- Hugo Reid
Hugo Reid was a resident of
Los Angeles, California in 1852 who wrote a series of newspaper letters that described the culture, language, and modern circumstances of the local "Gabrieliño" Indians and criticized their treatment under theFranciscan mission system.Born in 1809 or 1810Fact|date=September 2007 in Cardross, Scotland, Reid came to the United States as a sailor and jumped ship at Los Angeles in 1832. He married a "Gabrieliño" woman named Victoria and adopted her children, Maria and Felipe. His home, known as the
Hugo Reid Adobe , is located on the former estate ofLucky Baldwin at theLos Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in what is now the town of Arcadia. He published a series of 22 letters in the "Los Angeles Star" during 1852 which provide an important ethnographic picture of the little–known "Gabrieliño" and were republished in book form several times. Reid died in Los Angeles onDecember 12 of that year.Arcadia's Hugo Reid Elementary School is named after Reid.
Hugo Reid is also a part of the history of
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California . The geography of the area was reminiscent of Scotland, so he named the reservoir [http://www.silverlake.org/images/historic%20photos/jpeg/ivanhoeres.jpg"Ivanhoe"] after the 1819 novelIvanhoe bySir Walter Scott .Fact|date=August 2008 Many of the streets in the area are named after characters in that novel, such asRowena and Herkimer. Other streets merely have Scottish names, likeSt. George .References
* Dakin, Susanna Bryant. 1939. "A Scotch Paisano: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832-1851, Derived from His Correspondence". University of California Press, Berkeley.
*Reid, Hugo. 1968. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk007)):@@@$REF$ "The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852"] . Edited and annotated by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers No. 21. Los Angeles.
* [http://www.silverlake.org/about_silverlake/aboutSL_frmset.htm "History Of Silver Lake"] A community web-page of the Silver Lake area.ee also
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