Adeline Mills Easton
Adeline Mills Easton outlived a shipwreck, her husband, her daughter and her son-in-law
Capturing Beauty
With a Camera
It is nine miles from Belmont to Easton-Burlingame, a city that no longer exists. Did the Janke family know the Eastons? Did they attend the Masque Ball at the Germania Club in San Francisco? Did the Eastomn take the train to Belmont and attend the Janke dances at Twin Pine Park?
I have every right to reborn EASTON which will be the home of several books, a movie, and a television series. The train Charles Janke hired to take him from SF to Belmont to be at his father’s side, to say goodbye, befor he died, takes the ashes of Drew Tayklor Rosamond Benton to Ghosttwon of Easton, where her ashes will be spread, and from these ashes will rise…
The Phoenix of Easton
John Presco
Peninsula Royalty: The Founding Families of Burlingame-Hillsborough
Exploring the life and legacy of the families that founded Burlingame and Hillsborough, California
Ansel M. Easton, son of Ansel I. and Adeline Easton
Ansel M. Easton, left, on the porch of his Burlingame home.
The Eastons’ son Ansel Mills Easton married Louise Adams, the daughter of a prominent Menlo Park businessman. Louise had a quick wit and named her horses “Gossip” and “Scandal” because they traveled so fast.1
After the turn of the twentieth century, Ansel M. Easton established the Town of Easton, when he began to subdivide his parents’ Black Hawk Ranch. The Town of Easton was annexed by the City of Burlingame in 1910.
Ansel M. Easton erected a train station (near present day Broadway) to serve the Town of Easton that he created when he began to subdivide his parents’ Black Hawk ranch.
During the next decade, Easton attempted to sell lots in the area west of the County Road, known as the Easton Addition. At first, those lots did not sell well. Before the 1920s, very few people had cars and most people still commuted to work in San Francisco on the train. Easton had a small train station built at what would come to be known as Broadway, but his subdivision lots that adjoined Hillside Drive were too far away from the station for commuters to walk there easily. To remedy this situation, Easton applied to the city for a franchise to run a railway line from the Easton train station (later called the Broadway train station) to Alvarado and Hillside Drive.
From 1913 to 1918, a battery-operated car ran from the Easton station west on Carmelita to Cabrillo, north on Cabrillo to Hillside and then west up Hillside to Alvarado Avenue. The car was the only streetcar of its kind in the West—which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing. It was severely underpowered for the climb up the hill. On rainy days it was reported that the “13-ton car would frequently stop in the middle of Hillside Drive . . . [and] the conductor would have to get out and pour sand on the rails up ahead. Sometimes this worked. Usually it didn’t.”
In a time before cars, Ansel M. Easton’s hoped his battery-operated Hillside Drive trolley would boost land sales in the hills west of El Camino Real, which were too far from the Easton station for commuters to walk there easily.
Each night the 119 batteries that powered the car needed a seven-hour charge, and even then they would need another charge of almost four hours during the day. A rumor circulated that the idea of the trolley had come from “the late Thomas Edison’s book of magic.” The car was built to carry up to 26 passengers, but rarely did because lots were slow in selling. Finally, after running the trolley at a financial loss for approximately five years, Mr. Easton applied to the city to abandon the line and replace it with a 15-passenger Studebaker bus. The Easton Addition lots sold briskly once the automobile became popular and affordable in the 1920s.2
Ansel and Louise Easton had two children, Louise and Laurence. After the death of his mother Adeline, Ansel purchased 1,250 acres of land near Mount Diablo in the East Bay and named it Blackhawk Ranch. Ansel and Louise, as well as their daughter Louise and her husband, William A. Ward, settled on the East Bay Blackhawk Ranch. They built a fifteen-room house, designed by Bernard Maybeck, that had eight bathrooms. It also included a large servants’ wing for the cook, butler, maids, chauffeur and gardeners.3
Belmont Soda Works – Reborn
Posted on April 13, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Charles Ferdinand Janke
Posted on October 13, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25,
1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine
Janke.
In October 12, 2023 I discovered how Charles Ferdinand Janke died. He was taking part in a Republican’ celebration when his horse collided with a team of horses. Belmont Historians, and alleged family neighbors do not record this?
There is a prophecy in these Belmont posts. Israel started shelling Lebanon. It sounds like
JUDGEMENT DAY
John Presco ‘Nazarite Judge’
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, No. 12, 1888, p.1, col.4, Pacific Coast Items. “Charles F. Janke of Belmont, who was wounded in a collision while on horseback with a double team during the Republican procession at Redwood on the 3d inst., died yesterday. He had been a resident of Belmont for twenty-five years.”
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Nov. 12, 1888, p.3. “JANKE—In Redwood City, November 11, C. F. Janke, a native of Germany, aged 49 years, 5 months and 2 days.” (Calculated birth date.)
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Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888
STUTTMEISTER-JANKE.
One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at
Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss
Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont,
and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was
handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and
at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends
of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played
and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss
Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a
sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm.
Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen. The Rev. A. L. Brewer
of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under
an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after
which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations.
The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the
crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange
blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the
guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to
the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health
of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests
joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with
music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their
departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful
presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday
morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the
honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.
1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood
City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133).
Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke
– Stuttmeister
Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born
February 2, 1869, died March 1902.
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25,
1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine
Janke.
Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born
1612, died January 29, 1877.
Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born
1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York.
Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda
Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New
York.
Brief Life History of Elizabeth Dorothy
When Elizabeth Dorothy Janke was born on 14 November 1844, in Hamburg, Germany, her father, Carl August Janke, was 24 and her mother, Dorothea, was 24. She had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Amassa Parker Johnson. She lived in Belmont, San Mateo, California, United States in 1880 and San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1900. She died on 20 January 1929, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
Brief Life History of Amassa Parker
When Amassa Parker Johnson was born on 9 July 1836, in Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States, his father, Elias Johnson, was 44 and his mother, Phebe Finney, was 42. He had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Elizabeth Dorothy Janke. He lived in Delhi, Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States for about 5 years and Belmont, San Mateo, California, United States for about 50 years. He died on 1 January 1931, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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