Glossary · History & People
An early storekeeper and hotel owner, one of the town’s first trustees, who laid out Broadway in 1881 and built the Hotel Lyndon; often called the father of Los Gatos.
Lyndon came from Vermont, clerked in a store at Lexington, and in 1868 bought the Ten Mile House at Los Gatos and opened it as a hotel. He later ran a general store, built Lyndon Hall in 1878 and renamed his hotel the Los Gatos Hotel.
He subdivided Broadway in 1881, deeded land for the railroad depot, and was among the first trustees when the town incorporated in 1887.
He was one of its earliest and most active citizens: hotel keeper, merchant, developer of Broadway and an original town trustee.
A small roadhouse at Los Gatos that Lyndon bought in 1868 and turned into the town’s first proper hotel.