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     Lonnie Haskell married Mae Femons, daughter of Edward Femons and Katie (Meyer) Femons. Lonnie Haskell was born on 17 November 1890.¹ He died in 1965.¹

     Katherine San Julien was born on 15 November 1922.¹ She died on 3 October 1983 at age 60.¹

     Tonges Meyer married Margareta (Cravan) Meyer.
     Tonges Meyer Unable to prove relationship to Meyer brothers. He Unable to prove that Tongas & Margareta were the parents of brothers John Henry Meyer and John Deidrich Meyer.

     Margareta (Cravan) Meyer married Tonges Meyer.
     Margareta (Cravan) Meyer Unable to prove that Tonges and Margareta were parents of John Henry Meyer and John Deidrich Meyer. Margareta (Cravan) Meyer was also known as Margareta Cravan.¹

     John Meyer was born on 18 August 1854 at Germany.^2,3 He died on 30 October 1884 at Tuolumne Co?, CA, at age 30.^1,2,3 He was buried after 30 October 1884 at Divide Cemetery 3:324, Groveland, Tuolumne Co., CA.²
     He was farmer in 1876 at 1st Garrote, Tuolumne Co., CA.⁴ He was naturalized on 4 November 1876 at Tuolumne Co., CA.⁴

     Lena (Meyer) Wolters married Harold Wolters.
     Lena (Meyer) Wolters was also known as Lena Meyer.¹

     Harold Wolters married Lena (Meyer) Wolters.

     Eleanor Martinez was born on 14 May 1914 at Santa Clara Co., California.¹ She was the daughter of Elias Martinez and Caroline (Veloso) Martinez. Eleanor Martinez married Gino Alfred Rossini between 1930 and 1935; Date estimated based on her listing with her mother in the 1930 census as a 15 year old daughter and the 1937 birthdate of her son Ronald. Eleanor Martinez died on 9 November 2000 at age 86.² She was buried in November 2000 at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo Co., California.²
     Eleanor Martinez was also known as Eleanor (Martinez) Rossini.¹ Eleanor Martinez was also known as Jennie Eleanor Martinez.¹ She appeared on the census of 1920 as a 5-year-old child in the household of Mrs. Caroline Martinez at Twp 3, Tuolumne Co., CA. She was originally enumrated as a son, but that was X-ed out an no other relationship indicated;

Note the age conflict between her birth date as reported on her California Death Registration and her age as reported in this census.³ Eleanor Martinez and Caroline (Veloso) Martinez appeared on the census of 1930.⁴ Eleanor Martinez lived in 1935 at San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California. She and Gino Alfred Rossini appeared on the census of 1940.⁵

     Frank George Mowrey was born on 24 January 1869 at Los Banos, Merced Co., California.¹ He married Leslie Acker, daughter of Warren Acker and Emily (Noland) Acker, on 25 September 1892 at Blanket Creek, Tuolumne Co., California.¹ Frank George Mowrey died on 14 October 1910 at Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California, at age 41.¹ He was buried after 14 October 1910 at Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California.²

     Marian (Beck) Atwood was born on 23 November 1923 at Hetch Hetchy Hospital, Groveland, Tuolumne Co., CA.^1,2 She was the daughter of Alfred Arthur Beck and Lillian (Roberts) Beck. Marian (Beck) Atwood died on 25 August 1993 at Escalon, Stanislaus Co., California, at age 69.^1,3
     Marian (Beck) Atwood was also known as Marian Beck.^1,4 Marian Beck appeared on the census of April 1930 at Livermore, Alameda Co., CA, as a daughter in the household of Alfred Arthur Beck.⁵

     Mr. George Beck married Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck.¹ Mr. George Beck was born in 1851 at Germany.¹ He died after 1900.

     Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck married Mr. George Beck.¹ Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck was born on 4 December 1851 at Germany.¹ She died on 11 July 1927 at Moccasin Creek, Tuolumne Co., CA, at age 75.¹ She was buried on 13 July 1927 at Carter's Cemetery, Tuolumne City, Tuolumne Co., CA.¹
     Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck was also known as Miss Eva Caroline Grund.^2,1 Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck was also known as Caroline (Grund) Beck.³ Eva Caroline (Grund) Beck was also known as Caroline Grund.²

     Mr. Unknown Roberts married Miss Unknown Clark.

     Miss Unknown Clark married Mr. Unknown Roberts.
     Her married name was Mrs. Unknown (Clark) Roberts.

     James L. Cogswell DDS was born on 29 November 1830 at Willington, Connecticut.^1,2 He was the son of George Washington Cogswell and Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell. James L. Cogswell DDS married Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell in 1867. James L. Cogswell DDS died in 1921 at Alameda Co., CA.²
     He was a witness Misc notes:
United States Census, 1900," James J. Lumsden, ED 126 Township 3, Tuolumne, California, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head James J. Lumsden M 64 Vermont
Wife Clara Lumsden F 44 California
Son David A Lumsden M 28 California
Son James J. Lumsden M 21 California
Son John E Lumsden M 19 California
Daughter Martha E Lumsden F 17 California
Son George F. Lumsden M 15 California
Son Leander E. Lumsden M 13 California
Son Thomas J Lumsden M 11 California

Yosemite: the Park and its Resources (1987) by Linda W. Greene
Dr. J. L. Cogswell stated in 1910 that he and eight others discovered the grove on 10 May 1858. Their party had left Garrote, near Big Oak Flat, for a sightseeing trip to Yosemite Valley. While encamped at Crane Flat, one of the party shot a deer, but the wounded animal ran away. The next day the party set out on the trail of the deer and came by accident upon a group of magnificent trees. So overawed were they that they forgot the deer and spent the day exploring the area.

They particularly noted a giant tree with its interior hollowed out by fire. They named it King Solomon's Temple, although it later came to be called the Dead Giant. Cogswell immediately reported his discovery to the San Francisco, Daily Evening Bulletin, and the grove quickly became a regular stop for tourists on their way to the valley.

William McCarthy, Dave Lumsden, and James J. Lumsden carved out the Dead Giant Tree in 1878, creating a tunnel through which stages passed for many years. According to Hutchings, this was the first giant sequoia tree cut through. W. G. Marshall, who visited the Big Tree groves and Yosemite Valley in June of that year, related:

We came to the Tuolumne Big Tree Grove, [and came upon] . . . a tunnel through the stump of one of the largest sequoias in the grove, through which the road passes, and the stagecoach is driven. . . . The tunnel measures 12 feet, and it is 10 1/2 feet wide at the top. . . . The tunnel had only been completed a week before our visit to the grove, the first coachful having passed through the stump on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18.
David ALEXANDER b: 1826 d: 1896
+ Martha HAIGHT b: 11 NOV 1838 d: 25 JAN 1917
2 Stephen ALEXANDER b: 1854 d: 18 DEC 1921
+ Sarah J KINCAID b: DEC 1860
2 Clarissa A ALEXANDER b: 26 MAR 1856 d: 23 MAR 1926
+ James John LUMSDEN b: 18 OCT 1836 d: 18 JUN 1928
3 David Alexander LUMSDEN b: ABT 1872 d: 20 AUG 1913
+ Katie A TUPPER
3 Calvin E LUMSDEN b: 5 AUG 1874 d: 17 SEP 1951
+ Selma GOLDSWORTHY b: ABT 1887
4 Living LUMSDEN
3 Forrest LUMSDEN b: JUL 1876
+ Elizabeth BAIRD b: JUL 1877
3 James J LUMSDEN b: MAR 1879 d: 13 OCT 1920
3 John E LUMSDEN b: 22 AUG 1881 d: 9 APR 1955
3 Martha E LUMSDEN b: OCT 1883
+ - BYRN
3 George F LUMSDEN b: OCT 1885
3 Leander E LUMSDEN b: JUN 1887 d: 1947
3 Thomas Joseph LUMSDEN b: 11 JUL 1889 d: 11 MAR 1942
+ Pearl Irene GOLDSWORTHY b: 26 NOV 1894 d: 26 APR 1927
4 Calvin H LUMSDEN b: 28 MAY 1911 d: 22 MAR 1974
4 Thora LUMSDEN b: 21 DEC 1914 d: 13 NOV 1999
+ Frank Lewis SELLSTROM b: 7 JUL 1911 d: 5 NOV 1966
+ Joe E LEONI b: 18 JAN 1920 d: AUG 1972
2 Robert B ALEXANDER b: 1858 d: 8 DEC 1919
2 Mary Elizabeth ALEXANDER b: 2 AUG 1860
+ Ira B FOLSOM b: AUG 1833
3 Clara FOLSOM b: ABT 1879
2 F A ALEXANDER b: 1863
2 Thomas ALEXANDER b: 1863
2 Daniel David E ALEXANDER b: 1866
2 David E ALEXANDER b: JUL 1866 d: 25 FEB 1941
+ Clara Edna PICKENS b: JUL 1887 d: 12 JUN 1918
3 Living ALEXANDER
+ Living -GEURIN
4 Living GEURIN
+ Living TASKEY
3 David W ALEXANDER b: 8 APR 1908 d: 2 JAN 1973
+ Myrtle E STANAGE b: 11 DEC 1904 d: 8 AUG 1944
2 Charles ALEXANDER b: 1868
2 Cornelius ALEXANDER b: APR 1871 d: 19 OCT 1926
2 James Alton ALEXANDER b: 24 JUL 1873 d: 22 DEC 1968
2 William ALEXANDER b: 1877
2 Joe ALEXANDER b: 1878
2 Chauncey ALEXANDER b: JUN 1880 d: 11 MAY 1933 with James John Lumsden Sr. James L. Cogswell DDS Brief Bio:

Autobiography & Reminiscence of Dr. James L. Cogswell, San Francisco, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers
Dr. James Lafayette Cogswell was born in Willington, Connecticut, on November 29th, 1830. On the 5th of March 1849, Dr. J.L. Cogswell sailed in the Bark "Floyd" from Providence, R.I. to San Francisco. They made one eight-day stop in Coquimbo, Chile and arrived in San Francisco Sept. 15th, 1849 after a trip of 193 days. Dr. Cogswell remained in San Francisco for three weeks and then went to Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, where he mined and practiced dentistry until 1857. Then he went to Garrote (now called Groveland) and built the Washington Hotel with Mr. Otis Perrin. Dr. Cogswell and Mr. Perrin ran the hotel until 1859 when Dr. Cogswell left for San Francisco and there practiced Dentistry for thirty-five years. Dr. J.L. Cogswell was married in 1867, to Mrs. A. Bernard of Stanford, Connecticut. They had two daughters, Emily May and Florence Edith, and one boy, Theron Eustice Cogswell, who died when he was six months old. On July 4th, 1899, Dr. J.L. Cogswell was elected President of the "Dental Society of Sitka" in Alaska and was also made an emeritus member of the Dental Association at that place.
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James Lafayette Cogswell was born in the State of Connecticut, November 23, 1830. He died in Alameda County, California, April 13, 1921, at the age of ninety years. Dr. Cogswell, who was of sturdy Revolutionary stock, came to California among the pioneers, coming to this State in 1849. He was a resident for many years of San Francisco. In October, 1875, he issued and had published a call to local eligibles, with a view to forming a Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires. As an outcome of this, there met at Dr. Cogswell’s office in San Francisco, on October 22, 1875, eight men, who organized a temporary society of this nature and arranged to participate in the exercises and march in the parade in San Francisco on July 4, 1876, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Cogswell was elected the first president of this society here. The idea was soon taken up in several Eastern States and other societies formed, the result of which was the organization in 1889 of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution through delegates from a number of States who met in New York City. The meeting called by Dr. Cogswell in San Francisco has therefore, the honor of being the beginning of the organization which ultimately became the Sons of the American Revolution.

Biography source - The SAR Magazine, Volume 16 by Sons of the American Revolution, 1921.

Dr. James L. Cogswell was a dentist by profession, in San Francisco, CA. He was Master of Crockett Lodge, No. 139, Free and Accepted Masons, and a Honorary Member of the Masonic Veteran Association. Dr. Cogswell, in May of 1858, led a party prospecting for gold through the valley of the Yosemite, along the river Tuolumne ; and to him belongs the honor of discovering, while on that expedition, the famous grove of giant sequoia trees in that region.

Dr. Cogswell died at the Masonic Home in Union City, California, in 1921.

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Close. James L. Cogswell DDS was also known as James Lafayette Cogswell.^3,4 He lived in 1849; Sailed from Rhode Island to San Francisco/around the Horn.¹ He lived between 1849 and 1857 at Jacksonville, Tuolumne Co., California.¹ He was Built the Washington Hotel with Otis Perrin between 1857 and 1859.¹ He lived between 1857 and 1859 at Garrote, Tuolumne Co., California; Garrotte is now called Groveland.¹ He appeared on the census of 1880 at San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA.⁵ He appeared on the census of 1910 at Berkley, Alameda Co., CA.⁶

     George Washington Cogswell was born on 23 March 1795 at South Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut.^3,2 He was the son of Amos Cogswell and Rebecca (Chamberlain) Cogswell.^2,3 George Washington Cogswell married Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell, daughter of Solomon Dimmick and Electa (Hall) Dimmick, in 1817.^2,3 George Washington Cogswell married Lucy (Montague) Cogswell on 16 August 1830.^3,2 George Washington Cogswell married Hannah (Carpenter) Greenfield Cogswell on 30 April 1865.^3,2 George Washington Cogswell died on 21 December 1878 at age 83.^3,2

     Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell was born on 8 February 1793 at Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.^1,2 She was the daughter of Solomon Dimmick and Electa (Hall) Dimmick.^2,1 Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell married George Washington Cogswell, son of Amos Cogswell and Rebecca (Chamberlain) Cogswell, in 1817.^1,2 Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell died after 29 November 1830.^1,2
     Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell was also known as Polly Dimmick.^1,2 Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell was also known as Polly Dimnic.³

     Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell was born in 1839 at Stanford, Connecticut; "of Stanford, Connecticut."^1,2 She married Mr. Unknown Bernard before 1867. Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell married James L. Cogswell DDS, son of George Washington Cogswell and Polly (Dimmick) Cogswell, in 1867. Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell died in 1911.²
     Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell was also known as Emily Asineth Scofield.¹

     Emily May "Maime" Cogswell was born circa 1870 at CA.² She was the daughter of James L. Cogswell DDS and Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell. Emily May "Maime" Cogswell died after 1930; based on census report.
     Emily May "Maime" Cogswell appeared on the census of 1880 at San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, as a daughter in the household of James L. Cogswell DDS.² Emily May "Maime" Cogswell appeared on the census of 1920 at Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA.³ She appeared on the census of 1930 at NY.⁴

     Florence Edith Cogswell was born in 1872 at CA.² She was the daughter of James L. Cogswell DDS and Emily A. (Scofield) Cogswell. Florence Edith Cogswell died in 1964 at Los Angeles Co., CA.²
     Florence Edith Cogswell appeared on the census of 1880 at San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, as a daughter in the household of James L. Cogswell DDS.³