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• Scott, Hiram D.
  ...ame structures in the county. Members of the Hiram Scott family also lived in downtown Santa Cruz. *''Riptide'' CPL1
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• Porter family
  ...ch]] (near Cabrillo College). Ned Porter opened the first mercantile store in Soquel village, just as the timber/lumber industry was taking off. The main ...ituary. Son Warren R. Porter also has a biography in Harrison, and another in Guinn.
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• Gharky, S. David
  ...and subdivided. [Note: There were several different spellings of the name in local sources. I did a little genealogy research on the Ohio family, and fo *[[History Pages: 39 - What's in a Name? – Adventures in Spelling]]
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• Younger, Charles B.
  ...pt the property intact, and the family donated forty coastal acres to UCSC in 1973. Today it is the site of the [[UCSC Long Marine Lab]]. The family name [[Category:Persons]]
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• Drennan, Samuel
  ...treet, 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 ...ed the 1858 Congregational church building to the rear of its new building in 1890, the [[Stevens, Bart|Bart Stevens]] house was demolished, which had be
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• Foreman, Solomon W.
  ...ith County Surveyor [[Wright, Thomas W.|Thomas W. Wright]]. He is interred in San Luis Obispo. The portrait at left is from Guinn. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Hihn, Frederick A.
  ...to Santa Cruz in 1860. Hihn children who survived to adulthood and stayed in the area: Katherine ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162262145/katheri *''Riptide'' CE39
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• Anthony, Elihu
  ...Streets next to Anthony's lot is labeled on the map as "Anthony's Alley". In 1866, [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCWS18660421.1.2&srpos=8&e=------186-en- *''Riptide'' CE40, photo
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• Bolcoff, Josef
  * ''Riptide'' (CPL14) has a profile of a man named "Pedro Richar" ([https://www.findagr [[Category:Persons]]
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• Chappel, George
  .... The 1866 Santa Cruz map "A" listed "heirs of Chapell" as owners of a lot in "Block 1" (Mission Hill). *[https://archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CE7.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL7]
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• Skirm, Joseph H.
  ...ced law in Santa Cruz, becoming a judge. He was listed as a property owner in Block 2 of the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]]. * Biography in [[A Legal History of Santa Cruz County (2006 book)]].
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• Wilkinson, Peter
  ...66 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 3" (Union Street); also on Front Street in "Block No. 7" (wagon shop). *''Riptide'' CPL3
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• Perry, John B.
  ...as shown as a property owner ("residence") on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 3" (Mission Street). Charles C. was a son and a Soc. of Pioneers *''Riptide'' CPL12
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• Elden, John
  ...lso left the area, in 1858, and the Cooper brothers took over the store. ''Riptide'' also mentions Andrew Jackson Eldon, speculating that he was a third broth [[Category:Persons]]
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• Baldwin, Alfred
  ...a property owner (as "A. Baldwin, store") on the [[1866 Santa Cruz map]], in "Block No. 4". *''Riptide'' CE40, photo
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• Castro family
  ...ornio'' immigrants/colonists to settle in Santa Cruz County (and elsewhere in California). ...with his wife Martina Botiller and 8 children. After his death at Monterey in 1802, Martina moved to Santa Cruz.
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• Buckle, William
  ...f [https://holycsc.org/ Holy Cross School]. Thompson served as 2nd alcalde in 1847. *[[History Pages: 39 - What's in a Name? – Adventures in Spelling]]
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• Trevethan, William
  ...p.55). Elliott spelled the name "Trevothan", and states that he came here in 1835 (p.12). Trevethan married a ''Californio'' girl, Maria Antonia Perez ( ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL9-1950_11_23.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL9]
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• Graham, Isaac
  ...tt, Vardamon|Catherine Bennett]] The story of their rocky marriage is told in [[Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book)|''Qui * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Graham in Wikipedia]
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• Fallon, Thomas
  ...saddlery/hotel/residence on the mission plaza, which he sold to the County in 1852 for the first County-owned courthouse. Also during that time, he marri ...red, was later reinstalled in a different location, then was removed again in 2023.
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• Blackburn, William
  ...7)] came overland with three brothers to the Santa Cruz area from Missouri in 1846, becoming one of the most prominent Santa Cruz residents of that era. ...cal Sketch (1879 book)]] has a drawing of the Blackburn place, on page f4 (in the 1997 edition), and a biography on page 13.
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• Sweet, Paul
  ...to the area after serving in the California Battalion, acquiring property in [[Arana Gulch]] along the road that now bears his name. ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL8-1950_11_16.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL8]
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• Daubenbiss, John
  [[File:Daubenbiss_house.png|thumb|400px|The 1867 Daubenbiss house remains in Soquel]] ...naturalized in 1844, married in San Jose in 1847, and moved to [[Soquel]] in that year.
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• Hames, John
  ...a tannery in partnership with another Ben - [[Porter family|Ben Porter]] - in what is now [[Porter Gulch]] - just to the west of Cabrillo College. Hames ...Hames also came to California in 1843, so he may have also been traveling in that wagon train, and met Drusilla during the journey.
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• Bennett, Eben
  ...ack. The "Toll House" still stands next to the road, just south of Felton. In 1870, Bennett built a house on Beach Hill. [[San Lorenzo River|Bennett Cree *''Riptide'' CE41
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• Weeks, Thomas J.
  '''Thomas J. Weeks''' ([1829-1905]) came to California by ship from Maine in 1849, and soon found his way to Santa Cruz, where he bought a large tract o [[Category:Persons]]
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• Dodero, Nicolas
  ...''Tres Ojos de Agua'']] (Three Eyes of Water) rancho on the upper Westside in 1844. Some sources credit Dodero with building a grist mill, but they may b ...wed subdivision and development of the remainder of the former quarry land in 1978. Cul-de-sac streets created there are Limestone, Quarry, and Rockridge
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• Winterhalder, Charles
  ...ntacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/65257 1859], he had established a business. In 1866, his widow "Mrs. Winterhalder" was listed as a downtown property owner ...78#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 "Pioneer Spirit: A History of the Winterhalder Family in Santa Cruz County"] SCPL Local History article by [[:Category:Dunn, Geoffre
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• Bern, Charles
  ...-1893]), a cabinetmaker by trade, came to Santa Cruz from Freiberg, Saxony in the 1850s. ...then a cabinet maker, then a butcher, and lastly a nurseryman and florist. In 1861 Mr. Bern was married to Miss Caroline Marwede, a sister of Mrs. [[Pars
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• Cappelmann, Cornelius
  ...s a native of Germany. He came to San Francisco in 1850, and to Santa Cruz in 1868. ...z Architecture (4th ed. 2023)]]'', Chapter Three, entry (16), page 63 (son-in-law [[Reid, George W.|George Reid]]).
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• Dreher, John
  ...stering out, he came to Santa Cruz in 1849, acquiring 11 acres of farmland in what is now a downtown residential neighborhood, bounded by Laurel Street o *''Riptide'' CE38, photo
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• Steinmetz, Charles
  ...came to California in 1850, and retired in Santa Cruz in 1868. An obituary in the ''Santa Cruz Surf'' described him as a "capitalist". He held many promi [[Category:Persons]]
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• Stoesser, Otto
  ...an immigrant who came to to Santa Cruz County in 1853, becoming a merchant in Watsonville. ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL7-1950_11_16.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL7]
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• Trust, H. Andrew
  ...uz in 1849, establishing a bakery on Front Street, at some point operating in partnership with fellow German immigrant [[Vahlberg, William|William Vahlbe ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL9-1950_11_23.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL9]
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• Winkle, Henry
  ...025/henry-winkle 1822-1903]) was a German immigrant who came to Santa Cruz in 1866, establishing a farm west of [[Soquel]]. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Bennett, Silas
  ...d build the famous mill in which gold was discovered on the American River in 1848. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Moore, Eli
  ...wn of Santa Cruz]] to make a site for the County's first courthouse, built in 1866. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Alzina, Francisco
  ...ldest wood-frame structure in Santa Cruz. It stands next-door to where his in-laws adobe house once was, on the west side of [[Mission Plaza]]. From 1850 ''Riptide'' (CE35) profiles Romulus B. Griffith, Jr. as a deputy of Alzina.
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• Bull, Thomas
  ...l Creek]] remembers his name. Bull's sister Eliza also came to Santa Cruz, in 1861, and married [[Boston, Joseph|Joseph Boston]] a year later. Also from [[Category:Persons]]
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• Stevens, George C.
  [[File:George C. Stevens.png|thumb|from ''Riptide Centennial Edition'' (1950)]] ...members of the first [[Santa Cruz|Town of Santa Cruz]] Board of Trustees. In 1867, "George Stevens" was noted as "mason" on a house built by [[Morrow, J
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• Lynch, Sedgwick J.
  ...ilt house - which looks nearly the same today, though everything around it in the drawing has changed. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Imus-Rice family
  ..., Hiram A. (Sr.) and Ruth (Palmer) Imus. [[Rice, Henry|Henry Rice]] was an in-law. ...ry:Bliss, Traci|Traci Bliss]] is a descendant. The family was instrumental in establishing the cemetery, and many members are buried there.
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• Davenport, John P.
  ...King]] built a wharf and other facilities at the little North Coast cove. In addition to Davenport's own activities, the wharf was used by local lime ma ...ndagrave.com/memorial/78273024/ellen-clark-davenport 1835-1922]) is buried in Soquel, along with other family members. Davenport's two sons ran a shippin
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• Chace, John D.
  ...ee, Almus L.|A. L. Rountree]], and ads listing Chase as a partner appeared in 1866. By 1878, ads listed Chace as sole proprietor. ...many other downtown notables. Daughter Jennie Gertrude has a separate bio in Harrison.
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• Hecox family
  ...raphy is included in Elliott (p.18-22), and he is mentioned numerous times in Rowland. *''Riptide'' CE28
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• Hall, Richard H.
  ...side and established a dairy farm. The dairy apparently also did well, and in the late 1860s or early 70s he built a new home on the Soquel Avenue grade, *''Riptide'' CPL6
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• Pilkington, Thomas
  ...England, became a resident and subdivider/developer of the Seabright area in the [[Eastside neighborhood]]. Thomas was the brother of [[Wilson, Martha P ...a Cruz’s Seabright'', by Randall Brown, Traci Bliss, and others], listed in Online History Journal bibliography article.
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• Grover family
  ...before turning to lumbering. James, Frealon and Dwight built three houses in a row on Walnut Avenue, across from today's Santa Cruz HS (''Sidewalk Compa *''Riptide'' (CPL15) profiles Elijah W. "Whit"
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• Ely, William
  ...“Ely’s Block No. 1” and “Ely’s Block No. 2”. Ely also invested in early horse-drawn streetcar companies. * [[History Pages: 46 - Santa Cruz gets an Octagon: downtown in the early 1880s]]
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• Wilkins, Peter V.
  '''Peter V. [Veeder] Wilkins''' was a hotelier on Pacific Avenue in the late 1800s. * [[History Pages: 49 - Downtown expanded south in the 1880s]]
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