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16-493: The Stow House was once the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, on the original Rancho La Goleta . In 1871, William Whitney Stow, a legal counsel for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, purchased 1,043 acres (4.22 km) costing $ 28,677 for his son, Sherman P. Stow. Sherman Stow built a Carpenter Gothic Victorian home on the site and moved into the house with his bride, Ida G. Hollister, in 1873. The family expanded

32-583: A column for The California Farmer and Journal of Useful Arts (1860–1861), was an avid collector, prodigious author, and obscure, sometimes errant, historian with an obscure background, and he is considered the "first bibliographer of California". His father, A. S. Taylor, was a naval officer of some distinction in the War of 1812 . His mother, Mary Chapman, was a native of Wapping Parish , London . He arrived in Monterey, California on September 8, 1848 on

48-441: The "Indianology." The excellent biographical account of Taylor helps somewhat, but only after long and careful checking through the printed sources shall we some day be able to reconstruct his bibliography.[sic] ... Taylor made up several words and phrases, giving historians cause for concern. Indianology , his most quoted work, was perhaps an invention for the popular audience of his time. The term Bibliografa , which caused him

64-712: The area took place on the ranch using the pond created by the Stows. The pond was expanded to create Lake Los Carneros which remains within the park. The house museum displays family photographs and furniture, with stories of Sherman and Ida Stow and their descendants. The Stow House is located next to Lake Los Carneros with walking trails and bird watching, Goleta Depot at the South Coast Railroad Museum , and other points of interest in Goleta. Wildlife including coyotes and bobcats have been observed from

80-543: The brig Pacific . In 1849, he opened an apothecary shop and resided in Monterey until 1860 when he moved to Santa Barbara . It is unknown whether he visited the " gold diggings ". While in Monterey he also worked as "clerk of the United States District Court ". In 1860, he married Maria Josefa Ortega y Hill, a daughter of Daniel A. Hill and Rafaela Luisa Olivera y Ortega of Santa Barbara. Taylor

96-981: The government. In addition to this he had other large collections. One collection includes 400 "specimens" from newspapers printed in California from 1846–1854, many short-lived and some unique. Much of his collection was lost in the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 . Even with this many items remain in major collections; this along with his writings. Some prominent writings include: Of his many unpublished works Robert Ernest Cowan writes: Poor, unhappy and misguided bibliophile! Although for twenty-five years he had labored tirelessly and incessantly, but little of his work ever assumed permanent form. Some of it still-born, and more of it by his singular plans and methods suffered self-defeat. (...) Alexander Smith Taylor received several honors while alive. In recognition of his historical researches he

112-464: The house in two major renovations in the 1880s and 1910s. The house was occupied by three generations of Stow descendants until the 1960s. In 1875, 3,000 lemon trees were planted in the first commercial lemon orchard planting in California. Sherman Stow's son, state senator Edgar Whitney Stow, set up a research laboratory at the ranch and developed disease resistant lemon rootstock of great value to local growers. The earliest commercial irrigation in

128-415: The map. Text from opening paragraph: Most California historians and anthropologists are acquainted with Alexander Smith Taylor's work, "The Indianology of California," which still remains hidden away in its recondite newspaper source. This early work has been widely used by later authors, notably Powers², Bancroft³, and Kroeber . (It is of) value, regardless of numerous errors of various sorts, lies in

144-444: The recording of a large body of source data concerning native groups now extinct, particularly many of the coastal tribes who came under Spanish mission influence.[sic] The last sentence originally read "Its value". What Heizer meant to write becomes clear on the next page where he writes: Second paragraph: Taylor's source of information constitutes the greatest single problem to be solved in order to interpret fully his major work,

160-613: The sale of beef to miners in the gold fields. Daniel Hill first sold 400 acres (2 km ) of Rancho La Goleta to his son-in-law, T. Wallace More, in 1856, and an additional 1,000 acres (4 km ) in 1864. The deaths of Den in 1862 and Hill in 1865, and the droughts of 1863 and 1864, led to the first subdivisions of the rancho. Daniel A. Hill (1797–1865), of Billerica, Massachusetts , came to California from Hawaii in 1823, and settled in Santa Barbara , and married Rafaela Sabina Luisa Ortega (1809–1879) in 1826. She

176-532: The trails. Rancho La Goleta Rancho La Goleta was a 4,426-acre (17.91 km ) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Daniel A. Hill . The grant extended along the Pacific coast from today’s Fairview Avenue in present-day Goleta , east to Hope Ranch . The grant was adjacent to Rancho Dos Pueblos granted to his son-in-law Nicolas A. Den in 1842. The one square league grant

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192-654: Was elected a member of American Antiquarian Society in April 1864. And for his interest in scientific discovery, he was made an honorary member of the California Academy of Sciences . His finest tribute though comes from Hubert Howe Bancroft 's who renders this, It were well to judge a man not alone by what he has accomplished, but also by what he has conscientiously tried to perform. An obscure 1941 article by Robert Fleming Heizer entitled Alexander S. Taylor's Map of California Indian Tribes, 1864 describes

208-740: Was made to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1846. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Goleta was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1865. The California Gold Rush began in 1848, making Hill wealthy from

224-404: Was survived by his wife and three (3) children. Noted as a collector, author and historian of California and other western topics. Historians are indebted to his rather large collection of documents. 6000 items related to California history from 1770–1846 include: 800 items dated before 1800, and 4500 items before 1840. The collection includes papers, letters, reports and proclamations from

240-627: Was the granddaughter of José Francisco Ortega , grantee of Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio . Hill was a man of varied accomplishments—carpenter, stonemason, soap-maker, and farmer. He engaged in merchandising, and also acted as a superintendent for the padres in some of their farming and building operations. He built several houses, including the 1825 Hill-Carrillo Adobe , now listed the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Barbara County, California . He

256-563: Was the grantee of Rancho La Goleta, where he died in 1865. His daughter Rosa A. Hill married Nicholas A. Den; daughter Josefa G. Hill married Alexander Smith Taylor ; daughter Susana Hill married T. Wallace More; and daughter Maria Antonia married H. O'Neill; and his son Ramon J. Hill was a state senator. 34°26′24″N 119°48′36″W  /  34.440°N 119.810°W  / 34.440; -119.810 Alexander Smith Taylor Alexander Smith Taylor (1817–1876), best known for his Indianology of California written in

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