APPENDIX B: CHRONOLOGY OF ROY AND HAZLE SHURTLEFF

** All Text on these chapter pages has been copied verbatim – with permission – from this book: “Shurtleff Family Genealogy & History – Second Edition 2005” by William Roy Shurtleff & his dad, Lawton Lothrop Shurtleff ** Text in pdf convert to word doc – any spelling errors from the book may or may not have been fixed. **

1887       Sept. 19. Roy is born in Nevada City California. Son of Matthew Samuel Shurtleff and Charlotte Avery Meek, and this couple’s only child, although there were five other children in the family: Alice and Mary Shurtleff, ages 22 and 21, and Charles, Jessie, and Nettie Meek, ages 19, 17, and 7.

1890       Aug. 15. Roy’s father is killed when his stage­coach overturns near Nevada City.

1890       Sept. 25. Hazle Clifton Lawton is born in Berkeley California. Daughter and fourth child of Frank Houghteling Lawton and Francis Marion “Fannie” Rogers.

1897       Roy’s mother takes him and her other three children to Berkeley, California, so that Nettie could go to college at the University of Cali­fornia. Roy starts elementary school.

1903       Roy enters Berkeley High School as a freshman.

1906       The great San Francisco Earthquake.Shortly thereafter, Roy drops out of Berkeley High to attend a special school to cure his stammering.

1907       Roy meets Hazle Lawton, whose family lives in Berkeley at 2211 Durant. Her older brother, Harry Lawton, had been one of Roy’s closest friends since Berkeley High School days.

1908       Roy enters Cal at age 21. Starts to work for the Daily Californian, the school newspaper. 1910. Roy begins to court Hazle, spending much time with her at Monte Rio on the Russian River, where he often takes his canoe, named Boola.

1911       Dec. Roy travels to Hawaii with the Cal man­dolin club and plays at various islands.

1912       Roy graduates from Cal at age 24. Starts work as a bond salesman for the investment firm of Louis Sloss & Co. Buys his first auto­mobile.

1913       Oct. 13. Roy and Hazle are married in Berke­ley at the First Unitarian Church. Local news­papers describe the wedding is great detail. After their honeymoon they live on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.

1914       April. Louis Sloss & Co. declares bankruptcy. Five friends and co-workers form Blyth, Witter & Co., later to become Blyth & Co. Roy, a founding partner, works as a salesman.

1914       Nov. 6. Roy and Hazle’s first child is born. Named Roy Shurtleff, Jr., he is later renamed Lawton Lothrop Shurtleff. The family now lives at 2307 Stuart Street in Berkeley.

1916       Nov. Roy joins the Bohemian Club in San Francisco.

1917       Jan. The family of three moves to 42 Chester Way in San Mateo.

1917       Feb. 27. Roy and Hazle’s second son, Eugene Avery Shurtleff, is born in San Mateo.

1917       May. The United States enters World War I.

1919       Aug 7. Roy and Hazle’s third child and first daughter, Suzanne Shurtleff, is born at their home in San Mateo. She is renamed Nancy at the age of about four months.

1919       The family of five moves to a house on Hurling-ham Avenue in San Mateo.

1921       The family moves to 372 Euclid Avenue in Oakland.

1923       Join the Diablo Country Club.

1924-25 Start spending time at Lake Tahoe, first at Brockway, then at Homewood where they built a lovely home. Boats include the Blue Indian (by 1925), the Wee Bit, and the NAN-GELAW (1929).

1925       Jan. Buy a luxurious new home at 209 Crocker Avenue, high in the Piedmont hills.

1926       Jan. Roy and Hazle travel to Peru on business. Lawton (age 12) and Gene (age 9) are sent to Montezuma, a boarding school in Los Gatos near Santa Cruz.

1926       Roy’s mother, Charlotte Avery, dies in Berke­ley at age 77. Hazle has a hysterectomy.

1927       Lawton and Gene are sent to Tamalpais, a private boys boarding school in San Rafael.

1929       Oct. The Stock Market crashes. Start of the Great Depression, which strongly affects the Shurtleff family.

1936       Jan. Roy and Hazle move to New York on company business. Roy has been named national sales manager for Blyth. They live in the River House Apartments in New York 490 City. Hazle misses California.

1937      Move to a house in the country on Edgewood Road in Connecticut. Shortly thereafter move to a sort of farm on Cherry Hill Road in Connecticut. That summer Roy, Hazle, and Nancy take a long trip to Europe.

1938      Family moves back to California, into a ranch in the Alhambra Valley in Martinez.

1939-40 The children marry and leave home: Lawton in Dec. 1939, Gene in Aug. 1940, Nancy in Aug. 1940.

1941      Roy, at the invitation of his eldest son, Lawton, writes recollections of his early life in the first 18 pages of Lawton’s 1941 family journal.

1941      April. Roy and Hazle’s first grandchild, William Roy Shurtleff, is born to Lawton and Bobbie Shurtleff. They will soon have 10 grandchildren.

1941      Dec. America enters World War IL

1945      Nov. Roy and Hazle separate. Roy leaves to live in San Francisco at the Pacific Union Club.

1946      April. Hazle is diagnosed as having leukemia. She sells the Martinez ranch and moves to a house on Boyer Circle in Lafayette. Shortly thereafter buys a cottage near the sea in Carmel.

1947      June. Hazle moves from Lafayette to Orinda (Brookside Road), very near to Lawton and Bobbie Shurtleff, and in the same town as all her children.

1948      May. Hazle dies at home in Orinda of leukemia.

1948      Roy starts the tradition of taking his grand­children (and children) to the Bohemian Grove each fall.

1949      March. Roy marries Mabel Dunn, his personal secretary at Blyth.

1962      Dec. 27. Roy retires from Blyth & Co., and starts updating Benjamin Shurtleff s 1912 genealogy of the Shurtleff family, a massive project.

1967      Sept. 19. Roy’s 80th birthday. His three children take him on a five-day boating trip down the Rogue River.

1976      July 4. Descendants of William Shurtleff (Revised ed., two vols.) is published by Roy in San Francisco. He is age 89.

1977      Sept. 19. Roy’s 90th birthday, celebrated with a huge family reunion at the Bohemian Grove.

1984      May 29. Roy suffers a stroke. Admitted to St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, he begins a slow recovery.

1985      June 15. Roy dies peacefully of a stroke and heart failure at St. Francis Hospital at age 97. He is survived by his wife, Mabel, his 3 chil­dren, 10 grandchildren, and 18 great-grand­children.