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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY A ROMANTIC PAST Many Midwestern transplants found love in 19th Century Pasadena. Lucinda Jean "Jennie" Hollingsworth of Iowa was no exception. Brought to Pasadena by her father, Lawson Hollingsworth (who hoped to start a new life as an orange farmer), Jennie Hollingsworth soon met Pasadena local, Joshua Reed Giddings, and the couple married in 1880. The Giddings had six children, who grew up in the couple's mansion on a 20 acre plot on Colorado near Hill Street that also contained the farm's orange groves. Both Jennie and Joshua were active in civic affairs, with Joshua acting as president of the Pasadena Cemetery Society, and donating the land that today comprises Mountain View Cemetery. Their youngest son, Paul, was a founding member of the Pasadena Historical Society, now the Pasadena Museum of History. Jennie died in 1955 and the stately craftsman on Colorado was torn down a few years later. In what passes for progress, a McDonald's restaurant now occupies that corner. Jae Carpenter, the Giddings' granddaughter, was quoted as saying her grandmother, for one, would have been happy with that result because "she never had fewer than 8 people to lunch every day." -C.G. 112 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE back backpage_Feb16.indd 112 1/20/16 3:25 PM