Ann is a fourth generation Los Angeles family.  Her passion is history, namely early Los Angeles as her great-great grandfather Luther Titus came to Los Angeles in 1869 with his family, his wife, and his daughter Mary Titus Newton and her husband.  Los Angeles had a population of 5,700 people in 1869. 

Her grandmother, Clara Drysdale Newton was born in 1873. 

In 1886, Clara’s parents Mary and Jacob Newton and her sister, May Newton with my grandmother moved to the West Adams neighborhood, the corner of Figueroa and Adams Blvd while Clara and her sister attended the newly opened University of Southern California.  They attended the preparatory school gaining entrance as freshmen in 1889. 

Ann has made numerous presentations to organizations, including First Century Family and Town and Gown (alumni group USC) “Horseracing in early Los Angeles” and “North University Park, Changing a Historic Neighborhood – the story of a neighborhood.”. Delta Gamma founders day, “How Genealogy teaches us history, the South and the beginning of Delta Gamma sorority.”, “The History of Exposition Park, Agricultural Park, and How it retained ownership as a State and County park”, “The History of the Dewdrop Ranch in San Gabriel” to St Felicitus Church board and Huntington Museum Personnel, San Marino.

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Ann’s journal and genealogy trip to New York were published in ‘A Journey into My Past’ in 2000. 

The Pink Lady has appeared in Victorian Homes Magazine 2000 13 pages of pictures and story:

Romantic Homes Magazine 

Los Angeles Times Real Estate section

The Pink Lady and North University Park have been the subject of presentations including:

     The History of a Neighborhood, North University Park 

The History of Exposition Park/Agricultural Park

The History of Horseracing in Los Angeles

The History of a Los Angeles Family 

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