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AEtheline Banfield Pillsbury
From: Arthur C. Pillsbury, Partial Autobiography - "Our honey moon with two trunks full of cameras, was pleasure and business combined. All
our scenic and Alaska negatives were destroyed, first we went to
Yosemite then Tahoe, Shasta, Mt. Rainier, Victoria, and out over the
Canadian Pacific to Banff getting pictures all along the line one camera
I had made "The Grandpa" camera which took a vertical panel 10 x 36 it
stood up on two tripods and made a wonderful picture of waterfalls +
trees. then we came home and made the California Missions. This gave us
the largest set of scenic pictures in California."About AEtheline - Sara AEtheline Banfield, then Sara Ethel Banfield, was born August 2, 1873 in Kansas to:
Our honey moon with two trunks full of cameras, was pleasure and business combined.
All
our scenic and Alaska negatives were destroyed, first we went to
Yosemite then Tahoe, Shasta, Mt. Rainier, Victoria, and out over the
Canadian Pacific to Banff getting pictures all along the line one camera
I had made "The Grandpa" camera which took a vertical panel 10 x 36 it
stood up on two tripods and made a wonderful picture of waterfalls +
trees. then we came home and made the California Missions. This gave us
the largest set of scenic pictures in California."
About AEtheline -
Sara AEtheline Banfield, then Sara Ethel Banfield, was born August 2, 1873 in Kansas to:
John Addison BANFIELD b: 1835 NH d: 24 June 1889, CA
Lydia A. COOK b: abt 1837, MI, died after 1905 CA
AEtheline was one of five children born to the couple who had relocated to Benecia, California.
1. Charles Addison BANFIELD b: 3 Apr 1868 in Louisville, KS
2. Aetheline BANFIELD b: 2 Aug 1873 in Kansas
3. Harry M. BANFIELD b: 30 June 1878 in California
4. Jesse Tuomley BANFIELD b: 16 June 1877 in CA
5. George A. BANFIELD b: 1863 in Michigan
It was while AEtheline was attending Normal School that she and Arthur first met. AEtheline first married Arthur M D Deuell on October 17, 1891 in Sacramento. The wedding took place in Lincoln, California. She and her husband had one child, Arthur Seneca, born July 16, 1892.
Arthur Seneca Deuel died, June 29, 1900, he was interred in the Sacramento City Cemetery.
Pillsbury and AEtheline were married May 13, 1906.
After AEtheline married Arthur C. Pillsbury her son, Arthur Deuel, was 14 when they were married. AEtheline's son thereafter lived with them. He was not adopted by Pillsbury.
Arthur C. adopted his three children, off spring of his brother, Dr. Ernest Sargent Pillsbury, on November 13, 1911. The adoption took place in Alameda County in the City of Oakland. AEtheline declined to adopt the children.
Arthur Seneca, AEtheline's son, went to Stanford University and then into the oil business. He was working in Kern County, in the area of Taft when on October 5, 1914 he was crushed to death under a load of pipe joints.
Bakersfield Morning Echo, Tuesday, October 6, 1914 – Front Page, right column down the page.
Crushed Under Joints of Pipe
Fellows, Oct. 5 – Arthur Deuel, a member of the Pioneer Truck Company, died at 5 o'clock this evening from injuries received at work when two joints of 15- inch pipe fell on and crushed him while he was loading a truck on the Associated lease. Deuel was single, twenty-five years of age, and a graduate of Stanford university and one of the most popular men in the South Midway fields. Relatives in Oakland have been notified and the body will probably be shipped north. The attending physician was Dr. Johnson. The body was taken to Morton & Connolly's chapel in Bakersfield.
A follow-up appearing in the Bakersfield Californian on October 7, 1914, page 4, reported:
The remains of Arthur Deuel were sent to Oakland last night where the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family home.
Bakersfield Morning Echo, Thursday, October 8, 1914 – Front Page, right column down the page under NEWS BRIEFS
The remains of Arthur B. Deuel were shipped to Oakland by Morton & Connolly on Tuesday evening and the funeral will be held from the home of his mother today at 2 o'clock. Deuel was the young man from Pioneer who was killed by having heavy pipe fall onto him from a truck.
AEtheline became very active in local social groups, these including -
Shakespeare Club, Berkeley
Ebell Club, Berkeley
Woman's Civic Club, San Francisco
