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"...
Lydia Catherine Van Hattem Davall Brydges, Duchess of Chandos (1693-1750), was the daughter of John Vanhattem, an Anglo-Dutch merchant. Her first marriage was to Thomas Davall (1682-1714), a London merchant and M.P. for Harwich, who was also her...
Edmund Morris Pease was born on December 6, 1828 in Granby, Hampshire County, Massachusetts to Asa and Abigail Pease. Early in his life, E. M. Pease desired to become a medical missionary. In his pursuit, Pease graduated from Union Seminary, New...
William Brydges (1681-1764) of Tibberton (or Tyberton) in Herefordshire and London, landowner and lawyer, was the son of Francis Brydges of Castle Street, Hereford (d. 1727) and a cousin of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744). He was...
Sanford Ballard Dole was born in Punahou, Hawaii in 1844 two years after his brother George. Their parents, Daniel and Emily Dole, came to Hawaii from Maine as missionaries in 1841. The Doles first lived in Punahou, where they opened a school for...
Joseph Tomlinson emigrated to New Jersey from London in the 17th century. A member of the Friends community, he studied law, was appointed sheriff, and eventually became the King's attorney in 1696. Settled in Gloucester Township in the province of...
Henry Whitcomb Holley was born in Pierrepont Manor, New York, May 5, 1828, the son of David and Betsey (Randall) Holley. He graduated from Norwich University, Vermont in 1849. From 1849-1856, he was a contracting engineer for railroads in Ohio,...
Margaret Huntington Holladay was born on February 4, 1899 in Texas to John Walker Broad and Martha E. Puriton. It appears that she had only one sister, Annie. At some point, Margaret and her family moved to California where she met and married...
Henry Scamman was a prominent banker in northern California with investments in mining, real estate, shipping, and wheat ranching. Born February 12, 1831, Scamman spent his early years in Saco, Maine and left around 1850 to seek his fortune in the...
Manly M. Chase was born in Wisconsin on October 8, 1842. Before founding the Chase Ranch, Chase and his father worked as merchants who sold beef and other goods to miners. Manly Chase and his wife Teresa settled in New Mexico in 1867 and purchased...
A native of Anaheim, California, Mildred Clara Browning Green was born to Lionel Browning and Adele S. Rust on January 14, 1890. In 1915, she married Stanford University-educated attorney, Lucius Peyton Green (born 1883), son of Civil War-veteran...
The Northern Belle Extension Mining Company was a silver mining company with headquarters in New York City and mining operations based in Candelaria, Nevada in the Columbia Mining District during the 1920s. The Candelaria and Columbia district...
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Alice Parsons Millard was born in Jefferson City, Missouri on May 4, 1873. When she was a young girl, her family moved to Chicago. In 1896, she and her sister, Emily, were sent to Europe to be educated; Alice was sent to London to study art. She...