Elihu Anthony: A local hero | Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard
(World News Science)

In a book written on the history of Santa Cruz County in 1892, it was reported that `No man is more prominently and closely identified with the history of Santa Cruz than is Elihu Anthony.` Another description was that he was `a man of affairs, making things stir around him`. He was also known as a `strict man,` but with all of his success and money making, a man who refused to compromise his high ideals and principles. Following his arrival here in 1848 and the establishment of the first local foundry, Anthony was soon involved in trade and real estate transactions. He laid out the city´s first two subdivisions of rectangular plots up on Mission Hill, which for a while was...