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Alvin Dryden Ebi Obituary
Alvin Dryden Ebi Obituary
Status: Located;
Owner of original: Hollister Freelance
Date: April 25, 1942
36.856679, -121.40207
 
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Death of Charles Byrne
Death of Charles Byrne
Status: Located; Obit. - Santa Cruz Surf, 1/22/1912, P 8 Col 5

Death of Charles B. Byrne

In the passing of Charles Benjamin Byrne, one of the best known, honored and solid citizens was taken away from the community.

Death came suddenly and his many friends were unprepared for the sad intelligence which conveyed the news of his death.

Many had been greeted by him in his usual pleasant manner on Saturday, he was as well as usual.

On Saturday evening, with his wife and daughter, he was quietly spending the time around the family fireside, when unexpectedly he was taken with a spell of coughing and in a short time had passed away. A physician and relatives were summoned, but arrived too late. Death was caused by heart trouble. The son, Dr. Don Byrne, arrived home from town just after the father had passed on, which was about two o’clock.

Mr. Byrne came to Santa Cruz from Michigan, his native state, about 35 years ago, and for many years was a leading merchant a member of the large hardware firm of Heath & Byrne. He was also for a long time the capable city superintendent of waterworks, under several different administrations.

About thirty years ago he married Miss Florence Washburn a member of one of the California pioneer families and has been a husband devoted to his home, wife and children.

In earlier days he was prominent in the social life of the community, and many remember him in the days of the Aonian Society. He had marked dramatic talent and often appeared in leading roles in productions by that organization, which then was so prominent in the life of the town.

In political affiliations he was a Democrat and was interested in the political life of the State and nation.

In fraternal circles he held membership in the Odd Fellows, under whose auspices the funeral will be held.

Mr. Byrne made an extended visit to Eastern friends and his boyhood home last year, which he greatly enjoyed.

Mr. Byrne leaves three children, Mrs. Helen Cornell and Dr. Don W. Byrne of this city and Mrs. Marion Russell of Plainfield, NJ.

He was an uncle of George G. and Walter C. Byrne of this city and he had been associated with them since his retirement from the superintendency of the city water works.

The funeral services were held this afternoon at the family home on Mission street, the R. J. B. Orr officiating.
Date: 22 Jan 1912
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
36.9761582157479, -122.03269958496094
 
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Fay Dryden Obituary
Fay Dryden Obituary
Status: Located;
Owner of original: The Free Lance
Date: January 25, 1941
Place: Hollister, San Benito, CA
 
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Flora Dryden Ebi Obituary
Flora Dryden Ebi Obituary
Status: Located;
Owner of original: Hollister Advance
Date: November 16, 1945
Place: Hollister, San Benito, CA
 
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George Austin Obituary
George Austin Obituary
Status: Located;
Date: March 14, 1925
Place: Hollister, San Benito, CA
36.84913134182604, -121.40768051147461
 
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History_of_Drennan_house
History_of_Drennan_house
History feature from Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 4, 1941, on the impending demolition of the Samuel & Louise Drennan home to make way for a mortuary parking lot.
 
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James Archer Ebi Obituary
James Archer Ebi Obituary
Status: Located;
Owner of original: Hollister Freelance
Date: February 1, 1941
36.325554, -119.645427
 
8
John Macky History Transcribed
John Macky History Transcribed
 
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Miss Annie Austin -- An Appreciation
Miss Annie Austin -- An Appreciation
Status: Located; First person by S. H. (Sarah) Spalsbury on Annie Austin from Santa Cruz Surf, 1/15/1916 P. 3 Col 13
Owner of original: Santa Cruz Daily Surf
Date: 1/15/1916
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
 
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Mrs. Mabel D. Byrne, 67, S. C. Leader, Succumbs
Mrs. Mabel D. Byrne, 67, S. C. Leader, Succumbs
Status: Located; Obituary from Santa Cruz Evening News, Sep 16, 1941, P5 C 3
Owner of original: Santa Cruz Evening News
Date: Sep 16, 1941
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
36.97564394708058, -122.03233480453491
 
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Olive Louisa Fernald
Olive Louisa Fernald
Status: Located;
Owner of original: DAR Histories of California Pioneers
Date: 1934
Place: Santa Cruz, CA
36.98750552650194, -122.02690601348877
 
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pacific-ocean-house-santa-cruz
pacific-ocean-house-santa-cruz
Pacific Ocean House in Santa Cruz, site of wedding for Sam Drennan and Olive Louisa Fernald
 
13
Passing of Anna Austin
Passing of Anna Austin
Status: Located; Obituary from Santa Cruz Daily Surf
Owner of original: Santa Cruz Daily Surf, p 8 col 4
Date: 12/24/1915
37.8695, -122.27054
 
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Ryland Drennan Obituary
Ryland Drennan Obituary
Status: Located; Santa Cruz Evening News, 20 Jan 1928, P 1 Col 7
37.77916, -122.42009
 
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Sam Drennan Cross-Country Journey 1886
Sam Drennan Cross-Country Journey 1886
 
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Samuel Drennan History
Samuel Drennan History
Status: Located;
Owner of original: DAR Histories of California Pioneers
Date: 1934
Place: Santa Cruz, CA
 
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Samuel Drennan Obituary
Samuel Drennan Obituary
Status: Located; From Santa Cruz Surf, Sept. 8, 1891:

SAMUEL DRENNAN
A Prominent Character in Santa Cruz
For a Quarter of a Century

The announcement yesterday afternoon of the death of Samuel Drennan at his residence on Church street in this city altho’ not unexpected to his family and friends, was a surprise to the wider circle of his acquaintances known as the general public.

It is no exaggeration to say that everybody knew Sam Drennan, and everybody in this instance is by no means limited to the inhabitants of this city and county.

For twenty-five years Mr. Drennan was rarely absent from a radius of 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean House, and being of a genial and social disposition, he formed the acquaintance of nearly every visitor to our city in that period of time, and no other citizen could it be more truthfully said that he was indeed a local landmark.

Samuel Drennan was born in the town of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois, October 30th, 1829. He came to California in 1852, and after mining for a year in Tuolumne county came to Santa Cruz where he was engaged in the insurance and real estate business, at first in partnership with Amasa Pray, (deceased), then with Hon. Lucien Heath, also deceased, and afterwards with J. R. Chace.

At the beginning of the present year he sold his interest in the business to T. V. Mathews and devoted his time to settling up his affairs. His chair and desk in the familiar office were never disturbed and up to within a few weeks he was seldom “off duty.”

On May 28th, 1868, Mr. Drennan was married to Miss Louise Fernald, a teacher in the public schools here and a sister of Mrs. Amasa Pray. Their long union has been blessed with several children four of whom Misses Edith, Mabel and Dora and Master Ryland Drennan, survive their father.

Mr. Drennan was a member of Pilot Hose No. 2, of the Knights of Honor and of the Masonic fraternity, under whose auspices he will be buried on Thursday.
Date: Sept. 8, 1891
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co, CA
 
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San Lorenzo Stables
San Lorenzo Stables
EARLY DAY LIVERY STABLE (From the Preston Sawyer Collection) At the turn of the century the San Lorenzo Stable on upper Pacific avenue was one of ten flourishing livery stables in Santa Cruz. The San Lorenzo not only had the distinction of being a real local pioneer in its line, but was also one of the last to leave the field, prior to the twenties. The Elsom Stables on Soquel avenue, near Pacific, closed down in 1916, was the last to go.

Final location of the San Lorenzo was on Front street where it moved late in 1905 to make way for erection of the two-story brick building of today for the Byrne Brothers Hardware store. The Front street site was several doors south of Post Office corner on the site of old-time business houses burned in the "big fire" of 1894. It was active at the time the post office was under construction in 1911-12, a long building extending eastward almost to the banks of the San Lorenzo river. One of the operators there was Col. A. G. Abbott. When the building burned in 1928, it had long since ended its career as a livery stable, being then in .use by the Daniels Transfer company, mainly for storage purposes.

The San Lorenzo Stables (or its predecessor; just when the name was adopted is vague) got its start in 1850 when Hiram Imus put up a little building at Vine and Mission streets.

It was rented in 1856 by Charles Lincoln, a Maine boy still a youngster in his teens. He had come to California at the age of 13 in 1852 and was "the boy sheriff" when he was elected to that office in 1867 at the age of 28.

Lincoln had C. C. Martin of Glenwood as a partner for a time and was using the name of "San Lorenzo Stable" when they moved in 1864 to the new frame building erected for them on Pacific avenue. They were proprietors of the livery business but lessees of the building which was erected by Sam Drennan, an Illinois native who had come to the West coast by way of the Isthmus in 1852.

Drennan Was Constable Drennan, like most of the early Santa Cruzans, found his first work here in the sawmills but in 1853 came in from Soquel to be constable and deputy sheriff, a job he held under O. K. Stampley and two succeeding sheriffs. His daughter Louise, married Walter C. Byrne, in 1899. awarded the contract to put up the brick building, into which they moved their hardware store early in 1906. They had previously been in the McPherson building at Pacific avenue and Locust street. The picture was taken in September, 1905, shortly before dismantling operations began on the old stable. The ancient building had survived the fire of 1865 which started close by and swept northward to Mission street taking with it the San Lorenzo Exchange, predecessor of the Pacific Ocean House.

In the window of the Postal Telegraph office are posters announcing the coming of Barnum & Bailey circus to Santa Cruz that year for the first of its two visits here. It called once again, in September, 1910, but Ringling Brothers came five times in all, before the two shows were combined.
 
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Santa Cruz Boy Talks With Hawaii; Pleasures oF Radio
Santa Cruz Boy Talks With Hawaii; Pleasures oF Radio
Status: Located; Santa Cruz Evening News Article, featuring John D Byrne
Date: 6/7/1922
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
36.97574680109207, -122.03398704528809
 
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Sarah Ann Stewart (Rue) obituary
Sarah Ann Stewart (Rue) obituary
Status: Located; Obituary from Hollister Freelance for Sarah Ann Stewart Rue
 
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Sarah Valentine Trapnell Death Notice
Sarah Valentine Trapnell Death Notice
Status: Located; Sarah Trapnell Byrne

Sarah Trapnell Byrne Passed away suddenly April 18, 2006, at her home in Palo Alto, CA, at age 68. Sally was born May 28, 1937, in Brooklyn, NY. During the war her family moved to Los Angeles, where her father, Coles Trapnell, worked as a story editor and producer at several movie studios. Her mother, Jean Trapnell, taught English in public schools and community colleges. Sally started college in 1954 at Stanford University, where she met her future husband, Jack Byrne, while both worked on the staff of the Stanford Daily. Upon graduation he was drafted and was sent to Germany; she interrupted her college education to go with him, and they were married in Frankfurt in 1957. They eventually settled in Palo Alto, where Jack became an editor and production manager at SRI International. Sally graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from Stanford in 1962. She and Jack raised two children and remained together until his death in 1993.

Sally was the family genealogist and could recite lineages and arrival dates of the branches of the Trapnell tree back to the 17th century. She liked gospel music Sunday mornings on KPFA, trips to the Mitchell Park library and the occasional old movie at the Stanford Theater.

Sally was a loving and supportive mother, and an attentive and generous grandmother.

She is survived by her sons, Trapper and Hugh; her sister, Jane Marino; and her grandchildren, Zoe, Elizabeth and Keenan.

A Memorial Service will be held June 17 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Menlo Park, which Sally attended for more than 40 years. Memorial donations may be made to the Peninsula Open Space Trust. This article appeared on page Z - 99 of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Owner of original: San Francisco Chronicle
Date: April, 2006
37.418083, -122.11618
 
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The Phenix
The Phenix
Status: Located; The town of Windham takes the lead in being the first in the county to send out that great modern educator, the newspaper. The first effort of this kind was made in 1790. During that year John Byrne, of Norwich, set up a printing press in the lower room of the court house in Windham Green, and early in the following year began the publication of The Phenix or Wind-ham Herald. His office was now removed to a location just north of the court house. The first issue was dated Saturday, March 12th, 1791. It was a modest little sheet, printed on coarse, bluish-gray paper, but in most respects, if not all, fully equal to the average newspaper of its day. General and foreign news was furnished with customary promptness-foreign news three months after date, congressional reports in ten or twelve days, and full reports of Connecticut elections three weeks after they took place. These, with advertisements, short moral essays, humorous anecdotes and occasional casualties, made up the table of contents. But few items of local events were printed. Meager as was the paper, it satisfied the public. It was accepted as the organ of Windham county, and in a few years was supported by some twelve hundred subscribers, being distributed in all directions by post riders.
41.699806, -72.157647
 
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The Scandalous Ship Mongolia
The Scandalous Ship Mongolia
Status: Located; Story of Chinese laborer smuggling scandal, in which Ryland Drennan was featured. Author: Robert Barde, Published in "Steamboat Bill", P 112-118, issue #249, Spring 2004, Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America
37.78699608830537, -122.38580703735352
 
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Walter Byrne Of Santa Cruz Dies at 72
Walter Byrne Of Santa Cruz Dies at 72
Status: Located; Obituary from Santa Cruz Evening News, Oct 23, 1940, P2 C5
Owner of original: Santa Cruz Evening News
Date: October 23, 1940
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
36.975427, -122.032136
 
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Well-Loved Local Woman, Mrs. F. Byrne, Dies
Well-Loved Local Woman, Mrs. F. Byrne, Dies
Status: Located; Obituary from Santa Cruz Evening News, Nov 3., 1939, P2 C3
Owner of original: Santa Cruz Evening News
Date: January 3, 1939
Place: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
33.98044, -118.21908
 


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