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Atherton is known for its high concentration of wealth; in 1990 and 2019, [10] Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. places that have a population between 2,500 and 9,999, [11] and the area covered by its ZIP Code is regularly ranked as having the highest cost of living in the United States.
Cornelius Atherton (1737–1809), was an iron manufacturer, an inventor and an active gunmaker for patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He became closely involved in the first large scale production of "American Steel". [ 4 ]
Faxon Dean Atherton, Jr (1855–1922) was also known as Francisco Fascon Atherton was born on September 12, 1857, in Valparaíso, Chile. He married "Jeanie" (also known as Jane/Jenny) Selby, the daughter of Thomas Henry Selby. Florence (Atherton) Eyre (1861–1934). She was born 1861.
Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town; Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California; Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school
There, she founded the "Home School for Shorthand and Typewriting" (1883), and ten years later, the "Chandler Normal Shorthand School", chiefly for the training of teachers, the first school of its kind in the U.S. In 1895, Atherton called a "Public School Shorthand Convention", the first in the history of shorthand education. Also in that year ...
Atherton is best remembered for her California Series, several novels and short stories dealing with the social history of California. The series includes The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton ; and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel Black Oxen (1923), about ...
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James Atherton (c. 1624–1710) [1] was an early settler and one of the founders of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He emigrated to the New England Colonies from the parish of Wigan , Lancashire , England, in 1635.