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In the yearElias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin became the wealthiest landowner in Southern California, laying claim to more t acres of Los Angeles : Alvaro Parra.

Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin (April 3, – March 1, ) was a prominent California businessman and investor of the second half of the 19th century. Biography. Baldwin was born in Butler County, Ohio and his family moved to Indiana when he was a child. Throughout his childhood he was known as a wanderer and s: William Alexander Crooks Baldwin, Elizabeth Nancy Baldwin.

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Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. Books. Go Search Best Author: Sandra Snider. Lucky Baldwin: Tahoe Visionary April 4, Elias Jackson Baldwin's nickname "Lucky" came from a windfall of more than two million dollars realized from his Comstock investments.

Baldwin had been aggressively speculating in the risky Nevada mining operations like everybody else in San Francisco and Virginia City and by the gambler had a. Title supplied by Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin () was a prominent businessman, real estate maven, and investor who generated most of his wealth through savvy and lucky mining investments.

In he made his way from Ohio to California, and upon arriving proceeded to buy 8, acres in the San Gabriel Valley with money from transactions he had made during his journey.

Businessman. Comstock millionaire and builder of San Francisco's Baldwin Hotel (), which rivaled the Palace for luxury. A gathering place for the city's elite, the hotel included a little theater. He owned Rancho Santa Anita in southern California, future site of the race track, and was known as a notorious Burial: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San.

Queen Anne Cottage Elias Jackson (“Lucky”) Baldwin’s Queen Anne Cottage was constructed inprobably as a honeymoon gift for his fourth wife, sixteen- year-old Lillie Bennett. “For a year after she married Baldwin (May, ), this little girl was queen of the ranch,” wrote the Los Angeles Times.

ELIAS JACKSON "LUCKY" BALDWIN: California Visionary. Snider, Sandra Lee. Los Angeles: The Stairwell Group, First Edition.

Trade paperback. Signed by Snider on the title page. Pictorial biography of the empire builder and rancher who carved cities out of range land, made millions in mining stocks, and built everything from hotels to. Home California Historical Society Collection, View of Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Rancho cottage club house from across the lake, ca Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin-California Visionary: Snider, Sandra: Books - Skip to main content.

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Email this Article Lucky BaldwinMissing: Elias Jackson. Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin, circa Arcadia was founded by Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin in He was the Southern California city’s first mayor, and the direction the city took in its early development was under his watchful eye and approval.

Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita Queen Anne Cottage (the club house), viewed across the lake in Arcadia, Los Angeles, ca. The cottage was constructed in for Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin and his third wife, Lillie Bennett, the daughter of the cottage's architect Albert A.

Bennett. Upon E.J.'s death inhis daughter Anita closed the cottage and disposed of all ectural style: Stick/Eastlake, Queen. Santa Anita Rancho's famously ambitious and colorful owner, Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, had established a popular tourist attraction on his productive working ranch by the late s.

Baldwin planned to incorporate the section of his ranch known as Arcadia, but opponents feared that he would turn such a city into a "gambling hell and booze Brand: ArcadiaPublishing.Elias Jackson (lucky) Baldwin began the transition form ranch to city land when in the 's he made his first subdivisions in the sprawling Baldwin Ranch.

Orange groves dominated the landscape for years, however, and tourists came by the thousands to enjoy the scenic wonders of the ranch which then overshadowed a fledgling Arcadia town-site.