| 词条 | Henry Newhall |
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| name = Henry Mayo Newhall | image = Henry Mayo Newhall.jpg | image_size = 200x200px | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1825|05|13}} | birth_place = Saugus, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date|1882|03|13}} | death_place = San Francisco, California | occupation = Businessman | spouse = | parents = | children = }} Henry Mayo Newhall (May 13, 1825 – March 13, 1882) was an American businessman whose extensive land holdings became the Southern California communities of Newhall, Saugus and Valencia, and the city of Santa Clarita. LifeBorn in Saugus, Massachusetts, Henry Newhall came to California, like many others, in search of gold during the California Gold Rush. He had been working as an auctioneer when news of the gold rush reached the East Coast. He left by ship, arriving on the West Coast in 1850. However, he had been forced to stop in the Isthmus of Panama for six months to recover from an illness he contracted. Upon his arrival in San Francisco, many of the good mining sites had already been claimed,[1] so he opened an auction house instead. H.M. Newhall & Company became extremely successful. Newhall's next business interest was railroads. He invested in rail companies that would connect San Francisco to other cities and became president of the San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road.[2] In 1870, when he and his partners sold the company to Southern Pacific Railroad, he joined its board of directors. After railroads, Newhall turned his eye to auctioneering, real estate and ranching. He purchased {{convert|143000|acre|km2|0}} of Mexican land grants, including Rancho Todos Santos y San Antonio, and Rancho Suey in Santa Barbara County, and Rancho El Piojo and Rancho San Miguelito de Trinidad in Monterey County. The most significant acquisition was the historic land grant {{convert|46460|acre|km2|0|adj=on}} Rancho San Francisco in the Santa Clarita Valley of northern Los Angeles County, which he purchased for $2/acre.[3] It included portions of the Santa Clara River and the Santa Susana Mountains, the former homeland of the Tataviam Native Americans. The ranch became known as Newhall Ranch after Newhall's death. Within this territory, he granted a right-of-way to Southern Pacific Railroad through what is now Newhall Pass, and he also sold them a portion of the land, upon which the company built a town they named after him: Newhall. The first station built on the line he named for his hometown, Saugus. Newhall split his time between his ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley and his auction house and residence in San Francisco, but after a bout of food poisoning in 1880, he retired to his ranch.[4] In March 1882, while horseback riding around his property, he was thrown from the horse. Taken back to San Francisco for treatment, he died a few days later on March 13, 1882. Henry Newhall's heirs incorporated the Newhall Land and Farming Company, which oversaw the latter 20th century development of urban sprawl in towns on its land as planned communities. Henry Mayo Newhall is memorialized by the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital,[5] several street names in the area once part of the Newhall Ranch (including the portion of California State Route 126 west of Interstate 5 known as Henry Mayo Drive), and the Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation.[6] References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.newhallfoundation.org/aboutHMN.html | title=About Henry Mayo Newhall | publisher=Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation | year=2000 | accessdate=2007-04-20}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Pollack |first=Alan |title=1876: Southern Pacific Tunnels Through |publisher=SCV History |url=http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/pollack0710tunnel.html|date=August 2010|accessdate=March 22, 2015}} 3. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/worden/lw060795.htm | title=Prime Valencia Real Estate, $2 an Acre | publisher=Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society | first=Leon | last=Worden | date=June 7, 1995 | accessdate=2007-04-20}} 4. ^{{cite book | title=A California Legend: The Newhall Land and Farming Company | first=Ruth Waldo | last=Newhall | year=1992 | publisher=Newhall Land and Farming Company}} 5. ^Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital 6. ^Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation External links
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