When I first saw the massive doors to the Stuttmeister crypt, I understood that the person responsible for them is into doing things that are substantial. This morning I discovered the Tolmad building that is probably where William Stuttmeister went to Dental College. That building was built to last, but was destroyed in the earthquake fire. Dr. Stuttmeisters had a dental office near SF city hall, that was also destroyed in the fire. Then, his loved ones are dug up and out out the Oddfellow graveyard. I believe he was at the Broderick farm below Joaquin Miller, the moved to Woodacre.
My great grandfather owned the same uphill fight – that is even more substantial – now that I have proven we are kin to the Getty family, who may not have come into their money – in such an honest way! The Stuttmiesters are registered as a San Francisco Pioneer family, and thus they – ground us all! William was married at Ralston Hall. Consider the two arched doors that William entered at the beginning of his life, and at the end.
I was going to add – William is eternally grateful for me being born. In looking at the graves in Redwood, it says there was – another stone? Did the original grave belong to Mutter Heinrich, the mother of Anna? Did Carl and Anna go to visit Mutter, which is the custom of Oddfellows. Was there a agreement with the City of Belmont to inter the founders in Twin Pines Park – forever? Was the new marker bought in 1972, when Mutter’s grave was opened – and Carl and Anna – were dumped in?
I demand a thorough investigation!
Somethings are bigger than us. I understood this when at twelve I flipped a coin (in my mind) whether to be an architect, or an artist. I never counted on being an historian – and now a playwright of operas? William was one the twelve who graduated and were treated to the overture of the ‘Pique Dame’ at Metropolitan Hall. How impressed The Twelve were. They knew they were Argonauts setting sail on a great endeavor, to yank the pain from your mouth, the thorn from the paw of the lion. Consider the movies ‘San Francisco’ and ‘The Phantom of The Opera’. William, is there, in the deep cavern of our souls, bidding us to pick up the gauntlet. Alas…..The Great Example!
We can do it! We can rebuild!
John Presco
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186938297/anna-dorette_catherine-janke
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/246026195/mutter-heinrich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.[8][9][10][11]
UCSF was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864. in 1873, it became affiliated with the University of California as its Medical Department. In the same year, it incorporated the California College of Pharmacy and in 1881 it established a dentistry school. Its facilities were located in both Berkeley and San Francisco.[12]
https://dentistry.ucsf.edu/about/facts-history
Instruction in anatomy was transferred in 1898 to the buildings of the AFFILIATED COLLEGES and a year later all instruction in dentistry, except clinical work, was moved to a new dental building on that site. The clinics remained in the Donohoe Building until 1906, when the building was destroyed by earthquake and fire.
All divisions of the College of Dentistry were on the Parnassus Avenue campus by July, 1906, where, at what is now known as the Medical Center, there has been a gradual coordination of the teaching and research of the School ofDentistry, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the School of Pharmacy, and the several campus-wide research centers and institutes.
In September, 1954, the College of Dentistry offered instruction for the first time in its new quarters in the Medical Sciences Building. It occupies four floors in this building, as well as two floors in the adjacent Clinics Building.
By action of the Academic Senate in 1956, the College of Dentistry was changed to the School of Dentistry. There are now approximately 300 dental students, 48 dental hygiene students, and 20 postgraduate and graduate students in the school.–WILLARD C. FLEMING
https://history.library.ucsf.edu/1868_dental.html
William Oltman Stuttmeister
Posted on November 13, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am considering authoring a biography of my great, great grandfather, William Oltman Stuttmeister. But, I do see a serial, a Black Mask treatment……
Doctor Stuttmeister
Yesterday I found a image of an appartment building William built on McCallister street in 1910 four years after the earthquake. My great, great, grandfather helped rebuild San Francisco. This morning I found an old photo of the Dental College he attended in San Francisco that became a part of the University of California. That these apartments are named ‘Laurel’ goes with my theory that William built around forty homes in the Laurel District – that could have been named by him. William, who helped build Oakland, is a pioneer in the field of Dentistry, and is labeled such by Redwood City. The Stuttmeisters lived in Fruit Vale, and their kin, the Jankes, founded the City of Belmont. They are listed as Pioneers of San Francisco.
In contrast, is my father’s father, Victor Hugo Presco. He was a gambler in the Barbary Coast made famous in a couple of movies. I can write a Grasshopper and the Ant tale about two men whose grandfather’s immigrated from Germany. One is a Bohemian fair-thee-well, and the other is a ambitious student at the University of California. William is a Humphry Van Wayden type whose seed will give birth to Captain Victor von Wolf Presco, real estate pirate, and father of a famous female artist and hippie spiritualist egghead a.k.a. ‘Blacky’. My father told me he raised his two sons using Wolf Larsen as a model. He made a loan to Jack London’s daughter. Jack worked in Belmont at a boys school doing laundry. It is evident the family mythos is based on real people.
My real father, Victor William Presco, played violin at Oakland High, and William played violin for the Oakland Symphony Orchestra. Did he hear the ‘Pique Dame’ as an honored Alumni?
P.S. What is going on?!! I just googled ‘Pique Dame’. She is the Queen of Spades! Last night I watched ‘Cloud Atlas’. The music at the end of my life – has been found!
John Presco
1868–1898 The Origins of the University of California and Affiiated Colleges
Creating a UC Dental Department
“We need a college of dentistry on this coast and if we have not a necessary talent among ourselves, we can import it. We owe those who take our places, greater facilities for study and professional breadth than the times have afforded us. The future will demand men educated in all that constitutes the scholar and professional man, and refined in all that makes the gentleman.”
Dr. CC Knowles, June 26, 1870
The same impulse that prompted physicians and pharmacists to organize, standardize, and regulate their professions motivated a group of the city’s leading dentists to call for creation of a professional dental school. S.W. Dennis, M.D., D.D.S., was typical of this group of early organizers. He had graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, received an honorary D.D.S. degree from the Indiana Dental College, and began practice in San Francisco after studying with a local dentist. In the midst of general lobbying for a school of dentistry, Dr. Dennis contacted colleagues at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania to help plan for a dental college in San Francisco.
S. W. Dennis, M.D., DDS.In the late nineteenth century, dentistry was regarded as a recently separated area of medical specialization. Many dentists had M.D. degrees in addition to their dental training and most agreed that dental education should be closely linked to the medical curriculum, especially with respect to the teaching of anatomy and pathology. They desired university affiliation and they worked in close conjunction with the faculty of the Medical Department. On May 28, 1881, the medical faculty formally proposed the creation of an affiliated Dental Department to the UC Regents, using the affiliation of the medical and pharmacy departments as precedent. Part of their appeal included their promise of free lecture and clinic space for dental students at the Toland Medical College building.
The Regents responded favorably, and in September of 1881 they established a Dental College to be organized with seven professors, nine instructors and four demonstrators. The eight members of the Dental Class of 1882 took courses of instruction in anatomy, physiology, chemistry and surgery alongside medical students in the Toland Medical College building at the corner of Stockton and Francisco Streets. A dental clinic was also located there and dental students were invited to attend selected bedside teaching clinics given by the medical faculty. While the UC Dental Department was not the only dental school to be organized in San Francisco, its founding in the context of the state university placed it in the forefront of academic schools in the West.
Toland Medical Building was the site of science instruction for the College of Pharmacy (in 1875-1876) and Dentistry (1882-1891) as well as the Medical School (1864-1898)Thus by 1882 the University of California had three affiliated colleges in San Francisco. Faculty salaries were paid by tuition and fees and the individual schools retained control over choice of faculty, but the Toland Medical College building was officially made the property of the university, and graduates of the schools wore university gowns at graduation. From the beginnings of affiliation, reciprocity in course offerings and programs was a feature of the three colleges: medical and dental students took anatomy and physiology side-by side, and all three schools allowed their graduates to expand their careers by matriculating in the other schools, with course credit allowed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.[8][9][10][11]
UCSF was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864. in 1873, it became affiliated with the University of California as its Medical Department. In the same year, it incorporated the California College of Pharmacy and in 1881 it established a dentistry school. Its facilities were located in both Berkeley and San Francisco.[12] In 1964, the school gained full administrative independence as a campus of the UC system, headed by its own chancellor, and in 1970 it gained its current name. Historically based at Parnassus Heights with satellite facilities throughout the city, UCSF developed a second major campus in the newly redeveloped Mission Bay district in the early 2000s.
The University of California, San Francisco traces its history to Hugh Toland, a South Carolina surgeon who found great success and wealth after moving to San Francisco in 1852.[20] A previous school, the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific (founded 1858), entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its founder, Elias Samuel Cooper, died.[21] In 1864, Toland founded a new medical school, Toland Medical College, and the faculty of Cooper Medical College chose to suspend operations and join the new school.[21]
The University of California was founded on March 23, 1868, with the enacting of its Organic Act. Section 8 of the Organic Act authorized the Board of Regents to affiliate the University of California with independent self-sustaining professional colleges.[22][23] In 1870, Toland Medical School began to negotiate an affiliation with the new public university.[24] Meanwhile, some faculty of Toland Medical School elected to reopen the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, which would later become Stanford University School of Medicine.[25] Negotiations between Toland and UC were complicated by Toland’s demand that the medical school continue to bear his name, an issue on which he finally conceded. In March 1873, the trustees of Toland Medical College transferred it to the Regents of the University of California, and it became The Medical Department of the University of California.[24] At the same time, the University of California also negotiated the incorporation of the California College of Pharmacy, the first pharmacy school in the West, established in 1872 by the California Pharmaceutical Society. The Pharmacy College was affiliated in June 1873, and together the Medical College and the Pharmacy College came to be known as the “Affiliated Colleges”. The third college, the College of Dentistry, was established in 1881.
Expansion and growth[edit]
Initially, the three Affiliated Colleges were located at different sites around San Francisco, but near the end of the 19th Century interest in bringing them together grew. To make this possible, San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro donated 13 acres in Parnassus Heights at the base of Mount Parnassus (now known as Mount Sutro). The new site, overlooking Golden Gate Park, opened in the fall of 1898, with the construction of the new Affiliated Colleges buildings. The school’s first female student, Lucy Wanzer, graduated in 1876, after having to appeal to the UC Board of Regents to gain admission in 1873.[26][27]
Until 1906, the faculty of the medical school had provided care at the City-County Hospital (named San Francisco General Hospital from 1915–2016 and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) since 2016), but the medical school still did not have a teaching hospital of its own. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, more than 40,000 people were relocated to a makeshift tent city in Golden Gate Park and were treated by the faculty of the Affiliated Colleges. This brought the Affiliated Colleges, which until then were located on the western outskirts of the city, in contact with significant population numbers. By fueling the Affiliated Colleges’ commitment to civic responsibility and health care, the earthquake increased the momentum towards the eventual construction of their own healthcare facilities.
Within a month after the 1906 earthquake, the faculty of the medical school voted to make room in their building for a teaching hospital by moving the three departments responsible for the first two years of preclinical instruction—anatomy, pathology, and physiology—across San Francisco Bay to the Berkeley campus. As a result, for over 50 years, students pursuing the M.D. degree took their first two years at Berkeley and their last two years at Parnassus Heights. By October 1906, an outpatient clinic was operational on the first floor of the medical building, and by April 1907, the new teaching hospital started to admit inpatients. This created the need to train nursing students, of whom the first was informally admitted in June; in December 1907, the UC Training School for Nurses was formally established, adding a fourth professional school to the Affiliated Colleges.[28]
Around this time, the Affiliated Colleges agreed to submit to the Regents’ governance during the term of President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, as the Board of Regents had come to recognize the problems inherent in the existence of independent entities that shared the UC brand but over which UC had no real control.[29] The last of the Affiliated Colleges to become an integral part of the university was the pharmacy school, in 1934.[29]
https://dentistry.ucsf.edu/about/facts-history
Stuttmeister Tomb in Colma
Posted on August 3, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
A curator for the Oakland Museum called me yesterday and asked me to e-mail him the photograph of my kinfolk having a picnic in the Oakland Hills. I had just returned from Dot Dotsons in Eugene where Jo framed a enlargement of this historic event in a antique frame I purchased. She did a splendid job!
Thanks to the Trust my uncle Vincent Rice left me, I have more funds to investigate and record my lost family history. Being poor I have had to endure hardship in order to visit my newfound daughter and newborn grandson in California. Tyler’s father was not there for his son, so when I went to see him for the first time I made a point to ground him in the history of my father’s people whom I and my cousin had just discovered were in a tomb at Cypress Lawn in Colma.
We three were the first kin to enter this tomb in many years. Tyler took an early lunch when Heather breast-fed her son on a marble bench facing the Tiffany window. Afterwards we went atop a hill and had a picnic next to these beautiful angels. Heather told me Tyler remembers being there. I was amazed when I saw his eyes follow a plane in the sky, and then smile.
My friend, Joy, had given me a special AA coin with the image of an angel on it for my late sister, Christine Rosamond, that I slipped into a crack made by an earthquake.
When we drove through San Francisco on our way home, I told Heather this was her and Tyler’s town now, for the Stuttmeisters are listed as a pioneer family, and made the Blue Book. In some respects, this was a Baptism.
https://casetext.com/case/stuttmeister-v-superior-court-of-san-francisco
[14 P. 36] This cause comes up on a writ of review issued to the Superior Court in and for the city and county of San Francisco (department 9). From the record presented, it appears that in 1884 John A. Collins presented a claim for services as attorney against the estate of F. W. R. Stuttmeister, deceased, to W. O. Stuttmeister, the administrator of such estate, and such proceedings were afterward had therein that on or about October 10, 1884, such claim was allowed and approved by the Probate Court for three hundred dollars, and ordered to be paid out of the estate in due course of administration.
F. W. R. Stuttmeister
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195886845/victor-emanuel-stuttmeister
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87628502/fredrich-wilhelm_rudolph-stuttmeister
https://www.geni.com/people/Heinrich-von-Belmont/6000000003828038700
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87628505/william-o-stuttmeister
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87743831/william-august-janke
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186938257/carl-augustus-janke
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186938297/anna-dorette_catherine-janke
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/246026195/mutter-heinrich
Mutter Heinrich
BIRTH 1781 Germany DEATH1876 (aged 94–95) Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USA BURIALUnion Cemetery Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA PLOT211 MEMORIAL ID246026195 · View Source
Carl Augustus Janke
BIRTH Oct 1806 Dresden, Stadtkreis Dresden, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany DEATH31 Oct 1881 (aged 74–75) Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USA BURIALUnion Cemetery Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapMEMORIAL ID186938257 · View Source
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Carl Augustus Janke was a local merchant in the city of Belmont, California he founded Belmont Park in 1865 which was modeled after a German beer garden. Janke subsequently he founded a local soft drink bottling plant, the first industry for the town of Belmont.
— From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone)
Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806,
died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881
Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke,
born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813,
died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877
Mutter Heinrich (spelled Catherine Hendrickson on the gravestone), mother of Dorette Catherine Janke,
born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died
in Belmont, California 1876
Anna Dorette Catherine Heinrich Janke
BIRTH 21 Jul 1813 Hamburg, Germany DEATH16 Feb 1877 (aged 63) Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USA BURIALUnion Cemetery Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapPLOT211 MEMORIAL ID186938297 · View Source
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— From the 1950 headstone survey — (and the current stone)
JANKE
ANNA D
Died Feb 16, 1877
CARL A.
Died Oct. 31, 1881
CATHERINE HENDRICKSON
— From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone)
Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806,
died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881
Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke,
born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813,
died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877
Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke,
born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died
in Belmont, California 1876
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