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The five main biography sources for persons living before WWI are:
 
The five main biography sources for persons living before WWI are:
 
*E. E. Elliott, [[Santa Cruz County, Calif. Illustrations, with Historical Sketch (1879 book)]],  
 
*E. E. Elliott, [[Santa Cruz County, Calif. Illustrations, with Historical Sketch (1879 book)]],  
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*The Santa Cruz chapter of the Society of California Pioneers. Its member biographies are collected in ''[[Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number 4]]''  
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*The Santa Cruz chapter of the Society of California Pioneers. Its member biographies are collected in ''[[Santa Cruz County History Journal Number 4]]''  
 
*E. S. Harrison, [[History of Santa Cruz County (Harrison-1892)]]
 
*E. S. Harrison, [[History of Santa Cruz County (Harrison-1892)]]
 
*James Miller Guinn, [[History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903)]]
 
*James Miller Guinn, [[History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903)]]

Revision as of 18:33, 28 December 2023

The five main biography sources for persons living before WWI are:

Later sources (e.g. Riptide Centennial) tend to mainly refer back to one or more of these five. The number of such biographies provides a rough idea of a person's prominence during their lifetime. Persons became the subjects of these "personal notices" (Elliot's euphemism) mostly by paid subscription (sometimes by descendants), which financed publication of the books. We can categorize as:

Subcategories

This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

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