Introduction
Frederick Eaton was born in Los Angeles in 1856, into one of the prominent and founding families of what became Pasadena on the Rancho del Rincon de San Pascual. As an adult Eaton was a Radical Republican. He was a promoter of: the Civil War Reconstruction; of new railroads; of Southern California water supplies; and the city as the Mayor of Los Angeles.
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