Joseph Mullaly
Mullally came to California in 1852[1] and to Los Angeles in 1854, where he began brickmaking along with partners Samuel Ayers and David Porter.[2] Two of the historic buildings for which he made bricks from the clay found on the site or nearby were the John Rains House in today's Rancho Cucamonga, in 1860,[3] and the [Louis Phillips Mansion] in the Pomona Valley, in 1875.The grounds have a frontage of one hundred and eighty-five feet on Buena Vista street and two hundred and eighty-five feet on College, and contain a fine bearing orchard, consisting of orange, lemon, pear, apple trees, etc.[5][6]A Democrat,[7] Mullally was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council in 1857–58, 1872–73, 1874–78 and 1881–83."[8] At the time of his death in December 1906, he was noted as "one of the oldest residents of Los Angeles and a member of the Society of Pioneers.