It was 1885 in San Francisco, and much of the city was still an unrealized dream. Golden Gate Park was still mostly saplings and sand dunes. The Richmond District was cemeteries to the east and ...
Kate Birdsall Johnson, a billionaire and “eccentric cat fancier” in the 1800s, lived in an ornate Sonoma castle and financed ...
They would literally be stateless,” he said. Ark was born in the 700 block of Sacramento Street in San Francisco in the 1800s ...