Editing Hugo Reid (section)

==Life==
He was born to Charles Reid and Essex Milliken, at [[Cardross, Argyll|Cardross]], [[Dunbartonshire]], Scotland, on 18 April 1811.<ref>''Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950,'' index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYZG-LPJ;: accessed 12 December 2012), Hugo Reid, 1811; citing Scotland Registrar General, Registers of births, marriages and deaths, FHL microfilm 0102138, 1041983, The New Register House, Edinburgh, Scotland.</ref> As a young man, Reid established a trading house in [[Hermosillo]], Mexico in the late 1820s with a business partner, William Keith. He first visited Los Angeles, then a part of Mexican [[Alta California]], in 1832.<ref>{{cite book |last=Casas |first=Maria Raquel |chapter=Victoria Reid and the Politics of Identity|editor1-first=Vicki L.|editor1-last=Ruiz |editor2-first=Virginia |editor2-last=Sanchez-Korrol |date=2005 |title=Latina Legacies : Identity, Biography, and Community: Identity, Biography and Community|location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-515398-7 }}</ref> 

After settling there, he converted to Roman Catholicism<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5845/ | title=PCAD - Rancho Santa Anita, Reid, Hugo, Adobe House, Arcadia, CA }}</ref> and married Victoria Bartolomea Comicrabita, a ''Gabrieleño'' woman from the village of [[Comicranga]], who became a convert at [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel|Mission San Gabriel]].<ref name="DAKIN">{{cite book |last=Dakin |first=Susanna Bryant |date=1939 |title=A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832–1852, Derived from his Correspondence|location=Berkeley, California |publisher=University of California Press }}</ref> He adopted her children, Felipe, Jose Delores and María Ygnacia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Arcadia, CA |url=https://www.arcadiaca.gov/enrich/arcadia_public_library/gilb_museum_of_arcadia_heritage/hugo_reid.php |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=www.arcadiaca.gov |language=en}}</ref>

After Mexico attained independence, it secularized some mission holdings. Reid and his wife were granted the {{convert|13319|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Rancho Santa Anita]] following secularization of Mission San Gabriel ranch lands. He built an [[Hugo Reid Adobe|adobe house]] there in 1839.<ref name="ADOBE"/> The grant was confirmed by [[Alta California]] Governor [[Pio Pico]] in 1845. Reid was nicknamed the ''Scotch Paisano'' during his days as a Scottish settler in Mexican Southern California.<ref name="DAKIN"/>

[[File:The home of Elias J. ("Lucky") Baldwin, the former Hugo Reid Adobe, at Rancho Santa Anita, ca.1903 (CHS-5178).jpg|thumb|The "[[Hugo Reid Adobe]]" c. 1903, prior to removal of a wood-frame addition by Lucky Baldwin that was built ]]
A restored adobe, which became known as the "Hugo Reid Adobe", was built on a different nearby site by a later owner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arcadiaweekly.com/featured/arboretums-shocking-revelation-it-isnt-the-hugo-reid-adobe/ |title=Arboretum's Shocking Revelation: It isn't the Hugo Reid Adobe!|last1= Peters |first1=Bill |date=2009|website=Arcadia Weekly |publisher= |access-date=June 5, 2016|quote=}}</ref> Today both Reid's original site and the surviving adobe are located at the [[Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden]], part of the former estate of [[Lucky Baldwin]]. This is within what is now the city of [[Arcadia, California|Arcadia]].<ref name="DAKIN"/>