Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-20
THE BROTHERS WORKMAN.
Burial OF william Workman yester-
ds~ by the same Masonic Lodge
that buried David twenty.
one Years ago.

one Years ago.
Tmenty-one years age. the members
of Los Angeles Lodge No. A. F. and
A. NJ, went out to the Puente ranch
and with fraternal hands, laid in the
last resting place, all that remained
on earth of their late brother, David
Workman. Yesterday the same
Lodge, and many of the same men,
bers visited the same ranch, and in
the same burial ground performed the
last sad rites for David's brother Will
liam. Of the two brothers now Sleep
ing so gently in the Puente church.
yard, few words may be said. They
were English gentlemen of the
OLD SCHOOL,
And were held in high esteem by their
associates of early days in California.
The Workman brothers were natives
of Peurith, Westmorland, England.
Many years ago David came to the
United States and settled in Howard
county, Missouri, where his sons Eli
jah .and William, now residents of
this city, were born. In time he in
duced his brother William to come
out from England and together they
engaged in the Santa Fe trade which
they followed for about twelve years.
After which, David returned to his
family in Howard county, Missouri,
and William, in company with B. ID.
Wilson and John Rowland, father of
ex-Sheriff William Rowland, started
on trapping and hunting tour West
ward. In time they found themselves
in Los Angeles valley, and in 1S4l,
ROWLAND AND WORKMAN
Located on the Puente ranch, where
both made their home until called
hence 10y death-Rowland dying some
years ago, and Workman on the nth
instant. David Workman, who was
two years the senior of William, came
out to California in 1849, and after re-
naming while, went back to Mis-
souri, hut returned to this valley in
1853 with his family, and in 1855 was
thrown from his mule and killed in
Stanisaus county while driving a
herd of cattle Northward.
WILLIAM WORKMAN,
Whose remains his Masonic brothers
laid in the tomb on Friday was man
of untarnished honor, cultivated mind
and sterling worth. He possessed
many endearing traits which won for
him the esteem of all with whom his
social and business relations brought
him in contact. He used his great
wealth in aleviating the wants of the
distressed found worthy and in assist
ing those he believed deserving. or
late years he lived a retired life, re-
naming almost all the time within
the confines of his home. His old
time friends and others who visited
his house speak of him as princely
old gentleman, whose hospitality was
as generous as his domain was exten-
sive. Except to those who saw him
at home, he was
A STRANGER TO SOCIETY,
And though possessed of vast fund
of information and fine conversational
powers, he evinced no inclination to
go out among his fellow men. He
made the Puente ranch his earthly
home. 1t was his world, and when he
realized through the failure of busi-
ness in which he had neither part nor
lot beyond having furnished fifty-six
thousand dollars with which to give
it life that home was lost, the hitherto
even tenor of his closing days was dis
turbed and clouded, and when the ar
rival at the place of receiver, forced
the conviction that the cherished and
idolized home was gone forever, the
GOOD OLD MANS HEART BRO KE,
And in the insanity of despair he
threw away the few days that under
other and brighter circumstances he
might have remained on earth. II
was sad ending of an honorable life,
and around no grave have the brother
hood more earnestly and feelingly ut
tered the words, Peace to thee, my
brother,n than at the final resting
place of William Workman yesterday