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Rindge moved to Los Angeles, California in 1887. In 1892 Rindge purchased the 13,300-acre (54 km2) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho", in Malibu, California. He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (69 km2) as Rindge Ranch.
Rindge founded the Conservative Life Insurance Company (now Pacific Life), and was a vice-president of Union Oil Company, and a director of the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company (later Southern California Edison Company). His investments included land near Stockton, California and real estate holdings in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
He was President of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles and a member of many historical, archaeological, patriotic, and religious organizations which mirrored his interests. A supporter of the temperance movement, Rindge reimbursed the city of Santa Monica for the loss of license fees when Santa Monica abolished saloons. He established the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Monica. He wrote several self published books which were spiritual and meditative in nature.
Frederick H. Rindge is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles.
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