Ina Donna Coolbrith

INA DONNA COOLBRITH

Born Nauvoo, Illinois, March 10th, 1841
Died Oakland, California, Feb. 29th, 1928

First white child to enter California by Beckwourth Pass, in first covered wagon-train traveling that route, September 1852.

Thirty-two years a librarian, friend and counselor to three generations of California writers.

Inscribed on roll of honor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, June 11, 1915.

Given the honorary title "Loved Laurel-Crowned Poet of California" April 24, 1919, bu act of state legislature. First poet-laureate in America.

Presented by the City of San Francisco, June 15, 1947
by the San Francisco Parlors, Native Daughters of the Golden West.