Annie Bidwell: A Brief Biography

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In April 1868, Annie married John Bidwell, a prominent California pioneer 20 years old, and took charge of his three story, twenty six room mansion at Rancho del Arroyo. Their home, filled with gas lighting, 19th century modern plumbing and water systems, became the social and cultural center of the upper Sacramento Valley. Concerned for the future of the local Mechoopda, Annie Bidwell was active in state, and national Indian associations. Annie was also an amateur botanist who found, in the acreage around her home, the first specimen of a small annual plant subsequently named Bidwell’s knotweed. Born Annie Ellicott Kennedy, she grew up to be a teetotaler dedicated to the temperance movement, an active supporter of women’s suffrage, and a devout

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