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Title: Charlotte Brontë at home
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ose one faculty andfeeling after another, till they went deadaltogether. I hope 1 shall be put into mygrave as soon as 1 m dead. I dont wantto walk about so ! Martha Taylor (Jessie Yorke ) died inOctober, 1842, after a short illness. Char-lotte heard of her danger some hours beforeher death, and hastened to offer help andsympathy to Mary. When she reachedthe Chateau it was to hear that the arch,engaging pet of Taylor and Bronte house-holds had died in the night. I have seen Marthas grave, wroteCharlotte, mournfully,—the place whereher ashes lie in a foreign country. The simple phrase is more pathetic thanthe much-quoted description in Shirley ofJessies last resting-place. Close upon this grief came news of Miss 146 Charlotte Bronte at Home Branwells serious illness. Her nieces madehaste to pack their trunks and engageplaces in the diligence for a hurried journeyhomeward. They were in the act of set-ting out when a second letter brought wordthat their aunt had died, October 29, 1842.

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CHAPTER XI MISS BRANWELLS will—SOME OF BRANWELLSFAILURES—charlottes SECOND YEAR INBRUSSELS—MONSIEUR HEGER AND CHAR-LOTTE BRONTE WHILE living, Miss Elizabeth Branwellhad never been what the Italianscall siinpatica with any of her nieces.Anne, gentle and amiable, was decidedlyher favourite of the three. Her will provedher to be both just and generous. All herpersonal effects were to be divided equallyby Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, with theexception of a japan dressing-casewhich was to be given to Branwell. Afterher just debts and the expenses of a mod-erate and decent funeral were paid, theresidue of her estate was to be invested ingood landed security, or deposited insome safe bank, thereto accumulate for47 148 Charlotte Bronte at Home the benefit of her four nieces, the Brontegirls and her namesake, Elizabeth Kings-ton, in Penzance, until the youngestlegatee should attain the age of one-and-. twenty. Then they were to share andshare alike. 1 have already cited, in evidence of th

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Title: Crocker-Langley San Francisco directory for the year commencing ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Business enterprises Industries
Publisher: San Francisco : H.S. Crocker Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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POSITSLOANS MADE DIRECTORS WM. BABCOCK Parrott & Company S. L. ABBOT Security Savings Bank O. D. BALDWIN O. D. Baldwin & Son JOSEPH D. GRANT Murphy. Giant & Company E. -T. McCUTCHEN Page. McCutchen & Knight L. F. MONTEAGLE Capitalist R. H. PEASE Pres. Goodyear Rubber Company WARREN D. CLARK Williams. Dimond & Company JAS. L. FLOOD Capitalist J. A. DONOHOE Pres. Donohoe-Kelly Banking Company JOHN PARROTT Capitalist JACOB STERN Pres. Levi Strauss & Company WILLIAM BABCOCK President S. L. ABBOT Vice-President and Manager FRED. W. RAY Secretary SIDNEY V SMITH Attorney The Rate of Interest on Deposits for six months ending June29, 1907, was at 4 per cent per annum. 1784 MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK TEMPORARILY LOCATED AT 143 MONTGOMERY STREET Paid up Capital0,000.00 OFFICERS JAMES OB. GUNN President GEO. D. GRAY Vice-President (IF.l). F. LYON Vice-President JNO. U. CALKINSCashier W. F. WILLIAMSONAttorney IBIP .F-1 FFPP r-,- , ■ • -; ■-■ .,< r r~ r r-r:*4r -m

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DIRECTORS ,1 is. J. Fagan Vice-President CrockerNational Hank Geo. D. Gray (iuo. n. Graj .^ Co. F. M. Greenwood Monroe * ireenu oodEstate Co. Jas. OB. GunnPresident Marshall HaleHale Bros. Geo. F. Lyon Lynn iV Hoag Geo. M. Mitchell Mgr. Home insurancei to. ol New York (.has. C. Moose C.C. Mni II- A In. Henry T. Scott President Pacific Tele-phone & TelegraphCo.. Vice-PresidentMercantile Trust i oiupaliy Henry Van Bergeni apitalist § ! W. F. Williamson NEW BUILDING OF THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK MARKET, MASON AND TURK STREETS 173.=; THE ASSOCIATED CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE : 404 MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, SAN FRANCISCO OFFICERS NORMAN McLAREN President P. G. PHILLIPPS Vice-President LESTER HERRICK Secretary-Treasurer JOIIX A. WBIGHT, ESQ., (nuns,! BOARD OF DIRECTORS .r. L. FIELDS, . I. A of J. L. Fields LESTBB BERBICK, C. I. A of Lester Berriok & Berrick aa: NIGHT, C. i. of Allen Enighl oi;i . MeLAREN, C. P. A of McLaren, Goods 8 Co. P. G. PHILLIPPS, 0.

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