Difference between revisions of "Drennan, Samuel"

'''Samuel Drennan''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23564717/samuel-drennan 1829-1891]) was a Santa Cruz businessman who lived on Church Street. A [[History Pages: 23 - The Map and the Trees|huge magnolia tree]] remains (in a parking lot between Cedar and Center where a Methodist church once stood). According to Ernest Otto (whose childhood home was next door), planting of the tree (among many) was "supervised by" Mrs. Drennan, the last of many Drennan-associated trees. The Drennan property, next door on the west side of the [[Wessendorf, Louis|Wessendorf and Son Mortuary]], was sold to Wessendorf in 1941 for a parking lot. It later became part of Center Street, when that street was completed from Laurel Street to Mission Street in the 1960s. The mortuary building remains as a Greek Orthodox church, on the corner of Church and Center.