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• 01:21, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horton, William A. (Created page with "'''Wiliiam A. Horton''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25509220/william-allen-horton 1870-1950]) is described in Martin as a born 1870 in Illinois, coming to Santa Cruz with his parents in 1886. In 1888 he began working for the Williamson & Garrett grocery company, staying there 14 years. In 1902 he began 4 years as county under-sheriff under sheriff Howard Trafton. He was elected county assessor in 1906, serving two 2-year terms. * Father Septi...")
• 01:20, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horton, Susan C. (Redirected page to Horton, William A.) Tag: New redirect
• 01:20, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horton, Mary A. (Redirected page to Horton, William A.) Tag: New redirect
• 01:19, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horton, Septimus I. (Redirected page to Horton, William A.) Tag: New redirect
• 00:51, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horstman, Christian (Redirected page to Horstman, William F.) Tag: New redirect
• 00:24, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Horstman, William F. (Created page with "'''William F. Horstman''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71003073/william-frederick-horstman 1860-1940]) is described in Martin as born in St. Louis, MO, growing up in Kansas with his parents. At an unspecified date before 1900 he came to California, settling eventually on a tract of land outside Boulder Creek on Two-Bar Creek, where he grew wine grapes and became a vintner. * Hazel Horstman Lundgren [daughter of William F.], "Memories and Milestones of the Ho...")
• 00:00, 4 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Hodgdon, George R. (Created page with "'''George R. Hodgdon''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14486480/abram-bardmess 1834-1912]) is described in Martin as born 1834 in Maine, coming to San Francisco by sea in 1853, then to Santa Cruz by coastal schooner. Among his shipmates were six members of the Scott family who were also coming from Maine to join their relative Hiram Scott. It seems likely that all of the Mainers knew each other before setting sail, and Hodgson went immediately...")
• 23:37, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Helmer, Lawrence P. (Created page with "'''Lawrence Peter Helmer''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147883079/lawrence-peter-helmer 1848-1920]) is described in Martin as born 1843 in Germany (Find-a-Grave says 1848), coming to Watsonville in 1869, where he worked as a blacksmith until switching to farming in the 1870s. Category:Persons Category:Group-Germans Category:Persons in Martin Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 23:29, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Grimmer, J. M. (Created page with "'''Johann Michael "John" Grimmer''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14486480/abram-bardmess 1836-1917]) is described in Martin as born 1832 in Germany, coming to Watsonville in 1860, working at first as a blacksmith. After losing an arm in an 1864 accident, he became an orchardist. Category:Persons Category:Group-Germans Category:Persons in Martin Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemete...")
• 23:21, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Grimes, Michael (Created page with "'''Michael Grimes''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/285931304/michael-grimes 1829-1911]) is described in Martin as born 1831 in Ireland (Find-a-Grave says 1929), coming to farm in the Pajaro Valley in the 1860s. Category:Persons Category:Group-Irish Category:Persons in Martin Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Watsonville Catholic Cemetery")
• 20:46, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Freiermuth, Harry D. (Created page with "'''Harry David Freiermuth''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87298048/harry-david-freiermuth 1879-1929]) is described in Martin as born in Watsonville, of a German father. In adulthood he took over his father's "plumbing and tinning" and hardware business in Watsonville, established in 1882. * Father was P. J. Freiermuth (no local burial found, but Martin says he died in Watsonville in 1904). * Martin also says that P. J.'s uncle George (no local burial found) was...")
• 20:29, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Drullard, T. W. (Created page with "'''Thompson W. "Thomas" Drullard''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152786672/thompson-wilson-drullard 1849-1937]) is described in Martin as born in Illinois, coming to California in 1871, where he studied dentistry in Stockton. Fifteen years later he came to practice dentistry in Santa Cruz. He was a 3-term mayor of Santa Cruz, first elected in 1906 to a 3-year term. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:Government officials 1900-09 ...")
• 20:16, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Cox, Louis M. (Created page with "'''Louis M. Cox''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25195593/louis-m-cox 1826-1898]) is described in Martin as born 1828 (differing from Find-a-Grave) in New York City, coming to Watsonville in the 1880s, and to Santa Cruz in 1888. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 20:06, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Cox, A. W. (Created page with "'''A. W. Cox''' (no local burial found) is described in Martin as born 1865 in New Zealand, coming to San Francisco with his father in 1876, and soon afterwards to Santa Cruz. He graduated from Chesnutwoods Business College in 1883, and moved to Watsonville in 1887, where he worked for the Charles Ford Company (the department store Fords), eventually rising to become general manager. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin [[Category:1870-1879 arrivals]...")
• 19:43, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Covell, John H. (Created page with "'''John H. Covell''' (no local burial found) is described in Martin as born 1875 in Santa Cruz County, at an unknown place called "Albitos". He moved to Watsonville in 1900, where he went into the then-new auto repair business. As Martin tells it: "The present manager and half owner acquired the old Watsonville garage October 20, 1908, at which time there were only about four cars maintained in the valley, where now there are one hundred and twenty-five. January 1, 19...")
• 19:13, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Cassin, Charles M. (Created page with "'''Charles M. Cassin Sr.''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39116110/charles-m-cassin 1868-1924]) is described in Martin as born 1868 in San Francisco, coming to Watsonville as a child. As an adult, he practiced law in Santa Cruz. * Father Michael Cassin ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39116157/michael-cassin 1839-1907]) * Grandfather Cassin, Owen ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39116719/owen-cassin 1810-1903])was the first of th...")
• 19:13, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Cassin, Owen (Redirected page to Cassin, Charles M.) Tag: New redirect
• 19:12, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Cassin, Michael (Redirected page to Cassin, Charles M.) Tag: New redirect
• 18:55, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Beechler, James (Created page with "'''James Beechler''' (no local burial found) is described in Martin as born 1840 in Ohio, coming to Soquel in 1901, where he practiced medicine and established the White Cross Sanitarium "on the hill overlooking the village". Martin describes Beechler's quack theory about the cause of asthma. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:no burial info")
• 18:46, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Bardmess, Abram (Created page with "'''Abram Bardness''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14486480/abram-bardmess 1836-1917]) is described in Martin as a Civil War veteran born 1836 in Illinois, coming to Watsonville in 1896 after travels all over the Midwest and West. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 18:38, 3 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Alexander, T. D. (Created page with "'''T. D. Alexander''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1827 in Missouri, coming to Watsonville in the late 1850s, where he built and operated a hotel at the Main Street site now occupied by the Mansion House. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:no burial info")
• 20:41, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Abbott, A. G. (Created page with "'''A. G. Abbott''' (no local burial found), born in New Hampshire in 1839, came to Santa Cruz in 1893, where he became owner of the San Lorenzo livery stable. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:Persons in Society of Pioneers Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:no burial info")
• 19:58, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Love, Mary B. (Created page with "Born Mary Amanda McSwain in Virginia (1803), into an Irish family of very modest means, '''Mary Bennett Love''' met and married Vardamon Bennett in Georgia. In California, she left Bennett and married Harry Love. It's unclear whether she or Vardamon Bennett ever resided in Santa Cruz County, but several sons and a daughter did. Mary's story is told in Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book). Categor...")
• 19:15, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Wood, Hiram J. (Created page with "'''Hiram J. Wood''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120283375/hiram-jacob-wood 1847-1920]) is described in Guinn as born in New York City, coming in 1872 to Watsonville where he worked as a carpenter and builder. His father Abraham Chase “A.C.” Wood ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120283314/abraham_chase-wood 1825-1900]) came to the Watsonville area in the 1860s. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa...")
• 19:14, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Wood, Abraham C. (Redirected page to Wood, Hiram J.) Tag: New redirect
• 19:04, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Willits, L. V. (Created page with "'''Leonidas Volney "L.V." Willits''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96130254/leonidas-volney-willits 1830-1916]) is described in Guinn as born in Indiana, coming in 1875 to Watsonville to raise and deal in horses. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.437. Category:Persons Category:1870-1879 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Category:Watsonville Pioneer...")
• 18:57, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Wiley, Henry (Created page with "'''Henry Wiley''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7262861/henry-wiley 1831-1915]) is described in Guinn as born in New York state, coming in the early 1860s to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.305. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 16:23, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Watsonville Water and Light Company (Created page with "'''Watsonville Water and Light Company''' is described in History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), in the profiles of Almon White and William A. White, as follows: The Watsonville Water and Light Company, of which Mr. White is assistant superintendent, was established in 1876 by Landrum & Rogers, who purchased the water right from the old Corralitos Flouring Mill Company and ere...")
• 16:22, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page White, William A. (Created page with "'''William A. White''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59376731/william_anson-white 1867-1930, Santa Ana, CA]) is described in Guinn as born 1867 in Watsonville. His father Almon White arrived around 1860. In 1903, William was assistant superintendent of the Watsonville Water and Light Company under his father. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.641. Category:Persons Catego...")
• 15:41, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page White, Almon (Created page with "'''Almon White''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5465854/almon-white 1833-1911]) is described in Guinn as born in New York state, coming with his brother Henry (no local burial found) in 1859 to Watsonville. In 1903 he was "superintendent of the Watsonville Water and Light Company". * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.635. Category:Persons Category:1850-1859 arrivals Category:Persons in Wats...")
• 00:15, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Welch, Richard R. (Created page with "'''Richard R. Welch''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in London, England, coming in 1860 to work as a mason/builder in Watsonville. Guinn states that he built the first brick building in Watsonville, later owned by Otto Stoesser. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.439. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Group-British Category:Group-...")
• 00:02, 2 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Watters, P. K. (Created page with "'''Peter Kemp "P.K." Watters''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7224855/peter-kemp-watters 1854-1930]) is described in Guinn as born in Iowa, coming in 1893 to practice medicine in Watsonville. In 1897 he opened the Watsonville Sanatorium, said to be the first hospital in Watsonville. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons i...")
• 23:15, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page File:Tuttle-mansion-Watsonville.png
• 23:15, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs uploaded File:Tuttle-mansion-Watsonville.png
• 22:43, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Tuttle, Morris B. (Created page with "'''Morris Burns Tuttle''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7225346/morris-burns-tuttle 1858-1937]) is described in Guinn as born in Iowa, coming in 1873 to Watsonville. He was a son of Owen Tuttle. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.629. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:Persons in Guinn Category:Watsonville Pioneer Cemetery")
• 22:40, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Tuttle, Iowa H. (Redirected page to Tuttle, Owen) Tag: New redirect
• 22:28, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Thompson, Richard (Created page with "'''Richard Thompson''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25520585/richard-thompson d.1906]) is described in Guinn as born 1840 in NYC, coming at age 8 to San Francisco by sea in 1849 with an uncle named "Capt.Joseph Galloway" (no explanation given for the title). He came to Santa Cruz to accept a position as agent for the Wells Fargo Express Company. A brief newspaper notice from shortly before his death (posted to the Find-a-Grave page) states that he had been the W...")
• 22:00, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Thurwachter, Fred (Created page with "right|350px '''Frederick "Fred" Thurwachter''' ([https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139095493/frederick-thurwachter 1832-1914]) is described in Guinn (spelled Therwachter) as born in Germany, coming in 1854 to farm in the Pajaro Valley, next to the Santa Cruz County side of the Pajaro River. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:Grou...")
• 21:58, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page File:Thurwachter-Road-bridge.png
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• 19:49, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Category:Boulder Creek IOOF Cemetery (Created page with "Category:Cemeteries")
• 19:37, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Rianda, Tranquillo J. (Redirected page to Rianda, Stephen) Tag: New redirect
• 18:17, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Tarleton, Frank A. (Redirected page to Tarleton, Thomas S.) Tag: New redirect
• 18:11, 1 November 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Tarleton, Thomas S. (Created page with "'''Thomas S. Tarleton''' (1824-1881, no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in Ohio, coming in the early 1860s (estimated from context) to a 60-acre farm "between Soquel and Santa Cruz". * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.629. Category:Persons Category:1860-1869 arrivals Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 20:07, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Sullivan, William (Created page with "'''William Sullivan''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1842 in Ireland, coming in 1873 to work for the Santa Cruz Railroad (SCR). In 1878 he bought a Pajaro Valley farm. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.556. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 20:01, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Storm, J. P. (Created page with "'''J. P. Storm''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born ~1830s in "Schleswig-Holstein, then a province of Denmark, but now in Germany", coming in 1867 to farm in the Pajaro Valley, and dying at age 70 while on a visit to the old home country. * Son Peter Storm arrived with his father at age 13, and is profiled in History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.474 (photo), 475. Category...")
• 19:57, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Storm, Peter (Redirected page to Storm, J. P.) Tag: New redirect
• 19:51, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Storm, Christian F. (Created page with "'''Christian F. Storm''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1845 in Denmark, coming in 1868 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.738. Category:Persons Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 19:42, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Stoffers, Henry (Created page with "'''Henry Stoffers''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in Germany (no date given), coming in 1890 to farm in the Pajaro Valley. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.624. Category:Persons Category:Group-Germans Category:Persons of Pajaro Valley Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")
• 19:37, 31 October 2025 Carey talk contribs created page Smith, Leonard J. (Created page with "'''Leonard J. Smith''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born 1850 in Maine, coming to Santa Cruz County (area unspecified) in 1882 to practice carpentry and blacksmithing, later shifting to general and poultry farming. * History of the state of California and biographical record of Santa Cruz...(Guinn, 1903), p.628. Category:Persons Category:Persons in Guinn Category:no burial info")