Citations from September 1958
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Articles in this issue:
New Light on California's First Jury Trial
William Curtis, Pioneer Merchant (part 3)
Displaying 101 - 150 of 190
Lydia Beatrice Curtis
Name: Lydia Beatrice Curtis
Notes: b. 1867, d. 1948; daughter of William and Lydia
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Lydia Jane Rucker
Name: Lydia Jane Rucker
Notes: b. 1834, d. 1875; m. William Curtis (second wife) 1854; father was Methodist minister, came by wagon train to Salinas plains 1853; children (four to adulthood, of ten) Edwin, Lydia Beatrice, Eugene, Josephine
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M. C. Ireland bondsman
Name: M. C. Ireland
bondsman
Notes: of Wm. Curtis (58Sep, 6); same as Carmel River land owner "Ireland"? (69Sep, 20)
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magistrate
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magistrate
Years: 1846
Notes: chief magistrate (Colton), Magistrate's Office; "civil Magistrate" (59Jun, 5)
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Manuel Diaz trader, juror
Name: Manuel Diaz
trader, juror
Years: 1846
Notes: trader, m. Luisa Estrada 1843 (71Sep, 18; 83Mar, 6); ship master (83Mar, 6) juror Graham-Rosillion trial; d. 1867 (71Sep, 19); arcade 1846? (75Sep, 19)
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Margaret Jacks, director
Name: Margaret Jacks
MHAA director, honorary board member
Notes: Margartt (error, 57Jun, 8); honorary board member (59Mar, 7), honorary directorship (59Sep, 8); individual Award of Merit from California Historical Society 1959; and Casa Castro (59Dec, 8; 64Mar, 8; "Miss Jack's adobe" 62Sep, 7, same? and sic); annual gift of birthday cake at many Meriendas; "in memoriam" [sp "memorium"] (62Jun, 7); see also "Jacks sisters"
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Maria Antonia Bach Thompson, director
Name: Maria Antonia Bach Thompson
MHAA director
Notes: and Prudenciana Amesti; in memoriam 1961 (61Dec, 8; 62Jun, 7 "memorium"); music box at Casa Serrano (62Mar, 8) and doll collection (62Sep, 7)
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Marje Eliassen, director
Name: Marje Eliassen
MHAA director
Notes: same as "Margaret F. Eliassen" new member 1970? and "Margaret Eliassen" in memoriam 1976?; Eliasson (error, 59Jun, 8, 61Dec, 8); grandfather pioneer James Faros (61Dec, 8)
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Mary Curtis
Name: Mary Curtis
Illustration: 75Jun, 11
Notes: daughter of William, by first wife, unkn.; b. 1853, d. 1928; photo 1863? (75Jun, 11)
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Mary L. Greene, director, Noticias writer curator Custom House
Name: Mary L. Greene
curator Custom House
MHAA director, Noticias writer
Notes: "Green" (74Jun, 9); Duena 1957 Merienda; honorary life member 1964; gift of tile (65Jun, 6); followed Laura Bride Powers as curator of Custom House; in memoriam 1966
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Mayo Hayes O'Donnell director, secretary-treasurer 1957, corresponding secretary 1959; honorary director 1964; Noticias editor 1969-77
Name: Mayo Hayes O'Donnell
MHAA director, secretary-treasurer 1957, corresponding secretary 1959; honorary director 1964; Noticias editor 1969-77
Years: 1970
Illustration: 81Sep, 2
Notes: "the historian of Monterey" (81Sep, 1-5); b. in Goshen Junction, Tulare Co., May 6, 1892, d. in Monterey Jan. 4, 1978 (78Mar, 20-21); society editor of San Jose Mercury-Herald (81Sep, 2); to Monterey w/ husband 1925 (78Mar, 20-21; 81Sep, 2); "Peninsula Diary" column for Monterey Peninsula Herald; founding and incorporation of MHAA Nov. 16, 1930, and first mtg MHAA Jan. 9, 1931, at Cadematori's restaurant in Casa Serrano (81Sep, 2); never president of MHAA, but "unpaid executive secretary"; sustaining member 1961, 1962; life member 1963 (63Sep, 6) and by 1971 (71Sep, 23); to MHAA House Committee 1962; watched move of St. James Mission Church; and "Mrs. W. M. O'Donnell"; also director, Monterey Foundation (59Dec, 7); and Casa Soberanes (59Dec, 8); donated school bench to Colton Hall (61Sep, 7); "Woman of the Year" 1961 and "Citizen of the Year for the Monterey Peninsula" 1968 (81Sep, 1); honorary director 1964; honored by Governor Brown Merienda 1965 (65Jun, 7); bronze bust (74Dec, 31); "O'Donnel" sic (82Dec, 4)
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Notes: "the lawless Mexican" (as type, Colton's words; 77Dec, 14; 80Apr, 3)
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Milton Little Library
Edifice:
Milton Little Library
Notes: "Monterey's first library" (1849); books shipped by Colton from New York; "California's first library" (68Mar, 33-37); article "Monterey's First Public Library" (75Jun, 9-14)
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Milton Little, merchant
Name: Milton Little
merchant
Years: 1846/47
Notes: d. 1879 (73Mar, 4); early settler; small store (60Sep, 2); "early American storekeeper" (73Mar, 4), "well liked merchant, original developer of what we now call New Monterey, and a personal friend of Walter Colton" (75Jun, 12); juror Graham-Rosillion trial; member of first tax-supported school board 1853-54, and first school (64Jun, 5); and Milton Little Library; 1854 named trustee first Congregational church (60Sep, 3); commissioner of Monterey school district (72Jun, 14); "Mrs. Milton Little, still living in 1892" Jane Eager Little, m. by Walter Colton in Stevenson House (75Jun, 9, 12)
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mining, mining camps, miners
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Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad
Entity: Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad
Notes: narrow-gauge, 1874-79 (73Mar, 5; 02Feb, 2); shipping records 1874-77 (58Sep? 74Mar?); mention of "railroad between Salinas and Watsonville" in 1892, surely other (75Dec, 29); and David Jacks (89Mar, 10)
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Monterey Gazette
Work Title: Monterey Gazette
Years: 1869
Notes: on failure of Curtis & Conover
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Monterey Peninsula College (MPC)
Entity: Monterey Peninsula College (MPC)
Notes: est. 1947; "the College" 1958; "Monterey Peninsula Junior College" (66Mar); "Hotel, Motel Hotel and Restaurant Department of the Monterey Peninsula College Business Division" (69Dec, 31); Stanton (94Jun, 4)
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Monterey Peninsula Herald; Monterey Herald; Monterey Weekly Herald
Work Title: Monterey Peninsula Herald; Monterey Herald; Monterey Weekly Herald
Notes: est. 1922, founder Griffin (81Sep, 7); partly owned by Wm. Curtis (58Sep, 7); publisher Col. Allen Griffin (77Mar, 2); articles, cited in 00Nov, 17-18: "Ord Will Get More Millions," Jimmy Costello "Huge Center Is Planned at Ft. Ord," "Gen. Stilwell Moves 1st Dirt on Ord Project," Costello "Ground Broken Today for Huge Fort Ord Recreation Center," "Recreation Center Work Is Rushed," "War Department Planning More Army Command Shifts," "Gen. White Here to Command 7th," "'Uncle Joe' Is Ordered to China," "Gen. Stilwell Wins Promotion," "WPA May Put Men on Farms," "WPA Men Going into Guayule," Joe Livernois "Army Giving up on Saving Stilwell Hall," Alison Stilwell Cameroon, Lecturer and Author, Dies" (1940-91); "Weekend Magazine" (82Dec, 7; 83Mar, 6; 94Mar, 13)
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Monterey Public Library
Edifice:
Monterey Public Library
Illustration: 75Jun, 11; 95Mar, 1
Notes: MPL; co-founders Gleason, Spence, and Curtis, "a 'literary and scientific' corporation" 1857 (58Sep, 5; 75Jun, 10); also California Room, Local History collection, "California History Room," "California Collection" (94Mar, 13; 02Feb, 6); photo source acknowledgment (67Dec, 25; 78Mar, 17; 78Jun, 26; 81Jun, 1); feature article "Monterey's First Public Library" June 1975 (incl. "871 titles" and 14+ sections), library in old Quartel (76Mar, 6); "Monterey Library Association" 1849 (75Jun, 9, 12), 1854 (76Mar, 6); Carnegie Building 1911-1952 (95Mar, 1-5)
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Mr. and Mrs. Abelardo H. G. Cooper member
Name: Mr. and Mrs. Abelardo H. G. Cooper
MHAA member
Notes: new member 1963?; new member 1977 (78Dec, 4)
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Mr. and Mrs. W. E. van Loben Sels life member
Name: Mr. and Mrs. W. E. van Loben Sels
MHAA life member
Notes: and donor of shawl (61Sep, 7); life member by 1971
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Mr. Hewitt, witness
Name: Mr. Hewitt
witness
Years: 1846
Notes: at Graham-Rosillion first jury trial
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Mrs. F. L. Knudsen, director
Name: Mrs. F. L. Knudsen
MHAA director
Notes: FN "Kay"? (72Dec, 30); to MHAA House Committee 1962
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Mrs. Herbert V. Alward member
Name: Mrs. Herbert V. Alward
MHAA member
Notes: in "Book of Memory" 1962; new member 1973
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Mrs. Horace [Hugh?] Dormody, director
Name: Mrs. Horace [Hugh?] Dormody
MHAA director
Notes: Mrs. Florence Dormody? (58jun, 3); to MHAA House Committee 1962; Hugh Dormody was mayor 1944
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Mrs. Kessiale ["Kissiah"] Zanetta member
Name: Mrs. Kessiale ["Kissiah"] Zanetta
MHAA member
Notes: also mention of "Elmer Zanetta" 1963, 1964, and "Mrs. Elmer Zanetta" 1966 (and 67Mar, 7-8; 67Jun, 16; 67Sep, 24); "Kissiah" 1966 (66Sep, 7)
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Mrs. L. J. Hudson, director
Name: Mrs. L. J. Hudson
MHAA director
Notes: and "Commander and Mrs. L. J. Hudson" new member(s?) (58Sep, 8); mother of Thomson J. Hudson, Jr. (61Mar, 4; new junior member 1964, 64Jun, 7); to MHAA House Committee 1962; "Mrs. Margaret Hudson" duena Merienda 1962? (62Jun, 8); her father Alexander M. Allen, owner of Point Lobos 1890s until 1932 (66Jun, 6); Mrs. deceased (77Mar, 3)
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Mrs. M. R. Gragg, director
Name: Mrs. M. R. Gragg
MHAA director, committee chair
Notes: "Cragg" (error, 57Jun, 8); "Gragg family" and Stokes Adobe (70Mar, 6); chaired Transportation Committee for Adobe House Tour, and chair of hostesses at Meriendas (59Mar, 7); chaired Tickets Committee (59Dec, 7); gift (monetary) to MHOD (70Sep, 23)
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Mrs. Raymond Grabill member, donor
Name: Mrs. Raymond Grabill
MHAA member, donor
Notes: of photos
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Mrs. Robert Giet, director
Name: Mrs. Robert Giet
MHAA director, life member, donor
Notes: same as "Mrs. George Giet"? donor (67Dec, 31-32); gift of statue of St. Francis to garden at Casa Serrano (62Sep, 7); life member by 1971, Prof. and Mrs. (71Sep, 23); Mrs. in memoriam 1982
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Mrs. Roy Barton member
Name: Mrs. Roy Barton
MHAA member
Notes: and donor of brass fire screen
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Mrs. Roy Page member
Name: Mrs. Roy Page
MHAA member
Notes: in memoriam (74Jun, 15)
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Mrs. Wesley (Elizabeth) Heard director
Name: Mrs. Wesley (Elizabeth) Heard
MHAA director
Notes: sustaining member 1962; and Casa Alvarado (70Mar, 6)
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Mrs. William Pringle
Name: Mrs. William Pringle
Notes: of Corral de Tierra; donated painting, and fans
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Myron and Dorothy Oliver founding director (MO)
Name: Myron and Dorothy Oliver
MHAA founding director (MO)
Notes: and 1869 Denny oil painting (also 67Mar, 6); valances at Casa Serrano; life member, "distinguished Peninsula artist" (60Dec, 7); to MHAA House Committee 1962 and chair Acquisition Committee 1962; honored by Governor Brown Merienda 1965 (65Jun, 7); honorary director 1966; b. 1891, d. 1967 (67Mar, 6); Mrs. Myron A. Oliver donor to Doud House and MHOD library restorations (70Jun, 14); in memoriam Mrs. 1975 (75Mar, 7); new member 1978 (78Dec, 5)
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Nail, lumber mill partner
Name: Nail
lumber mill partner
Years: 1846
Notes: with Graham
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Natividad, CA
Place Name: Natividad, CA
Notes: post office opened 1855, closed 1908 (68Sep, 52)
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Pacific Building; Pacific Hotel; Pacific House
Edifice:
Pacific Building; Pacific Hotel; Pacific House
Illustration: 73Mar, 1
Notes: and Elkinton; and "Pacific Building State Historical Monument" () and "Pacific Building State Monument" (60Jun, 1); also "Old Pacific Building" (78Jun, 28-30); "gift to public ownership . . . by the Misses Jacks" (70Mar, 6); same as "Pacific Ocean House" "a well kept hotel on Alvarado St." 1895? (02Feb, 25)
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Pedro Narvaez, juror
Name: Pedro Narvaez
juror
Years: 1846
Notes: juror Graham-Rosillion trial
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Peru
Place Name: Peru
Notes: and Bouchard (03Win)
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Phillip Roach
Name: Phillip Roach
Years: 1850
Notes: last arcade and first mayor of Monterey (70Sep, 21); member of first tax-supported school board 1853-54; "Philip" (72Jun, 14)
Pages:
5, 8
21
10, 12, 14
21
10, 12, 14
Quartermaster's Department, U.S. Army
Entity: Quartermaster's Department, U.S. Army
Notes: responsible for (Old Mexican) Cuartel (58Sep, 5); also mention of quartermaster (73Jun, 11; 75Jun, 10)
Pages:
5
11
10
11
10
R. H. Partridge, director
Name: R. H. [Roudi] Partridge
MHAA director
Notes: life member by 1971
Issue:
Pages:
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
4, 6
63
23
29
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
4, 6
63
23
29
Rafael Sanchez, juror
Name: Rafael Sanchez
juror
Years: 1846
Notes: juror Graham-Rosillion trial
Issue:
Pages:
2-3
railroad
Topic:
railroad
Notes: "railroad stop" 1879 "a dusty mile from town" (86Dec, 4); "the present railroad right of way" at Custom House (73Mar, 5) and "the present railroad station" (73Dec, 18)
Issue:
Pages:
7
29
1
5
18
11 (1911 ca.)
9
10
2
1
29
1
5
18
11 (1911 ca.)
9
10
2
1