published in 2002 in honor of theSanta Clara Sesquicentennial

A Walk Through the Past by Pat LoomisAdventure Valley: Stories of Santa Clara Valley

Pioneers by Ralph RamboClyde Arbuckle’s History of San Jose

by Clyde ArbuckleComplete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake

by Marshall EverettHistory of the State of California and

Biographical Record of Coast Counties, CAby J.M. Guinn

History of the College of the Pacificby Rockwell D. Hunt

History of Santa Clara County editedby J.P. Munro-Fraser

History of Santa Clara Countyby Eugene T. Sawyer

Mission City Memorial Park recordsPen Pictures from the Garden of the World:

Santa Clara County, Californiaedited by H.S. Foote

Pioneer Blue Book of the Old Santa Clara Valleyby Ralph Rambo

Progressive Santa ClaraResearch of Bea LichtensteinSan Jose HeraldSan Jose MercurySan Jose Mercury NewsSanta Clara ForecastSanta Clara LibrarySanta Clara NewsSanta Clara Sagas by Austen D. WarburtonThe Trailblazer, quarterly bulletin of

The California PioneersThe Valley of Santa Clara

by Phyllis Filbert Butler

plus scrapbooks, yearbooks and other archivalrecords of the Santa Clara Historic Museumcollection

Mission City Memorial Park420 N. Winchester Blvd.Santa Clara, CA 95050

(408) 984-3090

Sources for information included inthis brochure include: A Glimpse

of Santa ClaraHistory

City of Santa Clara

Mission City

Memorial Park

Mission City Memorial Park isone of the oldest cemeteries inCalifornia and one of the fewowned and operated by amunicipality. Although burialswere made on these grounds asearly as the 1850s, the firstrecorded interment was September13, 1864. The cemetery contains1,431 interments made prior to1900 and thousands since then.

Other interesting facts:

• The cemetery was also used at one time as the animal pound. Stray and roaming swine, sheep,goats, cows and horses were taken there to be claimed by owners or sold at auction.

• Part of the area of Mission CityMemorial Park was once a quarry and gravel pit, and the City dump. Gravediggers once unearthed a rusted car.

• Early listed causes of death werequite varied and included teething, softening of the brain,exhaustion from acute melancholia, pistol ball, too fat,and “fell ded on road.”

• It was first known as Santa ClaraBurial Ground, then Santa ClaraProtestant Cemetery, then SantaClara City Cemetery, and, since1972, Mission City Memorial Park.

• Monuments and headstones contain inscriptions in Korean,Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Spanish, German, Farsi and Vietnamese as well as English, reflecting the multicultural heritage and ethnic diversity of Santa Clara

Welcome to MissionCity Memorial Park

1 Indoor MausoleumThe Indoor Mausoleum was built in1938. Note the bronze doors andstained glass reflect architectural stylespopular at that time. Many prominentSanta Clara residents are at rest hereincluding members of the Wilsonfamily of Wilson’s Jewel Bakery fame.

1A Ora Lee Hirsch Merritt1895-1984

Ora was one of few women to enlist inthe military during World War I andserve in a capacity other than nursing.She was a yeoman with U.S. NavalIntelligence in San Francisco, workingwith code, and later became aschoolteacher. She was also active inthe American Legion and served asCommander of the all-woman CalaraD. Noyes Post. Her parents, Emmaand Emil Hirsch, started Santa ClaraUndertaking Co. which eventuallybecame Santa Clara Funeral Home.

1B Dr. Judson Waldo Paul1861-1937

Judson was born in Ohio and attendedDePaw University in Indiana beforeearning his medical degree fromBellevue Hospital Medical College inNew York in 1891. After a few yearsas a house surgeon and clinicalphysician on the East Coast, Judsoncame to California in 1894 to establishhis own practice. He became arespected professional and prominentcitizen in Santa Clara, known for his“generous and genial nature.” In about1895, he built a home at 1116Washington St. that still exists today.

1C John Widney1837-1925

Born in Ohio, John came to Californiawhen he was 20 years old and once toldthe Pioneer Society that when hearrived the Valley “was just one largemustard field as far as you could see.”He started and operated severalbusinesses including a grocery store, aplumbing business and Santa Clara’sfirst telegraph office, the PostalTelegraph. He is said to have amassedconsiderable wealth and land holdingsduring his life, but was “always verycharitable to the needy.” He served asa trustee and president of Santa ClaraTown Board before the City wasincorporated.

Ora Lee Hirsch Merritt,yeoman with U.S. Naval

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2 Charles Thompson1880-1971

Charles was a proud native of SantaClara who graduated from Santa ClaraCollege and was an active member ofthe Native Sons of the Golden West.In 1927, as statewide president of thatgroup, he laid the cornerstone of LosAngeles City Hall. He was electedtreasurer of Santa Clara for a two-yearterm and served as a Santa ClaraJustice and Judge for a total of 47 yearswhile also maintaining a private lawpractice. He was an accomplishedorator and was president of at least adozen organizations during hislifetime. His father, Isaac Thompson,was one of Santa Clara’s mostprominent early settlers who crossedthe plains from Ohio to California byoxcart in 1849.

3 Veterans SectionThe Veterans Section of Memorial Parkis dedicated to the memory of the bravemen and women who served in theCivil War, Spanish-American War,World War I, World War II, the KoreanConflict, and the Vietnam War.

4 Charles McIntire1847-1936Stephen Egan1834-1920

Both Charles and Stephen wereConfederate soldiers in the Civil War.(Egan’s grave is unmarked.)

5 1906 EarthquakeThe only two wooden headstones stillin existence in Mission City MemorialPark date back to the 1906 earthquake.The most severe earthquake damagein the Valley was experienced at theAgnews Asylum for the Insane in SantaClara where it was reported 253patients and staff were killed whenseveral buildings collapsed. The scenewas described as “chaotic” and“bedlam” as terrified and injuredpatients shrieked for help. More than100 surviving patients were tied totrees to restrain them because therewas no safe building nearby wherethey could be confined. Not far away,little damage was done to Santa ClaraCollege and no one was injured.

6 John Bollinger1829-1913

He first came West to mine, but Johnsoon returned to Missouri and broughthis wife and children to Santa Clara bycovered wagon in 1866. His 80-acreranch near the border of Campbell andSan Jose was the family homestead formany years. Bollinger Road is namedafter the family.

7 Mabel Maude Applegarth1873-1915Maude Frances Applegarth1867-1944

Mabel Maude and Maude Frances sharethe same last name and resting place,but they were sisters-in-law, not sisters.Maude Frances was married to EdwardM. Applegarth, the brother of MabelMaude. An immigrant from England,Mabel Maude was a close friend ofauthor Jack London and is reputed tobe the inspiration for the characterRuth Morse in London’s novel MartinEden. She never married and workedas a cashier at the Women’s Exchangeand as a “Private Secretary to a Lady,”according to the 1910 U.S. census. Thetwo women are buried in theApplegarth family plot.

8 Dr. Antrim Edgar Osborne1856-1935

Antrim was born in Pennsylvania andachieved many educational degreesincluding an M.D. and Ph.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He cameto Santa Clara to serve as Super-intendent of the California Home forthe Care and Training of Feeble-Minded.In 1900 he opened Osborne Hall on thecorner of Jefferson and Liberty streets,a private sanitarium for the care andtraining of children suffering fromepilepsy and developmental disabilities.He and his wife, Margaret (Paxton),were very active in civic affairs. Heserved two terms on the Santa ClaraBoard of Trustees and was elected tothe State Senate in 1920. Mrs. Osbornewas a charter member and firstpresident of the Santa Clara Woman’sClub.

Charles Thompson John Bollinger

Dr. Antrim Edgar Osborne

Wooden grave marker

9 Franklin Hichborn1868-1963

A native Californian born in Eureka,Franklin gained a national reputationfor his work as an investigativejournalist and reformer. He workedfor several Northern Californianewspapers including the SanFrancisco Examiner and the San JoseHerald. His articles and books focusedon political graft and corruption, andmoral issues such as racetrackgambling and brothels. He was a vocaladvocate for national prohibition andworked hard to defend the 18thamendment of the Constitution(Prohibition). For many years hetabulated and published the votingrecords of all California legislators.He and his wife, Mabel (Houlton), andtheir five children lived at 1091Fremont St. Franklin was a distantrelative of Paul Revere.

10 Frank Jenkins1873-1961Mala Etta Jenkins1878-1963

Frank was born on the site of what isnow Moffett Field. He was a fruitrancher on land where PruneridgeAvenue, between Saratoga andWinchester, is today. He and his wife,Mala Etta (Helm), had two daughters,Sarah and Margaret. While Frank rana grocery store on Franklin Street, Mrs.Jenkins kept busy as an avid bicyclistwho would even ride as far as SanFrancisco to shop. Their daughter,Margaret, followed in her mother’sathletic footsteps and became the firstwoman from Santa Clara County toparticipate in track and field in theOlympics in 1928. She also participatedin the 1932 Olympics and held thewomen’s U.S. record for the javelinthrow until it was broken by BabeDidrikson Zaharias in 1932.

11 Capt. Richard K. Ham1821-1887

Born in New Hampshire, Richard gota taste for the open sea at an early age.When he was just 19 he sailed on awhaling voyage to the South Pacificand then worked in the Atlantic coasttrade until 1848. He came to Californiafor the Gold Rush but discovered hecould make more money by shippinglumber and other goods. He opened alivery stable in Santa Clara in 1853. Afew years later he started a two-horseomnibus line between San Jose andSanta Clara. Each of his two busescarried 14 passengers and the fare was25 cents each way. He owned severalhundred acres of land in Santa Clara,Milpitas and other parts of the state,and was one of the early directors ofthe Bank of Santa Clara County.

12 Silas B. Emerson1819-1889

Silas was the owner of a 900-acre tractof land two miles south of MountainView. When he purchased it in the mid1800s, it was covered with large oaktrees and he used it to grow grain.Upon his death in 1889, the land wasbequeathed to his wife and twochildren. About half was sold in 10and 20 acre lots for $200 per acre if thebuyer promised to use it to grow fruit.

Political cartoon featuringinvestigative journalistFranklin Hichborn

Franklin and MalaJenkins

Olympian MargaretJenkins

A portion of theEmerson tract

13 Charles Copeland Morse 1842-1900

Charles was the offspring of two oldPuritan New England families. Hearrived in California in 1862 andworked in a variety of jobs includinghouse painting. In 1878 he and A.L.Kellogg purchased a 54-acre seedbusiness from R.W. Wilson. The Ferry-Morse Seed Co. grew to encompassmore than 400 acres, producing 150tons of field, garden and flower seeds.A description of the business publishedin 1888 marveled at its $30,000 peryear operating budget. Charles and hiswife, Maria (Langford), and their fivechildren lived in a 5500-square-footQueen Anne Victorian home atFremont and Washington streets thatis a California State Historic Land-mark. He was a founding member ofthe Advent Christian Church of SantaClara.

14 Cary Peebels1808-1883

Cary spent the first 41 years of his lifein Kentucky and Missouri. He workedas a retailer, postmaster, and ferryoperator and was mayor of Lexington,Missouri before he led anentrepreneurial venture to Californiain 1849. With two partners, he loaded$80,000 in merchandise and suppliesfor miners on 43 wagons, accompaniedby 560 head of cattle. A flood, typhoid,and a mountain snowstorm delayedthe caravan and destroyed many of thegoods and cattle. He purchased hisfirst 126 acres in Santa Clara Valleyin 1851 for $7 per acre and became afarmer. He was one of the first to growwheat for East Coast markets and tomake strawberries a permanent crop.He served on the Santa Clara CountyBoard of Supervisors and the SantaClara Board of Town Trustees, and wasa charter member of the CaliforniaPioneer Society.

15 Irving Herrington1859-1908

Irving was born in Santa Clara,attended the public high school andthe Franklin French Academy in SantaClara. He served as an elected Justiceof the Peace for several years. He wasmarried to Mattie M. Bascom, whosefamily is the namesake of BascomAvenue. (Grave is unmarked.)

16 Louis Albertson1868-1928

Born and raised on a farm in Denmark,Louis came to America at age 18. Helived in Iowa before coming to Californiawhere he graduated from College of thePacific. Although he had a law degree,Louis preferred to be a dairy rancherand grower of Himalaya blackberrieswhich won a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in1915. He was active in civic affairsincluding a three-year stint as presidentof the Santa Clara Chamber ofCommerce. His unfulfilled visionsincluded consolidating the cities ofSanta Clara and San Jose and makingAlviso into a major shipping port forfruits and products from the CentralValley and Bay Area. He was marriedto Thomasine Headen of the locally-prominent Headen family.

17 Dr. Benjamin Franklin Headen1813-1875

Benjamin was born in Virginia in avillage, Headenville, named for hisfather. He studied medicine in Ohioand had a practice in Indiana until hecame to Santa Clara Valley in 1852. Hebought 61 acres and built a house forhis family and children. He first grewgrain, then strawberries and other smallfruits, and, eventually, vegetable andflower seeds for the commercial market.He served as a trustee of University ofthe Pacific for 20 years. His grand-daughter, Lois Headen Inman, inheritedthe Headen family home and propertyand her heirs sold it to a developer whodonated the house to the City of SantaClara. It was moved to its present siteat 1509 Warburton Ave. in 1984 to serveas a local history museum.

18 Jesse J. Inman1875-1963

Jesse’s name is the one appearing on theheadstone, but the Inman monumentis a tribute to the entire family. Thereis even a diagram of the family tree onthe back side. Jesse was a realtor andland developer in the Stockton area, butit was the inheritance of his wife, LoisHeaden Inman, that brought the coupleto Santa Clara prominence. Lois andJesse sold some of the Headen acreageto the City of Santa Clara as the site forthe Civic Center. The Headen familyhome became the Headen-Inman HouseMuseum which features the Jesse andLois Inman Memorial Gallery.

Charles Copeland Morse

Morse’s seed farm

The Morse home

Dr. Benjamin FranklinHeaden

Jesse J. Inman

19 James Edward Glendenning1855-1921

James was born on the GlendenningRanch on Homestead Road toimmigrant parents from Scotland. Hewas a rancher and farmer who servedas a municipal Santa Clara judge for18 years. He was very active in theMasons and Oddfellows. OtherGlendennings listed on the monumentinclude his parents, his wife, Augusta(Farley), four of their children, andother family members.

20 Col. Andrew Jones Jackson1832?-1890?

Adventuresome Andrew was born inNew York City but as a boy went toFlorida to serve as a messenger forarmy officers during the Seminole War.At age 18 he enlisted in the SecondRegiment of Ohio Volunteers andserved during the Mexican War. Likeso many others, he dug for gold inCalifornia in 1848, and then becamea commissioned officer in theCalifornia Militia during the Civil War.After leaving the military he settledon a ranch near Santa Clara where helived with his wife, Amanda, of theSenter family, and their six children.

21 Thomas Henry Laine1832-1860

Thomas was not only a member of thefirst graduating class of the College ofthe Pacific, he gave the ValedictoryAddress. He was described in a historyof the school as “a young gentleman ofgreat mental power.” He was anattorney and was elected to the StateSenate twice, but was most proud ofhis selection to attend theConstitutional Convention in 1878.He and his wife, Lucy (Chapman), hadnine children. His stepfather, the Rev.Thomas Thompson, who is thought tobe the first Christian evangelist onCalifornia soil, is also buried in thefamily plot. Rev. Thompson rodethroughout California to preach towagon trains, mining camps, andfarming communities. He organizedstatewide Christian meetings thatlasted two weeks and assembled asmany as 7,000 people.

22 James Monroe Kenyon1817-1907

Born in Ohio, James worked as acarpenter for 25 years, first in theMidwest and then in California afterhe and his wife, Martha (Roberts), cameto California to look for gold. He gaveup building for farming and bought 242acres on Homestead Road to grow hayand grain and, later, prunes. The coupleraised five children on the family farmand died within days of one anotherafter 64 years of marriage.

23 Frederick Sackmann1823-1878

A native of Brunswick, Germany,Federick was a machinist who died of“cerebral paralysis” at age 55. Hismonument features a “death mask”carved into the headstone. It is madeby pouring wax on the face of thedeceased to make a mold that createsthe face featured on the monument.

James EdwardGlendenning

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Kenyon home and windmill

24 David Whitten Coffin1814-1890After spending his childhood years inMaine, David worked in lumber andship-building jobs in New Englanduntil he sailed for California. Whenhe arrived in 1850 after a six-monthcruise around Cape Horn, he joinedother young men in building a riversteamer. They sold it and the profitgave him funds to buy 65 acres of landabout 3 miles northwest of Santa Clara.He and his family operated their farmon Coffin Road, named in his honor.The street was later renamed BowersAvenue at the request of Intel whenthe company built its firstsemiconductor facility there in 1971.

25 Frederick Judson Saxe, D.D.S.1846-1918

Frederick attendedlocal schools inSanta Clara andearned a degreefrom the School ofDentistry of theUniversity of thePacific (then inSanta Clara). Hehad a dentalpractice inOakland, butcommuted bytrain from SantaClara. His father,

Arthur Wellsley Saxe, was a wellknown physician in California afterthe Gold Rush. As president of theCalifornia State Medical Society in1880, Dr. Arthur Saxe traveled to theHawaiian Islands to conduct anintensive study of leprosy. Frederickwas married to Carrie French and theyhad one daughter.

26 Austin L. Kellogg 1831-1917

Austin was a Methodist minister fromNew York who became Superintendentof the Santa Clara Public School,referred to in a San Jose Mercurysouvenir edition on Santa ClaraCounty as “one of the best in thecounty.” In 1877 he partnered withC.C. Morse to buy a seed companyfrom Robert W. Wilson. In 1884, heretired from the firm and Morse carriedon the business alone.

27 George Miller Brown1843-1922

George was born at Stow-on-the-Woldin Gloucestershire, England and, as achild, worked as a farm laborer on anEnglish estate. He came to Americain 1861 and arrived in California thefollowing year. After working for farmslocally and on Vancouver Island, hepartnered with Franklin Pancos to growstrawberries in Santa Clara. Someseasons he netted only $10 after payingas many as 98 laborers to pick his crop.He later added a Bartlett pear orchardand other crops such as raspberries,blackberries and alfalfa. He and hiswife, Emma (Lobb), had five childrenincluding son, Walter G., who becameone of the biggest pear producers in thestate and had Walter G. Brown Schoolnamed in his honor.

28 Sarah E. Fox Memorial MausoleumThis mausoleum was built as amemorial to Margaret Stephenson, wifeof William Chainault Jones, and theirdaughter, Sarah Elizabeth, who wasmarried to Charles W. Fox, M.D. Itwas presented as a gift to Santa Clarain 1914 to be used as a communityvault for the placement of cremains.The Sarah Fox Mausoleum contains1000 urns and is not open for publicview except for special tours andoccasions. Although the Mausoleumis named for Sarah, she is buried infront of the memorial in the Fox familygrave area (tour stop 33).

29 Capt. Harry Love1809?-1868

A member of the California Rangers,Harry is reputed to be the man who in1853 killed and beheaded legendarybandit Joaquin Murietta for a $5,000state reward. It is said he called himself“The Black Knight of Zayante.” Hewas married to Mary S. Bennett, whoalso had two nicknames – “the strongwoman of Santa Clara” and “the SantaClara Amazon” – because of her girthand “loud, untempored language.” Afterhis retirement from the Rangers, Harrymoved to Ben Lomond to run a lumbermill. He is credited with putting inthe first road to Felton. (Grave isunmarked.)

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30 John Millikin1807-1877

John was born in Pennsylvania andspent his childhood and early adultyears in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. Heand his wife, Nancy, came to SantaClara Valley in 1852 to settle on 80acres near El Camino Real (then calledSan Francisco Road) and LawrenceStation Road. The intersectioncontained the farm, a grocery storeand saloon, and became known asMillikin’s Corner. In 1855, a rural one-room redwood cabin schoolhouse wasnamed John Millikin School in hishonor. It was later moved to the cornerof Pomeroy Avenue and HomesteadRoad and replaced with a largerbuilding. There were four rural schoolsin the Millikin School District andthey later became part of the JeffersonSchool District. The John MillikinSchool building was purchased by aYugoslav social club and namedNapredak Hall.

31 Clarence W. Upton1854? -1878

The grave of Clarence Upton featuresa prominent monument, but little isactually known about his life. He islisted in documents as the proprietorof the Santa Clara Echo newspaper andas Santa Clara’s City Clerk in 1874.He was elected to the California StateAssembly in 1877 and died in officein 1878.

32 Maj. John A. Cook1796-1877John was born on the Isle of Wight inEngland and boasted of being adescendent of William the Conqueror.He came to America in 1819 and livedin Ohio and Indiana where he wascommissioned as a major of thebattalion of Militia Cavalry, served asthe state librarian and gained somefame as a temperance lecturer. Hecame to California in 1849 and tookcharge of the Custom House in SanDiego. After attending the CaliforniaLegislature when it convened in SanJose, he moved to Northern Californiaand settled in Santa Clara in 1851. Heand his wife, Jane (Fulkerson), built ahome on The Alameda that was calledCook’s Grove or Cook’s Pond and usedfor events such as graduationceremonies of Santa Clara College.

Nathaniel Wheeler Cook1818-1898

Nathaniel, John’s son, worked at andbecame one of the owners of the SantaClara Flour Mill. He also served as atownship Justice of the Peace andforeman of the County Grand Jury. Heand his wife, Eliza (Hubbell), are buriedin Mission City Memorial Park. Theyhad five children.

33 Sarah Fox1842-1912

Through the elaborate gates is the finalresting place of Sarah Fox, the namesakeof the Sarah Fox Memorial Mausoleum,tour stop 28.

Cook’s Grove, built in 1853

Santa Clara Flour Mill, ownedby Nathaniel Cook

34 Frederick Christian Franck Sr.1828-1902

Frederick was born in Bavaria,Germany, and left school at age 15 tolearn how to make harnesses andsaddles. After coming to America, hemade saddles for the U.S. governmentto use in the Mexican War, then workedat his trade in cities across the country.He arrived in Santa Clara in 1855 andsoon became a partner in the HenryMessing harness and saddle business.After Messing retired from the businessin 1859, Frederick continued to operatethe firm until 1875 and used the profitsto acquire a great deal of property,including a stately mansion designedby Theodore Lenzen on the northeastcorner of Washington and Bentonstreets. He was a member of the Boardof Town Trustees for eight years, andwhen the fire department wasorganized was elected its Chief. Healso was elected to serve in the StateAssembly in 1871 and 1873 and waselected to the State Senate in 1894.He was one of the incorporators of theBank of Santa Clara County. He andhis wife, Caroline (Durmeyer), had twochildren including Frederick Franck Jr.(tour stop 54).

35 Rev. Isaac Owen1809-1866

A native of Vermont, Owen knew atthe age of 17 that he wanted to dedicatehis life to the Methodist EpiscopalChurch. He was an illiterateblacksmith who became an avid readerand the Church licensed him to“exhort” in 1830 and to preach in 1832.He was appointed as missionary toCalifornia in 1848 and came West onan ox-drawn wagon. In a letter to hisbishop, Owen wrote that California “isa land measurably uncivilized andunchristianized.” He remained activewith the Church throughout his lifeand served as the first superintendentof the Methodist Episcopal Church inCalifornia. He helped to organize theCalifornia Wesleyan College in SantaClara in 1851 which later became theCollege of the Pacific and then theUniversity of the Pacific (now inStockton). He was famous for hisfundraising abilities and hisenthusiastic support of education. Heis reported to have said he wished therecould be “a high school at everycrossroad and a college in everycounty.”

36 James Frederick Payne1833-1915

James was born in New York and cameto California by way of Panama. Aftera short residence in Tuolumne County,he purchased his first farmland in SantaClara Valley in 1858. He bought his126-acre Santa Clara property in 1873and became a prominent grower ofprunes and apricots. His wife, Phoebe,was from the Valley pioneer McClellanfamily.

37 Edwin H. Davies1825-1892

Edwin was born in Maine, the son of awell-to-do-farmer. His first job off thefarm was as a bell-hanger in Boston andthen he returned to Maine to work withhis brother in manufacturing fancysleighs and buggies. He traveled andworked as a machinist in several citiesin the Midwest and East and lived fora short time in Australia and SouthAmerica. He arrived in California in1854 and established a starch factorynear San Leandro in 1855, the sameyear he settled in Santa Clara. In 1856he opened the Santa Clara MachineShop and ran it for several years beforebuilding the three-story DaviesMachine Shop on the corner of Jacksonand Liberty streets. He invented severalagricultural implements as did hisbrother, L.B. Davies in Ohio whoinvented the “cow-catcher” on alocomotive. Edwin wanted to makesure that people would always knowthat he was an inventor and machineshop owner, so he had a hammer,wrench, chisel and other tools carvedinto his ornate gravestone. He wasvery proud of his world travels and thathe never “used a particle of tobacco ordrank of glass of liquor” in his life.

38 Dr. Roscoe E. Freeman1853-1920

Roscoe received his college and medicaleducation in Philadelphia and Chicagoand in 1888 opened a homeopathicpractice in Los Gatos where hespecialized in abdominal surgery. Heopened the Fair View Sanitarium in LosGatos because “the air is pure, drainageperfect, and there is no noise moreunpleasant than the singing of wildbirds in the green copse on the hillside.”(Grave is unmarked.)

Frederick Franck’s casketat home, in the parlor

Rev. Isaac Owen dedicatedhis life to the Methodist

Episcopal Church

Dr. Roscoe E. Freeman

Fair View Sanitarium,Los Gatos

39 Samuel Ignatius Jamison1828-1901

Samuel was born in Maryland, butheaded to California at the age of 21.After one month of gold mining,Samuel switched to redwoodlumbering and found it more lucrative.In 1850 he came to Santa Clara andbought a 185-acre ranch to growstrawberries, grain and hay. He servedon the Santa Clara County Board ofSupervisors and as a State Assembly-man. He was a Director of the Bankof Santa Clara County and presidentof the Santa Clara Cheese Manufact-uring Company. He had three wivesand sired 15 children. His two-storyhome was sold after his death to AlfredL. Brown who remodeled andmodernized it. The Jamison-BrownHouse was donated to the City andmoved to 1505 Warburton Ave.

40 John Dibble1819-1896

John started his life in Pittsburgh andapprenticed as a tinsmith. Afterworking at his trade in New York Cityfor 11 years, he booked passage on asteamer for California. He settled inSanta Clara in 1857 and opened a“stove, tin and work” shop on MainStreet near Franklin. He was on theTown Board of Trustees for seven yearsand served on the Board of Educationfor five years. He and his wife, Lucy(Parker), had four children.

41 James Monroe Kimberlin1828-1904

James was born in Virginia to parentswho were strict Methodists andoutspoken opponents to slavery. Bothdied of fever when James was 8 andhe and his four sisters lived with anuncle and then another guardian. Theyoungsters were financially supportedby income obtained by hiring out thefamily’s slaves, but in 1852, thechildren insisted that the slaves befreed and sent to Liberia, Africa. Jamesgraduated from Dickinson College inPennsylvania and came to Californiain 1852 to teach in the San JoseAcademy, the first school establishedin San Jose. He then became a pro-fessor at the University of the Pacificin Santa Clara. After retiring fromteaching, James became a fruitorchardist but was most successful asa commercial seed grower. At itsheight, his property included hundredsof acres of bulbs and seeds for onions,lettuce, beets, carrots, celery, cabbage,radishes and sweet peas. He and hiswife, Katherine (Reed), had ninechildren.

42 James M. Billings1824-1905

James spent his early years in Mainebut joined the rush to California in1849. He tried a variety of jobs includinglumbering, running a stage, ranchingand operating a public house. He cameto Santa Clara County in 1854 andstarted to farm. He was Town Clerkfrom 1865-69, Justice of the Peace forthe Santa Clara township for six yearsand Postmaster for several years.

43 Augustus Brooks Hunter1826-1902

Augustus, who liked to be called “Gus,”was born in Virginia and grew up inIllinois and Missouri. He came toCalifornia gold country in 1849 butplanned to move to the Sandwich

Islands (Hawaii) because of poorhealth. A trip to the mild

climate of Santa Clara in1852 changed his mind

and he settled here. Heowned a 160-acre farm,was treasurer of theSanta Clara CheeseFactory, and servedtwo terms in theState Legislature. Heand his wife, Ann (adescendent ofEdward Rutledge, asigner of theDeclaration of

Independence), hadfive children. Gus was

killed in a horse andbuggy accident on a steep

road above Alum Rock Park.His grandson, Clifford, founded

Hunter Technologies Corp. in 1968that made some of Silicon Valley’s firstprinted circuit boards.

Samuel Ignatius Jamison

John Dibble

Augustus Brooks Hunter

Post Office (far right) onMain Street, Santa Clara

44 Bo’swainThis sandstone monument marks anunknown grave. No one knows whois buried here. The headstone featuresa flat crowned hat which could havebeen worn by a child or a sailor. Onelegend says it is a memorial to a childdrowned in Santa Cruz and whose hatwashed up on shore. But anotherlegend believes it refers to a Portuguesesailor who died and was buried fromthe old Mission Santa Clara Churchin 1823.

45 Lyman J. Burrell1801-1884

Lyman was born in Massachusetts andspent his teen years in Ohio. Heworked in California mines for abouttwo years and earned $2,000 for hisefforts. He returned home but cameback to California in 1852. He builta house in the Santa Cruz mountainsas a homesteader but discovered theland was on a Spanish land grant. Hewas forced to purchase 3500 acres for$1,500. Lyman first tried to raise hogs,but bears and panthers killed hislivelihood, so he switched to cattleand vineyards. The land was isolatedbecause there was no wagon road soall supplies had to be brought in onhorseback. His nearest neighbor was“Mountain” Charley McKiernan andthe nearest post office in Santa Clara.

46 Albert Chester Lawrence1810-1886

Albert was born in Boston and learnedcabinet-making as a youth. He caught“gold fever” in 1849 and sailed aroundCape Horn to California in 1850. Aftertwo years in the mines, he settled inSanta Clara and purchased 80 acres forfarming. He and his son, also namedAlbert, built a station and warehouseon the Southern Pacific Railroad lineand it became known as Lawrence’sStation. The adjoining road was calledLawrence Station Road and is nowLawrence Expressway. He and hiswife, Rhoda (Fessenden), had ninechildren and lived long enough tocelebrate their golden weddinganniversary.

47 George Lauck1830-1900

A native of Baden, Germany, Georgecame to America when he was 16. Heworked as a farm hand in New Jersey,then moved to Illinois where he learnedbrewing. He enlisted in the IllinoisVolunteer Infantry and his regimentwas the first to go and the last to returnfrom the Civil War. He rose to the rankof Sergeant. After the war he returnedto Illinois and continued to work inthe brewery until moving to Californiain 1868. He lived in San Francisco andCastroville initially, but moved to SantaClara in 1870 to purchase the SantaClara Brewery on Benton Street atAlviso St. (now the location of FireStation No. 1). The brewery claimedto have the latest machinery and hugebrew kettles that allowed it to deliver“well matured” beer. He and his wife,Magdellena (Eberhard), had sevenchildren.

48 Jacob Eberhard1837-1915

Jacob was born in Germany and cameto the U.S. in 1852. He first lived inIllinois where he worked as a harnessmaker but came to California in 1858.He worked at his trade in Sacramentobut moved to Santa Clara in 1865 tobuy part interest in the Santa ClaraTannery. He soon became its soleproprietor and ran a successful businessfor many years. He and his wife, Mary(Glein), and their 10 children lived ina three-story Italianate Revival stylehouse at 575 Grant St. that was one ofthe first to have indoor plumbing andelectricity. A volunteer fire companywas created to protect the tannery, andthat later became one of five volunteerfire companies that provided fireprotection for Santa Clara until a paidfire department was formed in 1949.

Albert Chester Lawrence

Lawrence Station

Santa Clara Breweryworkers

Workers at Eberhard’sSanta Clara Tannery

49 Benjamin Campbell1826-1907

A native of Kentucky, Benjamin cameto California with his family in 1846.He and his father, William, and hisbrother, David, built one of the firstsawmills in the county for redwoodlumbering along a creek that was calledArroyo Quito then but is known todayas Saratoga Creek. William is alsocredited with conducting the first surveyof the town of Santa Clara into lots 100yards square in 1850. In 1851, Benjaminbought property in the HamiltonDistrict and built his home with a tree-lined driveway that is now CampbellAvenue. Campbell Station for theSouthern Pacific Railway was built onhis land as was Campbell’s first postoffice. He served as the first CampbellPostmaster. Benjamin and his wife,Mary (Rucker), had three children.

50 Henry Hulme Warburton, M.D.1819-1903

The son of a doctor, Henry was born inEngland and practiced medicine withhis father until he came to America in1844. After a short stay in New York,he became surgeon on a whaling vesseland cruised the northwest coast of NorthAmerica, New Zealand, and theSandwich Islands. He tried his hand atgold digging but soon settled in SantaClara in 1848. At that time, he was oneof only three doctors in California, withthe next closest located in Santa Barbara.He and his wife, Catherine (Long), hadseven children and raised an adopteddaughter.

The Warburton family is one of themost prominent in Santa Clara with atradition of civic leadership. Dr.Warburton’s son, Henry LukeWarburton, helped to organize bothMission Bank and the Santa Clarabranch of Garden City Bank and Trustwhich later became American TrustCompany. Dr. Warburton’s grandson,Austen Den Warburton, was a lifelongSanta Clara resident who ran asuccessful law practice and wasrespected as a historian. He had specialinterest in history and archeology ofCalifornia and the Southwest, and apermanent exhibit of Native Americanartifacts are part of the collection of theTriton Museum of Art. When AustenWarburton died in 1995, the Santa ClaraValley Weekly published a specialtribute issue in order to have enoughspace to describe his accomplishmentsand contributions to the Santa Claracommunity. Austen is buried in anadjacent plot. Warburton Avenue, whereSanta Clara’s Civic Center is located, isnamed after the Warburton family.

51 George H. Worrall, D.D.S.1859-1922

George was born near Philadelphia andeducated in Pennsylvania. He came toCalifornia in 1891 as an experienceddentist and bought a house on SantaClara Street that once belonged to DonLuis Arguello. In addition to his dentalpractice, George served on schoolboards for both grammar and highschools in Santa Clara and waspresident of the Board of Education forsix years. He and his wife, Ella (Eaves),had four children. Dr. Worrell suffereda stroke while attending a baseballgame at Santa Clara High School anddied the next day at the age of 62.

52 William J. Mathieson1865-1933

Wealthy orchardist William J.Mathieson was struck by a train andkilled in 1933. His widow, Edith OaksMathieson, continued to operate thefamily orchard at 116 Scott Lane, SantaClara, and left an estate of $296,271when she died in 1961. Among herbequests was $8,500 to Mission CityMemorial Park.

53 Robert Menzel1848-1923

Robert was born in Prussia and broughtto America by his parents when he wasage 12. They settled in Wisconsin andhe apprenticed as a tinner. He came toCalifornia in 1869 aboard one of thefirst transcontinental trains on theUnion Pacific line and worked as atinner in Sacramento. Robert came toSanta Clara in 1875 to become ahardware merchant. His business grewto include house furnishings andplumbing services. He served on theTown Board of Trustees, the Board ofEducation and had three terms asSchool Superintendent and three yearsas Town Treasurer. He and his wife,Ellen (Teaford), had five children.

54 Frederick Christian Franck, Jr.1873-1954

Fred, as he preferred to be known, wasthe son of Frederick Franck, Sr. (tourstop 34). He attended Santa Claraschools and Healds Business College.He became a prominent insurancebusinessman and lived on The Alamedain San Jose with his wife, Maude(Shuld), and their two daughters, untilmoving to property inherited from hisfather at 1179 Washington St. in SantaClara. (Grave is unmarked.)

Wedding photo ofBenjamin and Mary(Rucker) Campbell

George H. Worrall, D.D.S.

Santa Clara Depotcirca 1890

Frederick Franck, Jr. andwife, Maude

Dr. Henry H. Warburton

Catherine Warburton

Austen Den Warburton

55 Schuyler B. Davis1824-1883

Schuyler was raised as a farmer inNorth Carolina. After attendingEastabrook College he managed a tollroad for his father and then moved toMissouri to engage in cattle dealing,including sales to the U.S. governmentfor beef cattle used in the Mexican-American War. He came to Californiain 1852 and purchased a farm on AlvisoRoad about a mile from Santa Clara.In addition to his large farm, he owneda grain warehouse at Lawrence Station.It was a fall from the roof of thiswarehouse that caused his death. Hewas married to Lucinda (Beaty) andthey had three children.

56 Samuel Oberdeener1860-1901

Samuel was born in San Francisco butmoved with his family to Santa Clarawhen he was 11 years old. Hegraduated from Santa Clara HighSchool in 1874 and joined his father’sprosperous drugstore business as aclerk. He later attended theDepartment of Pharmacy at StateUniversity of California at SanFrancisco and received a gold medalfor his academic standing. Hepurchased his father’s business in 1882.He married Emma Lauck, the daughterof a prominent Santa Clara breweryowner, in 1887. Samuel served on theSanta Clara Board of Education for 10years.

57 John Roll1852-1925

John started his life in Wisconsin, butwent to Arizona in 1881 to help buildsawmills on Turkey Creek for theYavapai Mine Co. He migrated toCalifornia in 1884 and was employedat the Pacific Manufacturing Co., aSanta Clara lumber mill. He was activein civic affairs and served on the TownBoard of Trustees and as a Santa ClaraCounty Supervisor who led the effortto increase road sprinkling in hisdistrict. He was married to Edna(Runge) and they had four children.

Robert B. Roll1893-1988

Robert, a nephew of John Roll, waspresident of the Enterprise LaundryCompany in Santa Clara and was activein civic organizations including theschool board, the Central CoastCounties Improvement Association,and the Santa Clara Laundrymen’sAssociation. He helped to organize andserved as the first president of the SantaClara Commercial League.

58 Andrew John Roll1889-1975

Andrew was born in Santa Clara, thebrother of Robert B. Roll and nephewof John Roll. He attended local schoolsuntil age 15 when he left to work inthe family laundry business, EnterpriseSteam Laundry. He and his brotherssold the business to Everett C.Strickland who changed the name toSainte Claire Laundry Co. They boughtthe business back and Andrew ran thebusiness until it closed in 1970. Theland was sold to Santa Clara Universityto expand the campus. An oral historyinterview with Andrew is available atthe Santa Clara City Library.

Schuyler B. Davis

John Roll

Sainte Claire Laundry, theRoll family business