Named for writer/educator Henry Dwight Barrows (1825-1914). The Connecticut-born Barrows was a jack of all trades, but he had a particular passion for music: he was proficient in piano, violin, flute, and several other instruments, and taught in Boston for two years. In 1850, Barrows went to San Francisco to try his luck as a miner. He came to Los Angeles two years later, marrying first into the Wolfskill family, then into the Workman family. (19th century California was a small world.) As L.A. County Republican chairman, Barrows campaigned hard for Abraham Lincoln in 1860; after the election, Lincoln appointed him U.S. Marshal for SoCal. Busy Barrows also ran a hardware store, worked as a historian, and served as county school superintendent.
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