The telegram was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln: "I announce to you that the telegraph to California has this day been completed. May it be a bond of perpetuity between the states of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific".
In 1874, the Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura not yet owned by settlers, was sold to Rudolph Steinbach & Horace W. Carpentier.
In the 1850s, a group of men who had been leasing the land from his son Vicente, Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew J. Moon, began illegally selling small farm plots west of what is now Market Street.
Horace Walpole | Horace Greeley | Horace | Horace Silver | Horace Andy | Horace Mann | Alejo Carpentier | Horace Mann Towner | Georges Carpentier | Horace Trumbauer | Horace James | Horace Horsecollar | Horace Heidt | Horace Bushnell | Patrick Carpentier | Horace Plunkett | Horace Gray | Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta | Horace Brown | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure | William Horace Temple | Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet | Reginald Horace Blyth | Horace Walker | Horace Vernet | Horace Mann Jr. | Horace Lamb | Horace Howard Furness | Horace Everett Hooper | Horace Engdahl |