Anita Baldwin, sold the property to Edwin Hart and Jet Torrance. [6]
These colonists included William Workman, John A. Rowland (later owners of Rancho La Puente) and Benjamin Davis Wilson. After remaining about two years at La Politana, Don Lorenzo, and four other families of colonists were persuaded move to 2,000 acres of land on the east side of the Santa Ana River , on the northern boundary of the Rancho ...
Three years later, Governor Pio Pico amended the grant, enlarging it to nearly 49,000 acres (19,830 ha) and adding William Workman as a co-owner. In 1868, after they received their federal land patent the prior year, Rowland and Workman divided Rancho La Puente, with Workman largely taking the western and central portions and Rowland the ...
Governor Pío Pico sold much of the land of West Covina to John Rowland and William Workman in 1845. [8] The first permanent settlers arrived in West Covina in 1905. Most famous among them were William Payne, Bob Dancer, Bender, Robinson and Larsen. They cleared the land of sagebrush and cactus. They also planted the first walnut trees in the ...
William H. Workman (1839–1918), American politician, former mayor of Los Angeles Willy Workman (born 1990), American basketball player W. D. Workman Jr. (1914–1990), American journalist, writer, and politician