Al Martínez is a writer and newspaper columnist. He was born July 29, 1929 in Oakland, California. He joined the Marines in 1950 and served in Korea until 1952. While in the Marines he became a war correspondent and upon discharge became a writer...
Frances Johnston, born 1864, was a photographer whose career spanned six decades and covered a vast array of topics. She is commonly considered the first female photojournalist and was also a charter member of the Photo-Secession. She was a...
Letter displayed 1988-1989, in the exhibit "Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln: The Shaping of the American Presidency, 1789-1865." The letter reads: "United States, Sept. 21st 1789. Dear Sir, I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency An...
Theodore Joscelyn Curphey was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on October 25, 1897. He received his M.D., C.M. in 1921 from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. After receiving his medical license from the Medical Council of Canada in 1921,...
Paul Conrad served as chief editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993. His career began at the Denver Post in 1950 where he drew until moving to the Los Angeles Times. Conrad won three Pulitzer Prizes (1964, 1971 and 1984)...
Jabez and Margaret Stutterd came to England from Perth, Scotland to settle in Lancashire, sometime before 1748; they had three sons and one daughter: John Stutterd (1750-1818), Thomas Stutterd (1752-1815), Mary (Stutterd) Sugden (b. 1753), Jabez...
Countess Russell (1866-1941), English author, was known under the name "Elizabeth" after publishing her novel titled, Elizabeth and her german garden. She was the daughter of Henry Herron Beauchamp and a cousin of Katherine Mansfield. She married...
Florence Ranuzzi was both a participant in the motion picture industry of early Hollywood and, later in life, a political activist and co-founder of Poor Richard's Bookshop, the first conservative bookshop in the United States. Florence was born in...
Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878), a native of Tennessee, was a pioneer California rancher and businessman who came to California from New Mexico in 1841 as a member of the Rowland-Workman party. He purchased the Jurupa Rancho (Riverside, Calif.)...
James Augustin Brown Scherer (aka James A.B. Scherer) was born in Salisbury, North Carolina on May 22, 1870 to the Rev. Simeon Scherer and Harriet Isabella Brown. After earning his bachelor's degree from Roanoke College, Scherer accepted a position...
James B. (James Benton) Clover (1870-1956) owned a substantial amount of land in Mono County, Calif., south of Mono Lake including a large portion around Rush Creek. In 1930, the City of Los Angeles began eminent domain rights proceedings on much...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896) was born in Frederick County, Maryland, a son of Dr. James Aloysius Shorb (1798-1867) and Margaret McMeal Shorb. He came to California in 1863 looking for oil in Ventura County, and married Maria de Jesus "Sue"...
Anna Clegg Stryke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 14, 1884. Stryke graduated from Cornell University, where she was a member of the Sigma Xi organization for scientific research. She was elected to the faculty after her...