BORN: 1838
DIED: 5/10/1915
AGED: 77
MEMBER OF: PIONEER
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
- Gilbert, Alexander
- Gilbert, Annie
- Gilbert, Delano E
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Gilbert, Emma Cordelia
- Gilbert, Eva G
- Gilbert, Franklin Purdy
- Gilbert, George S
- Gilbert, Helen R
- Gilbert, Henry S
- Gilbert, Infant of Mrs B
- Gilbert, Joseph A
- Gilbert, Joseph Edwin Ganoung
- Gilbert, Mary C
- Gilbert, Nathan C
- Gilbert, Stephen Beer
- Gilbert, William B
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT K112:
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
- 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
- 1912 The Titanic sank
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OBITUARY ---------------FRANK CALVIN GILBERT
Redwood City Democrat
May 13, 1915
Another Pioneer Goes to His Rest
Frank Calvin Gilbert, a pioneer resident of San Mateo County for over sixty years, died last Monday morning at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. George Leary, on Bradford Street. Mr. Gilbert had been sick for over a year and death was the result of a complication of diseases.
Franklin Gilbert was born in Michigan in 1837. The lure for gold brought him to California in 1850 when he was only 13 yeats old. He spent about five years among the placer diggers in Calaveras County, meeting with various successes as a miner. In 1855, Mr. Gilbert came to this county and engaged in farming on the coast side. The Gilbert ranch, situated between San Gregorio and La Honda, was considered one of the finest on the coast. He afterwards sold the ranch and bought a large lumber and shingle mill which he operated until 1895. Mr. Gilbert made a large fortune in the mill business but unfortunately legal entanglements were the cause of him losing practically everything he had. He came to this city in 1895 where he made his home until his death. The funeral took place Wednesday morning from the residence of his daughter at 211 Bradford Street and the interment was at Union Cemetery.
Besides the widow, Mr. Gilbert is survived by two sons, Horace and Allison and one daughter, Mrs George Leary all of this city.
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