KASHOW

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 07:14:00 :

Sausalito News
Saturday, July 5, 1902
Page 3

Work of the Grim Reaper

ISRAEL KASHOW, another Marin County pioneer, has joined the silent majority. He passed away last Tuesday at his late residence in San Francisco. All the old settlers knew Kashow. He spent nearly a quarter of a century in fighting in the courts for the possession of what was formerly known as Kashow Island, now Belvedere. He settled there in 1850 and laid claim to not only the entire peninsular, but many acres adjoining it as well. About 15 years ago he was dispossessed of the island, although he still owned at the time of his death considerable tideland in and around Tiburon. He was a terror to fishermen, always refusing to allow them to spread their nets from his land, which, it is said, brought him into many serious difficulties.

Kashow was a native of Ohio, and at one time he was a compositor on the New York Sun, a fact he often alluded to with much gratification. He buried two wives on Belvedere, and the third survives him.