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| Last Name, First or topic | Page # | Image type | Other information - Dr, Jr, wife of ..., occupation, etc. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abel, Henry | 39 | photo | |
| Abraham, Terrie | 87 | photo | |
| Ahearn, Jerry | 110 | ||
| Airpoint School | 85 | photo | |
| Alquist, Al | 108 | photo | |
| Alvarado, Juan | 16 | map | Governor of Mexico |
| Alviso Harbor | 21 | photo | |
| Alviso, José | 17 | photo | |
| Alviso, José Maria | 16 | map | Mexican governor |
| Alviso, Juana | 17 | photo | |
| Alviso, Maria de Los Angeles | 17 | photo | |
| Alviso, Ygnacio | 21 | photo | majordomo at Mission Santa Clara |
| Amaral, Frank | 52 | photo | |
| Anderson, Stan | 103 | photo | |
| Arroyo de Los Coches | 17 | photo | today's Los Coches Creek |
| Arroyo Hondo | 56 | map | |
| Ayer, Samuel | 37, 39 | photo | blacksmith |
| Bachelor Belles | 118 | photo | |
| Baker, Dick | 112 | photo | director; |
| Bauer, Hank | 121 | photo | |
| Beaton, Bob | 112 | photo | second vice president; |
| Berger, Gladys Farnsworth | 48 | photo | of San Jose |
| Berra, Yogi | 121 | photo | |
| Berry, Viola | 49 | photo | schoolteacher |
| Bettencourt Adeline | 118 | photo | |
| Bettencourt, Joe | 92 | photo | |
| Blake, Ed | 115 | photo | |
| Boetcher, Harold E. | 116 | photo | |
| Borba, Lorraine | 74 | photo | |
| Borge, Alvera | 70 | photo | nicknamed "Deniz" |
| Borges, Clarence | 70 | photo | nicknamed "Sonny" |
| Boyce, David | 37 | photo | blacksmith |
| Brandt, Charles | 55 | photo | |
| Breitels, Donna Sepulveda | 17 | photo | |
| Briery, Sharon Smith | 84 | photo | |
| Brown, Bob | 107 | photo | city manager |
| Brown, Jerry | 31, 57 | photo | |
| Brown, Joe | 102 | photo | |
| Bunnell, Lahoma | 119 | photo | |
| Burrill, Robert | 11, 91 | photo | |
| Caampued, Hernando | 113 | photo | |
| Calaveras Valley | 8 | photo | |
| Campos, Dany | 115 | photo | |
| Cape Verde Islands | 25 | photo | |
| Capella, Charles | 113 | photo | |
| Cardoza, Kathy | 105 | photo | |
| Cardoza, Tom | 100 | photo | |
| Carlo, Al | 100 | photo | |
| Carlo, Alfred | 47, 120 | photo | |
| Carlo, Anna Tomasina | 29 | photo | |
| Carlo, Carole | 40 | photo | |
| Carlo, John | 42 | photo | |
| Carlo, John Rose | 29 | photo | |
| Carlo, Johnny | 120 | photo | |
| Carlo, Joseph Dick | 120 | photo | |
| Carlo, Magdalena | 29 | photo | "Lena" |
| Carlo, Mary | 41 | photo | |
| Castro, José | 16 | map | |
| Caswell, Dwight | 91 | photo | |
| Cavallini, Ed | 93, 127 | photo | librarian |
| Cestaric, Joseph | 116 | photo | |
| Chapman, Robert | 85 | photo | |
| Che, Yin Jone | 79 | photo | |
| Cherry, Russ | 113 | photo | |
| Chew, Harvey | 79 | photo | |
| Chew, Helen | 79 | photo | |
| Chew, Shirley | 79 | photo | |
| Chew, Winston | 78, 79 | photo | |
| Childers, Janer Silva | 49 | photo | |
| Chong, Larry | 103 | photo | Dr. |
| Cicala, Vincent | 87 | photo | |
| Columbert, Clemente | 18 | photo | |
| Costello, Catherine | 37 | photo | |
| Covo, Johny | 48 | photo | |
| Coyote Creek | 10 | map | |
| Crabb, Alexander | 51 | photo | |
| Cracolice, Alice | 47 | photo | |
| Cracolice, Bob | 34, 96 | photo | |
| Cracolice, Sal | 87, 92, 96, 110, 120 | photo | |
| Craighton, Fredrick | 87 | photo | |
| Crandral, Earl | 112 | photo | Assemblyman |
| Crusoe, L. D. | 97 | photo | Ford vice president |
| Cuciz, Frank | 92 | photo | |
| Cuciz, Joe | 57, 66 | photo | |
| Curtner, Henry | 18, 43, 68 | photo | |
| Curtner, Ruth Long | 45 | photo | |
| Curtner, William M. | 70 | photo | |
| Curtner, William Weller | 44, 68 | photo | |
| de Sola, Pablo Vicente | 16 | map | the last Spanish governor |
| Dean, Evelyn | 118 | photo | |
| Decker, Pat | 119 | photo | |
| Delong, Dick | 112 | photo | City manager |
| Denevan, Pat | 125 | photo | |
| DeSimas, Anthony | 31 | photo | |
| DeSimas, Joseph Anthony | 31 | photo | |
| DeSimas, Mary Magdelena | 31 | photo | |
| DeSmidt, Frank | 108 | photo | |
| Dessel, Greg | 115 | photo | |
| Devincenzi, Rob | 126 | photo | |
| Dietz, Don L. | 21 | photo | |
| DiMaggio, Joe | 121 | photo | |
| Dixon Landing | 22 | photo | |
| Dixon, Mathew W. | 22 | photo | owned farm was located close to the Santa Clara County line |
| Donahe, Warren E. | 116 | photo | |
| Donnelly, Mike | 115 | photo | |
| Dophna, Rose | 31 | photo | |
| Doten, Alfred | 26 | photo | |
| Douglas, Kirk | 53 | photo | |
| Downing Ranch | 12 | photo | in the foothills of Milpitas |
| Downing, George Lucas | 68 | photo | |
| Duarte, Melvin | 116 | photo | |
| Duarte, Regina | 40 | photo | |
| Dutra, Frank | 42 | photo | |
| Dutra, Gwen | 40 | photo | |
| East Bay League of Cities | 97 | photo | |
| Eberle, Walt | 87 | photo | |
| Ed Levin County Park | 69, 124 | photo | |
| Edwards, Don | 91 | photo | congressman |
| Elmwood Chapel | 25 | photo | |
| Elmwood Jail | 25 | photo | |
| Enriquez, Lucas R. | 116 | photo | |
| Evatt, Tom | 92, 100, 117, 125 | photo | |
| Falcato, John | 116 | photo | |
| Farcia, Frank | 107 | photo | |
| Faria, Bill | 92 | photo | |
| Faria, Joe | 92 | photo | |
| Fat Boy Barbeque restaurant | 34, 109 | photo | |
| Fernandes, Marilyn Dutra | 47 | photo | |
| Fernandez, Ann | 119 | photo | |
| Ferreira, Gerald | 116 | photo | |
| Ferreira, Sebastian | 116 | photo | |
| Ferry, Guy | 115 | photo | |
| Fischer, Robert B. | 22 | photo | |
| Flores, Tony | 26 | photo | |
| Ford Motor Company | 99 | photo | |
| Franco, Manuel | 67, 68 | photo | |
| Galindo, Juan Crisostomo | 16, 19 | map | |
| Galindo-Agua adobe | 19 | photo | |
| Garcia, Bonnie | 40 | photo | |
| Garcia, Melvin | 116 | photo | |
| Gardens, Sylvan | 119 | photo | |
| George, Krazy | 91 | photo | cheerleader |
| Giacomazzi grocery store | 35 | photo | was taken down in 1962 and replaced by Milpitas's first shopping center |
| GMC "Leapin' Lena" | 93 | photo | |
| Golden Spike ceremony | 54 | photo | |
| Gomes, Barbara | 47, 76 | photo | |
| Gomes, Frank | 72 | photo | auctioneer |
| Gomes, Irene | 47 | photo | |
| Gomes, Joseph Laurence | 29 | photo | |
| Gomes, Louie | 77 | photo | |
| Goodman, Haskell | 97 | photo | nicknamed "Jack"; Harvard-trained lawyer |
| Goularte, Jack | 34, 49 | photo | barber |
| Grammar School | 50 | photo | the only school in Milpitas in 1926 |
| Grand Knights | 113 | photo | |
| Graves, Roy | 54 | photo | |
| Gross, Ben | 105 | photo | mayor |
| Guadalupe River | 10 | map | |
| Guerrero, Josephine | 47, 87 | photo | |
| Guerrero, Tony | 116 | photo | |
| Guzman, Luis | 68 | photo | |
| Hamann, Dutch | 101 | photo | |
| Harker, Al | 120 | photo | |
| Harney, Michael | 11 | sketch | |
| Hart, Marrion | 44 | photo | |
| Hatfield, Adrian | 125 | photo | |
| Hatfield, Ben | 125 | photo | |
| Henderson, Scot | 91 | photo | |
| Henriques, Bernadine | 118 | photo | |
| Henriques, Gary | 40 | photo | |
| Higuera, Fulgencio | 16 | map | |
| Higuera, Fulgencio Francisco | 19 | photo | husband of Marta Clara Saturnina Pacheco |
| Higuera, José | 16 | map | |
| Higuera, José Loreto | 19 | photo | |
| Hiser, Roy | 112 | photo | treasurer |
| Holmes, Norman | 54 | photo | |
| Holy Ghost Festa | 41 | photo | |
| Homes, Milford | 119 | photo | |
| Horcajo, Robert A. | 116 | photo | |
| Horyza, Lou | 15, 113, 115 | photo | |
| Horyza, Peggy | 28 | photo | |
| House, Joe | 107 | photo | mayor |
| Hufton, David | 103 | photo | |
| Indihar, Ludwin | 115 | photo | |
| Johnson, Elwood | 66 | photo | |
| Jones, Craighten | 45 | photo | |
| Kanamotto, Harry | 120 | photo | |
| Kantack, Ed | 115 | photo | |
| Keely, Bob | 93 | photo | |
| Kennedy, John | 108 | photo | |
| Kent, Jackie | 107 | photo | |
| Killbourne, David | 125 | photo | |
| King, Thomas Starr | 88 | photo | Rev. of the Unitarian church in San Francisco |
| Kinney Shoes | 82 | photo | |
| Kiwanis International | 113 | photo | |
| Knight, Dennis | 113 | photo | |
| Kozy Kitchen restaurant | 100, 109 | photo | |
| Laguna School | 48 | photo | |
| Laguna Valley | 8 | photo | |
| Lancaster, Burt | 53 | photo | |
| Lane, Weller | 107 | photo | |
| Lasuen, Fermin | 15 | photo | Fr.; founded Mission San José |
| Leventhal, Alan | 24 | ||
| Levin, Ed | 124 | photo | supervisor |
| Levine, Elaine | 127 | photo | |
| Levine, Mort | 101, 110 | photo | |
| Lind, Ron | 113 | photo | |
| Loomis, Pat | 127 | photo | |
| Loughborough;, george | 112 | photo | immediate past president or Lion Tamer |
| Louie Gomes family | 76 | photo | |
| Madarang, Ed | 115 | photo | |
| Madruga, Ray | 37 | photo | blacksmith |
| Mantle, Mantle | 121 | photo | |
| Margolin, Malcolm | 11 | sketch | |
| Mason, Ann | 47, 50 | photo | |
| Mason, Charles | 112 | photo | secretary |
| Mathews, James N. | 116 | photo | |
| Mattos Manuel | 116 | photo | |
| Mattos, Mabel | 69, 74, 118, 127 | photo | |
| McCarthy Ranch | 73 | photo | |
| McDermott, Betty | 102 | photo | |
| McDermott, John | 102 | photo | |
| McGadden, Ruth | 119 | photo | |
| McGuire, Bob | 127 | photo | |
| McGuire, Harriet | 119 | photo | |
| McHugh, Pete | 114 | photo | |
| McInerney, Joe | 110 | ||
| Mendizabal, Mike | 113 | photo | |
| Miller, Ace | 120 | photo | |
| Miller, Vernie | 47 | photo | |
| Milpitas Fire Department | 92 | photo | |
| Milpitas Lions Club | 112 | photo | |
| Milpitas Military Band | 52 | photo | |
| Milpitas Minutemen | 102 | photo | |
| Milpitas Veterans Park | 114 | photo | |
| Mission Peak | 9 | photo | reaches 2,517 feet |
| Mission Peak School | 48 | photo | |
| Mission San José | 15 | photo | |
| Mission Santa Clara | 14 | photo | |
| Monument Peak | 9 | photo | reaches 2,594 feet |
| Moran, Joan | 119 | photo | |
| Morando, Gaye | 110 | ||
| Mount Hamilton | 56 | map | |
| Mt. Allison | 9 | photo | reaches 2,658 feet |
| Mt. Hamilton Range | 9 | photo | |
| Murphy, John | 44 | photo | |
| Murphy, Leo | 105, 127 | photo | principal |
| Nakamura, Noburu | 109 | photo | |
| National Register of Historic Places | 47 | photo | |
| Neil, Angela | 108 | photo | |
| Nelson, Phil | 126 | photo | photographer |
| Ogle, Mareila | 119 | photo | |
| Ohlones | 9 | photo | Muwekma or Costaños, as they were also called by the Spanish; lived between Big Sur and the San Francisco Bay. |
| O'Toole Ranch | 109 | photo | |
| O'Toole, John | 23 | photo | |
| Pacheco, Marta Clara Saturnina | 19 | photo | wife of Fulgencio Higuera |
| Parker, Scott | 91 | photo | |
| Parks, W. W. | 26 | photo | |
| Pashote Brothers | 26 | photo | |
| Pashote Central Meat Market | 34, 86 | photo | |
| Pashote, Anthony | 33 | photo | |
| Pashote, Frank | 33 | photo | |
| Pashote, Jack | 33 | photo | |
| Pashote, Joe | 32, 33, 39 | photo | |
| Pashote, John | 33, 116 | photo | |
| Pashote, Manuel | 31, 33 | photo | |
| Pashote, Rose | 32, 57 | photo | |
| Pearl Zanker School | 50 | photo | |
| Pedro, Manuel | 29 | photo | |
| Pedro, Phyllis | 40 | photo | |
| Penitencia Creek | 10 | map | |
| Perry, Herman | 116 | photo | |
| Pimentel, Eleanor | 68 | photo | |
| Pimentel, Manuel | 92 | photo | |
| Poehlman, William | 115 | photo | Jr. |
| Port Alviso | 8, 20, 63 | photo | |
| Presbyterian church | 23 | photo | |
| Ragallo, Francis | 125 | photo | |
| Rancho Agua Caliente | 16 | map | "hot water"; was the largest rancho extending four miles to the north from Milpitas at Scott Creek, to a location along the foothills that had a natural warm spring, subsequently the town of Warm Springs. |
| Rancho Del Agua Caliente | 19 | photo | |
| Rancho Milpitas | 16 | map | "little corn fields or gardens"; occupied the south third of Milpitas, bordered with Los Coches Creek to the north, foothills to the east, Berryessa Creek to the south, and Penitencia Creek to the west, |
| Rancho Tularcitos | 16 | map | "little tule thickets"; occupied the center of Milpitas, from Calera Creek to the north into the foothills to the east, Los Coches Creek to the south, and Penitencia Creek to the west |
| Rodgers, Ben | 87, 110 | photo | |
| Rodriques, William | 116 | photo | |
| Rogers, Ben | 92, 100 | photo | |
| Rogers, David | 40 | photo | |
| Rogers, Pete | 92, 100 | photo | |
| Rood, Eddie | 112 | photo | |
| Rose, Alexander | 66 | photo | |
| Rose, Carlos | 87 | photo | |
| Rose, Danny | 40 | photo | |
| Rose, Doris | 40, 47 | photo | |
| Rose, Jimmy | 40 | photo | |
| Rose, Joseph | 69 | photo | |
| Rose, Joseph L. | 116 | photo | |
| Rose, Manuel R. | 116, 120 | photo | |
| Rose, Matilda | 66 | photo | |
| Sacramento River | 14 | map | |
| Samuel Ayer high school | 105 | photo | |
| San Francisco Public Utilities Commission | 67 | photo | |
| San Francisco-San Jose Railroad | 51 | photo | |
| Santa Clara County Elmwood Correctional Facility | 24 | photo | |
| Santa Clara Valley, The | 8 | photo | the "Valley of Heart's Delight" |
| Santamaria, Phil | 115 | photo | |
| Savage, Ruth | 123 | photo | |
| Scamboti, Chris | 120 | photo | |
| Schmid, Warren | 97, 100 | photo | University of California Berkeley graduate |
| Serpa family | 72 | photo | |
| Serra, Junipero | 14 | photo | Fr.; founded Mission Santa Clara |
| Shaw, Arlene | 100 | photo | part-time receptionist for Warren Schmid |
| Shrupp, Steve | 113 | photo | |
| Silva, Anton Vierra | 69 | photo | |
| Silva, Betty Furtado | 74 | photo | |
| Silva, Dominic | 77 | photo | |
| Silva, Dottie | 118 | photo | |
| Silva, Edward Domingues | 74 | photo | |
| Silva, Gerry | 118 | photo | |
| Silva, Joseph Vierra | 42 | photo | |
| Silva, Manuel | 77 | photo | |
| Silveria, Hazel | 40 | photo | |
| Silveria, Joy | 40 | photo | |
| Simas, Antone | 42 | photo | |
| Simas, Joe | 120 | photo | |
| Simon, Meri | 23 | photo | |
| Skruse, Shirley Chew | 78 | photo | |
| Skyrud, Skip | 99, 104 | photo | |
| Smith, Clarence | 40, 92 | photo | |
| Smith, Joe | 92, 94 | photo | |
| Smith, John | 42 | photo | Grand Marshall |
| Smith, Renselaer J. | 39 | photo | Dr. |
| Smith, Sharron | 40 | photo | |
| Soares, Manuel Moniz | 42 | photo | |
| Soares, Vic | 120 | photo | |
| South Bay Yacht Club | 20 | map | known as the "Blue Lady" |
| Souza, Joanne Pimentel | 25, 29, 42 | photo | |
| Spangler Elementary School | 100 | photo | |
| Spangler, Joe | 52 | photo | |
| Spring Valley Golf Course | 124 | photo | |
| Spring Valley Water Works | 56 | photo | |
| St. John the Baptist Catholic Church | 22 | photo | |
| St. John's Parish Hall | 42 | photo | |
| Stanton, Jerry | 112 | photo | president |
| Steamboat Slough | 21 | photo | |
| Stemel, Clyde | 120 | photo | |
| Stemel, Joe | 120 | photo | |
| Stengel, Casey | 121 | photo | |
| Tank House | 66 | photo | |
| Taylor, Richard | 117 | photo | |
| Temple Hill Academy and New York State Normal School | 44 | photo | |
| Terra, Frank | 26, 37 | photo | |
| Terra, Helen | 119 | photo | |
| Terra, Joyce | 40 | photo | |
| Tessay, Sylvia | 105 | photo | Bay Area Indian princess |
| Thorne, Darlene | 26, 52 | photo | |
| Thorpe, Patti | 91 | photo | |
| Tice, Gary D. | 116 | photo | |
| Tomkin, Viola | 49 | photo | |
| Topham, Edward | 37 | photo | blacksmith |
| Torres, Cathy | 67 | photo | |
| Torres, Danny | 67 | photo | |
| Turturice, Joe | 34 | photo | merchant |
| Valencia, Celeste | 40 | photo | |
| Valencia, Frank | 41, 86, 120 | photo | nicknamed "Pop" |
| Valencia, Velma | 29, 118, 127 | photo | |
| Vargas, Albert | 116 | photo | |
| Velasco, Pat | 119 | photo | |
| Vierra, Manuel | 120 | photo | |
| Vogel, Al | 65, 71, 73 | photo | |
| Wallinger, Rob | 113 | photo | |
| Watts, Andy | 91 | photo | |
| Wayne, Ron G. | 110 | ||
| Weisgerber, Denny | 102, 112, 114 | photo | |
| Weller, J. R. | 62 | photo | |
| Weller, Joseph | 87 | photo | |
| Weller, Joseph R. | 44 | photo | |
| Weller, Joseph Rush | 23 | photo | |
| Weller, Marian Elizabeth | 44 | photo | |
| Weller, Marion Curtner | 18 | photo | |
| Weller, May Lucinda | 44, 70 | photo | |
| Weller, R. | 25 | photo | Judge |
| Weller, Ted | 62 | photo | |
| Weller, Theodore R. | 18 | photo | |
| Western Pacific Railroad | 97 | photo | |
| Winsor, Bob | 36 | photo | |
| Winsor, Edward Francis | 37 | photo | |
| Winsor, George | 36 | photo | |
| Winsor, John | 37 | photo | |
| Winsor, Tom | 36 | photo | |
| Wool, Al | 62, 122 | photo | |
| Wool, Betty | 62 | photo | |
| Wool, Ernie | 62, 65 | photo | |
| Wool, Jason | 62 | photo | |
| Wool, Ruth | 62 | photo | |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | 39 | photo | Chicago area architect |
| Zanker, Pearl | 50 | photo | |
| Zuvella, Paul | 121 | photo |