This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zV.2ADI/1830 Message Board Post: from the book "Alameda, a Geographical History" by Imelda Merlin. Chipman and Aughinbaugh were the founding fathers of Alameda, Ca. William Worthington Chipman, was a native of Vermont. After growing up in Dayton, Ohio, and serving as school principle there, he studied law. In 1850 he came to San Francisco by way of the Panama. He soon set up a reading room and Intelligence office on Clay St. between Kearny and Montgomery Streets where he kept newspapers from the chief towns in the United States and a "Miners' and Strangers' Rregister" facilities for the use of which he charged a fee. It was here that he meet Gideon Aughinbaugh, who was his partner and friend for the next 23 years. Little is known of Aughinbaugh beyond the fact that he moved from Pennsylvania to Missouri before coming to San Francisco in 1849 with is wife and child where he set up a grocery store. When he saw the eargerness with which the people bought fruit at fabulously high prices, he sensed the possibilities of raising fruit for the rapidly expanding population. Thereafterhis dream of a commercial orchard, and Chipmans vision of a to! wn across the bay, became the ruling passion of both mens lives. (Argus, July 7, 8, 1897)