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1876
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Father has plat drawn for Granger’s Wharf, off Martinez shore and running along Arroyo del
Hambre (later Alhambra Creek).
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Martinez Museum
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1876 Feb 7
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Accidentally injures the hand of a Chinaman (who was up in the tree) while trying to shoot a bird
that was eating the oranges.
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LES diary
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1876 May
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Father receives approval to build Granger’s Wharf. Father is president of Granger’s
Warehousing & Business Association.
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1876 July
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Wharf and two warehouses completed. Father on hand to welcome first (grain) ship at wharf,
the St. Charles.
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1877 June
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Takes her first piano lesson from Professor Mansfeldt (Mansfelt?).
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LES diary
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1877
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Taking lessons at the Grangers Hall. Father particularly liked ‘Hold The Fort’
a Granger song.
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LES diary
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1877 Dec 5
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Muir writes to
the three Strentzels: "I made a capital little excursion
over your Mount Diablo and arrived in good order in San
Francisco after that fine rest in your wee white house. I
sauntered on leisurely after bidding you good-bye, enjoying
the landscape as it was gradually unrolled in the evening
light."
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1878
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Muir a frequent and fondly expected visitor to the Strentzels.
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1878 Feb
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LES "read Muir’s charming description of the ouzel and the waterfall.
It is written as only John Muir can write."
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LES diary
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1878 April
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The piano tuner, Mr. Corn, comes and stays the night. Tunes the piano at the Granger’s Hall
the next day.
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LES diary
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1878 May 1
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Sings ‘The Brave Old Plow’ at Granger’s Hall.
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LES diary
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1878 May 7
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Working every day with her flowers, transplanting and training vines.
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LES diary
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1878 May 28
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JM arrives "by boat looking thin & pale, bringing a quantity of writing to do while resting."
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LES diary
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1878 June 1
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Plays the piano for the family and JM, including Balcoma, Coronation, Lenore,
Nearer My God to Thee. The family and JM sing several Grange songs.
JM comments "they almost made a Granger of me."
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LES diary
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1878 June 6
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Anxious to have lessons from Prof. Mansfeldt, but he cannot come up unless he can get other
pupils.
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LES diary
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1878 Aug 10
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A grand ball at Centennial Hall (Granger’s Hall, built in 1876).
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LES diary
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1878 14 Aug
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Father sends JM (in Nevada) a box of fruits.
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LES diary
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1878 Sep 30
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Father attends the State Grange meeting in Sacramento.
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LES diary
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1878 Oct 4
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Dr. & Mrs. Carr arrive to attend a Grange meeting. Mrs. Carr is a strong Grange supporter.
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LES diary
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1878 Oct 11
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A meeting of the Atkins school alumni.
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LES diary
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1878 Nov 12
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Travels to Benicia for a lesson.
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LES diary
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1878 Nov 16
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Plays Mendelssohn’s Hunting Song.
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LES diary
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1878 Nov 20
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Takes a lesson from Prof. Corbaz at the Hall.
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LES diary
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1878 Nov 30
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Mrs. S. and Miss Hickman of Mills Seminary call.
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LES diary
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1878 Dec 10
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JM visits, telling of recent trip to Utah.
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LES diary
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1878 Dec 11
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With father and JM visits the hill on which her father thinks of building the new home.
"Mr. M. seemed to like the place very much."
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LES diary
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1879 Jan 16
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JM arrives via train from Sacramento after lecture there on the 14th.
JM gives the family a lecture on glacier meadows.
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LES diary
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1879 Jan 22
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Takes a lesson at the Hall.
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LES diary
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1879 Feb
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Taking lessons at the Hall.
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LES diary
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1879 Feb 3
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Tastes but does not eat a strychnine-laced egg her father had prepared for a skunk.
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LES diary
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1879 Feb 7
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Father sends some spicy Newtons to JM.
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LES diary
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1879 Feb 17
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Father sends JM a box of "delicious cherry & apple blossoms & fine roses."
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LES diary
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1879 Mar 26
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Mrs. Carr visits for a few days.
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LES diary
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1879 April
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Receives her first two letters from John Muir.
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1879 April 29
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Asks father to buy a new piano for $850.
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LES diary
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1879 May 15
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New piano arrives. Plays ‘Miou.’ JM there.
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LES diary
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1879 May 16
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Walks in the hills with JM.
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LES diary
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1879 June 17
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Becomes engaged to John Muir. Father "seemed pleased but quiet."
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LES diary
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1880 April 14
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Marriage certificate witnessed by Mrs. M. A. Hatch.
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1880 Aug 2
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John Muir writes from Alaska: "Leaving you is
the only event that has marred the trip and it is marred
sorely, but I shall make haste to you and reach you ere you
have time to grieve and weary. If you will only be calm and
cheery all will be better for my short spell of ice-work...I
hope you do not feel that I am away at all. Any real
separation is not possible. I have been alone, as far as
concerns the isolation that distance makes, so much of my
lifetime that separation seems more natural than absolute
contact, which seems too good and indulgent to be true...And
now, my dear Louie, keep a good heart and do the bits of
work I requested you to do, and the days in Alaska will go
away fast enough and I will be with you again as if I had
been gone but one day."
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1880 Aug 3
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JM writes "Good-bye again, my love. Keep a strong heart and speedily will fly the hours that bring
me back to thee."
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1880 Aug 5
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JM writes "I hardly know,
my lassie, what I've been writing, nothing, I fear, but very
small odds and ends, and yet these may at least keep you
from wearying for an hour, and the letters, poor though they
be, shall yet tell my love, and that will redeem
them... Heaven bless you, my love, and mother and father. I
trust that you are caring for yourself and us all by keeping
cheery and strong, and avoiding the bad practice of the
stair-dance. Once more, my love, farewell."
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1880 Aug 10
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JM writes "...I’m not away at all, you know, for only they who do not love may ever be apart.
There is no true separation for those whose hearts and souls are together.
So much for love and philosophy."
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1880 Aug 11
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JM writes "You must come here (Alaska) some day when you are strong enough."
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1880 Aug 14
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JM
writes "How hard it is to wait so long for a letter from
you! I shall not get a word until I return. I am trying to
trust that you will be patient and happy, and have that work
done that we talked of... Now, my dear wife, the California
will soon be sailing southward, and I must again bid you
good-bye. I must go, but you, my dear, will go with me all
the way. How gladly when my work is done will I go back to
thee!"
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25 Mar 1881
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Daughter Annie Wanda born. JM wrote to John and Mary Swett:
"We are five now -- four steadfast old lovers around one little love.
Bloom-time has come and a bloom baby has come and never since the Glacial Period began on earth
were happier people."
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1881 July 2
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JM writes from second Alaska trip: "it is a sore, hard thing to be out of sight of her so long,
and of thee, Lassie, but still sorer and harder not to hear."
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1881 Aug 16
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JM receives Louie’s letter and replies: "Heaven only knows my joy this night in hearing
that you were well... Ah, you little know the long icy days, so strangely nightless, that I have
longed and longed for one word from you."
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1881 Spring
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John’s health is poor from nervous indigestion and a bronchial cough.
Louie encouraged him in vain to go to the mountains.
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1882
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JM expresses opposition to the Grange.
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LES diary
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1884 July
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Accompanies JM on trip to Yosemite.
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1886 Jan 23
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Daughter Helen Lillian born. Frail from the start.
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1888
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JM’s first writing efforts on Picturesque California were uninspired.
Louie realizes his inspiration is gone and that he needs time in the wilderness for health.
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1888 Aug
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Decides to sell or lease major parts of the ranch to lessen JM’s burden.
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1888 Aug 6
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Louie writes to John in Washington state, where
he is climbing Mt. Rainier: "A ranch that needs and takes
the sacrifice of a noble life, or work, ought to be flung
away beyond all reach and power for harm... The Alaska book
and the Yosemite book, dear John, must be written, and you
need to be your own self, well and strong, to make them
worthy of you. There is nothing that has a right to be
considered beside this except the welfare of our children."
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1889 June 1
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JM sends letter from Victoria, saying "...I hope you are all busy with the hay.
Helen will keep it well tumbled and tramped with Keenie’s help."
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1889 July
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Receives six or more letters from JM who was secluded in the Grand Hotel in San Francisco writing
articles for Picturesqe California. In these he quotes passages to her for comment
and approval.
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Bade, II, 221
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1890 Oct 31
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Father dies. Born Nov. 28, 1813, Poland.
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Gravestone
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1892 Aug-Sep
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Sells parts of the ranch.
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1897 Sept 24
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Mother dies. Born Oct. 31, 1821, Tennessee.
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Gravestone
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1905 Jul 3
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JM writes to Mr. Hooker that "...we received a telegram that Mrs. M. was much better...
In the midst of chronic troubles, she had a sudden and severe attack of pneumonia."
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JM First Draft of Letters, 1905, UOP
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1905 Jul 4
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JM writes to Mr. Johnson that
"We were called back from Arizona a few days ago.
Ultimately ... we found the trouble was pneumonia."
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JM First Draft of Letters, 1905, UOP
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1905 Aug 6
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Dies. Buried in the Strentzel family cemetery.
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Gravestone
Source: Compiled by Steve and Patty Pauly
Received: March 24, 1999
See also:
Louie Strentzel Muir Biography
People Important to John Muir
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