by Miriam R | Jul 30, 2020 | News
DON JESUS RAMOS Don Jesus Ramos, a native of Mexico who came to California in search of gold, arrived in Mayfield in 1851 – a year after California became a state – and worked as foreman for Don Secundino Robles. At age 48, he married 16-year-old Julia...
by Miriam R | Jul 31, 2020 | News
Leland Stanford was born into a well-off farming family in New York state. After passing his bar exam in 1848, he moved to Wisconsin to practice law. In 1850, he married Jane Lathrop of Albany, New York. After three years in Wisconsin, Leland moved to California,...
by Crystal Taylor | Jul 8, 2020 | News
Photo courtesy of Kimberley Wong. Story courtesy of William Warrior. Wong Foon Yen was born in 1908 in China’s Guangdong Province. Her father had moved to California in 1882, briefly returning to China to marry her mother. After fourteen months of married life, he...
