San Francisco Real Estate Tycoon.
Grower-Collector of Rare Orchids.
Son of Dr. John Rittenhouse Coryell and
Zoe Christine Belleau
Marriage
To Mabel Lloyd Jessup
On 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Children: Royal Ross Coryell; Gordon R Coryell; Sybil E Coryell Goldthwaite.
1912 Biography
Press Reference Library (Southwest Edition) Notables of the Southwest. Being the Portraits & Biographies of Progressive Men of the Southwest, Who Have helped in the Development & History Making of this Wonderful Country. Published by The Los Angeles Examiner, 1912.
Who's Who On The Pacific Coast, 1913
Name: Joseph Belleau Coryell
Birth: 4 Jun 1871 San Francisco, CA
Occupation: Capitalist; real estate; orchid grower.
Marriage: 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Wife: Mabel Lloyd Jessup
Father: John R Coryell
Mother: Zoe Christine Belleau
Descendant of: George Coryell, pallbearer at funeral of President George Washington.
Orchid Queen
ORCHID HUNTER TO PENETRATE WILDS
Millionaire J.B. Coryell owns the largest, most complete and valuable collection in America, and the hothouses at Fair Oaks home are presided over by Mrs. Coryell, who is known familiarly in her set as "The Orchid Queen." Upon hearing that an English collector slightly outranked their exhibit, the couple commissioned an orchid expedition to penetrate the wilds of the Sulu archipelago, the isles of Borneo and Java and the jungles of the Malay peninsula in a romantic contest. [Fair Oaks, aka Atherton, San Mateo, CA]
Death Notices
Coryell, Pioneer Capitalist, Dies
Coryell Rites Rites Held in S.F.
Funeral Home Record
Name: Joseph B Coryell
Age: 67
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1871
Birth Place: San Mateo, California
Death Date: 19 Jun 1938
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Mabel Jessup Coryell
Father: John W [R] Coryell
Mother: Zoe C Belleau
Funeral Home: N. Gray and Company
Burial: Olivet, 21 Jun 1938
1915 Biography
Joseph B. Coryell
For more than a quarter of a century Joseph Belleau Coryell has been a part of the business life of San Francisco and California. Starting in a small way, he has advanced step by step until today his interests are among the most important in the State. And he has acquired them all by keen foresight, close application and the ability to grasp an opportunity when it appeared to him.
When the late E. H. Harriman, some years ago, was just beginning to extend his holdings in the West, and needed a representative of proved ability on this coast, he chose Mr. Coryell as the man for the place. Subsequently Mr. Coryell did much valuable work for the railroad magnate. One of the direct results was that he was offered the presidency of a railroad, but this he declined, preferring to devote himself to his private projects. He is still interested in Harriman affairs.
A native of San Francisco, Mr. Coryell was born June 4, 1871. His father was Dr. John R. Coryell, at one time a widely known physician, and his mother was Zoe Christine (Belleau) Coryell.
Following his education Mr. Coryell, after casting about for a bit, looking over the field with an eye to the future, decided that the real estate business offered unusual advantages. Accordingly he opened a real estate office in San Francisco in 1888. Real estate has been his forte ever since, although he had branched out in a number of other directions as an investor.
In the course of his activities Mr. Coryell began pondering growth of the city and the directions in which it was most likely to expand. Land that he believed to be well situated he acquired, and it was not long before his prognostications began coming true. Today he owns more spur-track property than any other man in San Francisco.
It is largely by reason of his operations on Islais Creek, however, that Mr. Coryell has become locally famous for his keep business foresight. “Nerve” is the only word that expresses the opinion of San Francisco financiers and realty dealers when first they saw Mr. Coryell begin the acquirement of the blocks of mud flats on the south side of Islais Creek. No man, they reasoned, could possibly risk his money on those unsightly swamps unless he were possessed of colossal nerve.
This Mr. Coryell had, without doubt. And the very ones who declared at the time that the future was too uncertain to risk such an investment have long since expressed their complete respect for the wisdom of the man; for the new San Francisco harbor project on Islais Creek has become a reality, for which a condemnations have been carried on under which is known as the India Basin Act by the State of California.
With his wonderful foresight Mr. Coryell saw, what everyone else seemed blind to, that nowhere else on the San Francisco waterfront were there lands a available in the future for manufacturing purposes. He saw, too, that the terminal building operations of the three great transcontinental railroads entering California must, of necessity, group themselves about Islais Creek especially since the franchise for the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe’s joint line on Kentucky street bound the two railroads to build a steel drawbridge over the Islais channel on demand.
He could not overlook this assembling of railroad terminal facilities in the heart of the only waterfront land left in San Francisco available for factory purposes; nor that the interests around Islais Creek, railroad, lumber and the like, already established, were going to demand the clearing and deepening of that waterway. Here was in sight a combination of land and water shipping facilities unequaled anywhere. To a far-seeing man like Mr. Coryell the possibilities were obvious.
He had the nerve to back his judgment and the initiative to put it into effect. He was alone in both. He is the only man who has spent his money to improve lands on San Francisco’s waterfront in anticipation of the coming large influx of manufacturers. And as a result of this purchases on Islais Creek he is now the largest individual owner of waterfront property in the city. All the rest is held either by the State, the city or by private corporations, which are making use of it.
To men of stanch hearts and unswerving loyalty and hope – men like Joseph B. Coryell – San Francisco owes her bigger and better existence as the metropolis of the West. (Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies, Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco, California, 1915, page 251)
Census
1880 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
-John R. Coryell, head, 57, b. OH, father NJ, mother PA, Physician.
-Zoe C. Coryell, wife, 33, b. Louisiana, father Canada, mother Louisiana
-Zoe A. B. Coryell, dau, 11, b. CA
-Joseph* B. Coryell, son, 9, b. CA
-Jabez T. Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-John R. Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Eva C. Coryell, dau, 3, b. CA
-Grace L. Coryell, niece, 18, b. MA, father OH, mother
-Oliver Gauvreau, cousin, 70, b. Canada, retired merchant
1910 Census, Township 3, San Mateo, California; County Road
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 38, 1st marriage, b. CA, father OH, mother LA, Banker, owns home free of mortgage.
-Mabel L Coryell, wife, 32, 1st marriage, married 10 yrs, 2 children born, 2 living, b. CA, father PA, mother MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-Gordan Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Annia Moriarty, servant, 30, b. CA, parents Ireland, maid for private family
-Ah Sing, servant, 40, b. China, laundryman for private family
1930 Census, Atherton, San Mateo, California; 274 Lloyd Ave
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 57, married age 27, b. CA, father MO, mother LA, Agent Real Estate, owns home $30,000.
-Mable Coryell, wife, 57, married age 27, b. CA, parents MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 26, b. CA, salesman art shop
-Gordon R Coryell, son, 25, b. CA, salesman life insurance
-Sibyl E Coryell, dau, 19, b. CA
See "Oliver" in 1880 census
Will of Benjamin Gauvreau.
[Benjamin Louis Oliver Gauvreau]
The, will of Benjamin. L. O. Gauvreau, sometimes called Louis O. Gauvreau, has been filed for probate. The estate is worth $1000 and consists mainly of money in bank. He bequeaths his carpenter tools and surveying instruments to Joseph B. Coryell, and the balance of the estate to Mrs. Zoe C. Coryell. (Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 60, Saturday, 1 March 1890, p. 4)
Mother
California Death Index
Name: Zoe B Coryell
Age at Death: 68 (b. abt 1847)
Death: 30 Aug 1915 Alameda Co., CA
Father
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, August 20, 1899, Dr. John R., beloved husband of Zoe Belleau Coryell, and father of Mrs. M. R. Krlgbaum and Joseph, John and Eva Coryell, a native of Zanesvllle, Ohio, aged 76 years 8 months, and 20 days. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services this day (Tuesday), at 3 o'clock, at his late residence, 3201 Pacific avenue, corner of Central avenue. Interment private. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, page 11)
Note: Birth 31 Nov 1822
Death Notice
Coryell's life and Death
San Francisco, Aug. 21. [1899]— Dr. John Coryell, a California pioneer and one of the best-known physicians and mining operators on the Coast, died yesterday in this city, at the age of 77 years, after an Illness of one day, paralysis causing his death. He was a native of Vainville [Zanesville], Ohio, and studied his profession at the College of Medicine, Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1846. In 1855 he took charge of the Marine Hospital in this city, although he held large interests in various mining enterprises. He was jointly interested with Senator Sharon and Senator Hearst in some extensive land purchases and held interests in both estates until recent years. His funeral will be conducted by the Society of California Pioneers. (Los Angeles Herald, Number 326, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, p. 3)
FUNERAL OF DR. CORYELL.
A Distinguished Physician and California Pioneer. The funeral of Dr. J. R. Coryell, who died on Sunday, took place on Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Parrish of the Church of the Advent officiating. A delegation of eight members of the Society of California Pioneers acted as pallbearers. After the solemn services the remains were incinerated at the Odd Fellows'crematory. John Rittenhouse Coryell was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1822. He was the son of John and Amy Ann Coryell (born Rittenhouse). He was descended on his father's side from Revolutionary stock. They emigrated from Nice, France, during the religious war and settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a bosom friend of George Washington and was an officer on his staff. On the maternal side he was descended from the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia, which came from Holland and was of noble ancestry. Dr. Coryell graduated from the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio and practiced medicine in the State of Missouri before coming to California. He was a pioneer, having come to this State in 1849 by way of the isthmus. He was elected resident physician of the State Marine Hospital by Governor Bigler and besides commanded a large outside practice. He retired from the practice of medicine in the year 1863 and devoted his time principally to mining and land interests. In 1865 he married the eldest daughter of Eusebec Beleau, one of the oldest and best known pioneers of the State. The first railroad charter granted by the State of California was granted to a corporation of which Lloyd Tevis, Lorenzo Sawyer and the late Dr. Coryell were the incorporators, and was for a railroad known as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. He controlled large mining and property interests and was the owner of the Uncle Sam mine on the Comstock, which has since been subdivided and is now known as the Overman and the Savage, and one or two others. At one time he owned, jointly with the late Senator Hearst 30,000 acres along the water front of Alameda County, extending from Oakland to Alviso. He had been at different times a large property holder in San Francisco. He was an advanced thinker of the times and several of his mathematical problems have gone the round of the great universities both at home and abroad. His poetical works have won the admiration of all those under whose notice they have come and some of his earliest ventures were published in the Golden Era, the first paper published in the State. He was an inventor of much note and had many patent rights awarded him. Besides a widow, a family of two sons and two daughters survive him. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Thursday, 24 August 1899, page 14)
San Francisco Funeral Home Records
Register of Deaths, Etc.
Halsted & Co., Undertakers, S.F.
No.: 5384
Name: John R Coryell
Age: 76 (b. abt 1823)
Birthplace: Ohio
Death Date: 20 Aug 1899
Death Place: 3201 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: Val D of Heart
Physician: M H Logan
Where Interred: I.O.O.F.
Plot: Crem.
Funeral Home: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Record Type: Register
Census
1850 Census, District 48, Lewis, Missouri
John* R Coryell 27
Susan Coryell 25
Amey Coryell 50, b. NJ
Sagran Coryell 3
Ada A Coryell 0
Mary Ann Coryell 18
Samson Coryell 14
Joseph Coryell 12
Jabes S Coryell 4
1870 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
John* Coryell 42
Zoe Coryell 22
Zoe Coryell 1
Amy Coryell 70
Paternal Grandmother
Amy Anna Rittenhouse, mother of John Rittenhouse Coryell.
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, February 25, Amy Anna Coryell, aged 79 years. (Daily Alta California and San Francisco Times, San Francisco, CA, Volume 32, Number 10910, Friday, 27 February 1880)
1880 Census Mortality Schedule
San Francisco, Califorina
Name: A A Coryell
Gender: Female
Birth Place: New Jersey
Age: 79 (b. abt 1800)
Death Date: Feb 1880
Cause of Death: Cancer
Marriage
Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriages
Bride: Amy Rittenhouse
Groom: John Correll
Marriage Date: 16 Sep 1819
Officiator: Burrows
Volume/Page: 2-169
Grower-Collector of Rare Orchids.
Son of Dr. John Rittenhouse Coryell and
Zoe Christine Belleau
Marriage
To Mabel Lloyd Jessup
On 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Children: Royal Ross Coryell; Gordon R Coryell; Sybil E Coryell Goldthwaite.
1912 Biography
Press Reference Library (Southwest Edition) Notables of the Southwest. Being the Portraits & Biographies of Progressive Men of the Southwest, Who Have helped in the Development & History Making of this Wonderful Country. Published by The Los Angeles Examiner, 1912.
Who's Who On The Pacific Coast, 1913
Name: Joseph Belleau Coryell
Birth: 4 Jun 1871 San Francisco, CA
Occupation: Capitalist; real estate; orchid grower.
Marriage: 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Wife: Mabel Lloyd Jessup
Father: John R Coryell
Mother: Zoe Christine Belleau
Descendant of: George Coryell, pallbearer at funeral of President George Washington.
Orchid Queen
ORCHID HUNTER TO PENETRATE WILDS
Millionaire J.B. Coryell owns the largest, most complete and valuable collection in America, and the hothouses at Fair Oaks home are presided over by Mrs. Coryell, who is known familiarly in her set as "The Orchid Queen." Upon hearing that an English collector slightly outranked their exhibit, the couple commissioned an orchid expedition to penetrate the wilds of the Sulu archipelago, the isles of Borneo and Java and the jungles of the Malay peninsula in a romantic contest. [Fair Oaks, aka Atherton, San Mateo, CA]
Death Notices
Coryell, Pioneer Capitalist, Dies
Coryell Rites Rites Held in S.F.
Funeral Home Record
Name: Joseph B Coryell
Age: 67
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1871
Birth Place: San Mateo, California
Death Date: 19 Jun 1938
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Mabel Jessup Coryell
Father: John W [R] Coryell
Mother: Zoe C Belleau
Funeral Home: N. Gray and Company
Burial: Olivet, 21 Jun 1938
1915 Biography
Joseph B. Coryell
For more than a quarter of a century Joseph Belleau Coryell has been a part of the business life of San Francisco and California. Starting in a small way, he has advanced step by step until today his interests are among the most important in the State. And he has acquired them all by keen foresight, close application and the ability to grasp an opportunity when it appeared to him.
When the late E. H. Harriman, some years ago, was just beginning to extend his holdings in the West, and needed a representative of proved ability on this coast, he chose Mr. Coryell as the man for the place. Subsequently Mr. Coryell did much valuable work for the railroad magnate. One of the direct results was that he was offered the presidency of a railroad, but this he declined, preferring to devote himself to his private projects. He is still interested in Harriman affairs.
A native of San Francisco, Mr. Coryell was born June 4, 1871. His father was Dr. John R. Coryell, at one time a widely known physician, and his mother was Zoe Christine (Belleau) Coryell.
Following his education Mr. Coryell, after casting about for a bit, looking over the field with an eye to the future, decided that the real estate business offered unusual advantages. Accordingly he opened a real estate office in San Francisco in 1888. Real estate has been his forte ever since, although he had branched out in a number of other directions as an investor.
In the course of his activities Mr. Coryell began pondering growth of the city and the directions in which it was most likely to expand. Land that he believed to be well situated he acquired, and it was not long before his prognostications began coming true. Today he owns more spur-track property than any other man in San Francisco.
It is largely by reason of his operations on Islais Creek, however, that Mr. Coryell has become locally famous for his keep business foresight. “Nerve” is the only word that expresses the opinion of San Francisco financiers and realty dealers when first they saw Mr. Coryell begin the acquirement of the blocks of mud flats on the south side of Islais Creek. No man, they reasoned, could possibly risk his money on those unsightly swamps unless he were possessed of colossal nerve.
This Mr. Coryell had, without doubt. And the very ones who declared at the time that the future was too uncertain to risk such an investment have long since expressed their complete respect for the wisdom of the man; for the new San Francisco harbor project on Islais Creek has become a reality, for which a condemnations have been carried on under which is known as the India Basin Act by the State of California.
With his wonderful foresight Mr. Coryell saw, what everyone else seemed blind to, that nowhere else on the San Francisco waterfront were there lands a available in the future for manufacturing purposes. He saw, too, that the terminal building operations of the three great transcontinental railroads entering California must, of necessity, group themselves about Islais Creek especially since the franchise for the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe’s joint line on Kentucky street bound the two railroads to build a steel drawbridge over the Islais channel on demand.
He could not overlook this assembling of railroad terminal facilities in the heart of the only waterfront land left in San Francisco available for factory purposes; nor that the interests around Islais Creek, railroad, lumber and the like, already established, were going to demand the clearing and deepening of that waterway. Here was in sight a combination of land and water shipping facilities unequaled anywhere. To a far-seeing man like Mr. Coryell the possibilities were obvious.
He had the nerve to back his judgment and the initiative to put it into effect. He was alone in both. He is the only man who has spent his money to improve lands on San Francisco’s waterfront in anticipation of the coming large influx of manufacturers. And as a result of this purchases on Islais Creek he is now the largest individual owner of waterfront property in the city. All the rest is held either by the State, the city or by private corporations, which are making use of it.
To men of stanch hearts and unswerving loyalty and hope – men like Joseph B. Coryell – San Francisco owes her bigger and better existence as the metropolis of the West. (Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies, Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco, California, 1915, page 251)
Census
1880 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
-John R. Coryell, head, 57, b. OH, father NJ, mother PA, Physician.
-Zoe C. Coryell, wife, 33, b. Louisiana, father Canada, mother Louisiana
-Zoe A. B. Coryell, dau, 11, b. CA
-Joseph* B. Coryell, son, 9, b. CA
-Jabez T. Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-John R. Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Eva C. Coryell, dau, 3, b. CA
-Grace L. Coryell, niece, 18, b. MA, father OH, mother
-Oliver Gauvreau, cousin, 70, b. Canada, retired merchant
1910 Census, Township 3, San Mateo, California; County Road
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 38, 1st marriage, b. CA, father OH, mother LA, Banker, owns home free of mortgage.
-Mabel L Coryell, wife, 32, 1st marriage, married 10 yrs, 2 children born, 2 living, b. CA, father PA, mother MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-Gordan Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Annia Moriarty, servant, 30, b. CA, parents Ireland, maid for private family
-Ah Sing, servant, 40, b. China, laundryman for private family
1930 Census, Atherton, San Mateo, California; 274 Lloyd Ave
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 57, married age 27, b. CA, father MO, mother LA, Agent Real Estate, owns home $30,000.
-Mable Coryell, wife, 57, married age 27, b. CA, parents MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 26, b. CA, salesman art shop
-Gordon R Coryell, son, 25, b. CA, salesman life insurance
-Sibyl E Coryell, dau, 19, b. CA
See "Oliver" in 1880 census
Will of Benjamin Gauvreau.
[Benjamin Louis Oliver Gauvreau]
The, will of Benjamin. L. O. Gauvreau, sometimes called Louis O. Gauvreau, has been filed for probate. The estate is worth $1000 and consists mainly of money in bank. He bequeaths his carpenter tools and surveying instruments to Joseph B. Coryell, and the balance of the estate to Mrs. Zoe C. Coryell. (Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 60, Saturday, 1 March 1890, p. 4)
Mother
California Death Index
Name: Zoe B Coryell
Age at Death: 68 (b. abt 1847)
Death: 30 Aug 1915 Alameda Co., CA
Father
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, August 20, 1899, Dr. John R., beloved husband of Zoe Belleau Coryell, and father of Mrs. M. R. Krlgbaum and Joseph, John and Eva Coryell, a native of Zanesvllle, Ohio, aged 76 years 8 months, and 20 days. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services this day (Tuesday), at 3 o'clock, at his late residence, 3201 Pacific avenue, corner of Central avenue. Interment private. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, page 11)
Note: Birth 31 Nov 1822
Death Notice
Coryell's life and Death
San Francisco, Aug. 21. [1899]— Dr. John Coryell, a California pioneer and one of the best-known physicians and mining operators on the Coast, died yesterday in this city, at the age of 77 years, after an Illness of one day, paralysis causing his death. He was a native of Vainville [Zanesville], Ohio, and studied his profession at the College of Medicine, Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1846. In 1855 he took charge of the Marine Hospital in this city, although he held large interests in various mining enterprises. He was jointly interested with Senator Sharon and Senator Hearst in some extensive land purchases and held interests in both estates until recent years. His funeral will be conducted by the Society of California Pioneers. (Los Angeles Herald, Number 326, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, p. 3)
FUNERAL OF DR. CORYELL.
A Distinguished Physician and California Pioneer. The funeral of Dr. J. R. Coryell, who died on Sunday, took place on Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Parrish of the Church of the Advent officiating. A delegation of eight members of the Society of California Pioneers acted as pallbearers. After the solemn services the remains were incinerated at the Odd Fellows'crematory. John Rittenhouse Coryell was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1822. He was the son of John and Amy Ann Coryell (born Rittenhouse). He was descended on his father's side from Revolutionary stock. They emigrated from Nice, France, during the religious war and settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a bosom friend of George Washington and was an officer on his staff. On the maternal side he was descended from the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia, which came from Holland and was of noble ancestry. Dr. Coryell graduated from the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio and practiced medicine in the State of Missouri before coming to California. He was a pioneer, having come to this State in 1849 by way of the isthmus. He was elected resident physician of the State Marine Hospital by Governor Bigler and besides commanded a large outside practice. He retired from the practice of medicine in the year 1863 and devoted his time principally to mining and land interests. In 1865 he married the eldest daughter of Eusebec Beleau, one of the oldest and best known pioneers of the State. The first railroad charter granted by the State of California was granted to a corporation of which Lloyd Tevis, Lorenzo Sawyer and the late Dr. Coryell were the incorporators, and was for a railroad known as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. He controlled large mining and property interests and was the owner of the Uncle Sam mine on the Comstock, which has since been subdivided and is now known as the Overman and the Savage, and one or two others. At one time he owned, jointly with the late Senator Hearst 30,000 acres along the water front of Alameda County, extending from Oakland to Alviso. He had been at different times a large property holder in San Francisco. He was an advanced thinker of the times and several of his mathematical problems have gone the round of the great universities both at home and abroad. His poetical works have won the admiration of all those under whose notice they have come and some of his earliest ventures were published in the Golden Era, the first paper published in the State. He was an inventor of much note and had many patent rights awarded him. Besides a widow, a family of two sons and two daughters survive him. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Thursday, 24 August 1899, page 14)
San Francisco Funeral Home Records
Register of Deaths, Etc.
Halsted & Co., Undertakers, S.F.
No.: 5384
Name: John R Coryell
Age: 76 (b. abt 1823)
Birthplace: Ohio
Death Date: 20 Aug 1899
Death Place: 3201 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: Val D of Heart
Physician: M H Logan
Where Interred: I.O.O.F.
Plot: Crem.
Funeral Home: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Record Type: Register
Census
1850 Census, District 48, Lewis, Missouri
John* R Coryell 27
Susan Coryell 25
Amey Coryell 50, b. NJ
Sagran Coryell 3
Ada A Coryell 0
Mary Ann Coryell 18
Samson Coryell 14
Joseph Coryell 12
Jabes S Coryell 4
1870 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
John* Coryell 42
Zoe Coryell 22
Zoe Coryell 1
Amy Coryell 70
Paternal Grandmother
Amy Anna Rittenhouse, mother of John Rittenhouse Coryell.
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, February 25, Amy Anna Coryell, aged 79 years. (Daily Alta California and San Francisco Times, San Francisco, CA, Volume 32, Number 10910, Friday, 27 February 1880)
1880 Census Mortality Schedule
San Francisco, Califorina
Name: A A Coryell
Gender: Female
Birth Place: New Jersey
Age: 79 (b. abt 1800)
Death Date: Feb 1880
Cause of Death: Cancer
Marriage
Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriages
Bride: Amy Rittenhouse
Groom: John Correll
Marriage Date: 16 Sep 1819
Officiator: Burrows
Volume/Page: 2-169
San Francisco Real Estate Tycoon.
Grower-Collector of Rare Orchids.
Son of Dr. John Rittenhouse Coryell and
Zoe Christine Belleau
Marriage
To Mabel Lloyd Jessup
On 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Children: Royal Ross Coryell; Gordon R Coryell; Sybil E Coryell Goldthwaite.
1912 Biography
Press Reference Library (Southwest Edition) Notables of the Southwest. Being the Portraits & Biographies of Progressive Men of the Southwest, Who Have helped in the Development & History Making of this Wonderful Country. Published by The Los Angeles Examiner, 1912.
Who's Who On The Pacific Coast, 1913
Name: Joseph Belleau Coryell
Birth: 4 Jun 1871 San Francisco, CA
Occupation: Capitalist; real estate; orchid grower.
Marriage: 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Wife: Mabel Lloyd Jessup
Father: John R Coryell
Mother: Zoe Christine Belleau
Descendant of: George Coryell, pallbearer at funeral of President George Washington.
Orchid Queen
ORCHID HUNTER TO PENETRATE WILDS
Millionaire J.B. Coryell owns the largest, most complete and valuable collection in America, and the hothouses at Fair Oaks home are presided over by Mrs. Coryell, who is known familiarly in her set as "The Orchid Queen." Upon hearing that an English collector slightly outranked their exhibit, the couple commissioned an orchid expedition to penetrate the wilds of the Sulu archipelago, the isles of Borneo and Java and the jungles of the Malay peninsula in a romantic contest. [Fair Oaks, aka Atherton, San Mateo, CA]
Death Notices
Coryell, Pioneer Capitalist, Dies
Coryell Rites Rites Held in S.F.
Funeral Home Record
Name: Joseph B Coryell
Age: 67
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1871
Birth Place: San Mateo, California
Death Date: 19 Jun 1938
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Mabel Jessup Coryell
Father: John W [R] Coryell
Mother: Zoe C Belleau
Funeral Home: N. Gray and Company
Burial: Olivet, 21 Jun 1938
1915 Biography
Joseph B. Coryell
For more than a quarter of a century Joseph Belleau Coryell has been a part of the business life of San Francisco and California. Starting in a small way, he has advanced step by step until today his interests are among the most important in the State. And he has acquired them all by keen foresight, close application and the ability to grasp an opportunity when it appeared to him.
When the late E. H. Harriman, some years ago, was just beginning to extend his holdings in the West, and needed a representative of proved ability on this coast, he chose Mr. Coryell as the man for the place. Subsequently Mr. Coryell did much valuable work for the railroad magnate. One of the direct results was that he was offered the presidency of a railroad, but this he declined, preferring to devote himself to his private projects. He is still interested in Harriman affairs.
A native of San Francisco, Mr. Coryell was born June 4, 1871. His father was Dr. John R. Coryell, at one time a widely known physician, and his mother was Zoe Christine (Belleau) Coryell.
Following his education Mr. Coryell, after casting about for a bit, looking over the field with an eye to the future, decided that the real estate business offered unusual advantages. Accordingly he opened a real estate office in San Francisco in 1888. Real estate has been his forte ever since, although he had branched out in a number of other directions as an investor.
In the course of his activities Mr. Coryell began pondering growth of the city and the directions in which it was most likely to expand. Land that he believed to be well situated he acquired, and it was not long before his prognostications began coming true. Today he owns more spur-track property than any other man in San Francisco.
It is largely by reason of his operations on Islais Creek, however, that Mr. Coryell has become locally famous for his keep business foresight. “Nerve” is the only word that expresses the opinion of San Francisco financiers and realty dealers when first they saw Mr. Coryell begin the acquirement of the blocks of mud flats on the south side of Islais Creek. No man, they reasoned, could possibly risk his money on those unsightly swamps unless he were possessed of colossal nerve.
This Mr. Coryell had, without doubt. And the very ones who declared at the time that the future was too uncertain to risk such an investment have long since expressed their complete respect for the wisdom of the man; for the new San Francisco harbor project on Islais Creek has become a reality, for which a condemnations have been carried on under which is known as the India Basin Act by the State of California.
With his wonderful foresight Mr. Coryell saw, what everyone else seemed blind to, that nowhere else on the San Francisco waterfront were there lands a available in the future for manufacturing purposes. He saw, too, that the terminal building operations of the three great transcontinental railroads entering California must, of necessity, group themselves about Islais Creek especially since the franchise for the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe’s joint line on Kentucky street bound the two railroads to build a steel drawbridge over the Islais channel on demand.
He could not overlook this assembling of railroad terminal facilities in the heart of the only waterfront land left in San Francisco available for factory purposes; nor that the interests around Islais Creek, railroad, lumber and the like, already established, were going to demand the clearing and deepening of that waterway. Here was in sight a combination of land and water shipping facilities unequaled anywhere. To a far-seeing man like Mr. Coryell the possibilities were obvious.
He had the nerve to back his judgment and the initiative to put it into effect. He was alone in both. He is the only man who has spent his money to improve lands on San Francisco’s waterfront in anticipation of the coming large influx of manufacturers. And as a result of this purchases on Islais Creek he is now the largest individual owner of waterfront property in the city. All the rest is held either by the State, the city or by private corporations, which are making use of it.
To men of stanch hearts and unswerving loyalty and hope – men like Joseph B. Coryell – San Francisco owes her bigger and better existence as the metropolis of the West. (Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies, Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco, California, 1915, page 251)
Census
1880 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
-John R. Coryell, head, 57, b. OH, father NJ, mother PA, Physician.
-Zoe C. Coryell, wife, 33, b. Louisiana, father Canada, mother Louisiana
-Zoe A. B. Coryell, dau, 11, b. CA
-Joseph* B. Coryell, son, 9, b. CA
-Jabez T. Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-John R. Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Eva C. Coryell, dau, 3, b. CA
-Grace L. Coryell, niece, 18, b. MA, father OH, mother
-Oliver Gauvreau, cousin, 70, b. Canada, retired merchant
1910 Census, Township 3, San Mateo, California; County Road
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 38, 1st marriage, b. CA, father OH, mother LA, Banker, owns home free of mortgage.
-Mabel L Coryell, wife, 32, 1st marriage, married 10 yrs, 2 children born, 2 living, b. CA, father PA, mother MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-Gordan Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Annia Moriarty, servant, 30, b. CA, parents Ireland, maid for private family
-Ah Sing, servant, 40, b. China, laundryman for private family
1930 Census, Atherton, San Mateo, California; 274 Lloyd Ave
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 57, married age 27, b. CA, father MO, mother LA, Agent Real Estate, owns home $30,000.
-Mable Coryell, wife, 57, married age 27, b. CA, parents MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 26, b. CA, salesman art shop
-Gordon R Coryell, son, 25, b. CA, salesman life insurance
-Sibyl E Coryell, dau, 19, b. CA
See "Oliver" in 1880 census
Will of Benjamin Gauvreau.
[Benjamin Louis Oliver Gauvreau]
The, will of Benjamin. L. O. Gauvreau, sometimes called Louis O. Gauvreau, has been filed for probate. The estate is worth $1000 and consists mainly of money in bank. He bequeaths his carpenter tools and surveying instruments to Joseph B. Coryell, and the balance of the estate to Mrs. Zoe C. Coryell. (Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 60, Saturday, 1 March 1890, p. 4)
Mother
California Death Index
Name: Zoe B Coryell
Age at Death: 68 (b. abt 1847)
Death: 30 Aug 1915 Alameda Co., CA
Father
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, August 20, 1899, Dr. John R., beloved husband of Zoe Belleau Coryell, and father of Mrs. M. R. Krlgbaum and Joseph, John and Eva Coryell, a native of Zanesvllle, Ohio, aged 76 years 8 months, and 20 days. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services this day (Tuesday), at 3 o'clock, at his late residence, 3201 Pacific avenue, corner of Central avenue. Interment private. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, page 11)
Note: Birth 31 Nov 1822
Death Notice
Coryell's life and Death
San Francisco, Aug. 21. [1899]— Dr. John Coryell, a California pioneer and one of the best-known physicians and mining operators on the Coast, died yesterday in this city, at the age of 77 years, after an Illness of one day, paralysis causing his death. He was a native of Vainville [Zanesville], Ohio, and studied his profession at the College of Medicine, Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1846. In 1855 he took charge of the Marine Hospital in this city, although he held large interests in various mining enterprises. He was jointly interested with Senator Sharon and Senator Hearst in some extensive land purchases and held interests in both estates until recent years. His funeral will be conducted by the Society of California Pioneers. (Los Angeles Herald, Number 326, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, p. 3)
FUNERAL OF DR. CORYELL.
A Distinguished Physician and California Pioneer. The funeral of Dr. J. R. Coryell, who died on Sunday, took place on Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Parrish of the Church of the Advent officiating. A delegation of eight members of the Society of California Pioneers acted as pallbearers. After the solemn services the remains were incinerated at the Odd Fellows'crematory. John Rittenhouse Coryell was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1822. He was the son of John and Amy Ann Coryell (born Rittenhouse). He was descended on his father's side from Revolutionary stock. They emigrated from Nice, France, during the religious war and settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a bosom friend of George Washington and was an officer on his staff. On the maternal side he was descended from the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia, which came from Holland and was of noble ancestry. Dr. Coryell graduated from the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio and practiced medicine in the State of Missouri before coming to California. He was a pioneer, having come to this State in 1849 by way of the isthmus. He was elected resident physician of the State Marine Hospital by Governor Bigler and besides commanded a large outside practice. He retired from the practice of medicine in the year 1863 and devoted his time principally to mining and land interests. In 1865 he married the eldest daughter of Eusebec Beleau, one of the oldest and best known pioneers of the State. The first railroad charter granted by the State of California was granted to a corporation of which Lloyd Tevis, Lorenzo Sawyer and the late Dr. Coryell were the incorporators, and was for a railroad known as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. He controlled large mining and property interests and was the owner of the Uncle Sam mine on the Comstock, which has since been subdivided and is now known as the Overman and the Savage, and one or two others. At one time he owned, jointly with the late Senator Hearst 30,000 acres along the water front of Alameda County, extending from Oakland to Alviso. He had been at different times a large property holder in San Francisco. He was an advanced thinker of the times and several of his mathematical problems have gone the round of the great universities both at home and abroad. His poetical works have won the admiration of all those under whose notice they have come and some of his earliest ventures were published in the Golden Era, the first paper published in the State. He was an inventor of much note and had many patent rights awarded him. Besides a widow, a family of two sons and two daughters survive him. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Thursday, 24 August 1899, page 14)
San Francisco Funeral Home Records
Register of Deaths, Etc.
Halsted & Co., Undertakers, S.F.
No.: 5384
Name: John R Coryell
Age: 76 (b. abt 1823)
Birthplace: Ohio
Death Date: 20 Aug 1899
Death Place: 3201 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: Val D of Heart
Physician: M H Logan
Where Interred: I.O.O.F.
Plot: Crem.
Funeral Home: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Record Type: Register
Census
1850 Census, District 48, Lewis, Missouri
John* R Coryell 27
Susan Coryell 25
Amey Coryell 50, b. NJ
Sagran Coryell 3
Ada A Coryell 0
Mary Ann Coryell 18
Samson Coryell 14
Joseph Coryell 12
Jabes S Coryell 4
1870 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
John* Coryell 42
Zoe Coryell 22
Zoe Coryell 1
Amy Coryell 70
Paternal Grandmother
Amy Anna Rittenhouse, mother of John Rittenhouse Coryell.
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, February 25, Amy Anna Coryell, aged 79 years. (Daily Alta California and San Francisco Times, San Francisco, CA, Volume 32, Number 10910, Friday, 27 February 1880)
1880 Census Mortality Schedule
San Francisco, Califorina
Name: A A Coryell
Gender: Female
Birth Place: New Jersey
Age: 79 (b. abt 1800)
Death Date: Feb 1880
Cause of Death: Cancer
Marriage
Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriages
Bride: Amy Rittenhouse
Groom: John Correll
Marriage Date: 16 Sep 1819
Officiator: Burrows
Volume/Page: 2-169
Grower-Collector of Rare Orchids.
Son of Dr. John Rittenhouse Coryell and
Zoe Christine Belleau
Marriage
To Mabel Lloyd Jessup
On 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Children: Royal Ross Coryell; Gordon R Coryell; Sybil E Coryell Goldthwaite.
1912 Biography
Press Reference Library (Southwest Edition) Notables of the Southwest. Being the Portraits & Biographies of Progressive Men of the Southwest, Who Have helped in the Development & History Making of this Wonderful Country. Published by The Los Angeles Examiner, 1912.
Who's Who On The Pacific Coast, 1913
Name: Joseph Belleau Coryell
Birth: 4 Jun 1871 San Francisco, CA
Occupation: Capitalist; real estate; orchid grower.
Marriage: 18 Apr 1900 San Francisco, CA
Wife: Mabel Lloyd Jessup
Father: John R Coryell
Mother: Zoe Christine Belleau
Descendant of: George Coryell, pallbearer at funeral of President George Washington.
Orchid Queen
ORCHID HUNTER TO PENETRATE WILDS
Millionaire J.B. Coryell owns the largest, most complete and valuable collection in America, and the hothouses at Fair Oaks home are presided over by Mrs. Coryell, who is known familiarly in her set as "The Orchid Queen." Upon hearing that an English collector slightly outranked their exhibit, the couple commissioned an orchid expedition to penetrate the wilds of the Sulu archipelago, the isles of Borneo and Java and the jungles of the Malay peninsula in a romantic contest. [Fair Oaks, aka Atherton, San Mateo, CA]
Death Notices
Coryell, Pioneer Capitalist, Dies
Coryell Rites Rites Held in S.F.
Funeral Home Record
Name: Joseph B Coryell
Age: 67
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1871
Birth Place: San Mateo, California
Death Date: 19 Jun 1938
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Mabel Jessup Coryell
Father: John W [R] Coryell
Mother: Zoe C Belleau
Funeral Home: N. Gray and Company
Burial: Olivet, 21 Jun 1938
1915 Biography
Joseph B. Coryell
For more than a quarter of a century Joseph Belleau Coryell has been a part of the business life of San Francisco and California. Starting in a small way, he has advanced step by step until today his interests are among the most important in the State. And he has acquired them all by keen foresight, close application and the ability to grasp an opportunity when it appeared to him.
When the late E. H. Harriman, some years ago, was just beginning to extend his holdings in the West, and needed a representative of proved ability on this coast, he chose Mr. Coryell as the man for the place. Subsequently Mr. Coryell did much valuable work for the railroad magnate. One of the direct results was that he was offered the presidency of a railroad, but this he declined, preferring to devote himself to his private projects. He is still interested in Harriman affairs.
A native of San Francisco, Mr. Coryell was born June 4, 1871. His father was Dr. John R. Coryell, at one time a widely known physician, and his mother was Zoe Christine (Belleau) Coryell.
Following his education Mr. Coryell, after casting about for a bit, looking over the field with an eye to the future, decided that the real estate business offered unusual advantages. Accordingly he opened a real estate office in San Francisco in 1888. Real estate has been his forte ever since, although he had branched out in a number of other directions as an investor.
In the course of his activities Mr. Coryell began pondering growth of the city and the directions in which it was most likely to expand. Land that he believed to be well situated he acquired, and it was not long before his prognostications began coming true. Today he owns more spur-track property than any other man in San Francisco.
It is largely by reason of his operations on Islais Creek, however, that Mr. Coryell has become locally famous for his keep business foresight. “Nerve” is the only word that expresses the opinion of San Francisco financiers and realty dealers when first they saw Mr. Coryell begin the acquirement of the blocks of mud flats on the south side of Islais Creek. No man, they reasoned, could possibly risk his money on those unsightly swamps unless he were possessed of colossal nerve.
This Mr. Coryell had, without doubt. And the very ones who declared at the time that the future was too uncertain to risk such an investment have long since expressed their complete respect for the wisdom of the man; for the new San Francisco harbor project on Islais Creek has become a reality, for which a condemnations have been carried on under which is known as the India Basin Act by the State of California.
With his wonderful foresight Mr. Coryell saw, what everyone else seemed blind to, that nowhere else on the San Francisco waterfront were there lands a available in the future for manufacturing purposes. He saw, too, that the terminal building operations of the three great transcontinental railroads entering California must, of necessity, group themselves about Islais Creek especially since the franchise for the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe’s joint line on Kentucky street bound the two railroads to build a steel drawbridge over the Islais channel on demand.
He could not overlook this assembling of railroad terminal facilities in the heart of the only waterfront land left in San Francisco available for factory purposes; nor that the interests around Islais Creek, railroad, lumber and the like, already established, were going to demand the clearing and deepening of that waterway. Here was in sight a combination of land and water shipping facilities unequaled anywhere. To a far-seeing man like Mr. Coryell the possibilities were obvious.
He had the nerve to back his judgment and the initiative to put it into effect. He was alone in both. He is the only man who has spent his money to improve lands on San Francisco’s waterfront in anticipation of the coming large influx of manufacturers. And as a result of this purchases on Islais Creek he is now the largest individual owner of waterfront property in the city. All the rest is held either by the State, the city or by private corporations, which are making use of it.
To men of stanch hearts and unswerving loyalty and hope – men like Joseph B. Coryell – San Francisco owes her bigger and better existence as the metropolis of the West. (Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies, Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco, California, 1915, page 251)
Census
1880 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
-John R. Coryell, head, 57, b. OH, father NJ, mother PA, Physician.
-Zoe C. Coryell, wife, 33, b. Louisiana, father Canada, mother Louisiana
-Zoe A. B. Coryell, dau, 11, b. CA
-Joseph* B. Coryell, son, 9, b. CA
-Jabez T. Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-John R. Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Eva C. Coryell, dau, 3, b. CA
-Grace L. Coryell, niece, 18, b. MA, father OH, mother
-Oliver Gauvreau, cousin, 70, b. Canada, retired merchant
1910 Census, Township 3, San Mateo, California; County Road
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 38, 1st marriage, b. CA, father OH, mother LA, Banker, owns home free of mortgage.
-Mabel L Coryell, wife, 32, 1st marriage, married 10 yrs, 2 children born, 2 living, b. CA, father PA, mother MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 7, b. CA
-Gordan Coryell, son, 5, b. CA
-Annia Moriarty, servant, 30, b. CA, parents Ireland, maid for private family
-Ah Sing, servant, 40, b. China, laundryman for private family
1930 Census, Atherton, San Mateo, California; 274 Lloyd Ave
-Joseph* B Coryell, head, 57, married age 27, b. CA, father MO, mother LA, Agent Real Estate, owns home $30,000.
-Mable Coryell, wife, 57, married age 27, b. CA, parents MO
-Royal R Coryell, son, 26, b. CA, salesman art shop
-Gordon R Coryell, son, 25, b. CA, salesman life insurance
-Sibyl E Coryell, dau, 19, b. CA
See "Oliver" in 1880 census
Will of Benjamin Gauvreau.
[Benjamin Louis Oliver Gauvreau]
The, will of Benjamin. L. O. Gauvreau, sometimes called Louis O. Gauvreau, has been filed for probate. The estate is worth $1000 and consists mainly of money in bank. He bequeaths his carpenter tools and surveying instruments to Joseph B. Coryell, and the balance of the estate to Mrs. Zoe C. Coryell. (Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 60, Saturday, 1 March 1890, p. 4)
Mother
California Death Index
Name: Zoe B Coryell
Age at Death: 68 (b. abt 1847)
Death: 30 Aug 1915 Alameda Co., CA
Father
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, August 20, 1899, Dr. John R., beloved husband of Zoe Belleau Coryell, and father of Mrs. M. R. Krlgbaum and Joseph, John and Eva Coryell, a native of Zanesvllle, Ohio, aged 76 years 8 months, and 20 days. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services this day (Tuesday), at 3 o'clock, at his late residence, 3201 Pacific avenue, corner of Central avenue. Interment private. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, page 11)
Note: Birth 31 Nov 1822
Death Notice
Coryell's life and Death
San Francisco, Aug. 21. [1899]— Dr. John Coryell, a California pioneer and one of the best-known physicians and mining operators on the Coast, died yesterday in this city, at the age of 77 years, after an Illness of one day, paralysis causing his death. He was a native of Vainville [Zanesville], Ohio, and studied his profession at the College of Medicine, Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1846. In 1855 he took charge of the Marine Hospital in this city, although he held large interests in various mining enterprises. He was jointly interested with Senator Sharon and Senator Hearst in some extensive land purchases and held interests in both estates until recent years. His funeral will be conducted by the Society of California Pioneers. (Los Angeles Herald, Number 326, Tuesday, 22 August 1899, p. 3)
FUNERAL OF DR. CORYELL.
A Distinguished Physician and California Pioneer. The funeral of Dr. J. R. Coryell, who died on Sunday, took place on Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Parrish of the Church of the Advent officiating. A delegation of eight members of the Society of California Pioneers acted as pallbearers. After the solemn services the remains were incinerated at the Odd Fellows'crematory. John Rittenhouse Coryell was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1822. He was the son of John and Amy Ann Coryell (born Rittenhouse). He was descended on his father's side from Revolutionary stock. They emigrated from Nice, France, during the religious war and settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a bosom friend of George Washington and was an officer on his staff. On the maternal side he was descended from the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia, which came from Holland and was of noble ancestry. Dr. Coryell graduated from the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio and practiced medicine in the State of Missouri before coming to California. He was a pioneer, having come to this State in 1849 by way of the isthmus. He was elected resident physician of the State Marine Hospital by Governor Bigler and besides commanded a large outside practice. He retired from the practice of medicine in the year 1863 and devoted his time principally to mining and land interests. In 1865 he married the eldest daughter of Eusebec Beleau, one of the oldest and best known pioneers of the State. The first railroad charter granted by the State of California was granted to a corporation of which Lloyd Tevis, Lorenzo Sawyer and the late Dr. Coryell were the incorporators, and was for a railroad known as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. He controlled large mining and property interests and was the owner of the Uncle Sam mine on the Comstock, which has since been subdivided and is now known as the Overman and the Savage, and one or two others. At one time he owned, jointly with the late Senator Hearst 30,000 acres along the water front of Alameda County, extending from Oakland to Alviso. He had been at different times a large property holder in San Francisco. He was an advanced thinker of the times and several of his mathematical problems have gone the round of the great universities both at home and abroad. His poetical works have won the admiration of all those under whose notice they have come and some of his earliest ventures were published in the Golden Era, the first paper published in the State. He was an inventor of much note and had many patent rights awarded him. Besides a widow, a family of two sons and two daughters survive him. (San Francisco Call, Volume 86, Number 83, Thursday, 24 August 1899, page 14)
San Francisco Funeral Home Records
Register of Deaths, Etc.
Halsted & Co., Undertakers, S.F.
No.: 5384
Name: John R Coryell
Age: 76 (b. abt 1823)
Birthplace: Ohio
Death Date: 20 Aug 1899
Death Place: 3201 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: Val D of Heart
Physician: M H Logan
Where Interred: I.O.O.F.
Plot: Crem.
Funeral Home: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Record Type: Register
Census
1850 Census, District 48, Lewis, Missouri
John* R Coryell 27
Susan Coryell 25
Amey Coryell 50, b. NJ
Sagran Coryell 3
Ada A Coryell 0
Mary Ann Coryell 18
Samson Coryell 14
Joseph Coryell 12
Jabes S Coryell 4
1870 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
John* Coryell 42
Zoe Coryell 22
Zoe Coryell 1
Amy Coryell 70
Paternal Grandmother
Amy Anna Rittenhouse, mother of John Rittenhouse Coryell.
Death Notice
CORYELL— In this city, February 25, Amy Anna Coryell, aged 79 years. (Daily Alta California and San Francisco Times, San Francisco, CA, Volume 32, Number 10910, Friday, 27 February 1880)
1880 Census Mortality Schedule
San Francisco, Califorina
Name: A A Coryell
Gender: Female
Birth Place: New Jersey
Age: 79 (b. abt 1800)
Death Date: Feb 1880
Cause of Death: Cancer
Marriage
Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriages
Bride: Amy Rittenhouse
Groom: John Correll
Marriage Date: 16 Sep 1819
Officiator: Burrows
Volume/Page: 2-169
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