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Redding, Lenore
Birth Place: Postville, Pa.
Pioneer Father: Michael Redding
Birth Place: New Jersey
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: Charlotte Redding
Birth Place: Wales
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: 1920
Remarks: Arrived by Steamer. My Father formed a Company and opened the famous Bald Mountain Mine in Forest City, from which 4 million dollars was taken; some years later he moved to S.F. – In 1885, he bought a ranch in Healdsburg, where he died.
Roche, Marion Frances
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: David Campbell
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: ?
Pioneer Mother: Anna Thompson Campbell
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: My Grandmother arrived in California Sept. 1852; she left Hartford, Conn., crossed the Isthmus to S.F., went to the mines in Tuolomne Co. until the middle 60’s, and then returned to S.F.
Savage, Emma I. Coombs
Birth Place: Born in Wyandotte, Butte County, Calif. Father’s name was Daniel Coombs, born in Kentucky, came in 1852, by way of the Oregon Trail.
Pioneer Father: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Elmira Barnes Combs
Birth Place: Virginia
Date of Arrival in California: Aug. 1852, by way of Oregon Trail
Remarks: —
Siggins, Ethel Katherine
Birth Place: Crescent City
Pioneer Father: Fred W. Bersch
Birth Place: Columbus, O.
Date of Arrival in California: 1867
Pioneer Mother: Anna M. Bersch
Birth Place: Crescent City
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: My Grandfather, John Malone, arrived in 1848; came in a sailing vessel, around the Horn. (see Mother’s History.)
Stanton, Elizabeth
Birth Place: Stockton, Calif.
Pioneer Father: Patrick Brady
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Pioneer Mother: Ellen Boyle
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: Horn, 1850
Remarks: —
Steels, Ida Jane
Birth Place: Pescadero, Calif.
Pioneer Father: Alexander Moore
Birth Place: Tennessee
Date of Arrival in California: Sept. 9, 1847
Pioneer Mother: Adeline Spainhower
Birth Place: N. Carolina
Date of Arrival in California: 1847 by covered wagon
Remarks: Married in Mo. I live in the home my parents built in ’52; Hauling the lumber from Santa Cruz by Ox-team; distant 40 miles. I was born in this house, married and celebrated my Golden Wedding, and my Parents celebrated their Golden Wedding, also.
Smither, Irene
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Cornelius J. Coghlin
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Mary Riley Coghlan
Birth Place: Colusa, Calif.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: 1940
Remarks: —
Sullivan, Sylena
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Sylvester Sullivan
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: 1883
Pioneer Mother: Mary Lee Sullivan
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Grandmother came from Australia 1851 as did her Grandfather.
Van Haren, Lucy L.W.
Birth Place: [illegible] Cacheville, Cal
Pioneer Father: Henry Worthham
Birth Place: Tennessee
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Mary Jane Ballard
Birth Place: St. Lo. Mo.
Date of Arrival in California: 1867 by way of Panama
Remarks: My Mother’s Father and brother James came to Calif. in 1848. My Grand-aunt came to California in a covered wagon; her name Lucy Low, for whom I was named. – My Mother married again and went to San Diego.
Weston, Althea Olive
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Imbal Weston
Birth Place: Conn.
Date of Arrival in California: 1849 around the Horn!
Pioneer Mother: Sarah F. Richardson
Birth Place: Boston, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: 1853 around the Isthmus of Caaruga
Remarks: —
White, Katharine C.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: James H. Cills
Birth Place: New York
Date of Arrival in California: ’49–Horn
Pioneer Mother:Katherine Nugent Cills
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1849, Isthmus of Panama
Remarks: My Father was a member of the Vigilantes; when Cory was taken from Broadway Jail and hung; was an accountant in the Mint on Commercial St.
Woolsen, Estelle
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Joseph Lehman
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Clara Lehman
Birth Place: Hayward
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Grandfather named Jacob Schilling.
Spottiswood, Loraine M.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Geo. G. Spottiswood
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Minnie C. Spottiswood
Birth Place: Modesto, Calif.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Great-father, Christian A. Peterson came to San Francisco by Boat in 1850; lived in Modesto and Hayward; passed away 1882.