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William Henry McManus: four clippings and a disputed death date
Newspaper notices name Ella and Ethel McManus and point to an Oakland funeral, while dates and ages conflict with the family tree.
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Whisky the Bear at Frank McManus’s Union Hotel
The Examiner’s illustrated 1893 story of the shorn bear of the Potrero.
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The brothers’ later years
An episode in From Murhaun to Potrero, adapted from the original family narrative.
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The Blue Mud Wars of the Potrero
Frank and Cornelius McManus, the Welch rivalry, and an illustrated Examiner account from 28 February 1892.
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James McManus: an Oakland undertaker at 844 Castro Street
His funeral parlors, sudden death in 1906, burial at St. Mary’s and the McManus & Freeman successor advertisement.