On the 1904 map of the Carnation Terrace tract, owned and sold by Paul Blades and Daniel Stone, six additional owners were listed, including E.L. Blanchard and C.H. Winter. It’s safe to assume that Blanchard and Winter streets honor them; only slightly less safe to assume that this “C.H. Winter” was pharmacist Charles Henry Winter (1873-1924). While I found no further ties between him and the tract’s other owners, I’m 95% sure I’ve got the right guy as he was the only C.H. Winter listed in city directories at that time. Winter was born in Louisville, KY to Prussian parents. When he was three years old, his mother divorced his father on charges of drunkenness. (The father was found dead in the Ohio River two years later.) Along with his mother and his three older sisters, Winter relocated to Los Angeles c. 1888. He was working as a pharmacist by 1893 and married Ada Edith Harrod (1879-1945), an Ohio native, in 1905. Alas, an undisclosed malady reportedly drove Winter mad: on the night of June 8th, 1924, he struck Ada, chased her out of the house with a loaded pistol, then shot himself four times in the abdomen, ending his troubled life.
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