Named by Charles Rice Fickett (1837-1905) on an 1876 tract he owned with Walter J. Mathews. Born and raised in Maine, Fickett established a career there as a carpenter. He then moved out to Northern California in the 1860s and settled in Oakland, which is where he likely first crossed paths with Mathews, a budding young architect. Fickett finally came to Los Angeles in 1874 and became a contractor, supplying carpenters and plasterers for several major buildings and making enough money from his business to buy a few racehorses. Indeed, most of what is known about Charles Fickett comes from old newspaper racing columns; details of his personal life are hazier. All that’s clear is that in 1889 he married Agnes Davidson (c. 1854-1907), a widow (divorcée?) with two sons. The 1900 census had them residing in El Monte, with Fickett’s occupation listed as “farmer”, but they spent their last couple of years in San Pedro.
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