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San Diego City Father William Augustus Begole: Story of a Workhorse Pioneer

San Diego City Father William Augustus Begole: Story of a Workhorse Pioneer

Montgomery, Lael

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Historical Figures

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0998440515
ISBN13: 9780998440514
Publisher: Lael Montgomery
Published: Jan 5 2017
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

William Augustus Begole stepped from a side-wheel steamer onto Horton's Wharf in New Town San Diego on September 24, 1869. For the next thirty-two years he helped shape the city's governance, politics, commerce, civic institutions and fraternal life. Forgotten in most San Diego histories, the author's long-lost 19th Century Cousin Gus Begole was discovered accidently in 2009 while the author was reading Richard Pourade's well-known series, The History of San Diego. There in The Glory Years, Pourade's fourth volume, was her mother's rare Huguenot surname -- glamorously attached to a member of an 1875 sheriff's posse. Intrigued, the author invested the next five years researching the details of her ancestor's life as he travelled from his birthplace in New York's Genesee Valley, to California Gold Country in 1849, and to San Diego in 1869 where he served as one of five elected City Trustees during New San Diego's formative years and played both leadership and support roles in most of the city's foundational institutions.

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