by Miriam R | Aug 13, 2020 | News
Juana Briones was a healer, an early landowner, and an entrepreneur. She also secured a divorce from her abusive husband, which was unheard of at the time. As a woman of mixed heritage who accomplished so much, she was a trailblazer. Native, Spanish, Mexican, and...
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 Miriam R | Oct 14, 2020 | News
By PAHA Historian Steve Staiger and PAHA Board member Leslie Mills Photo: Mrs. Armour and her students at Castilleja School celebrate the end of the war while wearing flu masks, 1919 courtesy of Castilleja School It is likely that more Americans have heard of the...
by Miriam R | Aug 26, 2020 | News
Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896-1979) was a Russian-born painter and Stanford art professor for over 20 years. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, he showed talent from an early age and intended to make art his career – but history had other ideas. When World War I...
