Pioneer Walk - Oakland

William Penn Mott, Jr., Dr. Charles Gilman, Albert E. Norman ¹

The Pioneer Walk was a feature of the Morcom Rose Garden. Names of notable Oaklanders from various years from 1848 onward would be placed on plaques near each of the 125 Peace Roses donated by C. C. Stocking of San Jose. This started in 1954, the same year as the Mother of the Year Award. ¹

Below are the names and notes from a 1954 article about the walk and the Mother of the Year Award. It contains a number of spelling errors which are in the original article. ¹

There are several mentions of the walk in the 1950s, and a plaque was was added in 1959 for Orley See, founder of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra in 1936. ² The last reference in the Oakland Tribune is a 1971 mention in an article about Rose Week and Mother's Day events at the rose garden. ³

Year	Person	notes from Tribune
1848	Ignacio Peralta Antonio Maria Peralta Vicente Peralta Jose Domingo Peralta	original Spanish grantees of Rancho San Antonio, on which Oakland was built
1848	Volney D. Moody	owner of sawmill at Park Blvd. and Mountain
1848	Julia Smith Hargrave	first baby born in Oakland to Anglo American parents
1849	Moses O. Chase	first [ American ] resident
1850	Robert F. Patten William Patten Edward Patten	founders of Brooklyn
1850	Edson F. Adams	founder of Oakland
1851	Adamee Marier	first postmaster
1852	A. W. Burrill	member of the original board of trustees (city council)
1853	Henry C. Durant	founder of Contra Costa Academy, president University of California, and mayor
1853	Mrs. Edson F. Adams (Hannah J. Jayne)	first school teacher
1853	Rev. Samuel B. Bell	pastor First Presbyterian Church
1854	Horace W. Carpentier	first mayor
1855	George M. Blake	superintendent of county schools
1855	Thomas Gallagher	proprietor of Oakland's first department store
1856	Henderson Llewelling	founder of Fruitvale
1856	Rev. Horace Bushnell	president, College of California
1857	Thomas Eager	first supervisor from Brooklyn
1858	James B. Larue	merchant
1859	Mrs. George M. Blake	founder of Oakland Seminary for Young Ladies
1860	H. A. Higley	county surveyor
1861	Francis K. Shattuck	supervisor and civic leader
1862	Henry N. Morse	sheriff
1864	Rev. E.B. Walsworth	founder, Female College of the Pacific
1865	Rev. David McClure	founder Oakland Academy
1865	Dr. J. Mora Moss	philanthropist
1866	H. P. Watkins	first police chief
1867	John B. Felton	attorney
1867	A. C. Henry	civic leader
1868	Dr. Samuel P. Merritt	physician and mayor
1868	Rev. Father Michael King	founder of College of Holy Names
1868	J. Ross Browne	ambassador to China and humorist
1869	James Batchelder	engineer on first overland train to reach Oakland
1869	Anthony Chabot	creator of the city's water supply
1870	Hiram Tubbs	civic leader, hotel builder, and originator of the E. 12th St. horse car line
1871	Cyrus and Susan Mills	founders of Mills College
1872	Dr. Benjamin Akerly	rector St. John's Episcopal Church
1873	Dr. T. H. Pinkerton	first health officer and president California Medical Association
1874	Edward Gill	nurseryman
1875	William Edward Dargie	postmaster and one-time publisher of The Tribune
1875	Dr. Ezra S. Carr	state superintendent of public instruction and vice president of the American Medical Association
1876	Mrs. William Keith	secretary of Oakland Suffragettes
1876	Dr. E. H. Pardee	mayor
1877	Mrs. William M. Snook Mrs. William C. Little	founders of Fabiola Hospital
1878	Ina Donna Coolbrth	first librarian and poet laureate of California
1879	Frederick M. Campbell	state superintendent of public education
1880	Thomas Hill	artist
1881	Mrs. Jane Sather	philanthropist
1882	Phillip M. Fisher	county superintendent of schools and principal of Polytechnic and Technical High Schools
1883	Charles J. Burckhalter	astronomer
1884	Mrs. Isaac Requa	philanthropist
1885	Ely Welding Playter	mayor
1886	Mrs. Henry Wetherbee	philanthropist
1888	J. W. McClymonds	city superintendent of schools
1889	Mrs. R. McWade	founder West Oakland Home
1891	M. C. Chapman	mayor
1892	Frank B. Ogden	superior court judge
1893	George Pardee	mayor
1893	George C. Perkins	U.S. Senator
1894	Guy C. Earl	University of California regent and state senator
1897	Frederick S. Stratton	state senator and collector of the port of San Francisco
1898	Wilbur Walker	civic leader
1899	Adelbert Wilson	chief of police
1899	Edwin Markham	principal Tompkins School and poet
1900	Mrs. Mary R. Smith	philanthropist
1901	Melvin A. Henry	attorney and superior court judge
1902	Benjamin H. Pendleton	city councilman
1902	William H. Waste	chief justice of the California Supreme Court
1903	Jack London	author
1904	George Samuels	judge
1905	Frank K. Mott	mayor
1905	Thomas William Harris	superior court judge
1906	L. Clay Harrison	Alameda County tax collector and assessor and head of the relief committee for SF fire and earthquake victims
1906	Rev. E. R. Dille	First Methodist Church
1907	Frank C. Havens and his wife Lila	civic leaders
1908	Victor Metcalf	secretary of the Navy
1909	Francis Marion Smith	humanitarian
1909	James P. Edoff	civic leader
1910	Dr. Susan J. Fenton	civic leader
1911	Annie Florence Brown	founder of the Oakland Forum
1911	Rev. Charles R. Brown	Congregational minister who became dean of Yale Divinity School
1912	Oliver D. Hamlin	surgeon
1912	Walter J. Peterson	chief of police
1913	William H. Donahue	district attorney and later judge of superior court
1913	Lloyd N. Cobbledick	civic leader
1914	William C. Wood	state superintendent of schools
1914	Abraham Jonas	president, Hebrew Society
1915	H. C. Capwell	merchant and civic leader
1916	Harry W. Pulcifer	municipal court judge
1916	Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt	president of Mills College 1916-1943
1917	Dr. Margaret Wythe	medical director, Oakland Board of Education
1920	Franklin K. Lane	secretary of the Interior 1913-1920
1920	Ethel Moore	philanthropist
1923	Arthur Powell Davis	general manager East Bay Municipal Utility District
1930	John L. Davie	mayor 1895-96 and 1915-30
1939	Dr. Charles A. Dukes	surgeon
1945	Henry J. Kaiser	industrialist
1947	James H. Cobbledick	garden club leader
1948	Col. Arthur Brewer	civic leader
1949	William Osborn	business and civic leader
1950	Joseph R. Knowland	publisher, statesman, historian
1951	Charles P. Howard	civic leader
1952	Alfred Lundberg	city councilman [ I don't see his name here; most likely was this Alfred Lundberg ]
1953	Mrs. William Harold Oliver	general chairman of the branches of Children's Hospital of the East Bay
1954	Earl Warren	former district attorney and California governor, and now Chief Justice of the United States