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Meyer, Celine, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Leon Mayer
Birth Place: Forbach, Lorraine, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Julia Mayer
Birth Place: Alsace, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Father: August 1904; Mother: —
Remarks: Father came by way of Nicaragua and Isthmus of Panama by sailing vessel from New York. Mother by same route. My father came to San Francisco in 1852 with his partner. They opened a jewelry store on Montgomery St. They were successful but there was a big fire and which swept away all the business part of the city and he lost every-thing [sic] he had. Then he travelled through the country selling jewelry, eye-glasses [sic] etc. Then he came back and started another jewelry store on Kearny St. He moved to Dupont St. between Jackson and Pacific where my father had his jewelry store until 1870.
I am the oldest of their daughters. My sisters were born in the Sullivan Bldg. then at the corner of Dupont and Pacific. One sister Mrs. Chas London was born May 1, 1858 and my other sister was born Mon. August 29-1859, Mrs. Phil Latz. I went to school at the Powell St. primary, then to the Washington Grammar School and graduated from the Broadway Grammar School. I married Jan. 3, 1878 to Leopold Meyer on Antioch, Contra Costa Co. My husband was a pioneer having come to Antioch in Oct. 1868 where he was in the general merchandise business for 44 years until he died Jan. 18 1912. He was well known in Contra Costa Co. as well as in San Francisco. I lived in Antioch 35 years and after my husband died I came back to San Francisco. in June 1918 and have lived here ever since. I was at school in the Broadway Grammar at the time of the big earth-quake Oct 18, 1868, which I will never forget being then twelve years old. That year was a small pox epidemic as I remember seeing the yellow flags every-where [sic] on the houses where there were cases of it. There was a case of it in our house but none of our family had small pox. My father was a charter member of Temple Emanuel.
Mrs. Celine Meyer Apt. 206, Huntington Apartments, 1075 California St., corner of Taylor.
London, Helen, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Leon Mayer
Birth Place: Lorraine, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Julia Levy Mayer
Birth Place: Alsace, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Mother: Feb 1890; Father: Aug 1904
Remarks: Father came by Panama C-. Mother came by Nicaragua.
Rose Suskind, Mrs.
Birth Place: Martinez, Contra Costa
Pioneer Father: Emanuel Lazar
Birth Place: [illegible] Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Jan 1850
Pioneer Mother: Caroline Lasar
Birth Place: Worms, Germany
Date of Arrival in California: March 1853
Death: Mother: Jan 1898; Father Aug 1907
Remarks: Mother came by way of Panama. Father by way of Panama.
Latz, Estelle, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Leon Mayer
Birth Place: Lorraine, Mayer
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Julia Levy Mayer
Birth Place: Alsace, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Mother: 1900; Father: 1904
Remarks: Father arrived by Panama. Mother by Nicaragua.
Anna Lee Gunn Marston, Mrs.
Birth Place: Sonora, California
Pioneer Father: Lewis C. Gunn
Birth Place: New York City
Date of Arrival in California: August 7, 1849
Pioneer Mother: Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn
Birth Place: Newburyport, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: Aug. 12, 1851
Death: Mother: Oct. 6, 1906; Father: Oct. 15, 1892
Remarks: Father across Mexico to Mazatlan, then by ship to San Francisco. Mother by ship around Cape Horn.
On landing Aug 7, 1849 at San Francisco my father went at once to the mines in Tuolumne Co. where he practiced medicine. Later he became proprietor of the Sonora Herald and County Recorder. He sent for my mother who came with four small children on a six months voyage around Cape Horn. The family lived in Sonora until 1861, when we moved to San Francisco. During the next ten years my father was deputy surveyor of the port. Assessor of Internal Revenue, and later editor of the San Francisco Times. My school live [sic] was in the South Cosmopolitan School (Grammar) and at The Girls High School. I also taught for two years in South Cosmopolitan. In 1875 I moved to San Diego where my family had preceded me. In 1878 I was married to George N. Marston.
In 1928 I authored a book, Records of a California Family which includes letters and diaries of my parents between 1849 and 1861 and a short sketch of their lives in the following years.
Mozart, Laura Katherine
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: William Burgess Smith
Birth Place: Salem, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: early in 1852
Pioneer Mother: Augusta Mills Smith
Birth Place: Jacksonville, Florida
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Mother: Dec. 1917; Father: —
Remarks: Father came as 1st officer around the Horn. Mother across the Isthmus. Upon my father’s arrival, went to Placerville and engaged in mining. When he returned to San Francisco, entered into partnership with Mr. Theodore Allen (commodore of the Yacht Club) in the chandlery business.
Du Val, Leontine, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Fran, Marysville, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Jacques Godchaux
Birth Place: Alsace, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Pioneer Mother: Elise Godchaux
Birth Place: Lorraine, France
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Death: Mother: in San Francisco 1908; Father: 1876
Remarks: My father was in the the real estate business as long as I can remember. When I was a child we used to go Hayes Valley on Sundays for recreation through Market S. which were all sand hills and a steam train took us there. I can still remember a friend of my father’s said “Mr. Godchaux, Market St is going to be the street in San Francisco.” Everyone thought he was insane but he was right. We also used to go to Mugs Wharf and see the monkeys. I saw Lotta Crabtree play at Maguires Opera House on Washington St. and another of our theatres was the Metropolitan at Kearny and Washington St. In my times, young girls did not have all the amusement places to go to that the young generations have today. But we enjoyed ourselves in our simple way. We had Woodward’s and City Gardens which were very pretty and I shall never forget the first celebration of July 14th “Fall of the Bastille at Woodward’s Gardens.” It was at night and was very pretty. There was such a crowd I thought we would be killed. There were fire-motes [sic] and all sorts of amusements. I have seen the city [illegible]-up [illegible]. Respectfully, Mrs. L. Du Val