Word: niners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Hammond's father was a Forty-Niner (which gives the same cachet to a Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked...
...greystone tower with a suggestion of Gothic ornament, it is named for Forty-Niner William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became either rich or famous, many returned East. William Taylor took a cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco...
Harvard received $100,000 in the will of Elizabeth R. Stevens of Swansea, Mass., which was offered for probate in Taunton yesterday. Mrs. Stevens, widow of Frank S. Stevens, banker, manufacturer, and "forty-niner", died at Swansea on February 4. Bequests were also made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mt. Holyoke College, and Wellesley College...