Editing San Marino, California (section)

===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>