page_title: Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill
section_title: Joseph Wolfskill
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill / Vocations / Joseph Wolfskill
caption_attribution_description: English: Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway's Arcade Depot sold by Wolfskill
context_page_description: Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill were brothers who were members of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council, the legislative arm of that city's government, between 1874 and 1884. They were landowner successors to their pioneer Southern California father, William Wolfskill.
context_section_description: Joseph Wolfskill was associated with his father in stock raising and citriculture, and on the death of his father in 1866, he took over the businesses.  He "introduced scientific methods into the culture of oranges and extended the original Wolfskill grove until it was made to yield . . . the largest commercial crops in the Southland." The Wolfskill property in Los Angeles proper occupied the land later given over to the Arcade Depot.  He had a nursery at the corner of Wabash and Zonal streets in Brooklyn Heights, Los Angeles, along with a retail store at 218 West Fourth Street in downtown L.A.
  An influx of white-scale insects from Australia devastated the orchards, and so Joseph Wolfskill divided the acreage and sold it piecemeal, in the meantime establishing an experimental station to devise a method of fighting the disease, including the use of "washes, sprays, gases, and latterly the parasites of the white scale[,] which have been brought from Australia."
caption: Wolfskill lots and Arcade Depot in 1890, just completed
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