English: Portrait of Joseph Lancaster Brent, in oval frame. Brent came to California in 1851 and owned a portion of Rancho San Rafael and Santa Eulalia Ranch, later Pasadena and Glendale; he served as a Confederate general in the Civil War, as a California state assembly member, a school commissioner, and as Los Angeles city attorney. He was later active in politics in Louisiana and Maryland.
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