Susanna Bryant Dakin (1905–1966)
Forfatter af A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832-1852, Derived from His Correspondence
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A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles: Hugo Reid's Life in California, 1832-1852, Derived from His Correspondence (1978) 18 eksemplarer
Rose, or rose thorn?: Three women of Spanish California (Bancroft Library. Friends. Keepsakes) (1963) 9 eksemplarer
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- Susanna Bryant
- Fødselsdato
- 1905
- Dødsdag
- 1966
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- female
- Dødssted
- Mexico
- Bopæl
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Uddannelse
- Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California, USA
Vassar College - Organisationer
- Scripps College
Pasadena Arts Museum
Pasadena Chapter of the Red Cross
Santa Ana Botanical Garden - Kort biografi
- Susanna Bryant Dakin (born Susanna Bryant in 1905) was the daughter of Dr. Ernest Bryant and Sue Bixby. Her maternal grandfather was John W. Bixby, former owner of Rancho Los Alamitos. Dakin attended the elite Marlborough School in Los Angeles, and went on to study at Vassar College, graduating in 1925. She married Richard Y. Dakin in 1930, and raised a family of five children. Dakin had an active interest in writing and Southern California history. Her first book, entitled A Scotch Paisano : the Story of Hugo Reid in 1939, was published by the University of California Press in 1939. Dakin was active in Scripps College, the Pasadena Arts Museum, the Pasadena Chapter of the Red Cross, the Santa Ana Botanical Garden, and other southern California institutions. She died in a plane crash in Mexico in 1966.
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The Lives of William Hartnell af Susanna Bryant Dakin
This is the best source book for information on the Hartnell family on the Pacific Coast that has come to my attention. The book tells the fascinating story of how this unemployed Protestant Englishman came to Santiago de Chile after traversing the South American continent the hard way, over the Andes by stage, horses and even by foot, and how he eventually ended up being the alcalde of Monterey, California, seeing the town grow from being a Spanish outpost, to part of the new Mexican republic, to being part of the short-lived Bear Republic of California, to finally joining the non-slave-owning northern Union against the Confederacy. He converted to Catholicism, met Teresa de la Guerra, and daughter of one of the old Spanish Califonian families, and they wed in a huge wedding ceremony done in the old California style, had many children thanks to that hearty lady, was a landed gentleman rancher-trader-farmer-translator-councillor and started an early school in California. His relationship with the Franciscans and the demise of the old Spanish missions is also covered, as is his fruitless trip to Hawaii in search of justice for a bad loan. He spoke eight languages and acted in many capacities, 'adventurer, trader, schoolmaster, rancher, peacemaker, diplomat and politician,' as the dustjacket blurb puts it. I cherish this volume as a key document in the tracing of our family origins, which I believe went through this line of the Hartnell family. My present copy is borrowed from my cousin Peggy Ruggles (nee Hartnell). It is a hardcover book with the original dustjacket under a plastic cover. It contains 11 black and white illustrations, including two photos of old paintings by Leonardo Barbieri painted in 1853, one of Don William ('Guillermo') Hartnell serving as the frontispiece, and the other of his wife Dona Teresa de la Guerra Hartnell.… (mere)
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- #335,831
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