Editing San Marino, California (section)

==History==
===Origin of name===
The city takes its name from the ancient [[San Marino|Republic of San Marino]], founded by [[Saint Marinus]] who fled his home in [[Dalmatia]] (modern Croatia) at the time of the [[Diocletianic Persecution]].<ref name="Cityofsanmarino.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/about.htm |title=City of San Marino, CA - About Our City |publisher=Cityofsanmarino.org |date=September 9, 1917 |access-date=August 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725173315/http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/about.htm |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=K.Maskarin |url=http://www.kristofor.hr/english-marin.html |title=St. Marino, the founder of the San Marino republic - the legend, island Rab Croatia |publisher=Kristofor.hr |access-date=August 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721101202/http://www.kristofor.hr/english-marin.html |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The seal of the City of San Marino, California is modeled on that of the republic, depicting the [[Three Towers of San Marino]] each capped with a bronze plume, surrounded by a heart-shaped [[scroll]] with two [[roundel]]s and a [[Lozenge (heraldry)|lozenge]] (of unknown significance) at the top. The crown representing sovereignty on the original was replaced with five stars, representing the five members of the city's governing body. Beneath the city's seal are crossed palm fronds and orange branches.<ref name="Cityofsanmarino.org"/>

The city celebrated its centennial in 2013, including publication by the San Marino Historical Society of a 268-page book, ''San Marino, A Centennial History'', by Elizabeth Pomeroy.<ref>Pomeroy, Elizabeth. ''San Marino, A Centennial History''. San Marino Historical Society, 2012.</ref> In September 2014, this book and author Elizabeth Pomeroy received a prestigious Award of Merit for Leadership in History from the [[American Association for State and Local History]] (AASLH).<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://about.aaslh.org/awards/ | title=Leadership in History Awards | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006082927/http://about.aaslh.org/awards/ |archive-date=October 6, 2014 }} American Association for State and Local History Awards</ref>

===Early history===
The site of San Marino was originally occupied by a village of [[Tongva people|Tongva]] (Gabrieleño) Indians located approximately where the [[Henry E. Huntington Middle School|Huntington School]] is today. The area was part of the lands of the [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel|San Gabriel Mission]]. Principal portions of San Marino were included in an 1838 Mexican land grant of 128 acres to Victoria Bartolmea Reid, a Gabrieleña Indian. (After her first husband, also a Gabrieleño, died in 1836 of smallpox, she remarried Scotsman [[Hugo Reid]] in 1837). She called the property [[Rancho Huerta de Cuati]]. After Hugo Reid's death in 1852, Señora Reid sold her rancho in 1854 to [[Benjamin Davis Wilson|Don Benito Wilson]], the first [[Anglo#United States|Anglo]] owner of [[Rancho San Pascual]]. In 1873, Don Benito conveyed to his son-in-law, James DeBarth Shorb, {{convert|500|acre|km2}}, including Rancho Huerta de Cuati, which Shorb named "San Marino" after his grandfather's plantation in Maryland, which, in turn, was named after the Republic of [[San Marino]] located on the Italian Peninsula in Europe.<ref name="Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County">{{cite web |url=http://www.laokay.com/halac/HugoReidAdobe.htm |title=Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County |publisher=LAOKay.com |access-date=December 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825082631/http://www.laokay.com/halac/HugoReidAdobe.htm |archive-date=August 25, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/about.htm |title={title} |access-date=July 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725173315/http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/about.htm |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== History (1900s) ===
In 1903, the Shorb rancho was purchased by [[Henry E. Huntington]] (1850–1927), who built a large mansion on the property. The site of the Shorb/Huntington rancho is occupied today by the [[Huntington Library]], which houses a world-renowned art collection, research and rare-book library, and botanical gardens.<ref name="The Huntington">{{cite web |url=http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=56 |title=About The Huntington |publisher=Huntington.org |access-date=December 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232442/http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=56 |archive-date=December 30, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1913 the three primary ranchos of Wilson, Patton, and Huntington, together with the subdivided areas from those and smaller ranchos, such as the Stoneman, White, and Rose ranchos, were incorporated as the city of San Marino.<ref name="Cityofsanmarino.org"/>

The first mayor of the city of San Marino was [[George S. Patton (1856-1927)|George Smith Patton]] (1856–1927), the son of a slain [[Confederate States of America]] colonel in the U.S. [[American Civil War|Civil War]] (also named George Smith Patton, 1833–1864). He married Ruth Wilson, the daughter of [[Benjamin Davis Wilson|Don Benito Wilson]]. Their son was the World War II general [[George S. Patton|George S. Patton Jr]].

To a prior generation of Southern Californians, San Marino was known for its old-money wealth and as a bastion of the region's [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|WASP]] gentry. By mid-century, however, other European ethnic groups had become the majority.

In the 1980s, San Marino was home to serial killer and con-man [[Christian Gerhartsreiter]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Rockefeller imposter and convicted felon born |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rockefeller-imposter-and-convicted-felon-born |access-date=June 11, 2023 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref> Posing as a member of the British aristocracy and relative of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten]],<ref name=":1" /> Gerhartsreiter murdered John and Linda Sohus in 1985.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Redd |first=Wyatt |date=March 19, 2022 |title=Meet The Twisted Con Man Who Passed Himself Off As A Rockefeller And Got Away With Murder For 28 Years |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/clark-rockefeller |access-date=June 11, 2023 |website=All That's Interesting |language=en-US}}</ref> Gerhartsreiter then fled to [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] and assumed a new alias. The body of John Sohus was discovered in San Marino in 1994<ref name=":2" /> and Gerhartsreiter was later convicted of the killing in 2013. Linda Sohus' body has never been found.<ref name=":1" />

In 1970, the city was 99.7% White.<ref name="citylab_sanmarino">{{cite news |url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/08/how-exclusive-los-angeles-suburb-lost-its-whiteness/3046/ |title=How an Exclusive Los Angeles Suburb Lost its Whiteness |author-first1=Merlin|author-last1=Chowkwanyun|author-first2=Jordan|author-last2=Segall|publisher=Bloomberg |website=CityLab |date=August 27, 2012 |access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref>
By 1990, the city's households were 23.7% Asian.<ref name="citylab_sanmarino"/>

In 2000, the city's Asian households increased to 40%.<ref name="citylab_sanmarino"/>

In recent decades, immigrants of Chinese and Taiwanese ancestry have come to represent more than 60% of the population, perhaps due to its location in the [[San Gabriel Valley]], known to be a popular destination for East Asian immigrants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/faq.htm |title=City of San Marino, CA - Employment Opportunities |publisher=Cityofsanmarino.org |access-date=August 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107155040/http://www.cityofsanmarino.org/faq.htm |archive-date=January 7, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> San Marino is considered home to many different Chinese restaurants and is often thought to a small, quaint town with its exception to Huntington Gardens.