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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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• Blackburn, Jacob
  ...e Creek]] lumbering and sawmill operations. Son Frank also has a biography in Harrison. ...Lazarre Godchaux (CE35), born in France, as an 1852 partner with Blackburn in a Watsonville store.
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• Williams, Edward L.
  ...n of Front Street past Cooper. Son Edward C. Williams also has a biography in Harrison. Son Charles E. was also a Soc. of Pioneers member. *''Riptide'' (CPL3) says he was a cousin of [[Boston, Joseph|Joseph Boston]].
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• Rennie, William
  ...y's stairway) in the [[Beach Hill neighborhood]]. The house was demolished in 1970. * The Rennie house can be seen in a photo on [[History Pages: 59 - 1895 Venetian Water Carnival]].
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• Cooper brothers
  ...[charter city]. The two brothers opened their general store in Santa Cruz in 1850 with goods transported across the plains by William." William Burton Cooper, a son of James, has a bio in Guinn.
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• Makinney, Hampton E.
  ...Makinney". Makinney later partnered with [[Dake, Lawrence J.|L. J. Dake]] in a land title company. Makinney's son Fred has a separate biography in Harrison.
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• Davis, Francis and Frederick
  ...ere brothers for whom Oakland architect [[Miller, Chester|Chester Miller]] in 1912 designed a large residence on "the Cliff Drive". The house is now part [[Category:Persons]]
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• Mattison, John S.
  ...fornia in 1849, and in 1852 bought 160 acres from the [[Rodriguez family]] in what is now [[Live Oak]]. *''Riptide'' CE37. A brother, Robert, is profiled on CE19. [[Mattison, Frank|Frank Mat
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• Russell, Thomas
  ...dered in 1858. The murderer was never captured. Alexander was a part owner in the Russell tract, famous for having been the scene of military encampments *''Riptide'' CPL15
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• Roberts, Joseph
  ...Scotland, was a sailor who became a house mover and resident of Beach Hill in Santa Cruz. Joseph and son Frank K. were Soc. of Pioneers members. *''Riptide'' CPL15
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• Roussillon, Charles
  ...oup of French and/or French-Canadian men who came to the Monterey Bay area in the 1840s. Some (e.g. Roussillon), were naturalized as Mexican citizens. So *''Riptide'' CPL15
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• Sainsevain, Pierre
  ...n]] to build a schooner on/near the beach. Sainsevain moved to Los Angeles in 1859, and became a successful vintner. *''Riptide'' CPL15
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• Sanborn, Lucius
  ...4-1899]) was a blacksmith who, according to Chase, moved into a shop built in 1852 by [[Anthony, Elihu|Elihu Anthony]] where the [[Santa Cruz Post Office ...so has a bio in Guinn. Lucius, William and their father William are buried in Pioneer cemetery.
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• Shelby, Granville and Mary
  ...25-1869]) came to Santa Cruz in 1849 (Riptide Centennial, p.15), and lived in a house that was moved west on Elm Street from its original location at the [[Category:Persons]]
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• Short, William
  ...Daniel A.|Daniel Damkroeger]], built on Ocean Street and remaining today. In 1889 Short's brother "Captain" Samuel also had a house designed by Damkroeg [[Category:Persons]]
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• Speel, Harry
  [[Category:Persons]] [[Category:Persons in Riptide]]
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• Stevens, Bart
  ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL7-1950_11_16.pdf ''Riptide'' (CPL7)]. On the same page is Benjamin F. Stevens, a possible relative. ...''Santa Cruz County History Journal Number 4'' is the same image used in ''Riptide'' for [[Stevens, George C.|George C. Stevens]].
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• Tait, James A.
  ...r who later entered the plumbing and hardware business". He may have lived in an 1870/71 house that still stands on California Street. ...archives.santacruzmah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CPL9-1950_11_23.pdf ''Riptide'' CPL9] states that he came to CA as one of Stevenson's volunteers, and wor
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• Waters, James
  ...y Santa Cruz designer-builder. Wife "Mrs. M. J. Waters" has a separate bio in Harrison, and was a daughter of Beck. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Williams brothers
  ...as early as 1845. There's no record that the fourth brother John, who died in 1849, ever came here. The brothers bought land near Davenport, establishing ...it appears that Isaac may have left the area before 1866. He died in 1870 in Santa Ana, CA (Orange County).
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• Williamson, James
  ...ick building constructed. That building was demolished after being damaged in the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]]. * ''Riptide'' (CPL5). Wife Elizabeth (Patterson) has a separate entry (CE29).
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• Stevenson, Jonathan D.
  ...o the Santa Cruz area. It's unclear whether Stevenson himself ever resided in this area, but before statehood he acquired by proxy a number of "town lots ...ruz]] to the U.S. government, which built the first local lighthouse there in 1869.
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• Bowman, Gustavus
  ...-92. He had a large home built on Third Street in 1885, which was replaced in 1936 by the current residence. * ''Riptide'' (CE34) includes a photo.
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• Brown, Charles
  ...evolved into the St. Charles Hotel. Brown later ran out of money, and died in poverty. ...s Brown" (''see'' Elliot, p.10). It's possible that this Charles Brown was in California that early, although obituaries described Brown as a "pioneer of
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• Cutler, James M.
  [[Category:Persons]] [[Category:Persons in Riptide]]
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• Dabadie, Jean B.
  ...s one of the small group of pre-statehood French immigrants who spent time in the Santa Cruz area. [[Category:Persons]]
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• DeLamater, Gusbert B.
  ...Avenue retailer and Ocean View Avenue resident, and was a Santa Cruz mayor in 1871-72. [[Category:Persons]]
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• DeLaveaga, Jose V.
  ...tion that it be used as a park. It is now [[DeLaveaga Park]], largest park in the city, and providing the widest range of recreational facilities. ''Riptide'' (CE3) profiles John Forrester as a previous owner of part of the DeLaveag
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• Doane, Handley B.
  ...nell Doane''' sold 12 Eastside acres to [[Mott, Foster N.|Foster N. Mott]] in 1884, which Mott subdivided and named Seabright. The name has since been ap ...a Cruz’s Seabright'', by Randall Brown, Traci Bliss, and others], listed in Online History Journal bibliography article.
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• Greenwood, John
  '''John Greenwood''' and wife Sarah are mentioned in ''Sidewalk Companion'' as owners of a parcel on High Street. The [[1866 San * ''Riptide'' CE36
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• Guild, Jonathan H.
  ...cust Street, but the 1866 map shows that Guild owned several other parcels in Santa Cruz by that time. The ''Sentinel'' ad shown at right lists Guild amo ...his estate) donated Locust Street land for the first Baptist church (noted in Elliott, p.69). The church building was later moved down the hill to Walnut
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• Hale, Titus
  ...[[Santa Cruz Railroad (SCR)]] investor, and entrepreneur during his years in Santa Cruz County. The Find-a-grave page reproduces Hale's Society of Calif ...ptide-centennial-pioneer/ ''Riptide Centennial'', 1950, page CE36] [online in MAH archives]
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• Hardy, William
  ...Third Street. Fellow pioneer [[John A. Swan|Jack Swan]] visited the Hardys in 1882. *''Riptide'' CE28
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• Hinds, Alfred J.
  ...rce of that info. The biography of Alfred's father Thomas is from the 1950 Riptide Centennial. Alfred's sister married [[McPherson, Duncan|Duncan McPherson]]. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Davis, Isaac E.
  ...P.|A. P. Jordan]]. After Jordan sold out to [[Cowell family|Henry Cowell]] in 1865, Davis partnered with Cowell until Cowell took full control after Davi *''Riptide'' CE28
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• Kaye, Charles
  ...lans for the 1877 Santa Cruz Hotel building on Cedar Street, which remains in 2023. ''Riptide'' CE35 profiles Henry S. Hill as the first husband of [[Uhden, Augustus|Mar
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• King, James
  '''James King''' came to Santa Cruz County in the 1850s, and owned a downtown Santa Cruz residence by 1866. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Lewis, Martha J.
  ...in Capitola. Son [[Lewis, J. Frazier|Frazier Lewis]] became a confectioner in Capitola and Santa Cruz. The Donner Party ordeal was the subject of a 2001 *''Riptide CPL14 ("Mattie J. (Patty) Reed")
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• Arcan, John B.
  ...of what is now Pacific Avenue and Soquel Avenue, where New Leaf market is in 2023. * ''Riptide'' CE32. Also on that page (with a photo) is son [[Arcan, Charles E.|Charles
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• Cathcart, Robert
  ...n had moved out and were apparently unaware that the Swan family had moved in. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Swan, Lyman
  ...of the Hawaiian royal family. The Swans acquired their permanent residence in an unusual manner. The former [[Cathcart, Robert|Cathcart]] residence was a ...n had moved out and were apparently unaware that the Swan family had moved in.
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• Gushee, Horace
  [[File:Gushee, Horace (Riptide portrait).png|right]] ...her; as a trustee of the Felton & Santa-Cruz railroad; and as a subdivider in Felton (per Rowland, p.170-171 - Gushee Street remembers him there). By 186
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• Holcomb, Nathaniel
  '''Nathaniel Holcomb''' was a Soquel farmer who, in 1858, at a meeting in Soquel headed by judge [[Rice, Henry|Henry Rice]] was chosen as one of the *''Riptide'' CE11
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• Ford, Charles
  ...n Harrison is reproduced on his Find-a-Grave page. Ford is mentioned often in Elliott and Guinn, but without a biography. After an abortive try at potato ...le, where he died in 1863. Note that a different John Ford has a biography in Elliott.
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• Ware, William
  ...in ~1841 after the return of Graham and others arrested and sent to Mexico in 1840. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Bennett, Vardamon
  ...in San Francisco, and the Bennetts acquired San Lorenzo Valley timber land in 1847, where a sawmill was built on what is now called Love Creek (for Mary' ...in 1845, and later ran away from him. That story and many others are told in [[Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book)|''Qui
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• Case, Benjamin A.
  ...ry returned to Santa Cruz, where she lived with son Rollin until her death in 1889. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Sawin, Reuben H.
  ...rn]] build a sawmill on Branciforte Creek. Elliott states that Sawin moved in 1868 to a property (68+ acres on the north side of Mission Street) whose pr [[Category:Persons]]
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• Trescony, Alberto
  ...s). Clark (''Santa Cruz County Place Names'') mentions that Trescony lived in Monterey as early as 1841. ...ginally intended at least partially as a semi-retirement move. The drawing in Elliott's 1879 ''Santa Cruz County Illustrations'' (p.f52) shows what looks
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• Devoll, Phillip H.
  ...Santa Cruz in 1871, building a Pacific Avenue commercial building (drawing in Elliott, p.f66) where he opened a business selling sewing machines, etc. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Harkins, James
  ...onterey County (Elliott, p.93, f96 (ranch drawing)). Despite his residence in a neighboring county, a branch of the [[Watsonville Slough]] wetlands is na [[Category:Persons]]
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• Boyle, Michael O.
  ...0]), native of Ireland, came to Santa Cruz in 1858 after a number of years in the gold-mining areas. A stone mason by trade, he may have helped build the ...41&e=-------en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22M.+O.+Boyle%22------- "Santa Cruz Goes in Search of Drinking Water"], Santa Cruz Sentinel, 19 February 1939, 5:1
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• Gagnon, Michael
  ...g to California (and the gold fields) in 1849, and to the Watsonville area in 1852, where he became a farmer. *''Riptide'' CPL2, photo
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• Drussell, Daniel
  ...rming on the Monterey County side of the [[Pajaro River]] (Elliott, p91; ''Riptide'' CE38). [[Category:Persons]]
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• Besse, John N.
  ...tha, a daughter of [[Moore, Eli|Eli Moore]]. Nephew Milton Besse has a bio in Guinn (p648) that includes info on John. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Uhden, Augustus
  ...of the [[Leibbrandt brothers]]. By 1866, the Uhdens had acquired property in the flats east of today's Riverside Avenue, adjacent to that of the Leibbra ...rial/195373078/mary-hannah-kaye 1836-1909]) first married Henry S. Hill (''Riptide'' CE35), then [[Kaye, Charles|Charles Kaye]].
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• Parrish, Joshua
  ...ng in the [[Soquel]] area. Parrish was one of the largest early landowners in the central Soquel Village area. *''Riptide'' CPL12
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• Clements, Lambert B.
  ...of the Peace, elected along with [[Mattison, John S.|John Mattison]]. When in 1852 the county created three judicial townships - Santa Cruz, Soquel, and [[Category:Persons]]
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• Hammond, Gervis
  ...ought several legal actions against Graham, so Hammond's name might appear in the hard-to-find Doyce Nunis book ''The Trials of Isaac Graham''. *''Riptide'' (CE27); also nephew James H. Hobbs (CE29)
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• Noble, Augustus
  ...uel]] in 1856. He acquired the adobe dwelling and 121 acres around it (now in [[Capitola]]) that had belonged to [[Castro family|Martina Castro]]. The sm *According to ''Riptide'' (CE31), Noble's parents came to the US from England with fellow actor [ht
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• Peck, Henry W.
  ...death, his farm was acquired by [[Peck, Elon G.|Elon G. Peck]] - also born in NY and possibly a relative. *Chester Winans Peck (''Riptide'' CE26, Soc. of Pioneers); no indications of family connections to other lo
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• Ashley, Otis
  ...' (1820-1904), born in New York, came over the Sierra Nevada to California in 1846, "twenty days ahead of the Donner party" (Harrison, p.232). After serv *''Riptide'' CE29
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• Aldrich, Luke C.
  '''Luke C. Aldrich''', in ''Riptide Centennial''. Associations: [[Hale, Titus]], [[Sinclair, Fuller Prewitt]], ...was a daughter of [[Gharky, S. David|David Gharky]]. After Aldrich's death in 1856, she married [[Hale, Titus|Titus Hale]].
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• Sinclair, Fuller Prewitt
  ...1853, when he bought it from Richard Fitz Scott and Edward Myers Abell (''Riptide'' CPL12). Sinclair later moved to the [[Corralitos]] area. How ''Riptide'' settled on this name spelling is not known. In later interviews, Dye remembered his name as "Pruett St. Clair". Elliott ha
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• Briar, James
  ...in Santa Cruz in 1850, but later switched to the Congregational church (''Riptide'' CE5) after leaving Santa Cruz. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Woods, John
  ...arm on the west side of the [[Arana Gulch]] estuary known as Woods Lagoon. In the 1960s, Woods Lagoon was converted into today's [[Santa Cruz Harbor]]. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Bennett, James F. J.
  ...was active in [[Soquel]] business and civic affairs; elected County Clerk in 1860. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Snyder, Jacob R.
  ...or San Francisco, then to the gold fields, where he stayed until his death in Sonoma. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Shadden, Thomas J.
  ...Grave page identifies Shadden as emigrating to Oregon via the Oregon Trail in 1843, which does not conflict with what is known of the Bennetts. ...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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• Corcoran, James
  ...iott. A brief biography by Phil Reader appears in History Journal Issue 4, in [[The Missing Pioneers (1998 article)|"The Missing Pioneers"]]. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Corcoran, Thomas
  ...ter in Stockton, but was elected to membership in Santa Cruz "by proxy" (''Riptide'') as well. ...was (in 1998) held by the MAH Archives, but that collection is not listed in the current inventory.
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• Gann, Nicholas B.
  ...rea. Gann, his wife and the two youngest of their four children are buried in Soquel. [[Category:Persons]]
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• Dame, Timothy H.
  ...by the Davis & Jordan lime company, establishing residence on Beach Hill. In the following years, he and his wife and stepdaughter owned all or part of [[Category:Persons]]
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• Dorn, Nicodemus A.
  ...remained there. Several Dorn children became judges and district attorneys in other areas of the state. Dorn taught himself to read ancient Greek and Lat * Spelled "Niccodemus" in Harrison (p.255-56). Wife Rebecca (Walters) Dorn also profiled.
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• Roach, William M.
  ...1#sr-96302660 Monterey County Sheriff] 1850-53. Moved to the Pajaro Valley in 1853, where he died the victim of an unsolved murder. * ''Riptide'' CPL15 spells the name "Roache"
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• Arcan, Charles E.
  ...an 1848-1907]), a son of [[Arcan, John B.|John Arcan]], came to California in 1849 with his family as an infant. He became known locally as a champion sw [[Category:Persons]]
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• Gault, Calvin
  ...invested in real estate. [[Gault Elementary School]], on Seabright Avenue in the area where Gault presumably owned land, is named for him. Gault Street Harrison (p.213) notes that Gault donated land for a Baptist church "in that part of town", and that F. S. Lawrence (p.353) was the first pastor.
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• Peck, Elon G.
  ...nia in 1850, went back to NY, and moved permanently to the [[Soquel]] area in 1871. His family accompanied him, including father Samuel Peck ([https://ww *''Riptide'' CE21, photo.
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• Per Lee, Theron R.
  '''Theron R. Per Lee''': see ''Riptide Centennial'' (CPL12) entry at right. [[Category:Persons]]
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