HUGO REID

'Hugo Reid' was a resident of Los Angeles, California in 1852 who wrote a series of newspaper letters that described the culture, language, and modern circumstances of the local Gabrielino Indians and criticized their treatment under the Franciscan mission system.
Born in 1809 or 1810 in Cardross, Scotland, Reid came to the United States as a sailor and jumped ship at Los Angeles in 1832. He married a Gabrielino woman named Victoria and adopted her children, Maria and Felipe. His home, known as the Hugo Reid Adobe, is on the former estate of Lucky Baldwin at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in what is now the town of Arcadia. He died in Los Angeles on December 12, 1852.
Reid published a series of 22 letters in the ''Los Angeles Star'' during 1852. They provided an important ethnographic picture of the little-known Gabrielino and were republished in book form several times.
Arcadia's Hugo Reid Elementary School is named after Hugo Reid.

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★ Dakin, Susanna Bryant. 1939. ''A Scotch Paisano: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832-1851, Derived from His Correspondence''. University of California Press, Berkeley.

★ Reid, Hugo. 1968. ''The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852''. Edited and annotated by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers No. 21. Los Angeles.