This 1887 street honors Milton Lindley (1820-1895), whose claim to fame, Whittier-wise, was being related to three of its founders: his son Hervey Lindley, uncle Washington Hadley, and cousin Laura Newlin. (His daughter Bertha also married into another founding Whittier family, the Coffins, for whom no streets are named.) Milton Lindley was born in Guilford County, NC. His family moved to Indiana when he was twelve and he worked on their farm until 1849, when he married Mary Banta (1829-1913), a distant relation of the namesakes of Pico Rivera’s Banta Road. Lindley then dabbled in merchandise and banking but found his true calling in real estate upon relocating to Minneapolis in 1866. Plagued by health issues throughout his life, Lindley found the Southern California climate restorative when he first visited in 1873. Two years later, he, Mary, and their seven children came to Los Angeles for good. Along with his realty business, Lindley made his name in local politics, serving as county treasurer in 1880-1883 and as a county supervisor in 1885-1886.
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