Sunday, March 6, 2016

Mary Ellen Bamford (1857-1946): American author and prohibitionist

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Gravestone of Mary Ellen Bamford (photo by Michael Colbruno) Mary Ellen Bamford was an American author and prohibitionist. Bamford wa...

Anna McCune Harper (1900-1999): Dominant female tennis player

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Anna McCune Harper and gravestone (photo on right by Michael Colbruno) PLOT 36, Lot 269 Anna McCune Harper was dominant American femal...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Bernie DeViveiros (1901-1994): Baseball's "Doctor of Sliding"

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Bernie DeViveiros Plot 72, Grave 1435 Bernard "Bernie" John DeViveiros was a Major League Baseball player who played shortst...

William "Babe" Borton (1888-1954): Baseball player mired in scandals

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  Babe Borton and the Main Mausoleum at Mountain View Cemetery  MAIN MAUSOLEUM William Baker "Babe" Borton was born on Augu...

Reverand John Edgren (1839-1908): Founder of Bethel University

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Reverand John Edgren John Alexis Edgren was a Swedish-American Baptist Minister. Edgren began what eventually evolved into Bethel Univer...

Colonel Volney Ashford (1844-1900): Exiled for role in Hawaiian Revolution

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Colonel Volney Ashford (drawing on right from Oakland Tribune) Plot 12, Sec. 2-11,   Grand Army of the Republic plot Volney Vallencou...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Horace Page (1833-1890): Congressman who sponsored Asian immigration restrictions

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Horace Page and an anti-Chinese immigrant poster PLOT 27, LOT 63 Horace Francis Page was a four-term member of Congress who was first ...

Oscar Westerberg (1882-1909); Baseball player who died of TB

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Oscar Westerberg and his burial site in Plot 39 PLOT 39, Lot 1446 (Gravestone and marker missing) Oscar William Westerberg was born o...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Henry Judson Booth (1830-1909): Company built first locomotive in California

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Booth Family Plot PLOT 9 Henry Judson Booth was born in England in 1830. In 1832, his family moved to Ohio where he lived until 1851, ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Attorney and Conservationist Allen Chickering (1877-1958) and Julia Morgan designed home

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Chickering Gravestone (photo Michael Colbruno) and wedding announcemnt of Alma Sherman & Allen Chickering (The SF Call, 5/20/1903) ...