Monterey County Biographies Pacific Grove History This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non- commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter. All persons donating to this site retain the rights to their own work. In 1903 and again in 1904 Edwin Victor Warren left his beloved Pacific Grove for Alaska he did this too earn his tuition at Stanford University and too pursue his interest in ornithology. Edwin Warren's parents Edwin Warren Sn. and Drusilla Warren Edwin's mother and Margaret Warren Edwin's sister are all buried in the El Carmelo cemetery. Margaret Warren was a Methodist missionary in Hawaii and contracted T.B. while attending the ill and died at the tender age of 27. While in Alaska Edwin worked in the largest gold mine in the world The Famous Treadwell gold mine on Douglas Island near Juneau Alaska. Where he recorded death and injury all to often, Practiced his Methodist religion as the Warren's where among the early settlers of Pacific Grove that was founded as a religious retreat. The Warren's were very strict Methodists and Edwin was a gentleman at all times under any conditions. My family both the Warren's and Castro's were pioneers of Pacific Grove Carmel and Watsonville where the Castro's once owned a Spanish land grant that consisted partly of Watsonville. John Baptist Castro is buried in the Monterey, his Brother Paul Castro is buried in Moss Landing and Edwin warren Jr. is buried in the Oakland hills. cemetery. My mother Margaret Castro/ Warren said that she thought she knew some of the characters John Steinbeck's used in his novels cannery row and Tortilla flats. She said that an old man with a wooden wheel barrow would come down their street selling fire wood and always was followed by a pack of dogs. Then there was the famous madam in Monterey Flora Woods that everyone seems to believe was the basis of that character. It is my belief that my step grandfather John Baptist Castro may have been the character portrayed by Spencer Tracy as John Baptist Castro seemed too me to fit the description of an old Pisano and always carried a gallon jug of wine up the Carmel hill too the old Castro home I don't remember seeing anybody else carrying a jug around Carmel and Monterey. My mother never mentioned her step father as possibly being one of those characters but I believe that she was too close to him and it never even accrued to her. Barry Kibler 6032 Casa Alegre ave Carmichael, Ca 95608 916-332-6117 barry.kibler@sbcglobal.net All under copyright law Edwin Warren's Journals were published in the book the Birdman of Treadwell however Edwin was really the Birdman from Pacific Grove.