Real estate dealer Charles Victor Hall (1854-1933) opened a tract at Western and Jefferson in 1887 and gave this street his wife’s maiden name. Josephine S. Dalton (1853-1944) was a Los Angeles girl whose London-born father George (1806-1892) had come to town on the heels of his older brother Henry, the stressed-out owner of Rancho Azusa de Dalton. (See Azusa’s Dalton Avenue for more on him.) In truth George had first set foot on California soil in 1827 while working as a merchant sailor but didn’t immigrate to the U.S. until a full decade later – and even then, he spent years in Pennsylvania and Ohio before arriving at Azusa c. 1851. A few years later, he built a home for his family on 48 acres of vineyards and citrus orchards at present-day Central and Washington, south of DTLA. His son-in-law subdivided that land in 1887 as well. Dalton briefly served as city councilman in 1868 but his golden years were otherwise unremarkable. A bit more remarkable was the union between Josephine Dalton and Charles Hall. After marrying in 1878 and having two children, Charles ultimately dumped Josephine for a Belgian teenager in 1912. (See Halldale Avenue for the dirt.) Josephine later moved to Tulsa with her married daughter and spent her final years in Siloam Springs, AR.
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