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San Diego

County,

California

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress

and Achievement

BY SAMUEL F. BLACK

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

1000 pages on 1 CD

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1913

An essential resource for Genealogists

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VOLUME 1

CONTENTS

(450 Pages)

CHAPTER I - California

CHAPTER II - Physical Geography of Lower California

CHAPTER III - Indians of Lower California

CHAPTER IV - Lower California in 1768

CHAPTER V - St. Francis and His Order

CHAPTER VI -The Pioneers of 1769

CHAPTER VII - Settlement of San Diego

CHAPTER VIII - The End of Franciscan Rule

CHAPTER IX - Amusements of the Californian of Early Days

CHAPTER X - Habits and Customs of the Californian

CHAPTER XI - The Original San Diego

CHAPTER XII - Alonzo E. Horton, Builder of Cities

CHAPTER XIII - Sketch of Alonzo E. Horton

CHAPTER XIV - A Lucrative Industry

CHAPTER XV - Looking Backward

CHAPTER XVI - Early Days in San Diego

CHAPTER XVII - San Diego County Created and Organized in 1850

CHAPTER XVIII - Removal of County Seat

CHAPTER XIX - San Diego Receives a Charter

CHAPTER XX - San Diego Grows Apace

CHAPTER XXI - Railroad Building

CHAPTER XXII - Street Railways

CHAPTER XXIII - The Arizona & San Diego Railroad

CHAPTER XXIV - The Press

CHAPTER XXV - Bench and Bar

CHAPTER XXVI - The Medical Profession

CHAPTER XXVII - Religious Organizations

CHAPTER XXXIII - Schools of San Diego

CHAPTER XXIX - State Normal School

CHAPTER XXX  - San Diego Public Library

CHAPTER XXXI - Postoffices and Postmasters of San Diego County

CHAPTER XXXII - San Diego Custom House

CHAPTER XXXIII - Financial

CHAPTER XXXIV - Progress

CHAPTER XXXV - Chamber of Commerce

CHAPTER XXXVI - Clubs of San Diego

CHAPTER XXXVII - Young Men's Christian Association

CHAPTER XXXVIII - Fraternal Bodies

CHAPTER XXXIX - City Government and Public Utilities

CHAPTER XL - Population, Parks and Property of San Diego

CHAPTER XLI - Hotels, Theaters and Industrial Fair

CHAPTER XLII - San Diego's Harbor

CHAPTER XLIII - Climate and Roads of San Diego

CHAPTER XLIV - San Diego—Panama Exposition

CHAPTER XLV - National City and Suburbs of San Diego

CHAPTER XLVI - The Little Landers

CHAPTER XLVII - Local Historic Spanish Families

CHAPTER XLVIII - Local Historic American Families

CHAPTER XLIX - Pala Indian Agency—Mines

CHAPTER L - A Juggernaut of the Sea

CHAPTER LI - The Mexican War

VOLUME 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

(550 pages)

Adams, Agard, Akerman, Alexander, Allen, Almgren, Ames,  Anderson, Anthony, Austin, Balch, Ballou, Bancroft, Bangs, Barbour, Barnes, Barrett, Bartholomew, Bateman, Bates, Belding, Bell, Bellinger, Benard, Bennett, Black, Blochman, Bond, Borgh, Botsford, Boutelle, Bradley, Brashear, Brelin, Brink, Browne, Brownrigg, Bullen, Burlingame, Burnham, Byars, Callahan, Campbell, Capps, Carpenter, Carson, Case, Casson, Chapin, Chapman, Choate, Clark, Coates, Collier, Collins, Colton, Connell, Conniry, Cordtz, Cox, Creswell, Crippen, Crise, Croghan, Culbertson, Cushman, Dadmun, Daley, Daugherty, Davidson, Davies, Davis, Derbyshire, Dick, Dingeman, Dixon, Doolittle, Dupee, Dyer, Eilersficken, Eliason, Elliott, English, Ervast, Escher, Evans, Farnsworth, Ferry, Fleming, Fletcher, Flower, Forbes, Forker, Forward, Francisco, Franklin, Frazer, Frevert,  Frisbie, Frost, Fry, Gage, Gailey, Gaston, Gay, Gearhart, Gifford, Gillespie, Gillmore, Gillons, Gilmore, Glidden, Goatley, Gowen, Grant, Green, Griffith, Gunn, Guy, Gwyn, Halliday, Hamilton,  Hammack, Hammonds, Harbison,  Hardy, Hawley, Hayes, Hays, Hayward,  Hazzard, Heffernan, Heilbron, Heller, Henderson, Hieatt, Hilton, Hinde, Hitchcock, Hizar, Hofflund, Hogaboom, Holderness, Holle, Hulbert, Hutchinson,  Irones, Isbell, Jackson, Jacobs, Jaeger, Jameson, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Julian, Jungk, Keith, Kerber, Kettner, Kimball, King, Kinney, Kirkwood, Kneale, Knight, Knox, Kollock, Lancaster, Lassiter, Lawler, Lawrence, Layman, Lea, Leach, Lehner, Leonhard, Leyi, Levi, Lewis, Lindgren,  Little, Loebenstein, Loomis, Lorini, Luce, McAllister, McCorkle, McCoy, McCulloch, McCutchen, McKee, McMurtrie, McVean, Magee, Marsh, Marshall, Mathews, Mathewson, Moody, Moon, Moore, Morgan, Mossholder, Muehleisen, Neale, Neeb, Newman, Noeltner, Noidahl, Northrup, Norton, Oaks, Oatman, Ober, O'Farrell, Olds, Oliver, O'Neall, Oppenlieimer, Osborn, Osborne, Otto, Over, Payson, Peavey, Penfold, Perrin, Peters, Piepenbrink, Plant, Pollak, Praul, Puterbaugh, Rambo, Randlett,  Reed, Reidy, Reinbold, Remondino, Requa, Richards, Riddell, Riordon, Rockwood, Rodgers, Rogers, Rubendall, Rumsey, Samson, Sampson, Sanford, Saum, Schiefer, Schnell, Schoonover, Schumann-Heink, Schwab,  Scott, Sears, Sebree, Seidel,  Sensenbrenner, Shaw, Sheets, Sherman,  Shreve, Sloane, Smith, Snyder, Spalding, Speer, Spreckels, Springer,  Steade, Stell, Stevens, Stewart, Stiles, Strahlmann, Strawn, Suttle,  Swallow, Swayne, Sweet, Sykes, Talley, Tarvin, Taylor, Thelen, Thompson, Tracy, Traggardh, Trounce,  Tucker, Turrentine, Utley, Valenzuela, Valle, Van,  Verlaque, Vogdes, Wadhani, Wadham, Walsh, Ward, Warner, Waters, Watkins,  Weatherbie, Webster, Whedon, White, Wilbur, Williams, Willoughby,  Wills, Winder,

Winter, Wray, Wright,