Oral Histories
Interview of Catherine Dace
Granddaughter of Senator Charles McClay and daughter to Henry Cutler Hubbard, a pioneer rancher in the San Fernando Valley.
- Subtitle:
- Early San Fernando: Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Dace
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- Community History
- Biographical Note:
- Granddaughter of Senator Charles McClay and daughter to Henry Cutler Hubbard, a pioneer rancher in the San Fernando Valley.
- Interviewee:
- Dace, Catherine
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Length:
- 2.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Reminiscences about grandfather Senator Charles Maclay (born 1822), founder of city of San Fernando; Maclay's family background; trip to California via ship and across Isthmus of Panama; arrival in San Francisco, 1851; first minister of earliest Methodist church in San Francisco; work with vigilantes; friendship with Leland Stanford; move to Southern California; meeting with General Andrés Pico at San Fernando mission; purchase of ranch in San Fernando Valley from Eulogio de Celis; right of way given to Southern Pacific Railroad Company; partnership with B. F. Porter; land for town of San Fernando cleared by Chinese laborers; streets in San Fernando named for first families; Maclay's activities in Southern California land development in 1880s; role of father Henry Cutler Hubbard in growth and prosperity of San Fernando Valley; relationship with Harrison Gray Otis; visit of President Theodore Roosevelt; transition of city of San Fernando from pastoral community to commercial and residential city.