^"Hugh Simons Gibson". U. S. Department of State. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-04-06. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2011-05-28.
^This also meant teaching the rudiments of hygiene. See Diane C. Woods’s PhD dissertation at Stanford University (June 1996), Immigrant mothers, female reformers, and women teachers: the California Home Teachers Act of 1915 devoted to this initiative.
^Mary Simons was the daughter Solon S. Simons and Aurilla Kellog Barney. Solon Simon,a Brigadier General of the Maine Militia, commissioned Jan. 1, 1841n sailed to San Francisco round the Horn in 1851, settled in Santa Clara County,California and was a Member of California state assembly 4th District from 1858 to 1859. On 5 Jul 1853 in San Francisco, he married Aurilla Kellogg Barney, (born on 6 May 1821 in Lyons, Wayne Co., N.Y and died in LA in 1903), Aurilla, the daughter of Sophia Ridgley Dorsey and Milton Barney, had crossed the great plains in a covered wagon in 1853.