Levi Newton Breed (December 4, 1831 – December 17, 1908) was an active and early American participant in 19th Century California, where he helped organize Lassen County and was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of that city.

He was in Indian Valley for a year but came back to Honey Lake and bought a store, or trading post, in Janesville.

Breed sold goods and whiskey in a little shack that stood on the east side of Piute creek.

a crowd of emigrants from Missouri came into his place and a big fellow asked him what he charged for a horn of whiskey, the term meaning a drink.

Breed named his price, probably twenty-five cents, and the man immediately drew a great ox horn from beneath his coat and said he would take one.

Breed bought his brother's share of a trading post they ran in Smoke Creek, and later he built a store in Janesville, renting out the second floor as a lodge room for the Masons and the Odd Fellows.

They also took steps to ask Congress to organize a new territory in their area and pledged to "prevent the polls being opened.

In 1867, Breed was elected a constable for Janesville, and by 1869 he was named postmaster of a new post office in that town and also became county clerk that year.

[2] In 1881 he moved to Los Angeles to retire, but he instead became "one of the most successful real estate operators and investors" in that city.

"[9] Of the latter, he said that "The natives are an indolent, but good-tempered and hospitable, race of people, who live only for today, giving no thought for tomorrow, and caring very little for anything except their present enjoyment.

What Honolulu needs at the present time is a sewer system and cable connections" with the United States.

[10]In Los Angeles, Breed was interested in street improvements, "and the laying out of the city's parks.

[1] In his will, he bequeathed an amount to erect a monument in his memory, and ny 1939, the sum had grown to $5,000: In that year his heirs presented a plan for "an ornamental standard bearing a cluster of five lights at a height of 12 feet, the base to consist of marble in the form of 15 separate seats, arranged like the petals of a large flower."