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Ella M. Cain
ELLA M. CAIN (June 9, 1872 - January 25, 1966) was a Mono County pioneer and author of two books about the county of Bodie in California: The Story of Bodie (1956) and The Story of Early Mono Count...view moreELLA M. CAIN (June 9, 1872 - January 25, 1966) was a Mono County pioneer and author of two books about the county of Bodie in California: The Story of Bodie (1956) and The Story of Early Mono County (1961).
She was born in 1872 in Bodie, a famed Eastern California mining camp, to Michael Joseph Cody and Katherine Shaughnessy. Her father, the first Land Office Receiver in that area of the West, was elected sheriff of Mono County in 1888. She was raised in Bridgeport, California and, following graduation, returned to Bodie to pursue a teaching career. She married David V. Cain (1880-1968), son of Bodie pioneers James S. Cain and Delilah Wells, on June 15, 1904. The couple had two daughters, Ruth and Helen, and lived in Aurora from 1913-1917. They returned to Bodie, before eventually moving to Bridgeport, where Ella M. Cain died in 1966 at the age of 83.
DONALD I. SEGERSTROM (September 29, 1919 - August 30, 1973) was a noted historian, publisher and mine operator. He was born at Sonora, California in 1919, the son of Carrie E. Segerstrom and Charles H. Segerstrom, a Swedish-born Sonora banker and developer who was instrumental in the Nevada-Massachusetts mine, which became the leading U.S. producer of tungsten in World War II. He graduated with a degree in journalism in 1946 from the University of Nevada. He took over the Daily Union Democrat, one the oldest newspapers in California, in 1938, receiving a national newspaper ward in 1952. He was also the publisher of the Mining and Industrial News, which promoted the development of mining the West, and owned various gold, silver and copper mining properties in the Mother Lode and on the east side of the Sierra. He passed away in 1973, aged 53.view less