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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in San Jose, California.= Official Website = Overview San Jose (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, -ˈseɪ/; Spanish: [sa%C5%8B xoˈse]; Spanish for '"Saint Joseph"'), officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California (both by population and area). With an estimated 20...
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259, as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together form the U.S. Census Bureau's San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland comb...
Wikipedia Santa Clara University (also referred to as Santa Clara) is a private non-profit Jesuit university located in Santa Clara, California. It has 5,435 full-time undergraduate students, and 3,335 graduate students. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California and has remained in its original location for 164 years. The univer...
This project is for those interred in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.Located on 300 Curtner Avenue, it has also been known as Pioneer Cemetery & San Jose Town Cemetery .The cemetery's origins date back to 1839, during the Mexican period of California, when city officials of the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe began to bury the dead on the northern side of the S...
We began with a mission to celebrate life and serve families. So we planted trees, created pathways and nurtured our community. Our first memorial took place in 1889, and since then, Los Gatos Memorial Park has been a peaceful setting where families can come to remember and honor. In over 30 acres, you’ll find natural beauty and quiet corners. There is much joy to be found here, and we invite y...
Wikipedia San José State University (commonly referred to as San Jose State or SJSU) is a comprehensive public university located in San Jose, California, United States. It is the founding school of the 23 campus California State University (CSU) system and holds the distinction of being the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast of the United States. Alumni
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Santa Clara, California. Official Website Wikipedia History The Tamien tribe of the Ohlone nation of Indigenous Californians have inhabited the area for thousands of years. Spanish Period The first European to visit the valley was José Francisco Ortega in 1769. The Spanish began to colonize California with 21 miss...
Mission City Memorial Park resides in Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California. Also known as Santa Clara Cemetery and Santa Clara City Cemetery, this large burying ground contains interments from the 1840s through to the present. The cemetery is active. "The 30-acre all-faith cemetery is one of only a few municipal owned and operated cemeteries in California. The first records at the cemetery are...
This project is for those buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California Official Website Wikipedia Find a Grave
This project is for those interred in Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California.The cemetery is located on 14766 Oak Street.Madronia Cemetery is one of Santa Clara County’s most picturesque pioneer cemeteries, where the graves lie beneath the redwoods and magnolia trees on 10.5 acres. Like Saratoga itself, Madronia is somewhat exclusive, with only Saratoga and Monte Sereno pro...
The first Christian cemetery in the Santa Clara Valley was founded by the same Franciscan Padres who founded Mission Santa Clara de Asis in 1777. By 1851, when Santa Clara College was founded, the Jesuit Fathers realized that the old cemetery near the Mission was filled. The new site they selected was within a few minutes' walk from the Mission and was located near the small Adobe home of Don ...
This project attempts to document the genealogy of the Derby, Stevenson, and Carson families who were involved with the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine of California 1847-1912 in the Almaden Township near San Jose. and richest mine in California. Discovered in 1845, its quicksilver payload was once crucial for gold and silver processing and manufacturing munitions. It produced over $75 million fro...