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Anastasia and Alvin B. Daniels II, bought their Coronado home at 1235 Ocean Front, renumbered 1063 Ocean Blvd., on 7 October, 1909, three years after they moved from Denver, Colorado with three daughters, Florence, Dorothy, and Helen. Dorothy Daniels Russell is the mother of Dr. John R. Russell, and one of Anastasia’s nine children.

Sadly, Alvin B. Daniels II died, 5 January, 1917, from a leg injury. Anastasia raised her large family in Coronado until 1923 when she moved to San Diego. She sold her home to Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell, world travelers. After their deaths in the early 1930s, the house remained unsold during the Great Depression. The City of Coronado destroyed the house and subdivided the former Daniels property into smaller lots.

Fortunately, Dorothy’s youngest brother, H. Vincent Daniels, saved the pictures of the house where he was born in 1914. These pictures show many objects that have been cherished by the family.

The room with the column shows the large carpet that was used in the living room of Dorothy’s subsequent homes in Point Loma and Mission Hills. The display case in the foreground is now owned by Dorothy’s youngest son, and the Madonna of the Chair picture now belongs to Dorothy’s grandson in Phoenix. The early Steinway piano in the background, draped with a carpet, was hauled by oxen from Council Bluffs to Denver as a wedding present for Dorothy’s Grandmother, Hattie Ramsey Daniels, on February 7, 1863. Florence Daniels Barker inherited the piano for her home in Mission Hills. Another room displays the unique set of dishes now used by Dorothy’s daughter. Vinnie Daniels furnished his home in Alpine with the oblong table holding a collection of Chinese paintings on the bottom shelf, and the elk head shot by his father, all destroyed in the Alpine fire on 26 September, 1970.