Original sentence: It took nearly a decade for this idea to become a reality, but in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community — Ozro W.Los Angeles was a frontier town in the early 1870s, when a group of citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney first conceived of establishing a university in the region
Edited sentence: It took nearly a decade for this vision to become a reality, but in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community — Ozro W.Los Angeles was a frontier town in the early 1870s, when a group of public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney first dreamed of establishing a university in the region