Newspaper obituary:
"FUNERAL FOR PIONEEER SET
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. for Moses Sweat Dearborn, 91, pioneer Oakland resident, who died at St. Paul's Hospital at Livermore, yesterday following a brief illness.
Dearborn came to California 69 years ago via the Isthmus of Panama, to spend most of his life in the Bay region. He was a native of Maine. Until the time of his confinement in the hospital Dearborn made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Woodward, at 3874 Hanley Road.
He was the father of L.S. Dearborn, superintendent of the Pacific Coast Aggregates Company at Pleasanton: Mrs. May D. Wood, Oakland, Mrs. Mollie Bechtel, Cleveland, Ohio; Alice Dearborn, Pleasanton; J.E. Dearborn, San Luis Obispo, and Mrs. r. M. Seaton, of Santa Rosa.
Funeral Services will be held at the Chapel of the Chimes and will be followed by cremation."
Oakland Tribune, June 3, 1936
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The following written work is a biographical sketch written by Silver Rose Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Moses Sweat Dearborn was born to Captain Joseph Sanborn Dearborn and Lydia J. (Frost) Dearborn in Parsonsfield, Maine in 1845. His parents were prominent and early residents of that township and are celebrated in various ways, including a book about the History of Parsonsfield which is written and edited by a Dearborn relation and published in 1888.
By 1867 Moses was in California, via the Isthmus of Panama. Six years later, in 1873 he married Edith M. Smith, the daughter of John Kinder Smith, a saw miller and farmer from Illinois and his wife Theresa M. (Banks) Smith, also an Illinois native and descendant of the illustrious Banks family, originally of England. Moses and Edith had 9 children, all born in California, as follows:
May B., b. 1874
Nellie E., b. 1877
Frank, b. 1879
Mollie Teresa, b. 1881
Effie, b. 1884
Roy Valores, b. 1887
Leon Smith, b. 1890
Alice E., b. 1892
Joseph E., b. 1895
In 1880, Moses was working as a surveyor. In 1900 he was a contractor in Santa Rosa, but he also had a job as a railroad inspector and was found in the census in Galveston, Texas. In 1910 he was the superintendant of a railroad bridge.
Until 1910 he was living predominantly in the Santa Rosa area, but between 1910 and 1920 there had been some kind of split. In the January 12, 1920 census, his wife is still in Santa Rosa with two of their children, but he is living in Oakland by himself. Three days after that census was taken, Moses Dearborn's wife passed away. She is buried in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA
The obituary for Moses Dearborn only names 6 children, yet they had 9. The children that were omitted from the paragraph naming the children are:
Nellie Woodward, mentioned in a previous paragraph.
Frank Dearborn, born 1879 and likely deceased.
Roy Valores Dearborn, insane.*
*Moses Dearborn's son, Roy Valores Dearborn, is found in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in Napa, California in the 1930 census. Either Moses Dearborn disowned this son due to some conflict, or the family was too ashamed of the stigma attached to mental illness to claim him as their own in Moses Dearborn's obituary. According to Roy's WWI draft registration card, Roy was also blind in one eye. He had worked for several years as box maker for Nelligan and sons in Santa Rosa, then as a laborer on the public railroads. His entry into the mental hospital may have been necessitated by the death of his mother in January of 1920. Moses' son, Roy, lived another 20 years or so after the death of his father.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is legally copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for violation of copyright law and theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
"FUNERAL FOR PIONEEER SET
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. for Moses Sweat Dearborn, 91, pioneer Oakland resident, who died at St. Paul's Hospital at Livermore, yesterday following a brief illness.
Dearborn came to California 69 years ago via the Isthmus of Panama, to spend most of his life in the Bay region. He was a native of Maine. Until the time of his confinement in the hospital Dearborn made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Woodward, at 3874 Hanley Road.
He was the father of L.S. Dearborn, superintendent of the Pacific Coast Aggregates Company at Pleasanton: Mrs. May D. Wood, Oakland, Mrs. Mollie Bechtel, Cleveland, Ohio; Alice Dearborn, Pleasanton; J.E. Dearborn, San Luis Obispo, and Mrs. r. M. Seaton, of Santa Rosa.
Funeral Services will be held at the Chapel of the Chimes and will be followed by cremation."
Oakland Tribune, June 3, 1936
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The following written work is a biographical sketch written by Silver Rose Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Moses Sweat Dearborn was born to Captain Joseph Sanborn Dearborn and Lydia J. (Frost) Dearborn in Parsonsfield, Maine in 1845. His parents were prominent and early residents of that township and are celebrated in various ways, including a book about the History of Parsonsfield which is written and edited by a Dearborn relation and published in 1888.
By 1867 Moses was in California, via the Isthmus of Panama. Six years later, in 1873 he married Edith M. Smith, the daughter of John Kinder Smith, a saw miller and farmer from Illinois and his wife Theresa M. (Banks) Smith, also an Illinois native and descendant of the illustrious Banks family, originally of England. Moses and Edith had 9 children, all born in California, as follows:
May B., b. 1874
Nellie E., b. 1877
Frank, b. 1879
Mollie Teresa, b. 1881
Effie, b. 1884
Roy Valores, b. 1887
Leon Smith, b. 1890
Alice E., b. 1892
Joseph E., b. 1895
In 1880, Moses was working as a surveyor. In 1900 he was a contractor in Santa Rosa, but he also had a job as a railroad inspector and was found in the census in Galveston, Texas. In 1910 he was the superintendant of a railroad bridge.
Until 1910 he was living predominantly in the Santa Rosa area, but between 1910 and 1920 there had been some kind of split. In the January 12, 1920 census, his wife is still in Santa Rosa with two of their children, but he is living in Oakland by himself. Three days after that census was taken, Moses Dearborn's wife passed away. She is buried in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA
The obituary for Moses Dearborn only names 6 children, yet they had 9. The children that were omitted from the paragraph naming the children are:
Nellie Woodward, mentioned in a previous paragraph.
Frank Dearborn, born 1879 and likely deceased.
Roy Valores Dearborn, insane.*
*Moses Dearborn's son, Roy Valores Dearborn, is found in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in Napa, California in the 1930 census. Either Moses Dearborn disowned this son due to some conflict, or the family was too ashamed of the stigma attached to mental illness to claim him as their own in Moses Dearborn's obituary. According to Roy's WWI draft registration card, Roy was also blind in one eye. He had worked for several years as box maker for Nelligan and sons in Santa Rosa, then as a laborer on the public railroads. His entry into the mental hospital may have been necessitated by the death of his mother in January of 1920. Moses' son, Roy, lived another 20 years or so after the death of his father.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is legally copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for violation of copyright law and theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
Newspaper obituary:
"FUNERAL FOR PIONEEER SET
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. for Moses Sweat Dearborn, 91, pioneer Oakland resident, who died at St. Paul's Hospital at Livermore, yesterday following a brief illness.
Dearborn came to California 69 years ago via the Isthmus of Panama, to spend most of his life in the Bay region. He was a native of Maine. Until the time of his confinement in the hospital Dearborn made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Woodward, at 3874 Hanley Road.
He was the father of L.S. Dearborn, superintendent of the Pacific Coast Aggregates Company at Pleasanton: Mrs. May D. Wood, Oakland, Mrs. Mollie Bechtel, Cleveland, Ohio; Alice Dearborn, Pleasanton; J.E. Dearborn, San Luis Obispo, and Mrs. r. M. Seaton, of Santa Rosa.
Funeral Services will be held at the Chapel of the Chimes and will be followed by cremation."
Oakland Tribune, June 3, 1936
----------------------------------
The following written work is a biographical sketch written by Silver Rose Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Moses Sweat Dearborn was born to Captain Joseph Sanborn Dearborn and Lydia J. (Frost) Dearborn in Parsonsfield, Maine in 1845. His parents were prominent and early residents of that township and are celebrated in various ways, including a book about the History of Parsonsfield which is written and edited by a Dearborn relation and published in 1888.
By 1867 Moses was in California, via the Isthmus of Panama. Six years later, in 1873 he married Edith M. Smith, the daughter of John Kinder Smith, a saw miller and farmer from Illinois and his wife Theresa M. (Banks) Smith, also an Illinois native and descendant of the illustrious Banks family, originally of England. Moses and Edith had 9 children, all born in California, as follows:
May B., b. 1874
Nellie E., b. 1877
Frank, b. 1879
Mollie Teresa, b. 1881
Effie, b. 1884
Roy Valores, b. 1887
Leon Smith, b. 1890
Alice E., b. 1892
Joseph E., b. 1895
In 1880, Moses was working as a surveyor. In 1900 he was a contractor in Santa Rosa, but he also had a job as a railroad inspector and was found in the census in Galveston, Texas. In 1910 he was the superintendant of a railroad bridge.
Until 1910 he was living predominantly in the Santa Rosa area, but between 1910 and 1920 there had been some kind of split. In the January 12, 1920 census, his wife is still in Santa Rosa with two of their children, but he is living in Oakland by himself. Three days after that census was taken, Moses Dearborn's wife passed away. She is buried in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA
The obituary for Moses Dearborn only names 6 children, yet they had 9. The children that were omitted from the paragraph naming the children are:
Nellie Woodward, mentioned in a previous paragraph.
Frank Dearborn, born 1879 and likely deceased.
Roy Valores Dearborn, insane.*
*Moses Dearborn's son, Roy Valores Dearborn, is found in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in Napa, California in the 1930 census. Either Moses Dearborn disowned this son due to some conflict, or the family was too ashamed of the stigma attached to mental illness to claim him as their own in Moses Dearborn's obituary. According to Roy's WWI draft registration card, Roy was also blind in one eye. He had worked for several years as box maker for Nelligan and sons in Santa Rosa, then as a laborer on the public railroads. His entry into the mental hospital may have been necessitated by the death of his mother in January of 1920. Moses' son, Roy, lived another 20 years or so after the death of his father.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is legally copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for violation of copyright law and theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
"FUNERAL FOR PIONEEER SET
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. for Moses Sweat Dearborn, 91, pioneer Oakland resident, who died at St. Paul's Hospital at Livermore, yesterday following a brief illness.
Dearborn came to California 69 years ago via the Isthmus of Panama, to spend most of his life in the Bay region. He was a native of Maine. Until the time of his confinement in the hospital Dearborn made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Woodward, at 3874 Hanley Road.
He was the father of L.S. Dearborn, superintendent of the Pacific Coast Aggregates Company at Pleasanton: Mrs. May D. Wood, Oakland, Mrs. Mollie Bechtel, Cleveland, Ohio; Alice Dearborn, Pleasanton; J.E. Dearborn, San Luis Obispo, and Mrs. r. M. Seaton, of Santa Rosa.
Funeral Services will be held at the Chapel of the Chimes and will be followed by cremation."
Oakland Tribune, June 3, 1936
----------------------------------
The following written work is a biographical sketch written by Silver Rose Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Moses Sweat Dearborn was born to Captain Joseph Sanborn Dearborn and Lydia J. (Frost) Dearborn in Parsonsfield, Maine in 1845. His parents were prominent and early residents of that township and are celebrated in various ways, including a book about the History of Parsonsfield which is written and edited by a Dearborn relation and published in 1888.
By 1867 Moses was in California, via the Isthmus of Panama. Six years later, in 1873 he married Edith M. Smith, the daughter of John Kinder Smith, a saw miller and farmer from Illinois and his wife Theresa M. (Banks) Smith, also an Illinois native and descendant of the illustrious Banks family, originally of England. Moses and Edith had 9 children, all born in California, as follows:
May B., b. 1874
Nellie E., b. 1877
Frank, b. 1879
Mollie Teresa, b. 1881
Effie, b. 1884
Roy Valores, b. 1887
Leon Smith, b. 1890
Alice E., b. 1892
Joseph E., b. 1895
In 1880, Moses was working as a surveyor. In 1900 he was a contractor in Santa Rosa, but he also had a job as a railroad inspector and was found in the census in Galveston, Texas. In 1910 he was the superintendant of a railroad bridge.
Until 1910 he was living predominantly in the Santa Rosa area, but between 1910 and 1920 there had been some kind of split. In the January 12, 1920 census, his wife is still in Santa Rosa with two of their children, but he is living in Oakland by himself. Three days after that census was taken, Moses Dearborn's wife passed away. She is buried in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA
The obituary for Moses Dearborn only names 6 children, yet they had 9. The children that were omitted from the paragraph naming the children are:
Nellie Woodward, mentioned in a previous paragraph.
Frank Dearborn, born 1879 and likely deceased.
Roy Valores Dearborn, insane.*
*Moses Dearborn's son, Roy Valores Dearborn, is found in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in Napa, California in the 1930 census. Either Moses Dearborn disowned this son due to some conflict, or the family was too ashamed of the stigma attached to mental illness to claim him as their own in Moses Dearborn's obituary. According to Roy's WWI draft registration card, Roy was also blind in one eye. He had worked for several years as box maker for Nelligan and sons in Santa Rosa, then as a laborer on the public railroads. His entry into the mental hospital may have been necessitated by the death of his mother in January of 1920. Moses' son, Roy, lived another 20 years or so after the death of his father.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is legally copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for violation of copyright law and theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
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