Using a resource found recently on the Internet Archive, new biographic information was found about eleven early California legislators. The resource, a book titled San Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 was authored by the Tamalpais Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1938 and digitized by the San Francisco Public Library in late 2010. […]
The Hubert-Hunt Duel
Monday marks the 158th anniversary of the Hubert-Hunt Duel, one of the now-forgotten ‘minor duels’ that is never mentioned except as a footnote. So overlooked is the incident that I wasn’t even able to find out what the substance of the disagreement was that drove the two “friends” to fight to the death. What we […]
Americans Elect… We hardly knew you.
In a press release today, the Americans Elect Party announced that it was cancelling the online Presidential Primary that had been scheduled for next month. The release said that “As of this week, no candidate achieved the national support threshold required to enter the Americans Elect Online Convention in June. The primary process for the […]
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