Mrs William
Douglas
Of the few surviving women who lived through the infancy of San
Mateo County, Mrs. William Douglas of San Mateo is one of the best
known. Mrs. Douglas has lived in the county for fifty years in which
time she has seen a few scattered settlements develop to the present
peninsula cities.
Mrs. Douglas' career has been most
interesting. While in her 'teens she came around the Horn in a
sailing vessel which took eight months to make the trip. She arrived
in San Francisco in 1850 and a year later she was married.
She then spent a few years in Placer County. Her husband moved his
family to San Mateo in the late fifties. Here he built up a
profitable abstract and real estate business.
Mrs. Douglas is
the mother of ten children. This remarkable woman survives her
husband by fifteen years and has survived all of her children with
the exception of two, Robert Lee Douglas and Mrs. Dr. Sanderson,
both of San Mateo.
Mrs. Douglas tells most interesting tales
of the early days of San Mateo. She describes the business district,
containing a few buildings and restricted to less than the size of a
block. She remembers of the planting of the long rows of gum trees
that have become peninsula land marks and the years that there was
only a morning and afternoon train down the peninsula.
Pieces
of property which Mrs. Douglas now owns were purchased for a song in
the early days but even at that time Mrs. Douglas anticipated the
growth that was coming to San Mateo and vicinity and stubbornly held
on to her land until she now finds her fond dream of a large city
fully realized.
Source: History of San Mateo County
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