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Abbie Jane Hunter
Abigail Jane Hunter, (1855–???) was as an early pioneer businesswoman, real estate development, real estate developer, and visionary of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Carmel-by-the-Sea. She is best known as Carmel's first woman real estate developer and important contributor in Carmel's early years. In 1889, she worked with Santiago J. Duckworth, Santiago James Duckworth to help build a Catholic summer resort called Carmel City. Hunter is credited with coining the name ''Carmel-by-the-Sea'' and utilizing it in promoting Carmel City through newspaper advertisements and postcard mailers. After an unsuccessful undertaking, she sold her Carmel holdings in 1900. Early life Hunter was born in San Francisco, California, in 1855. She was the daughter of J. Gillet Goldsmith. and Annie Johnston (1820-1898). The family left New Orleans and moved to San Francisco in 1849. Abigail became a music teacher and organist. She married John J. Hunter on September 6, 1876 in San Francisco, and li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
