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Louise Adeline Smith (1962)
Birth Place: New York City, N.Y.
Pioneer Father: Grandfather, Paul Thomas Schlotzhauer
Birth Place: Bavaria, Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Came to America at age of 14 and located in Kentucky – hearing of the gold fields, crossed plains to Calif. on mule in 1852 to Grizzly Flat. In 1868 came to S.F. and in Oakland bought land in woods – now – 8th and Washington St.
Ruth Francis Rix (1957)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Grandfather John Richard Regan; Father Lincoln Burnett Regan
Birth Place: San Francisco, Calif.
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Remarks: My paternal grandmother came around the horn.
My paternal grandfather John Richard Regan had one of the first cooper shops in San Francisco, although his name does not appear in the Directory until 1854. My maternal Grandfather, John Patrick Regan, came to Vallejo as a Ship Caulker, early ‘50s.
My Paternal Grandmother Hannah Murphy Regan. My maternal grandmother, Mary [illegible] Hayes Regan came to the city in early ‘50s.
Luna B. Graham (1958)
Birth Place: San Leandro, Alameda Co.
Pioneer Father: Grandfather, Thomas H. Bryant
Birth Place: Monroe Co., Del.
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Cloverdale, Calif.
Remarks:Buried. Petaluma Cypress Cemetery.
My Grandfather had 2 brothers, John and William Gerrett Bryant–both Methodist preachers–I believe they arrived in California in 1850, both settling at Grass Valley–each lived into their 90’s, never leaving California.
Alice C. Martin (1962)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Mary J. Prudden
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: —
Evelyn Delia Spellman (1962)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: Jan 1850
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: My grandfather Patrick Brooks arrived in California in Jan. 1850 from Maine. He and me grandmother came to Calif. and they were married in S.F. French Church.
My grandmother came from Boston.
In 1852 Patrick Brooks purchased part of the Buro-Buro Rancho from the Gov. in San Mateo.
Emma R. Hartler (1962)
Birth Place: Pescadero, San Mateo Co.
Pioneer Father: Timothy Elwood Roe, Father; Maternal Grandfather James W. Bell
Birth Place: Columbia Roads, Penn.; County Tyrone, Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Jane Dickson
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: Aug. 1850
Remarks: My grandfather came to America as a young man and located in Cincinnatti Ohio. Married Miss Jane Dickson of Tyrone, Ireland in Feb. 1850 and came with her in a large train consisting of 15 wagons, or prairie schooners, driven by oxen.
Harriett Ryan (1962)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: John Smith
Birth Place: New York, N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: 1865
Pioneer Mother: Janet Hay Whitfield
Birth Place: Australia
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Remarks: History Pg 115
Esabella Hay Foge
Janet Meade (1962)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: John Smith
Birth Place: New York, N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: 1865
Pioneer Mother: Janet Hay Whitfield
Birth Place: Australia
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Remarks: See mother’s history
Isabella Hay Foge
(Sister of Harriet Ryan)
Irma Olivia Tracy (1963)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Jeremiah Finn
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: 1848
Pioneer Mother: Bridget Sweeney Donahue; Came across the US in a covered wagon in 1849
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Remarks: Grandfather came around the Horn in a sailing Ship in 1848.
One relative by marriage founded the Olympic Club, another the San Francisco Bank. Many Connections with early San Francisco.
Marie Louise Adams (1963)
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Rudolph Herman Stichtendd
Birth Place: [illegible], Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Grandfather Arrived in S.F. in 1854.
Landed in Charleston S. Carolina and became American Citizen and had name changed to Rudolph Herman by law. Crossed Isthmus of Panama in 1851 on muleback and Pacific Coast, then Boat to San Francisco on “Yankee Blade.”