Glendora Movers

The City of Glendora was incorporated merely six months earlier, officially recorded with the County of Los Angeles on November 13, 1911, as the 25th city to achieve incorporation in the county (the number currently stands at 88). It wasn’t easy for those wishing to enroll in Glendora’s rural government to complete independence, as conflict and divergence quickly divided the town.

The first buzzing of incorporation in 1911 began on Tuesday, April 25, during a routine Board of Trade meeting, during which it was argued that the population and wealth of the residents were at a level that justified obtaining the conveniences under incorporation. Those board members present, under T.H. Miner as president, unanimously voted to call a general meeting for Saturday, May 13, for an open discussion concerning the town of Glendora becoming the City of Glendora.

In the August 10, 1911, edition of the Glendora Gleaner, editor Jones published the official boundary lines in a “Notice and Petition for the Incorporation of the Town of Glendora into a City of the Sixth Class.” Signed at the bottom of the petition were 184 names representing many of Glendora’s prominent citizens.

On October 2, 1911, after meetings on the two previous Mondays were held where individuals made vital points about why they should or should not be included within city limits, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors granted the petition for Glendora to vote for incorporation. As well they settled the boundary dispute once and for all by revising the proposed city’s borders, as reported in the September 6th edition of the Gleaner: “Sierra Madre Avenue on the north; Grand Avenue on the west; Mauna Loa on the southeast to a point where it reaches the San Jose hills; thence with a deflection for a short distance to the intersection of Loraine avenue; thence on Loraine avenue to Sierra Madre avenue, or the point of beginning.”