Scope and Contents
Creator: Unknown (Relative of Fannie M. McKoon?)
Named Person: William Barron, Beatrice Harrden, Fannie M'Koon, Myra Elizabeth Conklin
Description: Contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, postcards, publicity about the town of Borrowash, England within
roughly the first half of the scrapbook, which also includes family photographs. The second half of the scrapbook contains
clippings, postcards, photographs, and ephemera related to members of the McKoon (also M'Koon) family. Fannie McKoon lived
at Fanita Rancho, which was named for her by the builder and her husband, Hosmer Perkins McKoon, in El Cajon. Before Fanita
Rancho, the family seems to have lived at a residence built by Irving Gill at the corner of Albatross and Ivy. Clippings relate
to the family's involvement in Christian Science in San Diego, the Wednesday Club, and also include editorials written by
Fannie regarding the temperance movement in San Diego and attendance at the Women's Suffrage Convention, 1896.