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Originally Posted by HossC
There was a Sainsevain Street - the 1887/1888 CD even lists a Sainsevain Mission on Sainsevain Street, near Vignes Street.
From a little earlier:
Drawing of the Sainsevain Winery on Aliso Street, Los Angeles, ca.1870
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The big tree at left is THE Aliso (of Aliso St.).
e_r, a little from my notes about the Sainsevain brothers:
Sainsevain, Jean Louis usually called Louis; 1816, born in Begney, Gironde, France; nephew of Louis Vignes; ca. 1849, or certainly by 1855, arrived in L.A., bringing some Chestnut tree seed; April 14, 1855, purchased Vignes’ vineyard; May 29, 1858, published (
Los Angeles Star): Fourth of July picnic and ball to be held “in the beautiful grounds of Don Louis Sainsevaine, which he has most kindly offered for the occasion”; March 10, 1860, published (
Los Angeles Star): “We saw in operation this week, at the orange grove of Mr. Sainsevaine [
sic], a very simple and ingenious instrument for picking oranges. It is a light pole, with a pair of pincers on the top, worked by a wire. Attached to the pincers is a small basket, into which the fruit falls when cut, and from this conducted to the basket in the hand of the gatherer, by a cotton hose. This is a great improvement on the old plan of shaking or pulling off the fruit […]. This instrument is the invention of a gentleman in San Jose, and has been tried here under the inspection of Mr. Brandon, of that city, at present residing here”; 1860, present in L.A. as a wine maker with savings of $7,000 and real estate valued at $30,000; ca. 1865-1866, having obtained [
David W.] Alexander’s lease to the city water-works, laid—in association with D. Marchessault—wooden water-pipes throughout the city; November 18, 1867, obtained a contract from the city to lay iron pipe; suffering losses from the flood of Winter 1867-1868, he transferred the iron pipe lease to a partnership of J.S. Griffin, P. Beaudry, and S. Lazard; “In after years Sainsevain planted a vineyard at Cucamonga, where he lived some time. Latterly, however, and until his death, […] he resided in Los Angeles, where he was well and favorably known as good-hearted, genial ‘Don Louis’ Sainsevain” (
Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, p. 815); February 16, 1889, died; wife, evidently, Jeanne; sons, Michel and Paul.
Sainsevain, Pierre alias Pedro; ca. 1819, born; French carpenter; brother of Jean Louis Sainsevain, nephew of Louis Vignes; 1839, arrived at Santa Barbara on the Ayacucho (evidently having left Bordeaux, France, November 1838); “for a time,” quoth Bancroft, he joined Vignes in winery efforts in L.A.; by 1844, up north to the Bay area; October 10, 1845, married Maria Antonia Paula Sunol at Mission Santa Clara; early 1849, owner of a launch called The Box in San Francisco Bay; February 11, 1854, ad (
Los Angeles Star): offering “a large quantity of lumber of different classes, suitable for building purposes, which we offer at prices sufficiently low. Refer in my absence to Don A.F. Coronel, in this city, and to Don Luis Sainsevain, in San Pedro, at which place we shall always have a large deposit”; June 16, 1855, owned frame house on Alameda Street near the corner of Aliso; ca. 1856, joined his brother Jean Louis Sainsevain back in L.A.; 1860, bought the Cucamonga vineyard; 1889, “still lives in San José” (
Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, p. 815); children: Jose Miguel, Carlos Maria.