User contributions for Carey

4 November 2025

• 19:5419:54, 4 November 2025 diff hist +62 Abbott, A. G. No edit summary current
• 19:5319:53, 4 November 2025 diff hist +87 Burland, Robert No edit summary current
• 19:5219:52, 4 November 2025 diff hist +352 N Joy, A. E. Created page with "'''A. E. Joy''' (no local burial found) is described in Guinn as born in Yuba County, California in 1864, coming to Watsonville in 1893, where he became a real estate agent. *History of Santa Cruz, California (Martin, 1911), p.239 Category:Persons Category:Persons in Martin Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:no burial info" current
• 01:3001:30, 4 November 2025 diff hist +447 N Ingham, James Created page with "'''James Ingham''' (no local burial found) is described in Martin as a Civil War veteran born 1829 in England, coming to Watsonville in 1871, where he established a business as a blacksmith and wagon-maker, serving two terms as a city councilman, and died there in 1895. Category:Persons Category:Group-British Category:Persons in Martin Category:1870-1879 arrivals Category:Persons in Watsonville Category:no burial info" current
• 01:2101:21, 4 November 2025 diff hist +720 N 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..." current
• 01:2001:20, 4 November 2025 diff hist +87 N Horton, Susan C. Redirected page to Horton, William A. current Tag: New redirect
• 01:2001:20, 4 November 2025 diff hist +87 N Horton, Mary A. Redirected page to Horton, William A. current Tag: New redirect
• 01:1901:19, 4 November 2025 diff hist +87 N Horton, Septimus I. Redirected page to Horton, William A. current Tag: New redirect
• 00:5500:55, 4 November 2025 diff hist −163 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 00:5400:54, 4 November 2025 diff hist +173 Horstman, William F. No edit summary
• 00:5100:51, 4 November 2025 diff hist +140 N Horstman, Christian Redirected page to Horstman, William F. Tag: New redirect
• 00:4200:42, 4 November 2025 diff hist +128 Category:Santa Cruz County History Journal Number 2 No edit summary current
• 00:2400:24, 4 November 2025 diff hist +709 N 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..."
• 00:0000:00, 4 November 2025 diff hist +858 N 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..." current

3 November 2025

• 23:3723:37, 3 November 2025 diff hist +477 N 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"
• 23:2923:29, 3 November 2025 diff hist +479 N 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..."
• 23:2123:21, 3 November 2025 diff hist −5 Grimes, Michael No edit summary
• 23:2123:21, 3 November 2025 diff hist +408 N 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"
• 20:4620:46, 3 November 2025 diff hist +650 N 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..."
• 20:2920:29, 3 November 2025 diff hist +505 N 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 ..."
• 20:1720:17, 3 November 2025 diff hist −103 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 20:1620:16, 3 November 2025 diff hist +332 N 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"
• 20:0720:07, 3 November 2025 diff hist +1 Alexander, T. D. No edit summary
• 20:0720:07, 3 November 2025 diff hist +1 Cox, A. W. No edit summary
• 20:0620:06, 3 November 2025 diff hist +540 N 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]..."
• 19:5319:53, 3 November 2025 diff hist −5 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 19:5319:53, 3 November 2025 diff hist +89 Thurwachter, Fred No edit summary current
• 19:4719:47, 3 November 2025 diff hist +72 Weeks, William H. No edit summary current
• 19:4319:43, 3 November 2025 diff hist +1,193 N 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..."
• 19:1419:14, 3 November 2025 diff hist +22 Cassin, Charles M. No edit summary
• 19:1319:13, 3 November 2025 diff hist +667 N 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..."
• 19:1319:13, 3 November 2025 diff hist +159 N Cassin, Owen Redirected page to Cassin, Charles M. current Tag: New redirect
• 19:1219:12, 3 November 2025 diff hist +191 N Cassin, Michael Redirected page to Cassin, Charles M. current Tag: New redirect
• 18:5718:57, 3 November 2025 diff hist +20 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 18:5618:56, 3 November 2025 diff hist −83 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 18:5518:55, 3 November 2025 diff hist +379 N 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"
• 18:4618:46, 3 November 2025 diff hist +402 N 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"
• 18:3818:38, 3 November 2025 diff hist +383 N 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"

2 November 2025

• 20:4120:41, 2 November 2025 diff hist +352 N 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"
• 19:5819:58, 2 November 2025 diff hist +486 N 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..." current
• 19:5119:51, 2 November 2025 diff hist +18 Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book) No edit summary current
• 19:2219:22, 2 November 2025 diff hist −103 Category:Persons in Martin No edit summary
• 19:2119:21, 2 November 2025 diff hist +89 Wood, Hiram J. No edit summary current
• 19:2019:20, 2 November 2025 diff hist +89 Peery, Joseph W. No edit summary
• 19:2019:20, 2 November 2025 diff hist +89 Hassett, P. No edit summary current
• 19:1919:19, 2 November 2025 diff hist +58 Congdon, Willis R. No edit summary
• 19:1919:19, 2 November 2025 diff hist +89 Hartman, Isaiah No edit summary current
• 19:1819:18, 2 November 2025 diff hist +31 Congdon, Willis R. No edit summary
• 19:1619:16, 2 November 2025 diff hist −244 Category:Persons in Guinn No edit summary current
• 19:1519:15, 2 November 2025 diff hist +668 N 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..."