PAST AND PRESENT

OF

ALAMEDA COUNTY

CALIFORNIA

VOLUME I and VOLUME II

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1914

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I. - Under Spain and Mexico
Chapter II. - Spanish and Mexican land grants
Chapter III. -  The American settlers
Chapter IV. -  The water front conveyance
Chapter V.  - Transportation
Chapter VI. -  The county board
Chapter VII. -  The harbor, Webster Street Bridge, etc.
Chapter VIII. -  Military affairs
Chapter IX. -  Health and disease, medicine, etc.
Chapter X. -  The courts, bench and bar, etc.
Chapter XI. -  Farming, fruit-growing, stock-raising, etc.
Chapter XII. -  Politics
Chapter XIII. -  Women's work, temperance, philanthropy, suffrage, etc.
Chapter XIV. -  Art, literature, etc.
Chapter XV. -  Amusements, lodges, societies, games, etc.
Chapter XVI. -  Education
Chapter XVII. -  Religion
Chapter XVIII. -  Alameda
Chapter XIX. -  Berkeley
Chapter XX. -  Oakland
Chapter XXI. - The smaller cities and towns

  Biographical Index

Abbott, Adams, Aikin, Aitchison, Alberger, Allen, Anderson, Andker, Anthony, Baccus, Bailey, Baker,

Bancroft, Bankhead, Barber, Bates, Beam, Beardsley, Beasley, Bechtle, Bell, Bennetts, Bergen, Bigelow, Bilger, Bingaman, Binkley, Bissell,  Black, Blake, Bowles, Boyes, Bradford, Bradhoff, Breed, Briggs, Brown, Browning, Bunker, Burpee, Buteau, Button, Caine, Callaghan, Capwell, Carpenter, Carpentier, Cattell, Chambers, Chapman, Christensen, Christianson, Church, Clawiter, Cobb, Cobbledick, Cole, Cook, Coughlin, Cowing, Crawford, Crowell, Cushing, Dalziel, Dargie, Deardorff, De Golia, Delaeour, De Lemos, Delger, Dennison, Dohrmann,

Donahue, Drury, Edoll, Ellsworth, Emigh, Ensign, Fabens, Farrelly, Fechter, Fenton, Fitzgerald, Foard, Forrest, Foss, Fowler, Frick, Friedman, Friend, Fritz, Frost, Fulcher, Galli, Garrison, Garthwaite, Geary, Girardelli, Gibson, Gier, Gilman, Gilson, Glasier, Grimm, Gross, Hadden, Hadlen, Haly, Hamlin, Hanifin, Hanna, Harris, Havens, Haviland, Hawley, Haefey, Heintz, Heron, Heyer, Hill, Hinch, Hogarty, Hollister, Horner, Hynes, Jacoby, Jeffery, Johnson, Johnstone, Jonas, Jones, Jurgens, Kahn, Katich, Kearney, Kelly, Kessler, Kirehner, Kisieh, Kleeman, Knowland, Kramm, Kulchar, Laymance, Leach, Lehnhardt, Lessoine, Lewis, Logan, Ludewig, McClurg, McComb, McDonald, McDonough, McGill, McKeon, McLimont, McMannis, MacDonald, Mabrey, Maggio, Maiden, Maine, Majors, Makinson, Mante, Manter, Maslin, Masten, Mastick, Man, Mayon, Mazurette, Meehan, Meese, Melvin, Mendenhall, Meredith, Merritt, Milisieh, Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moon, Moore, Morehouse, Mosher, Mott, Myers, Naylor, Nelson, Nicholl, Noble, Nor, Nystrom, Ogden, Olsen, Orwig, Parrish, Pavert, Pearson, Peart, Pease, Pendleton, Perkins, Petersen,

Phillips, Pomeroy, Poock, Potter, Powell, Prowse, Quigley, Quinn, Reed, Reiter, Rice, Richardson, Palmer, Pardee, Parish, Rideout, Roach, Robinson, Rochm, Ruess, Russell, Rutherford, St. Sure, Sampson, Samuels, Santana, Schmidt, Scott, Sehorn, Serda, Sliaw, Siebe, Sievers, Sipe, Sleeper, Smeaton, Smith, Snook, Spencer, Stearns, Steen, Still, Stoddard, Stout, Stratton, Sturm, Sullivan, Taft, Tapscott, Thornton, Tiffany, Tisdale, Toler, Townsend, Trabert, Trefethen, Twomey, Tyrrell, Van De Mark, Van Every, Voorhees, Wagner, Walsh, Walter, Warner, Waste, Welch, Wells, Wente, Wheaton, Wilbert, Wilson, Witter, Wood, Wythe,