1860 Archives - Page 4 of 7 -

APRIL 16, 1806: Hugh Toland was born in Newberry County, South Carolina. He founded what would become the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

In 1851, 46-year-old surgeon Hugh Toland moved with his family from Missouri to California to seek his fortune in the Gold Rush. After only a…

FEBRUARY 26, 1865: Having arrived in San Francisco, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote in his diary “…home again at the Occidental Hotel”.

Opened in 1861, one of San Francisco’s most opulent hotels, the Occidental Hotel at Bush and Montgomery, catered exclusively to the wealthy. The hotel provided…