Cyrus Willard

American politician

This article is about the Los Angeles politician. For the American socialist and theosophist activist, see Cyrus Field Willard.

Cyrus D. Willard (1830–1913) was a contractor and mason in 19th century Los Angeles, California. He also was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council and the Los Angeles County Grand Jury.[1][2]

## History

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Willard was born in Sharon, Maine, on June 17, 1830. He went to school there and served an apprenticeship in Boston, Massachusetts.

Spurred by tales of the California Gold Rush, he came by sea to San Francisco, where he landed on his 20th birthday in 1850. He first went to the gold mines in the Sierra Nevada, then the Humboldt Bay, where he did lumbering. He returned to San Francisco in 1861, where he was superintendent of construction with the Lighthouse Construction Department of the United States Lighthouse Service.

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He moved to Los Angeles in 1876 and, besides his building enterprises, he invested in real estate. Willard was active in the California National Guard, attaining the rank of major.[3][4]

He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council from 1885 to 1886, representing the city's 5th Ward.

Willard and his partner, C.F. Collins, did the masonry work for significant buildings in Downtown Los Angeles, including: the Nadeau Building (1881); the Bullard Building, the Bradbury Building; and the Los Angeles City Hall (1888) used from 1888–1928.[3]

From 1891 to 1897, he was secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and from 1897 to 1900 he was general manager of the Los Angeles Evening Express.[5]

Willard was a member of the 1899 Los Angeles County Grand Jury,[6] and the year after completing his work there he suffered a "stroke of paralysis."[7]

He died in April 1913 at the age of 83.[3] Unmarried, he bequeathed shares of his estate to his business partner, James M. Wadsworth, and to various friends and relatives. He left $2,500 to the town library of New Sharon, Maine.[8]

## References

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1. ^ ""The Glory of La Fiesta's Military Day," Los Angeles Herald, April 20, 1895, page 1". Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
2. ^ Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."
3. ^ a b c "Octavius Morgan, A.S. McDonald, Mary Franklin-Pearson, "Cyrus Willard," Annual Report of the Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, for the Years 1913–14" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
4. ^ "An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California, Chicago:The Lewis Publishing Company (1889), page 835". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
5. ^ [J.M. Guinn, Historical and Biographical Record of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company (1901)]
6. ^ "Grand Jury Report: Discovery Made That County Affairs Are All Right,"' Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1899, page 10
7. ^ "Personal," Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1900, page 17
8. ^ "Leaves Partner Remembrance," Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1913, page II-10

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Members of the Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889)

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* Beck
* Lawlor
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* Miles
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Members
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* Cristobal Aguilar
* David W. Alexander
* David Anderson
* James Baldwin
* Peter Baltz
* Phineas Banning
* John Barre
* Joseph Bayer
* Alexander Bell
* Dionisio Botiller
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* Joseph Lancaster Grant
* Jose Vicente Guerrero
* Vincent A. Hoover
* Alexander W. Hope
* Joseph Huber Sr.
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* Charles H. Johnson
* John F. Jones
* Wilson W. Jones
* Matthew Keller
* John King
* Solomon Lazard
* Obed Macy
* Damien Marchesseault
* Luis B. Martinez
* Hiram McLaughlin
* Lewis Meinzer
* Francis Mellus
* Jacob Metzger
* William Moore
* Moritz Morris
* Murray Morrison
* Elijah Moulton
* Henry R. Myles
* Myron Norton
* Agustin Olvera
* William H. Perry
* William H. Peterson
* Nehemiah A. Potter
* David M. Porter
* Augustine Poulain
* William R. Rand
* Manuel Requena
* William Whipple Robinson
* Louis Roeder
* Tomas A. Sanchez
* William T. B. Sanford
* John Schumacher
* Juan María Sepúlveda
* Philip Sichel
* Felix Signoret
* Abel Stearns
* Eli Taylor
* Jonathan Temple
* John B. Thompson
* James R. Toberman
* John Turner
* August Ulyard
* Juan C. Vejar
* Collins Wadhams
* Henry Wartenberg
* Jacob Weizel
* John Ozias Wheeler
* George N. Whitman
* Benjamin Davis Wilson
* James Brown Winston
* Wallace Woodworth
* Geronimo Ybarra

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1st Ward|

* Julian A. Chavez
* Bernard Dubourdin
* John Jones
* Thornton P. Campbell
* Oscar Macy
* Julian Valdes
* Joseph Mullaly
* George R. Long
* Jacob F. Gherkins
* Ramon R. Sotelo
* Joseph G. Carmona
* F. Tamiet
* B. Valle
* Cayetano Apablasa
* Ezra M. Hamilton
* Louis Meinzer
* John Schaeffer
* R. L. Beauchet
* William Norton Monroe
* J. G. Bower
* Clinton S. Scheiffelin
* Charles W. Schroeder
* William Thomas Lambie
* James Velsir
* Thomas Goss
* George L. Stearns
* Edward A. Gibbs
* James Hanley
* Newell Mathews
* C. N. Earl
* George O. Ford

2nd Ward|

* William Ferguson
* George Fall
* Matthew Teed
* Prudent Beaudry
* William H. Workman
* Jose Mascarel
* Louis Lichtenberger
* Jacob Kuhrts
* Bernard Cohn
* James W. Potts
* John Edward Hollenbeck
* C. C. Lips
* Richard Molony
* Jesse Houston Butler
* John Bobenreith
* H. Schumacher
* Pascal Ballade
* Henry Hammel
* Frank R. Day
* John Frederick Holbrook
* Martin V. Biscailuz
* Michael Thomas Collins
* Thomas J. Cuddy
* John Moriarty
* H. T. D. Wilson

3rd Ward|

* Frank Sabichi
* Henry Dockweiler
* William S. Hammel Sr.
* John Osborn
* Elijah H. Workman
* H.K.S. O'Melveny
* William H. Dennison
* Eulogio F. de Celis
* William Osborn
* Charles E. Huber
* Louis Wolfskill
* Thomas Leahy
* D.V. Waldron
* Elisha K. Green
* John S. Thompson
* John H. Jones
* Albert Fenner Kercheval
* Charles Brode
* Simon A. Francis
* S. H. Buchanan
* Edward Falles Spence
* George Gephard
* Andrew S. Ryan
* Robert Steere
* J. B. O'Neil
* Charles Gassen
* Charles R. Johnson
* Loring A. French
* Albert Brown
* Levi Newton Breed
* Edward Wadsworth Jones
* Edward C. Bosbyshell
* John F. Humphreys
* J. H. Book
* John Henry Bryant

4th Ward|

* William H. Workman
* Samuel J. Beck
* Samuel Marshall Perry
* O. H. Bliss
* Bernard Cohn
* Burdette Chandler
* George Kerckhoff
* Joseph W. Wolfskill
* Alfred Louis Bush
* D. E. Miles
* Frank Sabichi
* Milton Santee
* James D. Bullis
* John Lovell
* Joseph Hyans
* Anthony McNally
* Edward R. Threlkeld

5th Ward|

* William B. Lawlor
* Nathan R. Vail
* James Greer McDonald
* John P. Moran
* Walter Scott Moore
* Otto G. Weyse
* Daniel Michael McGarry
* John B. Niles
* Hiram Sinsabaugh
* Cyrus Willard
* Jacob Frankenfeld
* Horace Hiller
* A. W. Barrett
* Austin C. Shafer

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* Los Angeles City Council, 1889–1909
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