Ozro W. Childs

Hicks and Childs walked from San Pedro to the small Pueblo de Los Angeles, and established a tinsmithing and hardware store.

Soon afterward, he contracted to build an extension of the Zanja Madre, a canal system to bring water to the fields south of the pueblo.

He was paid in land in that area – all now within present day Downtown Los Angeles - from Sixth to Ninth, and Main to Figueroa Street.

"Childs' face was covered with blood and Hastings' jaw was badly bruised," the Los Angeles Evening Express reported.

Their most significant and long-term success was the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, which included some of the town's most prominent citizens as additional investors.

When Judge Robert Maclay Widney sought to create a university in Los Angeles in the 1870s, he received assistance from donors including Childs.

[4][5] He died at his Los Angeles Main Street home in 1890, leaving six living children (out of ten) and a widow who survived him by over 40 years.