Genealogy and recollections . were, using wines and liquors inextreme moderation when at all. Their simple liveswere pastoral and picturesque. The Church made no effort for secular education,but at intervals some governor would make attempt,so there were a few (very few) secular schools. Thefirst teacher of a secular school in California wasManuel Vargas, a retired soldier, who taught in SanJose. The system of compulsory education was putin force in 1794 by Governor Borica. We nameschools and streets for the inefficient Fremont, thePathfinder, who traveled worn trails, and forothers of that il
Genealogy and recollections . were, using wines and liquors inextreme moderation when at all. Their simple liveswere pastoral and picturesque. The Church made no effort for secular education,but at intervals some governor would make attempt,so there were a few (very few) secular schools. Thefirst teacher of a secular school in California wasManuel Vargas, a retired soldier, who taught in SanJose. The system of compulsory education was putin force in 1794 by Governor Borica. We nameschools and streets for the inefficient Fremont, thePathfinder, who traveled worn trails, and forothers of that ilk. Verendreye saw the Rocky Moun-tains about 100 years before Fremont did. Coronadopenetrated from southwest to the center of Kansasabout 1542. Americans trapped on the Sacramentoand San Joaquin in the twenties. Jedediah Smithwas at our Mission of San Jose in 1826, and in aletter to the Padres there, signed Your brother inChrist. Fremont, in the forties, rode dusty we teach the children to revere frauds, why []. Mrs. Moore and Some of her Grandchildren (1908) Upper row, left to right: Allen Moore Starr, Albert Arthur Moore Middle: Jacqueline Valentine, Walter A. Starr, Jr. Lower: J. J. Valentine, Jr. RECOLLECTIONS not skip them a bit and name schools for the oldsoldier-teacher, Vargas, and Borica, the founder? One could write on and on of the old came here while they were still fairly numerousand as a boy mingled with them, learning in a poorway to speak their tongue. I still know some of thepoor, robbed remnant of that people. I liked themand their life, and if time and writing fitness per-mitted would take pleasure in writing from my view-point the melancholy story of their time. The for-eign American invasion began in very small way,but with the first, in about 1815, the end was in there were a few trappers; then a few desertingsailors from ships. These first comers all becameCatholic and married California women. Such weretolerated,
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