{"id":795,"date":"2006-11-19T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T04:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/mountain-view-cemetery-oakland-california\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:44:00","slug":"mountain-view-cemetery-oakland-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/795","title":{"rendered":"Mountain View Cemetery – Oakland, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a few errands to run today and I decided to stop by the Mountain View Cemetery<\/a> in Oakland, California .\u00a0 Like many genealogists, I find cemetery research fascinating and today seemed like a good day to visit one of the most impressive cemeteries in California.<\/p>\n

Mountain View Cemetery is the final resting place of many people important in the history of the Bay Area including the pioneer coffee producer James A. Folger<\/strong> (1835-1889), the founding president of the University of California Rev. Henry Durant<\/strong> (1802-1875), and the father of hydraulic mining who founded the first Chabot Observatory Anthony Chabot<\/strong> (1813-1888) .\u00a0 Here are some of the photographs I took today in the cemetery.<\/p>\n

\"Francis<\/a><\/p>\n

Francis Marion “Borax” Smith<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Francis Marion “Borax” Smith<\/strong> (1846-1931) made his fortune in “Twenty Mule Team Borax”, Key Route trains, streetcars, ferries; he built the Claremont Hotel.<\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/a><\/p>\n

Charles Crocker<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Charles Crocker<\/strong> (1822-1888) was one of the “Big Four” builders of the Central Pacific Railroad.<\/p>\n

\"Julia<\/a><\/p>\n

Julia Morgan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Julia Morgan<\/strong> (1872-1957) was California’s first woman architect; she designed nearly 800 buildings in California including Hearst Castle.<\/p>\n

\"Domingo<\/a><\/p>\n

Domingo Ghirardelli<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Domingo Ghirardelli<\/strong> (1817-1894) was the San Francisco chocolate king; he moved his family graves from St. Mary’s Cemetery to Mountain View Cemetery.<\/p>\n

\"Cemetery<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview of the Cemetery in the Fog<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Today, the fog never burned off of San Francisco, although in Oakland, where the Mountain View Cemetery is located,\u00a0the fog cleared for a bit .\u00a0 The trees here are turning color and this photograph of the trees, the cemetery, and the fog provides a little glimpse of autumn in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

There is an online index of\u00c2\u00a0the tombstones<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at the Mountain View Cemetery, complements of the California Tombstone Project .\u00a0 The Mountain View Cemetery website has a detailed online map<\/a> in PDF format.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a few errands to run today and I decided to stop by the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. Like many genealogists, I find cemetery research fascinating and today seemed like a good day to visit one of the most impressive cemeteries in California. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-cemeteries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-cP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19252,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/19252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}