The amazing true story of the woman who gave Pasadena, Md., its name
: “The prevailing, though undocumented, explanation is that when the Southern Land and Silk Association of Baltimore bought a large tract of land in 1888, the California-born wife of one of the owners persuaded her husband to name the farm after her hometown.”“California-born wife?” Oh, that does not do Baldy justice. She was as bold as any man.
Silk doesn’t grow on trees, of course. But mulberry leaves do. And that’s what silk worms eat. Baldy’s company — the aforementioned Southern Land and Silk Association — purchased farmland between Annapolis and Baltimore. If investors with the Southern Land and Silk Association had had access to a searchable publications database, they would have seen that in 1876, Baldy was a freelance bookseller in Los Angeles, peddling such titles as “Wife No. 19,” an expose of Mormon polygamy written byA year later, Baldy was taking orders for custom portraits as a representative of the American Copying and Portrait Painting Company. In 1884, she was in Salt Lake City, performing as an “elocutionist.
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