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Block 31. Lot-owners, 1 Joel P. Dedmond '44, 2, 3, 5, 6 Francisco San- chez '37, 4 Wm Richardson '44, J. C. Buchanan '47. Capt. Paty in '44-5 bought the Sanchez 100-vara lot, fenced it, and built a shanty at a. John Halls, who advertises as a surveyor in '47-8, is located here by Gillespie. At c there was another shanty, said to have been occupied by a Lascar named Jacinto in '39-47.
Block 32. Lot-owners, 1 Robert Henry, 2 John S. Misroon, 3 blank, 4 James Early, 5 A. A. Andrews, 6 blank. Andrews built a wooden house at a-not apparently on his own lot, since several remember clearly that it was on the corner-where he lived from '45 to Nov. '47. Wm H. Davis bought the property in '46, and lived there from Nov. '47 to '50. On this lot also
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seems to have stood the windmill noted by several as a prominent landmark in '46-7. Piper says it had been built to grind wheat.
Block 33. 6 beach-lots, owned by Pettet, Jones, Lcidesdorff, and Joice. At a, seems to have been situated B. R. Buckelew's watchmaker's shop, ad- vertised from April '47, though B.'s lot was in the next block. This region was sometimes known as Buckelew Point. It would seem that in this build- ing must have been the office of the Californian; at least, nobody remembers it elsewhere.
Block 34. Lot-owners, 1 Hoen & Dohiling '46, 2 beach-lots owned by Ellis, Dixon & Hay, and Hood, 3 blank, 4 Leandro Galindo '46, 5 Maximo Fernandez '46, 6 Geo. Denike '47. At c, on his own lot, Denike from '46 had a bakery, saloon, etc. It was here that Dornte was murdered by Bev- erly in '47. From May '48 D. advertised his new hotel on the same site. At et, Dickson & Hay built the 'Beehive' store in '47, which they advertised from Jan. '48 as adjoining Ellis' and opposite Ross' lumber-yard. They moved at this time from their 'old premises adjoining Leidesdorff's'-possibly a room in the City Hotel. At e was an adobe building occupied in '47-9 by A. J. Ellis as a boarding-house and groggery. Everybody remembers how a bad taste in E.'s whiskey led to the discovery of a drowned Russian sailor in the well. It was on floen's lot, and Clark thinks H. lived here before he moved to block 43; Davis says the house was built by Benito Diaz in '44, and by him sold to Ellis in '47. In Feb. '48, L. W. Perry, a painter, had a shop at the cor. of Jackson and Montgomery, perhaps at this corner adjoining Ellis.
Block 35. Lot-owners, I John Martin '43, 2 B. Diaz and J. B. Mesa '44, 3 J. M. Santa Maria '46, 4 Gregorio Escalante '43, 5 Bruno Valencia '43, 6 Carlos Glein '44. From about '45 Carlos Glein had a blacksmith-shop, and perhaps a residence, on his lot at a. Near at hand, perhaps at c, John Ellick kept a grog-shop in '47-8, being part of the time in partnership with Denike. Somewhere in this vicinity must have been Prudon's adobe in '39-43, but I cannot locate it, unless perhaps it may have been at m, where Davis remem- bers an adobe shanty, occupied in '45-8 by Escalante and Ramirez; but D. evidently confounds this building in some respects with that of Cáceres (block 30), whom he calls Valle. At e, Piper mentions two small adobes, one of them unfinished, in '47. They were evidently on the Diaz-Mesa lot. Davis thinks one was begun in '43-4 by Diaz and never finished; the other was built by John Cooper about '44. At i, on the site of the modern Commercial Hotel, Hood & Wilson advertised their carpenter-shop from April '48.
Block 36. Lot-owners, 1, 2, 4, 5 Francisco Caceres '38, 3 Juan B -- '43, 4 blank. The Bazaar, a market, was advertised from May '48, and is located by Gillespie at a. Swasey puts John Sullivan's residence at about the same spot, but others do not remember it. On his own lot at e, Francisco Cáceres built an adobe house in '38-9. and lived there with his family till '44, and perhaps later, though part of the family moved to S. Rafael, where they had a land grant. On the map of '47, Prudon is named as the owner of the lot, which he obtained, according to Davis, by marrying Caceres' dlaughter. Be- tween the Sullivan and Caceres honses on Swasey's view are two buildings not named, and which I cannot identify.
Block 37. Lot-owners '46, 1 Wm P. Reynolds, 2 John Duncomb, 3 Juan Yvain, 4 Wm M. Smith, 5 Miguel Pedrorena '45, 6 Wmn Fisher '45. From March 48, Henry Hartman advertised a tin-shop on Pacific between Dupont and Stockton, perhaps at u. Block 38. Lot-owners, I Julius Martin '47, 2 Rafael Guirado '47, 3 Lazaro Pena '45, 4 Lewis Rogers 47, 5 Martin Murphy '47, 6 Win Pettet 47. Near the s. E. cor. of Pacific and Powell, in a little de- pression, Davis remembers that Jose Antonio Ortega had a little shanty house in '38-41, perhaps at a. See also block 41.
Block 39, beach-lots not sold till after '48, except no. 3 (cor. Broadway and Sausome), which was bought by B. R. Buckelew in '47. But B.'s house was, as we have seen, not on this lot. The only building on the block was A. B. Thompson's hide-house at a, at the head of a little cove, and accessible
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to boats at high tide. Davis remembers it as early as '38-9, and Clark in '46-8.
Block 40. Lot-owners, 1 S. J. Hensley '46, 2 Mannel E. McIntosh 46, 3 Jacob Harmand '47, 4 Thomas Kittleman '46, 5 Christian Thomas '47, 6 Jas- per O'Farrell '47. At a, Hood (of H. & Wilsou, see block 35) had a shanty house in '46-7, according to Clark's recollection. In Nov. '48, De Witt & Harri- son advertised their removal to their new store 'on Sansome St., opposite the govt reserve,' and their place is located by Clark at c. Block 41. Lot-owners, I Bernal '44, 2 E. S. Marsh 47, 3 P. B. Reading '46, 4 John Connell '47, 5 Hugo Reid '47, 6 John Allen '47. The house shown by Swasey as that of Ortega would seem to have been in this block, at a, but I find nobody who remembers it. Sce block 38.
Block 42. Lot-owners, 1 Thomas Smith '45, 2 Vardeman Bennett '47, 3 Eusebio Soto '45, 4 John Couzens '47, 5 Geo. Wisner '46, 6 V. Bennett '47. At a was perhaps Francis A. Hammond's shoe-shop advertised from April 48 as on Pacific St. near Bennett's. Atc, Bennett kept a groggery, bowling-alley, aud sailor's retreat from '45, sometimes with Thompson as a partner. Accord- ing to Hittell, B. refused to be 'swung' out of his original lot by the O'Far- rel survey, and his title was sustained by the courts in '59. Smith also kept a saloon and bowling-alley at e on his own lot in '46-8, with Wm Patterson as a partner part of the time. His adv. appears from Oct. '47. Marston's school of '47, according to the Annals, was in a shanty on Dupont bet. Pacific and Broadway, say at i; but nobody remembers it. On his own lot at m, Couzens probably had a honse besides his place in block 47.
Block 43. Lot-owners, '46, I Ang. Deck, 2 Elliot Libby, 3 Francis Hoen, 4 J. C. Fremont '47, 5 J. H. Watmongh, 6 John Allig (Ellick). At a and c, on their respective lots, Hoen and Ellick are remembered by Clark and Davis to have had houses in '46-8. Ate, J. Montgomery & Co. advertised the Shades Tavern and bowling-alley, with a store next door eastward, perhaps all in one building, in the last months of '48. Very likely the buildings were not erceted till after the gold excitement in May. Block 44. Lot-owners, 1 James Murphy '47, 2 Thos Kerr '47, 3 Win Reynolds '44, 4 J. E. Montgomery '46, A. J. Grayson '47, 5 Daniel Murphy, 6 John Rose '44. I think Rose may have had a shanty on his lot at a, though nobody mentions it.
Block 45. Lot-owners, '47, 1, 2 Wm S. Clark, 3 Chas Albien, 3 (beach) Clark, Pettet, and Buckelew. At a, on the lot which he still owns in '85, Wm S. Clark, who gave the name to Clark's Point, built a warehouse in '47 -8. The 'new warehouse at foot of Broadway at the stone pier' was adver- tised to let in March '48. In the wharf at c the first piles were driven by Clark, and considerable work was done by the city, as recorded in note I of this chapter. The battery, or Fort Montgomery, of 1846, which gave a name to Battery St., was in the next block north, between Battery St and the water, at the foot of the hill.
Block 46. Lot-owners, '47, 1 J. H. Ackerman, 2 Peter Wimmer, 3 Alex. Ilatler, 4 Ira T. Stebbins. Lot no. 3, or a, was designated as a cemetery at the cor. of 'Sloat' and Vallejo streets in the Bartlett map, and several bodies were buried there in '46-7, but none after '47, the burial-place being trans- ferred to North Beach. Block 47. Lot-owners, '47, 1 Pika Paele, 2 Henry Harris '46, 3 J. D. Hoppe, 4 Geo. Pott, 5 John B. Faust, 6 Geo. M. Evans. An advertisement of '47 mentions 'H. Harris' house (a) above Couzens' slaughter-house (c), where Geo. Evans also lived.' The houses are also re- membered by Clark.
Block 48. Lot-owners, '47, I Michael Foley, 2 E. P. Jones, 3 Michael Morey (or Murrey), 4 Aug. Tieroff, 5 F. J. Lippitt, G Aquila Glover. Block 49. Lot-owners, '47, I Stephen A. Wright, 2 Kale Puaani, 3 Robert Whit- taker, 4 James McClary (McClurg?) '46, 5 blank, 6 James Greyson (Gregson ?).
Block 50. Lot-owners, 1 E. P. Jones '46, 2 John Thompson '47, 3 Enoch P. Jewett '47, 4 Frank Ward '46, 5 Henry Smith '47, 6 John D. Harris '47. W. H. Merrill's American House, a kind of boarding establishment, was built in '47, a two-story wooden building. Merrill kept the place through '48. It
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is mentioned in the Star of Nov. 27, '47, as a new building, where the festiv. ities attending Win H. Davis' marriage were celebrated. Davis locates it at a; some others think it was not in this block. F. J. Lippitt had his law- office at Merrill's in Dec. '48. It seems likely enough that Jones and Ward put some slight improvements on their lots granted in '46, but they are not remembered.
Block 51. Lot-owners, '47, 1 Barton Mowry, 2 Richard Moffatt, 3 Wash. A. Bartlett, 4 Origin Mowry, 5 R. M. Sherman, 6 John Joyce. At a was built in '47 an adobe house with wooden roof, for Mowry. The 2d floor was used by the Mormons for their meetings. This was one of the two old buildings that escaped the fires, and it was the only one left after '52. It was still standing in '67, when A. D. Piper, who helped to build it, wrote his recollections for the Alta of Feb. 17th. At e, Sherman began a house in '4S, Merrill being the builder, which was sold to S. A. Wright in '49.
ADDITIONS .- After the preceding pages were in type, Wm Glover of Farmington, Utali, a member of the Brooklyn colony, aud a prominent citizen of S. F. in '46-8, furnished me a supplementary statement on the subject, which includes not only his own recollections, but those of eight others of the Mormon colony. The testimony is of value; most of it coufirms what I had printed; and the additions by blocks are as follows: Block S, a, Wm Stout. 9, c. John Halls. 10, a, Dr Parker. 13, c, e, John and Isaac Robbins. 15, c, James Fergason; e, Carrington's carpenter-shop; i, Hiram Grimes (?). 16, a, Christina Read. 17, a, Robert Smith. 21, e, Joseph Nichols; n and o, Thos and Wm Kittleman. 22, a, John Sirrine; e, Robert Petch. 26, a, Parker's store; c, Brannan's house, and Star office a little fartber east; o, Becrs' cabinet-shop. 27, a, Julius Austin 37, a, Daniel Clark. 42, a, A. Buekland. 44, «, A. J. Grayson. 50, a, Merrill's place in next block north. 51, e, John Joyce.
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CONCLUDED ALPHABETICALLY FROM VOLUME IV.
R. ('Il Signor'), 1827, sup. of the Héros. iii. 129-30. Raabes (Claudio), at S. Gabriel '46. Rabbens, or 'Raben,' 1847, inr of the Mathilde. v. 579. Rabbettoile (Pierre), 1847, Co. F, 3d U.S. artill .; 'Rabbittaile' on the roll; living in '64. Radford, 1847, lieut on the U. S. Warren, who went east overland with Kearny. v. 452. Radon (G.), 1846, mr of the Narwal. v. 579.
Rae (Wm Glen), 1841, nat. of Scotland, and agent of the H. B. Co., in charge of the Cal. establishment of the co. at S. F. '41-5. He was an able man of business, and a jolly, popular bon-vivant. In '45 he was driven by a complication of causes, arising from business, political, and domestic troubles aggravated by dissipation, to commit suicide at the age of 31. iv. 216-19, 593-4, 665-8; v. 679. Rae's wife was Eloise, daughter of Dr John McLough- lin, and they had a son and 2 daughters. The widow became Mrs Harvey, and died at Portland, Or., in '84 at the age of 68. In a MS. Life of Dr Mc- Loughlin, she had furnished me a valuable sketch of her experience in S.F. Her property was left to her son, Joseph McL. Harvey, but the will, acc. to the newspapers, is contested by the daughters of Rae, Mrs Wygant and Mrs Myrick. Raeckman (Israel), 1846, Cal. Bat. (v. 358). Rafter (Wm), 1847, Co. F, 3d U. S. artill. (v. 518); still in the service '64. v. 521. Raggio (Luigi), 1847, Ital. from Mex .; justice of the peace S. Luis Ob. '51; S. Benito Co. '67-81 with family. Ragsdale, 1837, mr of the True Blue. iv. 106.
Rainey (Dav. P.), 1847, Co. B, Morm. Bat. (v. 469). Rainsford (John), 1829, Irish sailor from the Islands, known as ' Kanaka Jack,' and as Joaquin Solis from his personal resemblance to the convict. iii. 179. He worked as a lumberman; joined the comp. extranjera in '32. iii. 221; appears on Larkin's books from '34; got a Mont. lot in '35; age 30 in '36; sold out in '37; at S.F. in '39-41, acting as interpreter and mr of a launch on the bay. iv. 130. In '42 he lived at Sonoma, getting naturalization papers, and perhaps visiting the Geysers; grantee of a Napa rancho by the Sonoma alcalde in $45. Land Com., no. 804; died in '46.
Ramirez (Agapito), at Los Ang. '45-6,' iv. 522, 541. R. (Angel), 1834, Mex. cx-friar and ex-revolutionist, in charge of the Mont. custom-house '34- 6; a leading supporter of Alvarado at firstand later a conspirator against him; an intriguing, vicious fellow, who died in '40. His wife, or mistress, in '36 was Francisca Gutierrez, who came with him overland from Tepic. Biog. iii. 587- 8; ment. iii. 357-8, 261, 297, 370-3, 377, 452, 455, 469, 477, 487, 513, 523-5, 569, 573, 670-2, 677, 683, 688; iv. 96, 163. R. (Angeles), at Los Ang. '46.
R. (Aquilino), killed at S. Buen. '38. iii. 554. R. (Antonio), at Los Ang. '39, age 25. R. (Francisco), Chileno at S.F. '43-6; age 40 in '45; collector in '46. v. 648. R. (Ignacio), first man buried at Mont. 1770. i. 175.
Ramirez (José), 1820, Mex. sub-lieut of artill. '20-26, when he returned to Mex. ii. 263, 371, 381, 422, 470, 510, 537, 674; iii. 25. He was an old man of 60, and soon died, leaving a widow, María de Jesus Ortega, of Sta B., wbo returned to Cal., and in '75 was still living at Sta Clara. R. (José), resid. of Branciforte '28-30. ii. 627; wife Margarita Lorenzana, child. Riviano (Bibiano?), Vicente, Victor, Andrés, José Arcadio, Luis, Estefana, Bárbara. R. (José Ant.), carpenter-instructor 1792-5; at Los Ang. '21. i. 615; ii. 351. R. (José Guad.), soldier at S. Juan B. before 1800. i. 558. R. (José María), ( 687 )
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1825, Mex. alférez, who came with Gov. Echeandia, and was soon attached to the S. Diego comp. iii. 13-14, 16, 24, 78. He married Dolores Palomares, and in '30 was tried and acquitted for bigamy. Took part in the revolt of '31, and was the slayer of Vicente Gomez. iii. 204, 673; in '33-4 comisionado to secularize S. Diego mission. iii. 326, 620, 630; in '35-6 admin. of S. Antonio (possibly another man). iii. 354, 687-8; in '36 at Mont .; also comisionado of Sta Ines. iii. 426, 463, 063-4; iv. 46. He was involved in the sectional quar- rels of '37-8, being more than once arrested in the south. iii. 504, 555, 566; in '40 was grantee of land at Los Ang. iii. 634; iv. 633; and in '44 is ment. as lieut, being also instructor and adjutant of the Los Ang. comp. of defen- sores. iv. 407-8. An Alf. Ramirez was wounded at the S. Gabriel in Jan. '47. v. 396. R. (José María), soldier at Mont. '36, age 33, nat. of Oajaca. R. (Juan), at Los Ang. in '36, one of the vigilantes. iii. 432; age 32 in '39; juez dle campo '36, '40, '48. iii. 636-7; v. 626; justice of the peace in '50. R. (Manuel), 1801, Mex. conviet. ii. 170. R. (María Potenciana), wife of Ma- cario Castro 1777. ii. 141. R. (Miguel), síndico at Branciforte '36. iii. 697; in '45, age 50, nat. of Tepic, wife Margarita Lorenzana, son Canuto b. '26 at B .; prob. same as José above. R. (Ramon), at S. Gabriel '46. Ramon (José), Ind. grantee of Purísima, Sta Clara. Ramos (José), Mex. convict settler 1798. i. 606.
Ramsay, mr of the Good Hope. ii. 284. Ramsdale (Geo.), 1846, corp. Co. K, C, Ist U.S. dragoons. Killed at S. Pascnal. v. 346. Ramsey (Chas), 1848, settler in Solano Co., still in Green Valley '78. R. (Dav.), 1847, corp. Co. H, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); kept a store at S.F. '48. v. 683. R. (John W.), 1847, Co. E, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499). Rand, or Ran (Caleb)), 1847, settler in Sta Clara Val. with wife from '46-7; went to Or. '72; d. 79. R. (Geo.), 1847, perhaps of N. Y. Vol. (v. 499), under another name. R. (Joshua), 1847, Co. C, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. before '82. Randall (Andrew), 1847, gunner on the U.S. Portsmouth; in '50 called a doctor and scientist; in '53 apparently the elaimant for several ranchos. iii. 677, 712; iv. 655, 670, 672. R. (Chan- dler G.), 1847, said to have been orderly sergt in N. Y. Vol., but not on the rolls; a carpenter at S. Jose from '49 to his death in '58, age 36. R. (Charles (.), 1847, Co. B, N.Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. S. José after '50; doubtless same as preceding. R. (Eli), 1847, at Stockton. Tinkham. R. (John), 1826, mid.
on the Blossom '26-7. Randolph (Isaac N.), 1846, Co. C, Ist U.S. dragoons (v. 336); kept a hotel at Sonoma '48; in Amador Co. from '53 to '63, when he committed suicide. R. (J. B.), 1847, lieut on the U.S. Columbus. Raney (McKee), 1848, nat. of Va, settler of S. Joaq., apparently living in '84; also called 'Reany.' Rangel (Juan Jose), 1829, Mex. conviet set at liberty '34. Rangnel (Manuel), at Los Ang. '46. Ransch (Joseph A.), 1847, at S.F. asking for land; perhaps 'Ra"seli.'
Ratiguende (Wm), 1828, doubtful name; mr of the Fenix. iii. 147. Rausell (Nicholas J.), 1847, Co. K, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); owner of S.F. lot; later a prominent German citizen of N.F. where he died in '63. Rawson (Dan. B.), 1847, Co. D, Morm. Bat. (v. 469). Ray (Charles), 1823, mr of the Plowboy. ii. 492. R. (David), 1848, immig. from Or. with wife and 5 children; died on the Ynha the same year. Burnett. R. (Jolın G.), 1846, memb. of the Sonoma council '47. v. 668; Cal. claim of $250 (v. 462); in '60 kept a hotel on the Geyser road. The John Ray who came to Rose Bar with his family in '48, Yuba Co. Hist., 83, may be he or David. Rayaty (Jnlian), at Los Ang. '39, age 26. Raymond (Almon P.), 1847. Co. D, Morm. Bat. (v. 469). R. (Fred.), 1847, nat. of Mass., who died at S.F. May 27th. R. (Peter), 1846, Co. E, Cal. Bat. (v. 35S); murderer of J. R. von Pfister in the mines Oct. '48, but escaped from jail. I think he may possibly be the Peter Remer executed at Sta B. in Dec. for the Reed murder. v. 632. Raymore (Thos), 1832, memb. of the comp. extranjera at Mont. iii. 221. Raynor (Wm), 1846, Co. C, Ist U.S. dragoons (v. 336).
Read (Christina), 1846, of the Mormon colony. v. 546; owner of a S.F. lot. v. 679. R. (Edward), 1844, Amer. from Mazatlan, who went mad on the voyage, and seems to have died at S. Pedro. iv. 453. R. (Hannah T.), 1846,
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of the Morm. colony with a child. v. 546; perhaps Mrs Jimison later. R. (John), 1826 (?), Irish sailor said to have come from Acapulco this year. iii. 176. I find no original record of his presence before '33 except that in '34 sev- eral witnesses testified to having known him for 6 years, or since '28. Pre- vented by Ind. from cultivating the Cotate rancho, and serving for a time as majordomo of S. Rafael, acc. to current sketches he came to Sauzalito in '32. Weeks claims to have visited him in the Sauzalito cabin in '31. His boat running occasionally to Yerba Buena, may be regarded as the Ist ferry. From '33 his name appears on Larkin's books and in various records. iii. 365; iv. 117. He was naturalized in Sept. '34, and in Oct. was grantee of the Corte de Madera del Presidio rancho. iii. 711. In '35 he was godfather at the baptism of Geo. Yount, and in '36 married Hilaria, daughter of José Ant. Sanchez, being appointed admin. of S. Rafael, and perhaps serving as alcalde the next year, when he was visited by Edwards. iii. 718; iv. 86. Henry A. Peirce de- scribes a visit to his place in '41, and he died in '43, leaving 4 children. The widow was still living in '72 with a daughter by a 2d husband. The son, John J., b. in '37, inherited his father's estate and was still living in '80, with wife Carlota Suarez and 2 children. Another son was Richard, b. abont '39. One daughter, Inés, Mrs Deffenbach, lived in '80 in the adobe house huilt by her father; the other, Hilaria, married J. Boyle of S.F. R. (Rachel), 1848, married at S. F. to F. Weaver. R. (Wm B.), 1847, Co. F, 3d U. S. artill. (v. 518).
Reading (Pierson B.), 1843, nat. of N.J. and overl. immig. in the Chiles- Walker party. iv. 393-4, 400. He entered Sutter's service as clerk and chief of trappers, making wide explorations in '44-5, commanding at the fort dur- ing Sutter's absence in the Micheltorena campaign, and getting in '44 a grant of the S. Buenaventura rancho. iv. 483, 486, 673. In '46 he was active from the first in promoting the settlers' revolt, and served '46-7 in the Cal. Bat. as paymaster, with rank of major, owning a lot at S.F., and having a 'Cal. claim.' v. 127-8, 170, 179, 360, 404-5, 447, 674, 685. After his discharge he settled on his Shasta Co. rancho, but in '48-9 engaged extensively in mining opera- tions on Trinity River, where Reading Bar bore his name, and in '49 had a store at Sac. in company with Hensley and Snyder, besides taking part in political affairs. In '50 he went east to settle his accounts as paymaster, and to pay a large debt at Vicksburg resulting from a business failure of '37, and returning was candidate for governor in '51, barely missing election. Subse- quently he devoted himself to agriculture in northern Cal .; married Fanny Washington in'56, and died in '68 at the age of 52, leaving a widow and 5 chil- dren. Maj. Reading was a man of well-balanced mind, honorable, energetic, and courteous; one whose Californian record seems never to have furnished material for adverse criticism.
Real (Antonio Suarez del), 1833, Mex. friar of the Zacatecas college, who served at Sta Cruz '33-44, and retired to his college in the latter year, or per- haps in '45. iii. 319, 693-5; iv. 371, 657, 662, 675. Padre Real was a dissolute man addicted to more than one vice, and even accused of theft, but credited with having heen kind and indulgent to his neophytes. Sir Geo. Simpson, Laplace the French voyager, and Josiah Belden have something to say of the friar's character. R. (José María del Refugio Sagrado Suarez del), 1833, brother of Antonio, Mex. friar of the Zacatecanos, missionary at S. Carlos to '43, and priest at Sta Clara, with charge of S. José and S. Carlos from '44. iii. 319, 679-80; iv. 5, 427, 549, 638, 651, 657, 682. In '46-7 he was in some dif- ficulty about sales of mission lands and encroachments of immigrants. v. 564, 663, 665-7; and in later years his tronbles with the authorities continued to some extent, until in '51 the guardian called on P. Gonzalez to suspend Real if he could not be induced to leave Cal. voluntarily. He went in '52; in '53 writes from S. José del Cabo, L. Cal .; and in '55 he had severed his con- nection with the college and was serving as parish priest at Mazatlan. Padre José María somewhat resembled his brother in character, though an abler man, with more skill in concealing his irregularities. It was most unfortunate for the general reputation of the Cal. padres-a most excellent body of men, as
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PIONEER REGISTER AND INDEX.
is fully shown in these volumes-that the Real brothers, Quijas, Mercado, and a few other black sheep of the fold were the friars whose conduct was best known to the foreign immig., and on whom many pioneers have founded their estimate of the missionaries. Reamer (Wm C.) of the Mormon col. of '46; did not come to Cal. Reansseau (Charles), 1847, Co. D, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); d. in S.F. '68.
Recio (Antonio M. Jimenez del), parish priest at Los Ang. '47. v. 625; prob. came in '45 or earlier. Rector (Geo. W.), 1847, nat. of Ky; resid. of S. Luis Ob. Co. '68-83. Reddick, 1845, one of Fremont's men perhaps. iv. 583; went east with Sublette in '46, or perhaps to Or. v. 526. Redmond (John B.), 1848 (?), Irish settler of Maria Co. '64-80. Reed (B. F.), 1846, Cal. claim of $300 (v. 462). R. (Edward), 1831, mr of the Harriet. R. (Geo.), 1828, mr of the Rascow. iii. 148.
Reed (James Frazier), 1846, nat. of Ireland and a prominent member of the Donner party from Ill., accomp. by his wife, 4 children, and his wife's mother, Mrs Sarah Keyes. The latter died in May at the age of 90. In Oct., before reaching the mts, Reed, in a quarrel, killed John Snyder and was ban- ished from the company. With one companion he crossed the Sierra, and after an unsuccessful attempt to recross with relief, served as lieut in the Sanchez campaign, and in Feb. '47 went back to the lake in the 2d relief. All the family saved their lives and settled at S. José, where R. became wealthy and held local offices, dying in '74, and his wife, Margaret W., in '61. James F. Jr was living at S. José in '80, as was Thomas K., also Virginia E., wife of John M. Murphy, with 6 children, and Martha J., widow of Frank Lewis, with 7 children. Portraits of father, mother, and the daughters in McGlashan's work. v. 508, 530, 532, 534, 664, 666, 668, 676.
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