California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory; the third most populous city in the U. The origins of the city go back to the early Spanish colonization of California. A year later the first party of pioneers traveled overland to Los Angeles from the Middle West of the U. With them was Jacob Frankfort, the first Jewish resident of Los Angeles. A Los Angeles census of 1850 revealed a total of 1,610 inhabitants of which eight are recognizably Jewish: Morris Michaels, aged 19, Portland, Oregon; Abraham Jacobi, 25, Poland; Morris L.