Named for John Patrick Mansfield (1851-1928), a furniture salesman turned cattle rancher. Born in Wisconsin to Irish immigrant parents, Mansfield and his four younger brothers came to Los Angeles by 1883. They eventually owned cattle land in both Mexico and New Mexico as well as a hundred acre ranch where La Brea and Edgewood now intersect. In 1922, said ranch was subdivided into the Mansfield Knoll tract, named by Mansfield’s only child Helen Caroline (1891-1982). Naturally, Mansfield Avenue was also christened at that time. Caroline Mansfield, John’s wife, died just three days after he did in late 1928; apparently she couldn’t live without him. As for Helen, she married for the first time in 1963 – at the tender age of 71.
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