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Note: Leon Bangs ROWLAND [141 Van Ness Avenue: 1929 - 1952] --
Leon Rowland's Books
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Annals of Santa Cruz, c1947
Los Fundadores, c1951
Old Santa Cruz Mission, c1941
Villa de Branciforte, c 1941
The Story of Old Soquel, c1940
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Santa Cruz, The Early Years: The Collected Historical Writings of Leon
Rowland, c1980; Published by Paper Vision Press, with Dedication by Alan
Wheatly Rowland, Foreword by Sandy Lydon.
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From the 1939 Santa Cruz City Directory:
Rowland Leon (Jeannette) ed San Lorenzo Valley Journal h41 Van Ness (Post-Jul 1947 address: 141 Van Ness Ave) [Source #1]
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From the 1941 Santa Cruz City Directory:
Rowland Jean R r41 Van Ness Rowland Leon (Jeannette) ed San Lorenzo Valley Journal h41 Van Ness (Post-Jul 1947 address: 141 Van Ness Ave) [Source #2]
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From the 1946 Santa Cruz City Directory:
Rowland Leon (Jeannette) ed San Lorenzo Valley Journal h41 Van Ness Rowland Wheatley USN r41 Van Ness (Post-Jul 1947 address: 141 Van Ness Ave) [Source #3]
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Obituary
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Monday 1 December 1952 Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Page One
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Historian-Writer Leon Rowland Dies Suddenly Today
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Ill for less than a day, Leon Rowland, 67, Sentinel-News writer and widely known historian of this area, died suddenly at 5:00 a.m. today at his home,
141 Van Ness avenue.
Rowland, who came to Santa Cruz in 1929 as city editor of the Santa Cruz Evening News, had been at his desk at this newspaper Saturday night and
apparently was in th best of health.
He first complained of a pain in the abdomen yesterday at 2:30 p.m., Mrs. Rowland said. He believed it was an attack of indigestion and a physician was
called at 6 o'clock. Death was due to an internal hemorrhage.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Wessendorf's mortuary, awaiting arrival of the Rowlands' daughter from Seattle. She is coming by plane and will arrive
tonight.
Born in Sac City, Iowa, December 14, 1884, Rowland would have been 68 in two weeks.
Besides his widow, Jeanette, of the family home, he leaves his daughter, Mrs. R.C. Jackson, Seattle; two sons, Alan Wheatley Rowland, an architect now
associated with a firm building air strips in Okinawa, and Ralph B. Rowland, a
student at San Jose State College; and three grandchildren, Donald, Catherine
and Roger Jackson of Seattle.
He was the author of six book and phamplets on local history: Old Santa Cruz Mission, published in 1941; The Story of Old Soquel, 1940; Villa de
Branciforte (The Villa That Vanished), 1941; Brief History of the Santa Cruz
Sentinel-News and Newspaper of Santa Cruz County, 1944; Annals of Santa Cruz,
1947; and Los Funadores (The Founders), 1952. His Circuit Rider column in the
Sunday Sentinel-News had wide readership.
Son of the late William Boudinot [Rowland] and Lois Bangs Rowland, he moved from Sac City, his birthplace, at an early age, to Harlan, Iowa, where he
attended grade and high schools. Later he attended Lake Forest university in
Illinois.
He was an Associated Press correspondent in Seattle, Helena, Montana, and in other northwest cities as well as in San Francisco before coming to Santa Cruz
23 years ago to become city editor of the Evening News.
He was married to the former Jeanette Wheatley at St. Paul, Minnesota, in Feburary, 1922.
Rowland became associated with the Sentinel-News as Sunday editor in November, 1941.
He served on the Santa Cruz museum board of directors and was secretary of the Santa Cruz Historical Society. Last March he testified as a historian in
the master's hearing in Los Angeles on the tidelands issue in connection with
the Monterey Bay region. He was a member of E Clampus Vitus, a California
organization devoted to the study of the history of Californiana, historical
highlights of the state.
Rowland's "Annals of Santa Cruz" was the result of years of research and countless conversations with old-time residents. His sources were newspaper
files, records of Holy Cross mission, records of the state library at
Sacramento, the State Historical Society, secretary of state, and Bancroft
library. Much data was obtained from Sentinel files dating back to 1855.
The book contains such information as the time Santa Cruz made a "great outcry" when it was learned that San Mateo county had [photo] annexed
Pescadero and Half Moon bay in 1857; the rule of the American alcades;
choosing members of the first legislature; Santa Cruz being the birthplace of
the temperance movement in the state; the vigorous history of Boulder Creek
and many other facts of interest.
In "Los Fundadores," Rowland listed the names of the men who came from Mexico to Northern California in the first 15 years of its settlement, most of
them to remain in the area. The book is copyrighted by the Academy of
California Church History (1951) of Fresno.
The popular historian, student of old Spanish and missions, put his hobby of genealogy to good use in his last historical volume.
In his constant search for accurate historical facts, Rowland was constantly searching through old mission records. In a trip to Mexico earlier this year,
he found ??? materials on early Californians.
His files on Monterey bay area history and early Californians have long been acknowledged as some of the best sources of historical date in the state.
[Source #4]
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Sources:
1. 1939 Santa Cruz City Directory
2. 1941 Santa Cruz City Directory
3. 1946 Santa Cruz City Directory
4. Monday 1 December 1952 Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Page One
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