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APRIL 5, 1913: Construction began on San Francisco’s fourth and present-day City Hall.

APRIL 5, 1913: Construction began on San Francisco’s fourth and present-day City Hall. When San Francisco was incorporated in 1850, a City Hall was erected…

MARCH 31, 1916: The Japanese-owned passenger ship Chiyo Maru sank just off of Lema Island southeast of Hong Kong. William CTS Filmer was captain of one of its two sister ships before becoming San Franciso’s Port Captain.

This story begins with my great great grandfather, William Edevine Filmer. Born to a wealthy family in 1843 in Newton Abbot, England, he enlisted in…