Lives of the Dead

Michael Colbruno's "Lives of the Dead": Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Irving Morrow (1884–1952): Designer of Golden Gate Bridge "Above the Waterline"

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SF Chronicle Image of Morrow There are names that cling to great works, and others that quietly shape them. Irving Morrow belongs to the lat...

Lucy R. Peckinpaugh Smallman (1840–1920): Pioneering Artist, Collector & Benefactor

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Lucy Smallman gravestone Plot 11, Lot # 125 Lucy Smallman lived a life that reads like a catalog of reinvention—artist, educator, collector,...

Ingemar Lundquist (1921–2007): Prolific Medical Device Inventor

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Obituary Photo Plot 33 Ingemar Henry Lundquist belonged to a generation of engineers who quietly reshaped modern medicine—not through public...

Adolphus Frederic St. Sure (1869-1949): Federal Judge Involved in Groundbreaking Cases

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Hon. Adolphus St. Sure Adolphus Frederic St. Sure was born on March 9, 1869, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and came of age at a time when the Ame...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

The Crocker Family Monument

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Rendering of Crocker Monument Millionaire's Row Charles Crocker rests beneath one of the most striking monuments at Mountain View Cemete...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Fred Maggiora (1908–1979): Oakland City Councilman investigated in weapons plot

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Outdoor Garden Mausoleum-2, Crypt 192 Tier 4 For nearly three decades, Fred Maggiora was a fixture of Oakland civic life—a blunt, athletic, ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Abraham Dubois Starr (1830-1894): Contra Costa Supervisor and Flour Mill Operator

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  Abraham Dubois Starr & his flour mill Plot 14B, Lot 221 In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when California’s economy was...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

John Lewis Bromley (1820–1909): Mexican–American War Veteran, Pioneer, and Civic Leader

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Plot 16, Lot 64  John Lewis Bromley was a veteran of the Mexican–American War, an early California pioneer, and a respected civic figure who...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

General John Heuston [Hewston] (1825-1900): From Millions to Misery After Killing Man With Umbrella

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Plot 2, Grave 295 There are lives that rise like mountains and fall like avalanches, and among them none was more extraordinary—or more scan...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Obediah Summers (1845–1896): Re-Interred Black Civil War Veteran

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Obediah Summers, Sacramento Bee, 1889 Civil War Grand Army of the Republic plot Obediah Summers was born enslaved in Kentucky in 1845. When ...
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