Emily Stehr

Interesting History of San Francisco [California, USA] Emily Stehr

Word Origin and History of San Francisco: "A seaport in west California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945. "A city in California, US, named in Spanish for St Francis of Assisi; the name first recorded in reference to this region 1590s, reinforced by long association of the area with the Franciscan order." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/san--francisco Thomas Jefferson Farnham; Travels in the Californias, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean; Saxton & Miles; 1844 Thomas Jefferson Farnham writes: "'On the same day, however, Jose Castro, Bicenta Contrine, Ankel Castro, and a runaway Botany Bay English convict, by the name of Garner, a vile fellow, and an enemy of mine, because the foreigners would not elect him their captain, passed and repassed my house several times, and conversed together in low tones of voice. I stopped Jose Castro, and asked him what was the matter. He replied that he was going to march against the Commandante General Viego, at San Francisco, to depose him from the command of the forces. His two companions made the same assertion. I knew that Alvarado was afraid of Viego, and that Jose Castro was ambitious for his place; and for these reasons, I partly concluded that they spoke the truth."