Levi Newton Breed
He was in Indian Valley for a year but came back to Honey Lake and bought a store, or trading post, in Janesville.Breed sold goods and whiskey in a little shack that stood on the east side of Piute creek.a crowd of emigrants from Missouri came into his place and a big fellow asked him what he charged for a horn of whiskey, the term meaning a drink.Breed named his price, probably twenty-five cents, and the man immediately drew a great ox horn from beneath his coat and said he would take one.Breed bought his brother's share of a trading post they ran in Smoke Creek, and later he built a store in Janesville, renting out the second floor as a lodge room for the Masons and the Odd Fellows.In 1867, Breed was elected a constable for Janesville, and by 1869 he was named postmaster of a new post office in that town and also became county clerk that year.[2] In 1881 he moved to Los Angeles to retire, but he instead became "one of the most successful real estate operators and investors" in that city."[9] Of the latter, he said that "The natives are an indolent, but good-tempered and hospitable, race of people, who live only for today, giving no thought for tomorrow, and caring very little for anything except their present enjoyment.[1] In his will, he bequeathed an amount to erect a monument in his memory, and ny 1939, the sum had grown to $5,000: In that year his heirs presented a plan for "an ornamental standard bearing a cluster of five lights at a height of 12 feet, the base to consist of marble in the form of 15 separate seats, arranged like the petals of a large flower."