San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Photo Place.....Myron Angel Home, San Luis Obispo ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com November 26, 2006, 6:15 pm Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/sanluisobispo/photos/myronang92gph.jpg Image file size: 89.6 Kb MYRON ANGEL HOME 714 Buchon Street, San Luis Obispo History and Description: The Myron Angel home was built between 1870 and 1880; the exact date cannot be specified, only approximated, I due to lack of documental proof of its construction date. Myron Angel's home of Victorian style architecture defines its character of charming elegance with its fine architectural as well as structural details constructed of redwood connected by handsome squarehead nails. In direct contrast, most homes of today have some form of concrete foundation in securing a home to the earth, but Myron Angel's home, as well as others within the vicinity of his home, were secured by 4 x 5 redwood .posts upon redwood mudsills spaced approximately 5 feet on center of one another trussed together forming an unseemingly secure foundation. By request of the present owner of the Myron Angel home, a local contractor estimated the home to last at least another 80-90 years with minor structural improvements. Myron Angel was a native of Oneonta, New York, born on December 11, 1827 from a Puritan Pilgram descent. At fifteen, Myron was an orphan but was educated at Hartwich Seminary. In 1846, Myron resigned from West Point Military Academy to enter the California Gold Rush. As the heir to a will left by his family, Myron Angel's expenses for his education and travels were paid by his inherited fortune. On his way west, Myron stopped at Peoria, Illinois, to be accompanied by his brother, a lawyer, for the remainder of the journey west. As the two brothers traveled westward from Peoria, they stopped briefly at Pike's Peak, and the Feather River. In California, the two brothers had a ranch on the Sacramento River near Chico; in North San Juan, Myron lost $40,000 on a mining claim. In 1860, his brother was killed at Washoe in an Indian massacre. In 1860, Myron Angel was editor of the Placerville Semi-Weekly Observer. During the Civil War, Myron Angel offered his services and resources as a captain of a personal self-paid army til his funds were depleted, about a month and a half. As an editor and writer, Myron Angel wrote many gazettes, books, and worked for Thompson and West Publishing Company. While teamed up with two other men Myron Angel lost $100,000 in a hydraulic mining operation in El Dorado County. On September 22, 1879, Myron Angel married Charlott Paddock Livingston, an accomplished lady, whose acquaintance extended from the days of their youth. At 52, Angel was asked by the state to write the history of mining in California but was stopped before finishing, because funds were depleted. Myron Angel wrote a thousand quarto page history of Nevada; in 1882, he wrote the History of Placer County, 400 quarto pages, rated excellent political history; and in 1883, he wrote the history of San Luis Obispo County, and at the some time became editor of the San Luis Obispo Weekly Tribune, a Republican newspaper, assessed at 5 million dollars. In 1886, his wife, Charlotte, died, and a monument was erected to her memory but since has disappeared. Late in 1886, Myron Angel disposed of the Tribune and bought the Daily Republic. On November 13, 1889, Myron Angel married Carrie G. Flagler from Fallsburg, New York. As a founding father of Cal Poly, he had long envisioned a college of this type for the community. His dreams became reality in 1901 when Cal Poly was accepted as a vocational high school under supervision of R. L. Shackleford of Paso Robles. Plagued by poor health in his last five years of life, Myron Angel died June 27, 1911. Sources: History of San Luis Obispo. Myron Angel Title insurance Company of San Luis Obispo Louisiana Dart, Curator, San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum William Wharton, Jr.; present owner Historical copies of the Telegram Tribune Newspapers; San Luis Obispo City Library Additional Comments: Extracted from Discovering San Luis Obispo County by Carleton M. Winslow File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sanluisobispo/photos/myronang92gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb