framed the first city charter for L.A. City of Glendale The land case known as "The Great Partition" of 1871 resulted in the division of Rancho San Rafael into thirty-one sections which were given to twenty-eight different people including for Thom. The land belonging to Prudent Beaudry, Alfred Chapman, Andrew Glassell and Thom evolved into Glendale. Thom, Harry J. Crow, and Thom's nephew, Erskine Mayo Ross, along with B. F. Patterson and B. T. Byram, were responsible for the creation of the city of Glendale in 1887. References 1825 births 1915 deaths Mayors of Los Angeles History of Los Angeles California state senators Los Angeles City Attorneys District attorneys in California People of Virginia in the American Civil War Burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles 19th-century American politicians People from West Adams, Los Angeles 19th-century American lawyers People from Culpeper County, Virginia University of Virginia alumni Lawyers from Sacramento, California