Named in 1916 for James Stewart Wakefield (1859-1931), who co-owned a tract here with Frank Vesper, Albert Chase, and others. There’s not much info on Wakefield. He was born and raised in Aztalan, WI but his farming family relocated to the similarly tiny town of Howard, SD in 1884. (He was listed as an “implement dealer” in the 1900 census.) After the deaths of his parents, Wakefield and two of his sisters – he never married or had kids himself – settled in Los Angeles in 1911. Here he got into real estate development and remained in that field until the end of his life. He spent his final years living in East Hollywood with his older sister Jessie. Four months after she died, so did he.
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