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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "women"
Crusading Women: Santa Cruz was a Hotbed of Suffrage Fight, by
Ross Eric Gibson
Women were granted the right to vote 75 years ago under the 19th amendment, but the fight for that right ... [Read more]
Susan B. Anthony's Visit to Santa Cruz, by
Rechs Ann Pedersen
The announcement of Susan B. Anthony's upcoming speech appeared in the Sentinel on August 5, 1871. The following notice appeared ... [Read more]
Mary Hallock Foote, Writer and Illustrator. 1847-1938, by
Edna E. Kimbro
Two weeks after her marriage in 1876, Mary Hallock Foote reluctantly journeyed west with her new husband. It was with ... [Read more]
Laura J. F. Hecox, by
Frank Perry
From 1869 to 1941 the federal government maintained a white, two-story lighthouse at Santa Cruz. Located near the site of ... [Read more]
Josephine Clifford McCrackin, by
Stephen Michael Payne
In October and November 1880 a writer, Josephine Wompner Clifford, purchased a total of twenty-six acres for $504 from Lyman ... [Read more]
Silent Charley-- Charley Parkhurst, by
John V. Young
The stage for Santa Cruz, on Thursday last, containing eight or nine passengers, upset about a mile beyond Mountain Charley's, ... [Read more]
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Doctor Knight and his family were among the most prominent residents of Santa Cruz County during its first century. Not only did they occupy numerous important positions in the community, but they were held in the highest esteem by the citizenry.
It has been said that the measure of a ..." [More]
Excerpted from A Walk Through Time: Doctor Benjamin K. Knight and Family by Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow