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Annie Ladd Childs
Birth Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Pioneer Father: James Cannon Labiski
Birth Place: New Jersey
Date of Arrival in California: July 4, 1849
Pioneer Mother: Mary Maria Labiski
Birth Place: Philadelphia
Date of Arrival in California: October 28, 1850
Death: Father: July 10, 1883; Mother: July 1, 1906
Remarks: Parties arrived at S.F. via Panama (Steamers)
Julia Pfeiffer Simmons
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Louis Pfieffer
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Christina Brenner
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Father: San Francisco 1898; Mother: 1913
Remarks: Both arrived in S.F. via Panama.
Remember as a school girl Hayes Park Platts Hall on Montgomery St Union Square Hall Howard and Third St’s and Woodward’s Gardens as the principle places of amusement. Also remember when Sansome and Montgomery St’s were the principle streets. Lived with my parents at the corner of Post + Kearney where the white house dry goods store formerly stood before the disaster. Also recollect when the steam cars ran out Market Street I sang at the age of 8 years for the association of dashaways and temperance league. I am a native daughter of California and belong to the order of N.G.D.W. Past President of the Alta Parlor.
Minnie Annika Clark
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: William Henry Greene
Birth Place: St. John, New Brunswick
Date of Arrival in California: January 1850
Pioneer Mother: Susan Maria Waterbury
Birth Place: New Brunswick
Date of Arrival in California: January 1850
Death: Father: Nov. 5, 1905; Mother Apr. 1876
Remarks: William Henry Greene was the first man to raise and sell potatoes in the San Francisco Market. He also introduced the seed of the eucalyptus tree imported from Australia and had the original for planting eucalyptus and cypress in the Presidio Reservation and also Golden Gate Park. His home was known as Green Forest situated on the old Ocean House Road and Ingelside. My father was also the discoverer and locator of Burning Moscow Mine Nevada now known as Ophir.
Caroline Lydia Heacock
Birth Place: Sacramento, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Joel R. Ray
Birth Place: Providence, R.I.
Date of Arrival in California: January 1850
Pioneer Mother: Emma B. Edwards
Birth Place: Providence, R.I.
Date of Arrival in California: May 1852
Death: 1890 and 1911
Remarks: My father was by profession a civil engineer but engaged in a commercial business until impoverished by fire and flood when he resumed his profession and was for many years City Surveyor of Sacramento. I remember the flood of 1861 and some of the harrowing scenes in connection therewith. Began my career as a teacher at the age of 15 in Nevada County, Cal. I afterward became a teacher in the Sacramento Grammar School under the Principleship of Mr. A. W. McDonald for many years principle of the Lincoln Evening School in the city. I am as I should be a very loyal Californian and I have never yet stepped over the border line of my native state.
Jessie Dean Moore
Birth Place: California
Pioneer Father: George C. Dean
Birth Place: New York
Date of Arrival in California: 1847
Pioneer Mother: Maria Hotaling
Birth Place: New York
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Father: August 5, 1905; Nov. 9, 1885
Remarks: My father was a Veteran of the Mexican War and arrived in San Francisco in the spring of 1847. He was a member of Stevenson’s Regiment. He was accompanied by my mother and three children. In the rush for gold in 1848 he was of the first to arrive at the mines. He helped build the camps at Placerville. Later he came to San Francisco at the time when the town chiefly of a saloon and a bakery. We lived in Watsonville and Monterrey. Later we moved to Visalia Father lived in California until his death a period of forty six years. He had eight children and twenty eight grandchildren. Four children are now living
Desiree Brown Gladden
Birth Place: California
Pioneer Father: George A. Brown
Birth Place: New York
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Julia Randle Brown
Birth Place: Illinois
Date of Arrival in California: 1856
Death: Aug. 17, 1908
Remarks: See Page 30
Marian Frances Bahtou
Birth Place: Augusta, Ga.
Pioneer Father: Bernard B. Brogan
Birth Place: Augusta, Ga.
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Pioneer Mother: Mary Crosby Brogan
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Father in Cal.; Mother 1892
Remarks: Came to Cal. overland
Elizabeth Hawley Beard
Birth Place: California
Pioneer Father: James Hawley
Birth Place: England
Date of Arrival in California: Nov. 1849
Pioneer Mother: Hetty MumHawley
Birth Place: New Jersey
Date of Arrival in California: May 1852
Death: Father in Calif.; Mother in Cal.
Remarks: Came Via Isthmus of Panama