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A website written by the Farmer's Market owners themselves, it discussed the history of the Gilmore clan in Los Angeles; it arrived there from Illinois in 1870, and purachased former rancho land for dairy farming; just after 1900, while drilling a well, the family patriarch, Arthur Fremont Gilmore, found oil instead of water, and, by the middle of the decade, his family had made the transition from farming to oil drilling and affluence;