Talk:Faxon Atherton

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Two seperate articles are being merged. --meatclerk 20:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Section Removed on 2009-05-03[edit]

The section below does not belong in the article about Faxon Atherton. meatclerk (talk) 07:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

George and Gertrude Atherton[edit]

Jorge H. Bowen (aka George) Atherton, and his wife Gertrude,who later became a well-known novelist, dispossessed fifty-three families from Rancho Milpitas in 1877-78.^{[citation needed]} The Athertons arrived with sheriffs and guns and burned the houses and possessions of the residents who were considered to be squatters. The wealthier among them repurchased their properties, but many moved on.^{[citation needed]}

In 1881, after her husband's death, Dominga built a house on California Street in San Francisco and moved in with her son, George, and daughter-in-law, Gertrude. Both Dominga and Gertrude were strong women who so dominated George that in 1887 he ran away from home to seek his fortune in Chile. ^{[citation needed]} Halfway to Chile, George's kidneys failed. The sailors put his body into a barrel of rum to preserve it and shipped the barrel to the Atherton Mansion. ^{[citation needed]} George was dried out and received a proper Christian burial. Local legend says his ghost soon began knocking on the bedroom doors of his mother and widow. He became so troublesome that Dominga sold the house and moved out.

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