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Last Name	First	Middle	Addt'l	Birth	Death	Location	Description
Sparks	Issac	J.		1800	6/16/1867	Lot 334	Arrived in Santa Barbara in 1832 after crossing the continent with Jedediah Smith, Samuel Sublette, David Jackson Warner and others; otter hunting; 1835 aided in rescue of lone woman from Santa Nicolas Island; 1836 bought Benjamin Foxen house in Santa Barbara and opened first trading post in town; 1850, elected to town common council. Second mayor of Santa Barbara. Built first brick bldg. and Santa Barbara hotel, The Park, in 1854 near current corner of State and Montecito Streets; mauled by grizzly in the Santa Barbara foothills. Worked with Samuel Brinkerhoff to organize the Chapala Street Wharf Company. First Santa Barbara postmaster. y. Storke "He was a man tall and slim, but with a well formed frame, and had a fine commanding presence." Storke, Yda, pg. 37.
More	Thomas	Wallace		4/18/1826	3/24/1877	Lot 345, Gr C	Maternal grandfather to Charles A. Storke, Thomas owned Santa Rosa Island, the Colds Springs Resort on the San Marcos Turnpike Road and several farms in Goleta. "No record of this interment." Murdered. His brother, A. P. More, tracked the killers. He arrested and indicted seven men, four were put on trial, two convicted. All were eventually set free. The Daily Press, 11/21/1879, pg. 2
Jewett	Ezekial		Colonel	1791	1877	Lot 438	Lieutenant under Scott at Lindy Lane, colonel of the calvary in "Chili's" war for independence, curator of the state museum at Albany, NY., Jewett collection of fossils at Cornell, Geologist, conchologist, numismatist, and naturalist.
Burton	Lewis	T.	"Don"	2/18/1809	5/21/1879	Lot 351, Gr 2	First American Mayor of Santa Barbara, 1850, otter hunter in Santa Barbara in 1831 with Isaac Sparks, ran a general store from Burton’s Mound (near today’s Cabrillo Blvd.); served as judge; served unwillingly under Fremont; purchased Jesus Maria Ranchero (current Lompoc Valley out past Vandenberg Air Force Base, includes Burton Mesa). Originally from Henry County, Tennessee. Storke, Yda, pg. 36.
Brinkerhoff	Samuel	Bevier	Dr.	9/4/1823	2/27/1880	Lot 356, Gr 6	Born in Owasco, NY. Came to CA in 1851. Arrived in Santa Barbara in 1852. Shoot-out took place while he was taking a break from a steamer. He was the only physician in town. He patched up the wounds and stayed. Also a businessman, principal in San Marcos Pass Road (Turnpike Road is old southern terminus), built Chapala Street Wharf, owned block now bissected by Brinkerhoff Avenue; charter member of First National Gold Bank; founding member of the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association.
Tolman	George	B.	Reverend	7/24/1832	9/3/1883	Lot 433, E 1/2	Born Greensboro, Vermont. One of three prefabricated white bronze monuments at the cemetery.
Dimmick	L.	Norton		9/29/1823	5/31/1884	Lot 214, Gr 3	Born in Bethany, Pennsylvania. Physician in the east, then pharmacist. Moved 1872 to Santa Barbara for health reasons. Retired here, but explored his interests in chonches, algae, and geology. Trustee of the Baptist Church. Storke, Yda, pg. 532.
Greenwell	William	E.		1824	8/27/1886	Lot 126	Born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Chief Assistant III of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Served in Washington during the Civil War. Storke, Yda, pg. 595.
Belcher	Harriett	G.	Dr.	2/20/1842	5/30/1887	Lot 444, Gr 1	Born, Irvington, NY. Early woman doctor in Santa Barabara.
Tisdale	Margaret			9/26/1804	6/5/1888	Lot 321	Born in German Flats, NY. Came to CA with daughter Mrs. Harriett Elner Sherman Heath in 1856. "She was for many years the only elderly lady of American birth in Santa Barbara County." part of epitaph
Fernald	Charles	A.		5/27/1830	7/7/1892	Lot 326, Gr 5	Arrived in Santa Barbara in 1852 for a visit to a friend, accepted job as Sheriff. Then served as County Judge; Mayor 1882; Commission of the 9th U.S. District Court;  built the Fernald House on lower Santa Barbara Street (since moved to West Montecito Street); part owner of several local ranches; founding member of Santa Barbara College; funded first street railroad; founding member Chamber of Commerce; responsible for introduction of the Australian Eucalyptus to the region; and served on the Board of the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association. Storke, Yda, pg. 674
Pierce	Charles			1833	4/27/1894	Lot 464, Gr 3	Founding Board member of the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. Served on the Cemetery Board for two years.
Barnard	Cyrus			1862	7/6/1896	Lot 460, W 1/2, Gr 4	Murderer of Ethel and Mary Richardson, shot in gunfight at Barnard's home at Garden and Figueroa Streets
Stevens	Ralph	Kinton		1849	9/5/1896	Lot 121, W1/2, Gr 4	Early Santa Barbara landscape architect, provided much of the early lemon and citrus stock, owned and started developing Tanglewood which became Lotusland. Married Lucy Tallant. Arrived in Califoirnia from England in 1873. Held 200 acres in  Montecito. Largest palm collection in US. Founder of the Santa Barbara Horticultural Society along with Henry Chapman Ford. Appointed commissioner for San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 1891.
Huse	Charles	Enoch		3/1/1825	7/6/1898	Lot 211, Gr 5	Arrived in Santa Barbara in 1852. Served as County Clerk, State Assemblyman, City Attorney; founding member of the First Congregational Church; founding member and long-time President of the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association (16 years). Ended life in an asylum after his illegal real estate dealings came to light. politicalgraveyard.com. From Cemetery database: BORN IN 1825 IN BOSTON,  MASS. ESTABLISHED FIRST SCHOOL IN SANTA BARBARA  AND THE SANTA BARBARA COLLEGE. APRIL 1852 APPOINTED TO COUNTY CLERK AND FROM 1854 TO 1861 SERVED AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR SANTA BARBARA. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SANTA BARBARA CEMETERY.  DIED INA NAPA, CA INSANE ASYLUM IN 1885 AND WAS TRANSFERRED HERE FOR BURIAL IN 1898.
Williams	Henry	Lafayette		7/24/1841	1/13/1899	Lot 102, E 1/2, Gr 5	Owner of Ortega Ranch, founder of Summerland. Born in Massillion, Ohio; enlisted 1861, Company A of 19th Ohio Infantry to 1865; coal business in Ohio to 1776; US Treasury Agent to 1882; April 1883, purchases Ortega Ranch; small walnut grove, fruit for the family. November 1888 purchased site of Summerland and laid out the town, founded on the faith of Spiritualism (1,450 lots sold by 1891); Weekly newspaper called the Reconstructor started. Second marriage to Agnes Morgan in 1889. Storke, Yda, pg. 273. In 1887, Williams purchased franchises for a street railway from his Ortega Ranch through Montecito to SB. Myrick, 84.
Porter	Arza			3/11/1838	2/11/1899	Lot 334	Early sheriff of Santa Barbara and member of the California Legislature. Married Rosa Sparks Porter, Issac and Maria de los Remedios Josefa Antonia Ayers Sparks daughter.
Knight	Francis	H.		5/12/1831	3/24/1901	Lot 317, Gr 3	Leading retailer in Santa Barbara for several decades. Founding Board member of the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. Served the Cemetery Board for 18 years.
Shaw	James	Barron	Sr.	11/4/1814	1/7/1902	Lot 352	Born in London, England. Studied medicine in London and Glasgow. 1836-1844 took several voyages around the world serving in the British military. Practiced medicine in Hong Kong to 1849. Went to gold fields and ended up doctoring again. Met Don Pedro Carillo who convinced him to visit Santa Barbara on his way to Mexico. 1850 arrived in Santa Barbara. On the steamer, Independent when it wrecked on Santa Margarita Island, killing 135 people, and stranding 400 on the island. 1853 returns to Santa Barbara where he managed Santa Cruz Island for 16 years. Owned ranch where Summerland now stands where he raised sheep for transport to the island. Brought herd to 54,000 head and profited the company $50,000 in the final year before the island was sold. Ranched in Los Alamos area after this, but shipping took too long to get supplies to him, and bears, cougars, etc. were troublesome. Married Helen Green, 1861. One of the founders of the SBCA. Storke, Yda, pg. 633. See also SBNP article, 1/13/82
Thompson	Charles	A.		1843	11/19/1905	Lot 206	Born in Santa Barbara, son of Alpheus B., County Clerk 1858 - 1880, lawyer, deputy county assessor, city assessor, member of City Council; married Maria Andonaegui. Storke, Yda, pg. 301.
Stoddard	Henry			1/2/1835	1/31/1908	Lot 550, Gr 4	Born in Dayton, OH. Studied engineering and law. Enlisted in Union Army during war. Manufactured linseed oil and varnishes in Ohio; 1873, came to SB due to failing health. Farmed, sold real estate, appointed Post Master, 1882, County Recorder. Storke, Yda, pg. 599.
Bond	Silas				9/24/1909	Lot 560	Arrived in Santa Barbara in 1868 as one of the three colonels (with WA Hayne and Dinsmore) and purchased land across Hot Springs Road from WA Hayne. Myrick 14, 20. One of very few lots in cemetery with family's original granite curbing still in place.
More	Thomas	Roman		1856	7/15/1910	Lot 333	Born in SB, son of T. Wallace. Attended Cornell. 1880, married Mary Den. Lived on the Dos Pueblos Ranch, 1884-1889. "Mr. More is a poet, having just completed a long poem, which will shortly be published." Storke, Yda, pg. 546.
Eells	Alexander	G.		1862	10/12/1911	Block G, Lot D, Gr 6	Son of Marcus, one of the earliest cremations in the Cemetery
Heath	Russell			2/28/1826	12/11/1911	Lot 321	Born at Little Falls, NY. First Sheriff of Santa Barbara, District Attorney, State Assemblyman. President of First National Gold Bank. Started first walnut orchard in Santa Barbara. Heath was also one of the original incorporators of the Santa Barbara Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Tallant	Henry			1821	11/18/1912	Lot 121, E1/2, Gr 4	Spearheaded a drive against considerable opposition to purchase Oak Park for the City of Santa Barbara. Tallant Road in Samakand is named after Henry.
Low	Charles	Porter	Captain	1824	2/23/1913	Lot 127, Gr 8	Born Salem, Mass (Yda Storke sets year at 1824). Brother Seth Low, mayor of Brooklyn and President of Columbia University. After an extensive sailing career (starting at 18 years of age) as one of the best-known and as the fastest clipper ship captain in the world (New York to San Francisco in record 108 days in 1850), Low retired to Santa Barbara in 1873 to retire at the old age of 48. Purchased 80 acres on the Mesa part of which is Shoreline Park today; his mansion was designed by Peter Barber; became a leading (if not effectual) farmer, founder and president of the Santa Barbara Agricultural Association, president of the YMCA, and served eleven years on the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association, including XX years as president. Swept overboard twice in typhoon, 1848, and pulled himself back on board. Storke, Yda, pg. 268; Hist 101, 1/13/2000.
Trenwith	George	Farmer		1849	10/30/1913	Lot 243, Gr 3	In 1874, opened Austin & Trenwith’s, a retail store that dominated State Street for several decades. Served on the Board of the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, on the Directors of the First National Bank, and on the Water Commission.
Noble	W.	E.		1837	2/15/1917	Lot 215, Gr 2	Owned W. E. Noble's Dry Goods. Served Cemetery Board for 29 years (1888-1917).
More	John	Finlay		8/20/1839	4/27/1919	Lot 120, Gr 5	Prominent farmer in Santa Barbara area. More Mesa and More Road are named after him. Built his town home (Peter Barber, architect) at 131 East Arrellaga (still standing) in 1882. Served Cemetery Board for 29 years (1887-1916).
Hayward	Alfred	William		7/26/1824	6/2/1921	Lot 218, E1/2, Gr 1	Founder of Hayward’s Furniture.
Parks	William	Stevenson		5/20/1846	6/2/1924	Lot 219, Gr 4	Owned and farmed area that is now Earl Warren Showgrounds.
Smith	Frank			1845	3/20/1930	Lot 233, Gr 3	Born Kendall County, Ill. (Storke claims 1844); mercantile and grain buying background in midwest; 1870 to Calif.; opened N. D. & Frank Smith Lumber in Carpinteria; 1874 built first Carp wharf; 1889 Smith is sole owner; serving as Carp. postmaster; Also, 1872, employed by J. P. Stearns as wharfinger, 1888 Smith becomes director of Stearn's Steam Wharf Company; County Assessor 1882 and 1886 (in popular election over Mr. Garrotson); Mayor of Santa Barbara, 1915-1917. Served the Cemetery Board for 12 years (1917-1929). Married Annie Corey, 1868. Storke, Yda, pg. 321.
More	John	Faxon	Sr.	11/2/1846	5/22/1933	Lot 119 & 120	Landowner in Goleta (More Mesa).
Smith	Rufus	Dana		5/2/1846	9/7/1935	Lot 470, Gr 4	Born in Newark, Vermont; served in Company K of Eighth Vermont infantry at age 15, taken prisoner during war; discharged for health reasons and reenlisted 10 months later where he served as a White House Guard; married to Lucy Lebourveau, 1867; to SB in 1876, served as Justice of the Peace (1877-1880), Under-sheriff (1880-1891+). Storke, Yda, pg. 266.
Jenks	Catherine	Marianna		12/15/1842	9/22/1935	Lot 246, SE 1/4 Gr 2	Probable original owner of the modified Queen Anne Victorian at 227 West Anapamu, estimated year of construction, 1887.
Frost	Samuel				11/27/1936	Lot 578	Local stone cutter, cut many monuments and curbs for the Cemetery.
Tallant	Edward	C.		1858	11/15/1936	Lot 121	Born in Wheeling, West Virginia. Moved with parents to SB in 1874, and entered grocery business with P. M. Newhall. Later bought in to create Tallant & Sweetser, and eventually bought Sweetser out. Married 1884 to Mattie Dillan. Storke, Yda, pg. 592.
Macy	William	Starbuck		9/11/1853	7/29/1945	Lot 670, W 1/2	"A long and eventful life that embraced the old whaling days on the Atlantic Coast and the pioneer life of the West, as well as great moments in the cultural life of Europe and this country came to a close Sunday morning with the death of William Starbuck Macy at his home on M esa Road. He was 92 years of age." SBNP, 7/30/1945, page 1. Born in New Bedford. DEscendant of first European owners of Nantucket. Family started one of the first sperm whaling enterprises in the early 1700s. Wm. studied art at the National Academy. Then moved to Munich to study with Russian artist, Velton. Saw first performance of Siegfried, while sitting in the orchestra box with Wagner and King Ludwig at the Royal Opera House in Munich. Married Anne Alexander, 1894. Came to Santa Barbara in 1890 for his health.
Bakewell	Benjamin		Dr.	10/28/1877	9/3/1953	Lot 336, Gr 6	One of the founders, along with Dr. Rexwald Brown, of the Santa Barbara Medical Clinic, 1921; president of the SB Chamber of Commerce, 1945. Spent part of his childhood in Santa Barbara. Attended UC Berkeley, Medicine at UCSF.  Started at Quisisano Clinic (later to become Saint Francis) at its opening in 1905. In 1911 served as president of the Santa Barbara County Medical Society. Retired following WWII at 68 years of age. Was elected President Emeritus of the SB County Medical Society (first to be so named).
Fernald	Charles	A.	Jr.	1870	3/22/1956	Lot 326	Born in Santa Barbara. Son of Judge Charles Fernald. Graduate of Stanford University in the very first graduating class under David Starr Jordan. Purchased a cattle ranch in Mexico with his first wife, Elizabeth Swift, a member of the Chicago Swift family. Selling the ranch, they relocated to Chicago where Fernald started a banking career with Fort Dearborn bank. Later became Vice President of Continental Bank. Second wife, Katherine Miller Smith, married in 1933.
Stevens	Ralph	Tallant		12/15/1882	2/16/1958	Lot 121, W1/2, Gr 4	Born at the Tanglewood Estate (now Lotusland). Earned horticultural degree from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State) inn 1905. Worked in Chicago, San Francisco, and Europe. Taught landscape gardening at UC Berkeley. Returned to Santa Barbara in 1917. First salaried Park Superintendent (succeeding Doremus); associated with department for 37 years. Impacted many of Santa Barbara's parks. Developed courthouse gardens, GWSmith properties, and portions of the SB Cemetery. Biltmore grounds, Chase property in Hope Ranch, LOtusland, as well as work in Honolulu and San Francisco. Stevens Park was named after him in 1957.
Ogilvy	Arthur	E.		11/5/1888	6/20/1960	Block G, Lot D, Gr 6	One of the founders of Ogilvy, Gilbert, Norris and Hill Insurance. Served the Cemetery Board for 25 years, 1935-1960.
Power	Harry	Douglas		10/2/1896	3/14/1966	Add L, Gr 150	Navy Rear Admiral, World War I & II. Received the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medal.
Rogers	Robert	Cameron		12/20/1900	1/28/1971	Lot 326, Gr 2	Author who wrote "The Rosary" and owner of famous SB home, Glendessary, Served as Vice President of the Central Bank, was editor of the morning paper, and an avid polo player. Married Beatrice Fernald (her second marriage). Myrick 62, 85.
Dahlberg	Edward			7/22/1900	2/27/1977	Add P, Lot 3, Gr 2	"The Author" appears on headstone. Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) spent his early years in Kansas City, Missouri. Later he attended the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. A “proletarian” novelist in the 30's (who experienced “Kristalnacht” first hand in Berlin). His first novel, Bottom Dogs, is published in 1930.  Joined the Communist Party. After From Flushing to Calvary, 1932, he went into a period of seclusion. Thereafter, his writings were primarily autobiographical. Wrote an anti-Nazi novel, Those Who Perish, published 1934 and soon renounces Communism as necrophilic. 1941, published an influential novel, Do These Bones Live? The Flea of Sodom. 1950, 1955, Because I Was Flesh. 1957, The Sorrows of Priapus. 1961, Truth is More Sacred.
Hutchins	Robert	Maynard	Dr.	1/17/1899	5/4/1977	Add M, G 501	Born Brooklyn, N.Y. American educator and university and foundation president, who criticized over-specialization and sought to balance the college curriculum and to maintain the Western intellectual tradition. After attending Oberlin College in Ohio (1915-17), he served in the ambulance service of the U.S. and Italian armies during World War I. He was graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1921) and Yale Law School (LL.B., 1925), where he was named dean in 1927. Two years later, at the age of 30, he became president of the University of Chicago; he remained at Chicago until 1951, the last six years as chancellor. A controversial administrator, he attempted to reorganize the departments for undergraduate and graduate study at Chicago. His Chicago Plan for undergraduates encouraged liberal education at earlier ages and measured achievement by comprehensive examination, rather than by classroom time served. He introduced study of the Great Books. At the same time, Hutchins argued about the purposes of higher education, deploring undue emphasis on nonacademic pursuits (Chicago abandoned intercollegiate football in 1939) and criticizing the tendency toward specialization and vocationalism. The university abandoned most of his reforms, however, after his departure and returned to the educational practices of other major American universities. Hutchins was active in forming the Committee to Frame a World Constitution (1945), led the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1946), and vigorously defended academic freedom, opposing faculty loyalty oaths in the 1950s. After serving as associate director of the Ford Foundation (from 1951), he became president of the Fund for the Republic (1954) and in 1959 founded the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara, Calif.) as the fund's main activity. The Center was an attempt to approach Hutchins' ideal of "a community of scholars" discussing a wide range of issues--individual freedom, international order, ecological imperatives, the rights of minorities and of women, and the nature of the good life, among others. From 1943 until his retirement in 1974 Hutchins was chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica and a director for Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. He was editor in chief of the 54-volume Great Books of the Western World (1952) and coeditor, from 1961, with Mortimer J. Adler, of an annual, The Great Ideas Today. www.writing.upenn.edu. Hutchins' views on education and public issues appeared in No Friendly Voice (1936), The Higher Learning in America (1936), Education for Freedom (1943), and others. Later books include The University of Utopia (1953) and The Learning Society (1968).

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