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California Pioneers
By Mrs. Ida Matthis Brothers
All honor to the Pioneers
That are gathered here today
I want to do them homage
In this city by the bay
For lives that proved their greatness
For the victories they have won
As pushing onward westward
The reached the land of sun
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Thru prairies wide they travelled
They climbed the mountains high
Traversed the burning deserts
Where all was packed and dry
They crossed the rushing rivers
They braved the stormy sea
They battled with the savages
To win such victory
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They builded towns and cities
In this glorious state of ours
With a thousand miles of coast line
And its many sun lit horns
From the snow capped peaks of Shasta
To the sun Kissed Southern land
They erected one vast empire
Monumental to this band
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They tilled the fertile valleys
They curbed the rushing streams
From desert and from mountain
Realized their golden dream
They made of California
The greatest State of all
These brave and noble people
The responded to the Call
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They fought and built the pathway
That all might follow in
The world they then invited
To join them as a Kin
From the northern States they answered
The South responding too
And far away to eastward
They journeyed to the new
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The world has sent all races
Peculiar to their climes
With different tongues and customs
As all mixed here sublime
Our State has reached its zenith
Prosperity reigns supreme
And thousands more are coming
To our nation’s west extreme
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Dear western pioneer mothers
We bow in reverence low
You journeyed her before us
As martyrs well we know
You struggled this tempestuous years
Your work must ever shine
Society must honor you
In action as in rhyme
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The father too that bore the blunt
Of hardships on the way
We love you for your valor
For the heroes passed away
Your progeny will point with print
To the great work you have done
The founding of our glorious state
Your equal there is none
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God bless our antecedents
For California’s shores
And for this lovely city
Which opens wide its doors
May it always be the centre
Of great prosperity
The greatest of incentives
To all posterity
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The Association of Pioneer Women
Honorary Members. From 1900-1923
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
Mrs. Jane Stanford
Mrs. Jessie Fremont
Mrs. Jane Sather
Mrs. Emma S. Howard
Mrs. Ellen Sargent
Mrs. Ralph Smith
Mrs. Virginia Reed Murphy
Mrs. Patty Reed Lewis
Mrs. Hannah P. Cameron
Mrs. Agnes Loudenshagen
Mrs. Louise Shattuck Hodgkins
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Lightner
Mrs. Lizzie Kennedy Burke
Miss Laura T. Fowler
Mrs. Margaret M. Connick
Mrs. Anna E. McIntyre