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Hincelot, Anita Montague
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: James Algar
Birth Place: Boston, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Elizabeth H. Algar
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: New York
Death: 1905
Remarks: Came by Panama route. My Grandfather John M. Ward left N.Y. in 1849; came by Ox-cart and arrives in California Feb. 1, 1850; went to the mines and returned to S.F. then left for New York to visit relatives; lived to be 86 and spent the last years in Santa Rosa.
Hillhouse, Josephine May
Birth Place: Born in Brown Valley
Pioneer Father: Franklin J. Miner
Birth Place: New York
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Pioneer Mother: Ella Sara Daggett
Birth Place: Union, Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1859
Death: 1915
Remarks: Isthmus
My Grandfather came to California in ’49; settled in Tod’s Valley, Placerville; he was at the firm Flood at Obrien; went back to N.Y. and brought his family out in 1853; his wife’s name was Juliette Hunt; a Quaker; they lived in N.Y. at Capt. Copelands; and were married in 1842.
Harrigsberg, Esther
Birth Place: Born in San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Samuel Appel
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1848
Pioneer Mother: Caroline Anderson
Birth Place: Davenport, Iowa
Date of Arrival in California: 1862, by Isthmus
Remarks: Father cames across plains.
My father nursed Col. Andrews of yellow fever, in Mobile, Ala. 1848; they came to California together.
Ingram, Virginia C.
Birth Place: b. Burlington, Iowa
Pioneer Father: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: arrived Sept. 1854
Kern, Dorothy Elliott
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: John Elliott
Birth Place: N. Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Maude Elliott
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: —
Lewis, Agnes Knox
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: William A. B. Knox
Birth Place: Canada
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: May Lorena Albert
Birth Place: Los Angeles
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Great-great Grand-daughter of Rev. Isaac Owens; who crossed the plains in ’49. arr. In Sacramento in Oct. the same year; he was the founder of the University of the Pacific.
Knox, May Lorena
Birth Place: Los Angeles
Pioneer Father: Joseph Albert
Birth Place: Santa Clara
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Mary Lilian Kidder
Birth Place: San José
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Apr. 1922
Remarks: Rev. Owens arrived in Sacramento in ’49; was the first Missionary commissioned to California by the Methodist Church; was the Founder of the University of the Pacific; came to Santa Clara valley in ’51; started a 160 acre homestead on the Santa Clara Stevens Creek Road. His work was carried on until his demise in 1866. His only daughter, Sarah, crossed the plains with her parents at the age of 12; she was my Grand-mother.
Lawrence, Margaret G.
Birth Place: S.F.
Pioneer Father: Alexander Gibbons
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Marggret Attridge
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Father came by ox-team across the pains. Father passed away in S.F. – 98 years old; people would visit him to hear about the water coming up to Montgomery St. – He was one of the first passengers to ride on the Clay St. cars; of which Mr. Halliday was the Inventor.
LeLong, Minnie Y.
Birth Place: Lyons, Clinton Co., Iowa
Pioneer Father: Hugh Paden Cox
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Date of Arrival in California: 1857
Pioneer Mother: Irene Lucinda Potts
Birth Place: Iowa
Date of Arrival in California: 1869
Death: 1928
Remarks: My father left Iowa in 1851 with 3 young men; they had an Ox-team, a little money and plenty of urge; they took turns driving, while the other three, walked and arrived in this State, tired and foot-sore, but courageous. Father mined in Michigan Bar; contracted small-pox and afterward returned to his birth-place Shippensburg, by way of the Isthmus on account of the death of his Mother; returned to California in ’69 with a wife and two babies; never left the State again only to visit his old Home. – My Grandfather, [illegible] Potts came with the Gold Rush in ’49; never returned to the East and died in Eureka, in the Pioneer Plot is where he was buried. I married Charles F. Le Long, a Native Son, home on Natoma St, S.F. His Parents came here from N.Y. in 1847.
Leightner, Adeline M.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Charles H. Stearns
Birth Place: Bangor, Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1873
Pioneer Mother: Mary Adelia Stearns
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Died Dec. 5/39
Remarks: My Grand-mother, Mary Adelia Joslyn came to California in ’51. She was a Charter Member of this Association.