Van Court, E. A., Mrs., b. 1831 or 2.

Mrs. E. A. Van Court, after growing up near Albany, New York,traveled to California in 1855 to join her husband who had preceded her there in 1853. They lived in San Francisco for several months and then in 1856 began the first of several unsuccessful attempts at ranching in the San Mateo Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley. The couple also briefly operated a hotel near San Jose. After nine years filled with misfortune the Van Courts moved back to the city, first to San Francisco and then to Oakland. Mr. Van Court found work in the mills and his wife took in boarders. Mr. Van Court died in 1898 at the age of seventy-two.

From the description of Reminiscences of Mrs. E. A. Van Court : typescript, 1914 March 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702137009