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• 19:31, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Short, Stephen (Created page with "'''Stephen Short''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1836 in Illinois, coming in the 1850s to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * Son Cyrus Short is profiled in History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.662. Category:Persons Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 19:31, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Short, Cyrus (Redirected page to Short, Stephen) Tag: New redirect
• 19:19, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Gordola (Created page with "right '''Gordola''' is an unincorporated community along Highway 1 on the North coast between Santa Cruz and Davenport. The name appears on Google Maps, and arose presumably because a number of Italian-Swiss families came to the area from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordola that Swiss town]. A 1913 map of the Ocean Shore Railroad showed a stop in the same area called "Scaroni". *...")
• 19:17, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page File:Gordola-Scaroni-map.png
• 19:17, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs uploaded File:Gordola-Scaroni-map.png
• 19:12, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Scaroni, Pio (Created page with "'''Pio Scaroni''' (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74529937/pio-s-scaroni 1851-1931) is described in Guinn as born in Gordola, Switzerland, coming to Santa Cruz County in the early 1970s to rent land for dairy and general farming medicine on the North coast, buying that land in 1883. Today's Scaroni Road, off Highway 1 between Santa Cruz and Davenport, is probably at or near the Scaroni farm. The nearby community was once known as ...")
• 19:35, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Ryan, John M. (Created page with "'''John M. Ryan''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1824 in Ireland, coming in 1868 to farm in Santa Cruz County, after 20 years in Australia. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.583. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 19:23, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rogge, William (Created page with "'''William Rogge Jr.''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120121857/william-rogge 1866-1914]) is described in Guinn as born in Germany, coming in 1875 to Watsonville where he opened a shoemaking shop. Son Henry T. Rogge (no local burial info) is the Guinn subject. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.580. Category:Persons Category:Group-Germans Category:1870-1879 arrivals Category:Persons i...")
• 19:07, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rodgers, James M. (Created page with "'''James M. Rodgers''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1817 in Tennessee, coming in the 1860s to Watsonville, where he died in 1901. Son Charles H. Rodgers (no local burial found) is also described as a Watsonville resident. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.487. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn C...")
• 18:53, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Robertson, Robert (Created page with "'''Robertson, Robert''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1861 in Virginia, coming in 1900 to become superintendent of the California Powder Works. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.658. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 18:45, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Ring, David (Created page with "'''David Ring''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1813 in Ireland, coming to California in 1849, and in 1864 to a farm in the Pajaro Valley, where he died in 1878. Son Joseph Ring (under whose name the Guinn profile appears - birthplace and date not given) continued farming at that location. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.735. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category...")
• 18:18, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rianda, Perry (Redirected page to Rianda, Stephen) Tag: New redirect
• 18:11, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rianda, Stephen (Created page with "'''Stephen Rianda''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1849 in Switzerland, coming in 1882 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.618. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 18:07, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rambo, Samuel H. (Created page with "'''Samuel Henry Rambo''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24686196/samuel-henry-rambo 1843-1920]) is described in Guinn as born in Pennsylvania, coming in 1882 to become a merchant in Boulder Creek. He served as a county supervisor and state senator. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:Persons of San Lorenzo Valley Category:Government officials 1900-09 Categ...")
• 17:55, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Radcliff, George G. (Created page with "'''George C. Radcliff''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1868 in Grass Valley, CA, coming to Watsonville in 1882 where at first he apprenticed with older brother William, proprietor of the ''Pajaronian'' newspaper. George served as Watsonville postmaster from 1902-1907. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.349. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonvi...")
• 17:38, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Quirk, Michael (Created page with "'''Michael Quirk''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1833 in Ireland, coming in the early 1860s to a farm in the Pajaro Valley after a number of years in the Los Angeles area. In 1899 he retired to a home in Watsonville. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:...")
• 17:32, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Quick, M. W. (Created page with "'''M. W. Quick''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1827 in New York state, coming to California and to the Pajaro Valley in 1888, where he bought a farm "five miles from Watsonville" (direction not stated). * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.618. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 17:25, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Peterson, Peter (Created page with "'''Peter Peterson''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73825311/peter-peterson 1825-1916]) is described in Guinn as born in Norway, coming in the mid-1850s to a cattle ranch "on the Ben Loman mountains" (Bonny Doon area?). In the 1890s he sold that land to the Holmes Lime Company, and moved to Santa Cruz. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.691. * Another Norwegian Peter Peterson ([https://www.findagrave...")
• 17:10, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Perry, Elliott D. (Created page with "'''Elliott Davis Perry''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1844 in New Hampshire, coming to Santa Cruz County in 1877 to work as a surveyor for the Santa Cruz Railroad (SCR). "His election to the office of county surveyor in 1890 followed an experience of eight years as deputy county surveyor under T. W. Wright." * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.617. Categ...")
• 16:59, 30 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Peery, Joseph W. (Created page with "'''Joseph W. Peery''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1830 in West Virginia, coming in 1868 to Boulder Creek, where he worked in the timber industry. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.690. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons of San Lorenzo Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 19:01, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Pardee, George (Created page with "'''George [Thayer] Pardee''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5465977/george-thayer-pardee 1829-1913]) is described in Guinn as born in New York state. "The fall of 1856 found him in the Pajaro valley, where, with Messrs. White, Kidder, Knowles and others, he purchased one thousand acres of the [Sebastian] Rodriguez ranch. This was subdivided and Mr. Pardee with George H. White (no info found) received one hundred and fifty acres . . .". Pardee...")
• 18:30, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Palmtag, Christian (Created page with "right '''Christian Palmtag''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76954122/christian-f-palmtag 1832-1881]) is described in Guinn as born in Germany, coming in 1868 to buy the George Adams brewery in Watsonville. After his death, management of the "Pajaro Valley brewery" was assumed by his son William (1860-1936). * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Categor...")
• 18:28, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page File:1872-Palmtag-hse-Manresa-600px.png
• 18:28, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs uploaded File:1872-Palmtag-hse-Manresa-600px.png
• 18:11, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Ord, John S. (Created page with "'''John Stephen Ord''' (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120567127/john-stephen-ord 1832-1911) is described in Guinn as the father of James M. Ord (born 1865), who is profiled. There may be some name confusion here - Find-a-Grave has a George M. [Marcellus] Ord (born 1865) and a James L. Ord (born 1870), sons of John Stephen Ord. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.611. Category:Persons Category:18...")
• 17:52, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page O'Brien, William (Created page with "'''A. William Bixby''' (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157076510/william-o'brien 1870-1956) is described in Guinn as born in Ireland, coming in 1895 Watsonville, where he went into business as a stonemason and dealer in marble and granite (at that time mainly used for grave monuments). * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.413. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons i...")
• 17:42, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Nichols, Urial S. (Created page with "'''Urial S. Nichols''' (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262777825/urial-schermerhorn-nichols 1838-1904) is described in Guinn as born 1838 in New York state, coming in 1867 to the area of Santa Cruz County that is now Aptos. "Returning to Santa Cruz somewhat later, he established his home here and engaged at the trade of carpenter until 1898, when he was elected constable of the city and township of Santa Cruz." * History of the state of California and biogra...")
• 04:45, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Murphy, John Dennis (Redirected page to Murphy, John D.) Tag: New redirect
• 04:42, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Murphy, John D. (Created page with "'''John D. Murphy''' (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37901767/john-d-murphy 1855-1936) is described in Guinn as born in San Francisco, of Irish parents. He came to a Pajaro Valley farm with his parents in 1859. He inherited that farm and stayed on. His father was John Dennis Murphy ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176053118/john_dennis-murphy 1827-1892]}. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.702. [...")
• 04:25, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Moretti, Louis (Created page with "'''Louis Moretti''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1876 in Switzerland, coming to Santa Cruz in 1899 and opening the "Sea Side creamery at Nos. 41-43 Pacific avenue" in Santa Cruz. "In addition to his own creamery he has an interest in several others, including the Yellow Bank dairy, the Ocean View dairy, and the San Vicente dairy." His father had come to the county in the 1860s, but returned to Switzerland after a few years. * History of the s...")
• 04:07, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Meadowcroft, William H. (Created page with "'''William H. Meadowcroft''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1853 in San Jose, CA. According to Guinn, "He is known as the first white man to open and operate a laundry in this part of the state. About 1890 he came to Watsonville and on the east side of the Pajaro river started in the laundry business." * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.450. Category:Persons Category:Persons in...")
• 03:59, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page McGowan, William J. (Created page with "'''William J. McGowan''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1861 in New Jersey, of Irish parents. His father John came to the Pajaro Valley in 1864. William stayed nearby, to farm on "ninety-three acres purchased from his father." * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.447. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 03:49, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page McCollum, Joseph (Created page with "'''Joseph McCollum''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1830 in Canada, of parents both born in Scotland. After some years as a merchant mariner, he came to San Francisco in 1849, and to a farm on the Pajaro River in the early 1850s. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.690. Category:Persons Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:other foreign born Category:Persons of Pajaro V...")
• 03:39, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page McCarthy, Charles P. (Created page with "'''Charles P. McCarthy''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1846 in Ireland. "In 1874 he purchased his present farm, which comprises forty acres of productive land, located three miles from Watsonville." * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.706. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 03:07, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Mason, Sylvester J. (Created page with "'''Sylvester J. Mason''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1820 in Ohio. He "started over the plains with ox teams and wagons, in 1854, taking several head of cattle along with him", coming in "about 1860" to buy a ranch in Santa Cruz County. In 1895 he rented out the ranch and retired in Soquel. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.610. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Guinn...")
• 02:53, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Martinelli, Louis (Created page with "redirect #Martinelli, Stephen G. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 02:33, 27 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lynskey, Walter (Created page with "'''Walter Lynskey''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9090293/walter-lynskey 1835-1917]) is described in Guinn as born in Ireland, and owning a 42-acre farm in the Eastside neighborhood of Santa Cruz (exact location undetermined) by 1888. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.688. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Categor...")
• 18:41, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lorenzen, Lorenz (Created page with "'''Lorenz Lorenzen''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48396151/lorenz-lorenzen 1820-1887]) is described in Guinn as born in Denmark, coming to Davenport in the 1850s, where "he was a ships carpenter and as such owned the Lorenzen ship yard in Davenport, CA where he built two ships one completed in 1873, "The Undaunted" and the "R.B Handy" completed in 1876." * Son Lawrence is profiled in History of the state of California and biographical...")
• 18:41, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lorenzen, Lawrence (Created page with "'''Lawrence Lorenzen''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260591694/lawrence-lorenzen 1854-1919, Colma]) is described in Guinn as coming to California at age 2 with his German parents, but the Find-a-Grave pages say he and his parents were born in Denmark, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein] region. Both may be correct: Schleswig-Holstein is part of Germany today, but in the 19th-century was contested between Germany and Denmar...")
• 17:58, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lincoln, Orlando J. (Created page with "'''Orlando J. Lincoln''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1847 in Maine, coming to Santa Cruz in 1879, serving in several city government positions before becoming postmaster in 1899 (succeeding W.T. Kearney). Guinn states that, in 1903, "The postoffice [sic] occupies a building on Locust street, owned by F. A. Hihn, and large and modern in all its details." It doesn't appear that the building survives today, and the Santa Cruz Post Office owns i...")
• 17:40, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lewis, J. J. (Created page with "'''J. J. Lewis''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in Delaware, coming in 1875 to buy a farm in Watsonville. In 1888 he sold the farm and moved into Watsonville to begin practice as a surveyor. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.406-407. Category:Persons Category:Group-Architecture/Engineering/Construction Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Cate...")
• 17:28, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Leonard, J. J. C. (Created page with "'''James Joseph Connor "J.J.C." Leonard''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83871569/james-joseph_connor-leonard 1862-1918]) is described in Guinn as born in Nebraska, coming to Santa Cruz with his father in 1862, and becoming a hotelier. Hotels he managed include the St. George Hotel and the Sea Beach Hotel. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arri...")
• 17:16, 26 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Lamborn, Josiah W. (Created page with "'''Josiah W. Lamborn''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1845 in indiana, coming in 1883 to Watsonville where he was self-employed as a builder. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.403-404. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 18:33, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page King, Thomas H. (Created page with "redirect King, James I. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 18:28, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page King, James I. (Created page with "'''James I. King''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1857 in Virginia, coming in 1889 to buy a house in Watsonville, and also a 20-acre "ranch" outside of town. On that land and other rented land, he grew mainly of onions. Guinn notes that "The preparing of the land is done by himself, but much of the manual labor is given over to Japanese employees, of whom he has a number." * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa C...")
• 18:19, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Kerns, Mary (Created page with "Mrs. '''Mary Kerns''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1850 in Ireland (nee O'Brien), coming in 1872 to the Pajaro Valley as the wife of Thomas Kerns (no bio or local burial found). After his death in 1892, she ran the family farm. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.511. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn ...")
• 18:11, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Kennaugh, John (Created page with "'''John Kennaugh''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1845 on the Isle of Man (a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland), coming in 1883 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.513. Category:Persons Category:Group-British Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial...")
• 18:04, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Kelly, Edward (Created page with "'''Edward Kelly''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in Ireland, coming in 1864 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.513. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 17:58, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Kane, John (Created page with "'''John Kane''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1830 in Ireland, coming in 1867 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.510. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 17:45, 23 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Jessen & Petersen (Created page with "'''Jessen & Petersen''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as a partnership owning the Eclipse livery stable in Watsonville, which in 1901 they purchased from W. H. Kennedy (no local burial found), although there was a William Henry Kennedy ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73845643/william-henry-kennedy 1852-1938]) in Boulder Creek. The partners were, according to Guinn, a "Mr. Jessen" (no local burial found), born 1867 in Germany; and Nels Petersen (no l...")