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The "Centennial Edition" of Riptide magazine was published in 1850 - in two installments, containing many "pioneer" historical biographies of persons who came to California no later than 1850, and had at least some connection to the original Santa Cruz County (which extended further up the coast past Pescadero). No one claimed authorship at the time, and it's still not clear who the writer(s) was/were (the pen name "Aunt Mathilda" was used). Sources for pre-statehood information are not always given.

Local researcher Robert Nelson created pdf versions of individual photographed pages are accessible online in the MAH online archives. There's also an alphabetical biography index, in Excel spreadsheet format. Be aware, however, that some text is cut off because of page misalignment during photography. All Riptide issues are available on microfilm at SCPL.

Several not-very-local persons have biographies in the Riptide Centennial:

• Delos R. Ashley was a 49er who lived and practiced law in Monterey in the 1850s. He was a US congressman from the district that included Santa Cruz County, and was a silent partner in the early days of the Pacific Sentinel newspaper, before it moved to Santa Cruz.
• John C. Fremont had a large presence in pre-statehood California, but his influence in our area was limited to one or two recruiting visits to Zayante in 1845-46.
• William T. Sherman was financially involved with some Pajaro Valley banking business in the 1850s, while stationed in Monterey with the US occupation forces, but was never a resident.
• Daniel and James Blackburn, younger brothers of William Blackburn and older brothers to Jacob Blackburn, stayed in Santa Cruz County for a few years in the early 1850s before moving south to San Luis Obispo County.

Persons listed in Riptide with only minimal/incomplete/doubtful info or minimal local connections, and/or having entries that are not readable in the online version because parts of photographed pages are cut off:

• Adell; Richard, Adrian, A.; Aldrich, G./George (G. and George have separate entries but may have been the same person); Allen, Charles; Allen, George T.; Ames, Josiah P. (Pescadero); Allen, Jane; Allen, John; Anges, H.; Anglin, Aaron;
• Badger, William G.; Baker, Elija; Barton, John R; Bawden, Joseph L; Bertrand; Boan [Bowen?], A.D.; Bonham, Dr. J.F.; Bonsal, Jacob (sp?); Boucher, James; Bowent Thomas W.; Bowie, Hamilton; Boyle, John Joseph; Brady, John F.; Brewley, Jackson (sp?); Brown, Charles; Buckley, Thomas; Byrd, Thomas;
• Cambuston, Enrique; Campbell, Peter; Cannon, Edward C.; Carpenter, John; Collins, Peter, Cooke, Dennis; Cooley, R. M.; Cox, David; Crabb, J.D.;
• Dart, Harrison; Davis, Thomas; Diley, J.B.; Dye, Clarkson; Dye, Dr.; Dye, Hazzard;
• Eastham, Henry F.; Eberle, C.H.; Eggleston, Geo. Washington (1815-1889); Eldridge, George Washington; Elkins, G.;
• Galway, James; Gambell (sp?), William; Gardner, J.H.; Garvey, Cornelius Thomas; Gilman, John B; Givens, George F; Glassell, Andrew; Gordon, James; Griffith, William; Grigsby, Sampson F; Grivs, John; Guerraz, John; Gum, Gabriel W.
• Hamlin, Orrin; Hardy, Johanna; Hardy, John C; Harpole, Sampson; Harrison, Jonathan; Haskell, John W.; Haun; Hayden, George W.; Henderson, H.L.; Hewett, Adam; Hopper, Charles; Hopper, Thomas; Houck, Phillip; Hull, Elisha;
• McFarland, Rhoda Ann;
• Porter, Thomas R. (not rel. to other Porters);
• Roach, Philip A, Rowe, William Henry,
• Sanford, Fred H; Sayre, George; Sayres, Robert; Shulters, John; Sime, John; Sirrine, George W.; Slidell, John; Smith, Alexander; Smith, Henry; Smith, John Morgan; Smith, Napoleon Bonaparte; Smith, Orrin;

Persons having substantial entries in Riptide Centennial, but lacking a page in this wiki: Abell, Edward Meyers, Allen, Ira, Anderson, Milton, Anderson, William, Andrews, George W., Arrendiell, Benjamin W., Atherton, Faxon D., Auld, Ossian G., Austin, Levi B., Bacon, Joseph, Bailey, Whitlow, Baker, Isaac Munroe Baker, J Baker, John Baptiste, Jean Barham, James F. Barton, William Bassett, Vincente Baxter, Henry Vanderbeck Baxter, John A Baxter, William Henry Bayley, Benjamin Franklin Bean, Charles, Whitman Bean, James M. (Bean Creek) Beaumont, Enos W. Bellamy, George W. Bennett, A.B. Benson, Christian Bickmore, Gilbert Blanchard, Seth Blasdel, Henry G. Bodfish, George H Bofman, David (aka Boffman) Bolado, Joaquin Bourne, William Dawkins Bowman, John Boyle, Henry G. Boyle, Michael Owen Bradley, James A Bradley, Otho Igo Brady, Francis R. Briar, Rev. James Brown, Alexander Brown, John Henry Brummett, James Bucher, James Bundeson, Marcus Burke, James Burland, Robert Burrell Butler, Warren C. Buzzell, Francis Buzzell, Willard Joseph Byrd, Samuel Cadish, D. Calderwood, Ambrose Caldwell, Leander Gilham Calkin, Milo Call, Maria del Carmen Callaghan, William Callihan, William Campbell, Jonathan Campbell, William Carr, Jesse D Carver, Isaac, S. Casserly, Eugene Chalmers, George Champlin, Joel Chandler, Reuben T. Chase, Squire Cheeseman, Elijah Clark, John G Clements, Robert E Clinkerfuss, Frederick Clough, David M. Clough, R.B. Cole, Cornellius (Cornelius?) Cole, Thomas Coles, Henry Collins, Charles Connell, John Conniver, Simpson Cook, J.C. Cool, Peter Y. Corcoran, James Corcoran, Thomas Courtney, Isaac (Partial) Courtright, William Henry Covell, W.A. Coyle, William Coyote, N. Crane, George W. Crawford, Thomas Crooks Culber, A.L. Cullen, James Curtis, John Cushing, Nicholas Cushing, Simeon M. Cutler, John

Daley, J.H. Dance, Joseph A. Daniels, Francis Davenport, John P. Davis, George W Davis, Peter J Dean, George C DeLong, Abram Depeaux, Louis Doak, John Docker Dockery, John Dominick, J.H. Dorist, C.H. Dorn, Nicodemus Andrew Jackson Dotter, W.C. Dougherty, John Doyle, John Dryden, Rev. David A Duffy, Billy Dunlap, John Dunlap, William Dunne, John D. Dustin, Charles Haynes Dutton, James Marshall Dyer, George Eaker, John W. Edwards, Daniel Elden, Andrew Jackson Ennis, John Evans, Hugh Evans, O.H. Ewing, Simon Beymer Fargo, Darius Chapman Ford Robert Fulton Forrester, John Francis, Joseph

Gault, Calvin Gibson, F.W. Gifford, Asa Gilmore, John Gilston, James M. Gilt, Enrique Glover, Asa C Godchaux, Lazarre Goddard, William A.B. Goodall, Capt. Charles Gordon, James Gordon, Nicholas Graham, A.D. Graham, Major John W. Green, J.S. Green, John D. Green, Lydia M.M. Greene, William Henry Gregory, Durrell S. Grey, Joseph Griffith, Romalus B., Jr. Grins, John Grover, Whit Hackett, John K Haight, Lansing Haight, Samuel W. Haley, T Hall, R.J. Hall, Richard F Hall, Samuel P. (Samuel A.?) Halstead, James L Ham, Jeremiah Ham, Jonathan Bates Harding, Isaac Hardy, Isaac Henderson, William T.L. Hendricks, Abraham Hensley, Samuel J Herbert, John Hester, Craven P. Hickey, Cornelius Highmoor, Joseph Hill, Henry S. Hill, J Bryant Hill, Pleasant Hills, N. Bonaparte Hinckley, Roger Gibson Hinds, Thomas William Hitchcock, Isaac Hobbs, James H Hodgdon, H.A. Holbrook, Washington Holcomb, Isaac Webster Holcomb, Nathaniel Hollenbeck, Thomas Hook, Solomon Horn, William Henry Howland, Sabin Hoy, Jones Hubbard, George C. Huddart, John M. Hudson, J.B. Hulett, Obediah Huntoon, Marcellus Hutchings, L.S. Hutchinson, William A.

Joyce, Willis W. Kuttner, J. Lard, Sarah C Lathrop, Levi B. Lucas, Frederick Wilton Lunt, Amos

Manning, David Martin, Charles Christopher Mattison, Robert William McCollum, Joseph McCusker, Daniel McKamish, James McKarahar, John McKean, Robert Allen McKinney, Hampton E Munson, Joseph Murphy, John Omnes, Guy

Packard, Albert Palasko, J Palmer, John Parker, Richard Parker, Robert A. Parker, William C Parrott, John Parry, Dr. Isaac Parsons, Dr. George Parsons, Henry F. Parsons, Henry Fell Patrick, Joshua Patterson, Elizabeth Peabody, Jonathan Peace, James Peck, Chester Winnans (sp?) Peck, Elon Galusha Peck, Henry Martin Peck, Nicholas Thomas Peckham, John F. Peckham, Robert F. Pederick, Joshua Pelton, John Colter Penfield, Edwin S. Per Lee, Theron R. Perkins, John G. Perry, George Perry, Joseph Wilburn Peterson, Peter Phillips, Bonaparte Phillips, Thomas James Pioda, Paul Poilo, Pierre Francois Polasko, J Poncabaro, Augustus Powell, John W. Prewett, James Levy Price, Rodman Quick, M.W. Raynolds, William W. (Reynolds?) Redman, Kendall F. Reed, ? Reed, James Frazier Reed, Joseph Reed, Mattie J (Patty) Reed, Mrs. Margaret W. Rice, Jane Graham (daughter of Graham, Isaac?) Richar, Pedro Richards, John D Richardson, Henry Richardson, John A. Ridley, Robert Ring, David Roach, Philip Roache, William (rel. to Roache, Alexander P.?) Roadhouse, Joseph A. Roan, Francis Roberts, Samuel Roberts, William Robertson, John Robertson, Stanley L Robinson, William D Roussillon, Carlos Rowe, A.D. Rowe, Mrs. Rhoda Ann Rowe, William H. Roy, James Maurice Runhardt, G.H. Rupe, James (Partial) Ryan, Thomas Ryder, Charles Henry Ryder, D.F. Ryder, David N. Ryder, William Roland

Sanborn, O.S. Sanford, Asa Preston Saunders, John Saxon, William Schallenberger, Moses Schultz, Cincinnatus Scott, John Scott, Capt. Robert J Sears, Robert Sharp, Samuel Sheall, John Shelby, John Lafayette Silkin, Stehen Simms, Middletown Ward Simonds, E.C. Skene, James Skinner, A.A. Skinner, John Smith, Capt. Edward L.B. Smith, Columbus H Smith, G.W. Smith, Henry Charles Smith, Hiram Smith, L.B. Smith, William H Snodgrass, Thomas Spect, Henry Speegle, William R Stampley, Orville K Stanley, John R. Steinmetz, Charles Stevens, Benjamin F Stevens, Lewis Stevens, Robert Stevenson, Dr. C.P. Stevenson, Matthew R Stewart, Robert B Stone, William H Stoneman, Gov. George Stowe, W.W. Stowell, Levi Suden, Capt. Robert Suwerkroop, E.A. Swasey, William F. Tait, John Tanner, Albert Mills Taylor, Alexander Taylor, Deacon Nelson Taylor, Joseph Powell Taylor, William Teschemacher, F.H. Thomas, Elijah Thomas, John W. Thompson, James Thompson, Richard (Buckle?) Thompson, Uriah William Tidball, Thomas Tidball, Thomas T. Tittle, Frederick G. Tracy, Peter (Tracy, Patrick?) Trout, Emanuel Thomas Tuffey, Jonathan Turner, Henry S. Tuttle, Capt Tuttle, Owen Tyrrin, George Tyus, John Burton

Uren, Nicholas Andrew Van Allen, John Van Anda, Jane Van Bussum, Joseph V Vanaker, Paul Vardamon, Mansel (Mansell Vardamon Bennett?) Vermule, Thomas L Vestal, Richard K Vincent, Capt. Wade, Edward Wakeman, F.O. Waldrop, Walker, Samuel Walker, Thomas Ward, Michael Wardwell, Gideon C Washburn, Harvey Washburn, John Helms Washum, Sol Watkins, B.F. Watson, Frank Watson, Henry Watson, Jacob Watson, Jonathan Watson, William Wheeler, Charles Whinery, Henry Whisman, J. Washington White, Edward White, William White, William F Whiting, B.C. Wiggins, William Wilkinson, Peter Willetts, Joseph D Williamson, Joseph N. Woods, David C Woods, Isaiah C. Woods, John Woodworth, Selim E. Wooley, William Woostell, M.G.