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Guests at Soda Springs
The following list was compiled from newspaper accounts; it represents a small fraction of the number of people who stayed at Soda Springs during the two decades of its best years. Research has identified some of them, revealing much about the kinds of people who stayed there. We hope to discover more in the future, and add to the details.
March 6, 1885
Miss L Miller, Alameda
Mrs JB & Miss Grace Wooster, SF
Ed Martin, Portland
John McGregor, Portland, OR
June 19, 1885
Visit of the Pacific Coast Press Association:
WH Barnes, the SF Weekly Call
LP McCarthy, Postal Index and Statistician
Mr JP Bogardus, the SF Figaro
William Saunders, Yolo Democrat
Joseph Winterburn, SF Publisher
Mrs BC Brier, Saramento
Mr Hess, the German Demokrat
Mr Theo Painter, the Printer's Guide
Mr AM Benham, the Musical Trade Circular
AJ Share, SF Chronicle
WA Newcum, Suisun Republican
OA Dearing, Newspaper Union
JW Rourke, Downieville Messenger
Mr Carrington, Record Union
Otto Newman, Wine Journal
WH Murry, Journal of Commerce
Dr HC French, El Journal de Commercio
G Katzensten, Rescue
JA Hoffman, Commercial Herald
J Chester, California Patron
HW Fenton, Placer Argus
WHH Tobey, Pacific Churchman
WA Mackinder, St Helena Star
LL Palmer, Napa Register
DL Hackett, Napa Reporter
May 7, 1886
AC Wilkins & wife
Miss Murray, Boston, MA
RB Fooman
James W Hart
Miss Stephens
SH Munson
Mrs AE VanDewater, SF
William E Grey, St Louis
Judge WW Oliver
JE Rose, Cincinatti
WM Bunker & wife, SF
John W Kelley
Miss Kelley
Mrs G Conrad & child
DR Lewis
Charles C Adsit
HB Chase, Chicago An eligible bachelor from a good family; he married Minnie Mizner--whom he met at the resort--and they founded Stags Leap Vineyards.
JP Averill, New York
Miss M Harvey
Miss E Loop, Wilkes Barre
Miss S Rieman
Miss J Rieman, Baltimore
Mrs EJ Dykeman, Philadelphia
Mrs BF Farrington
Mrs AE Strong
Miss Strong, Detroit
John M Ballon, Dubuque, IA
L Allen & wife, New York
June 21, 1889
Mrs Edward Stanley
Miss Garber
Mrs AB Field & family
Miss McCullough
P Everts & wife
HW Hyman & family
David Hunter & wife
Mrs Ira Pierce & family
James G Fair Probably the son of James Fair, the most notorious of the four Bonanza Kings, who made their fortunes in the Nevada silver mines; he died an alcoholic before the age of 30.
William Forsyth & wife
Mrs Doctor Spencer & family
Mrs JP Jackson & family The family of Colonel Jackson.
SP Middleton & wife
Miss AE Klins
Mrs WT Salter
BE Chapman
George T Coulter
Miss MM Garber
J Goodman Possibly one of the Napa Goodmans, a banking family after whom the old library was named.
Mrs FL Wooster, SF Probably wife of Fred Wooster; he came from a wealthy San Francisco family, and went on to manage Soda Springs Resort with Andrew Jackson, Colonel Jackson's son. He lost the family fortune, and ventured north during the Klondike Gold Rush, where he died a still young man.
Henry W Mizner, Benicia Son of a prominent family that spawned the notorious Addison and Wilson Mizner, his brothers. Wilson Mizner became a famous wit and screenwriter, Addison Mizner became an architect who designed the most lavish mansions in Florida.
Mr & Mrs HB Chase, Chicago Horace and his wife, the former Mizner girl and Henry's sister.
George Raymond & wife, Boston Raymond may have been the proprietor of the East Coast-based Raymond's Excursions company, which arranged tours for the wealthy.
E. Floyd Jones, St. Louis
Mr & Mrs JW Coleman
Mr Harry L Coleman
Miss Jessie Coleman, Oakland
Harry G. Chase, Phoenix, AZ
April 18, 1890
M Peyser & wife
Mrs FW Sumner
Mrs H Jacobs
Miss Lulu Jackson, SF
Mrs JP Lowell, Oakland
Emma L Straus
Mrs Cator & family
Miss F Cator, SF
Geoorge P Lowell, Oakland
FL Blinn, Highland Park
RB Woodward Probably the son of a famous San Francisco merchant who founded the What Cheer House, a legendary saloon, and created San Francisco's Woodward Gardens, a place famous for its flora, zoo and statuary. He also owned Napa's Oak Knoll estate.
FS Wooster
FL Wooster
IP Lowell
Mrs AF Coffin & child, Oakland
Arthur Smith & wife
Lillian Burgess
Mabel Burgess
Henry Jacobs
OD Baldwin A wealthy San Francisco investor/businessman.
Mrs AD Baldwin
Miss Blanche Baldwin
Master Orville Baldwin
GHF Jackson & wife
Arthur Painter
Mrs CPT Smith & three children, SF
June 7, 1890
George L North & Family
Mrs TC Cary
Captain John Metcalf
John M Adams
Miss Goad
JRE Roberts
DM Holbrook
CF Miner
ES Heller
Miss Garber
Dr. CG Kenyon
Mrs Palmer & family
John H Boalt & family The lawyer after whom Boalt Hall, the UC Berkeley law school, was named.
Mr & Mrs FB Wilde
Mrs John Orr & family
Mrs John F Merrill & family
Dr & Mrs GK Frink
S Hart
Jno K Orr
Arthur Orr
Arthur Pawson
Wellesley Moore
CM Palmer, SF
Harry East Miller
Mrs CM Lane, Oakland
Cpt WM Smith, SS Oceanic Smith's ship was built in 1871; the Oceanic is considered the first modern ocean liner, built and owned by the same companies that created the Titanic. She worked the Pacific trade from 1880 till 1895.
Mrs CM Bartlett, Worcester, MA
Mrs Jarvis Forney
Miss McDougal
Miss Ludlow
Benjamin Wright
CM Knepper
Colonel James Forney
Dr & Mrs Bates, Mare Island
JS Hansen, Los Angeles
July 11, 1890
Miss Remi Chabot Possibly the same Alameda County family after whom many East Bay locations are named.
Miss Henriette Chabot
Miss May Burnham
Miss C Chabot
Miss Clara Chabot
Carl Chabot
J Dewitt McPike
Philip Abott, St Helena
Jno K Orr
Mr & Mrs George W Fisher
Werner Stauf, Oakland
Freitz Piepers
JWC Rhind
George W Schell
Miss Emma C Cale
Miss Nellie H Cale
Sam F Hughes
George S Mearns
Arthur Painter
Jno P Jackson, Jr.
Mr & Mrs Jno P. Danforth
Miss FM Danforth
Miss I Tay Probably daughters of George Tay, an early San Francisco businessman who became the city's biggest hardware merchant.
Miss Hattie Tay
EH Kowalsky
Arthur Pawson
Jno F Mevoud
Warren D Clark
Oscar T Suvall
Samuel Hart
Benn Hart
Geo L North
ER Garber
JH Mundy
WE Brown
Chas Holbrook
Henry Holbrook
Stanley H Jackson
Mrs John Block & daughter
E Trustar
James F Burnell
John Metcalf
L Phillips
John M Lewis
Irving C Lewis
F Durham
Mrs Bessie Smith
J M Mansfield, Jr
James W Duffy
JA Jourdan, SF
Mrs Jungler, Mare Island
CC Mansfield, Napa
ET Albee and wife
Mrs H Clefford
AE Chapman, Benicia
June 19, 1892
Austin Tubbs Probably a member of the family that owned Tubbs Cordage, a San Francisco rope manufacturer; Calistoga's Tubbs Lane is named after them, and they founded what is now known as Chateau Montelena Winery.
Fred Tallant
Ramon Wilson
FL Webster
NG Kittle
UC Murdock
FL Wooster
Jerry Lincoln
Ed Donohoe
Joseph M Quay
RB Woodard
Faxon Atherton, Jr The town of Atherton was named after his father, Faxon, a Massachussetts merchant who married into an old California family, resulting in their ownership of tens of thousands of acres in the state. His sister-in-law, Gertrude, became a famous novelist and notoriously liberated woman who embarrassed the family greatly.
CE Worden
Will Tubbs
EL Bosqui
George Crocker Nephew of Charles Crocker, one of the builders of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Robert Grayson
EP Danforth
Richard Sprague
Joseph Grant
HH Veuve
Andrew Jackson Son of John Putnam Jackson, and manager of the resort for some years.
July 1, 1892
Mrs ZL Tanner, fam, Mare Island
Miss MA Miller
PL Miller
HH Miller
Miss M Herrick
Miss A Herrick, Oakland
Mrs MP Jones
Milton Jones
Mrs HW Hyman, fam
Miss Mary Morgan
Mrs JP Jackson, fam
Charles A Fay
Mrs Leila Ellis
Miss Leila Ellis
Joseph Hirsch, wife
Jerome B Lincoln
John W Coleman, fam
Mrs AJ McElroy
Dr Whittell
Mrs M Nunau, fam
Jno B Guttman
Mrs JC Reis
Miss Reis
Miss JD Siebe
Miss Siebe
HA Maass, wife
Mrs RL Stone, fam
F Ringsbury
Mrs MA Brown, fam
William Lyons, San Francisco
May 31, 1895
Mr and Mrs S Foster
George Klock
DF Tillinghast
George W Turner
HP Clarke
Cpt CF Hutchins
JD Frey
J Pauline French
Hans Kohler
Mr and Mrs Frey
Mr and Mrs Louis F Monteagle, San Francisco
Mr and Mrs EP Danforth
June 21, 1895
L Van Laak, wife
Mrs Julius Sultan, San Francisco
Mr and Mrs Frank Wilson
Raymond Wilson
Mrs HI Coon, Berkeley
Mr and Mrs Goodrich, Santa Clara
Herbert L Draper
Francis Boughter
Thomas Price, Mare Island
Mrs MM Estee
Miss Mabel Estee, Hedgeside
Miss Virginia Thompson, Santa Rosa
Mr and Mrs WH Abbott
Mr and Mrs CH Shattuck, Alameda Shattuck became president of the University of Idaho and founded there an arboretum which bears his name.
Cpt CT Hutchins, US Navy
Mrs E Weisman
AH Hart, San Francisco
Miss LC Galbraith
Lt WW Galbraith, Presidio, San Francisco
Miss MI McDonnell
Miss Tay
Miss HB Tay
A Howard
Mrs MP Jones
Mrs NJ Somers
Mrs AP Green
Miss JC Reis
Miss May Reis
Mr and Mrs Julian Sonntag
Miss Ila Sonntag, San Francisco
Charles H Jackson, Sacramento
CK Clark
GHT Jackson and family
Mrs Sol Getz and son
Milton Getz
William Schwartz and wife
Master Sidney Schwartz
Mr and Mrs Adenreid, SF
Mrs EH Davenport, fam, Berkeley
Mr James Gamble
Mrs Stanley
Miss EB Garber, San Francisco
June 16, 1900
Mr and Mrs Heynemann, fam
Mr and Mrs JL Hergert
Mr and Mrs James Hogg
Miss Hogg
Miss Callaghan
A Fodera
Mr and Mrs AA Moore, Jr
AH Small
Mr and Mrs Doerr
Mr R Forsyth
Mr Rosenthal
A Shoenfeld
Mr and Mrs H Schwartz
Mr and Mrs MW Rosenshine and fam
Mrs Rosenthal
J McDougall
H Kunz
Matt Grimm, San Francisco
Gus Hergert and wife
Frank Welti
Joe Kronberg
Joe Levinson, Napa
H Hilderbrand, Oakland
June 23, 1900
Miss Irene Muzzy
Miss Helene Spreyer
Miss Ethel Spreyer
IE Mecum
JC Payton
JW Harper
R Hamilton, wife
Emil Magner, wife
Maybelle Magner
Roy Fuller
George A Davis
E Frowenfeld
Miss Newell
Mrs J Frowenfeld, fam
H Marx, fam
Mrs H Weis
Miss Weis
CJ Gyle
Mr and Mrs WD Claussen
AM Ramsey, wife
M Redmget, SF
FW Moebus, wife, Alameda
JA Rutherford, wife, Alameda
JM Mitchell, wife
Miss L Doyle
Mr F Fish
Miss Ferrier
W Fitzsimmons
Miss Pope
Mr Bromlett
Miss Marcum
J Sanderson
Miss Cleveland
C McDonald
Miss F Brosenahan
P Bernheim
Miss H Bergendahl
Mr C Pope
Miss M Gerning
G Shields
Miss G Doyle
H Medley
A Bernheim, Vallejo
Mrs AF Burns
Miss Burns
Percy Burns, Oakland
NH Wulf, fam
EW Churchill Churchill was a Napa banker who partnered with the Goodmans.
Mrs Churchill
Miss Churchill
HR Smith
Abe Straus
Miss Lee
JE Beard, Napa
FE Rigby, Chicago
Mr WA Powning, Belvedere
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