Excerpted from History of the San Francisco Bay Region, (San Francisco, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924). Copyrights for works first published before 1964, and first published in the US, that were not registered and renewed in a timely manner, have now expired into the public domain. A search conducted on 9-22-03 of the U.S. Copyright Office Catalog of Copyright Entries for 1951, 1952, and 1953 failed to locate a copyright renewal for this work.