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2 unusual facts about Jonathan Temple


Jonathan Temple

In 1849, after Los Angeles was ordered by California's military governor to conduct a survey, but couldn't pay for the work, Temple paid for the Ord Survey out of his own funds, and then was repaid by the sale of lots created in the survey.

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Jonathan (also known as Don Juan) Temple was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Pratt.



see also

Workman-Temple family

Pliny Fisk Temple-F.P.T was named for a Congregationalist missionary in Palestine, was born to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Parker in Reading, Massachusetts, near Boston.