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Charles Cooper continues his Arcadia city centennial series "Memories of Arcadia" with a story about Arcadia's mayors. A. N. Multer was the first person to be given the title of mayor of Arcadia. City founder Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin was the city's first presiding officer, but he held the title of president of the Board of Trustees. The title of mayor was not adopted until 1927, when the Board of Trustees changed to the City Council. Arcadia will have 4 mayors this year to mark the city's centennial. Each city council member will rotate into the position. More interesting facts: Floretta Lauber was the first woman to serve as mayor. She paved the way for Mary Young, Barbara Kuhn, and Gail Marshall to follow. Other history of mayors is recapped. The first city manager was William J. Richards in 1951, when a charter was adopted. The longest serving city official was City Clerk Christine Van Mannen, who held the job for 32 years. See hard copy in VF Arcadia (City) History.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32471

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 18, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 15

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 18, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 15

Subjects: Alford, June; Arcadia mayors; Bottema, John; Busse, Earl; Butterworth, Ed; Chandler, Roger; City council history; Cooper, Charles; Cozad, Lyman; Fasching, George; Gilb, Charles; Kelly, Bill; Krebs, Richard, Jr.; Kuhn, Barbara; Lauber, Floretta; Link, Harry; Margett, Bob; Marshall, Gail; Multer, A. N.; Richards, William J.; Van Mannen, Christine; Young, Mary

Item ID: 32670AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

View north toward mountains and Chantry Flats Road. From vicinity just east of Santa Anita, where present Orange Grove intersects, showing orange groves. An open field apparently planted to grain and having a large oak tree, would be present site of Highland Oaks School. Eucalyptus trees lining Santa Anita are on left in photo, this property belonged to Harry and Hattie Ainsworth.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs368

Date: 1916

1 image

Date: 1916

Subjects: Ainsworth, Harry; Ainsworth, Hattie; Highland Oaks Elementary School

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 366

Collection: Photographs

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