Combing the records at Ancestry I found two similar but different names for Fenwick’s father.
Here’s his death record.
This is a 1880 US Census where Fenwick’s name is spelled Fennick but I believe it’s the correct person because of the age, location and mother’s first name. The census information is only as good as the enumerator can tabulate it as well as the person who transcribes it for the records at Ancestry.
Wyman Riley was in the 1938 graduating class of St. Mary’s College as related in this 1960 VTH newspaper clipping.
https://csum-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstr … sequence=2
Also if you do a search for, Wyman Riley St. Mary’s College, there are a number of hits for him at e-yearbook with pages from the 1938 St. Mary’s College yearbook.
Seagull, sorry for the late reply. Thank you for taking the time to look into the father’s info. I didn’t make the connection I had hoped. I think the name "Matthias" is probably the more correct of the two. I found a Matthias living in the same area in 1850 logging for a lumber company. Given Fenwick’s career it would seem logging has been in the family for 100 years. This Matthias is not the same Matthias as you provided but thinking maybe it was his father. I did see two names in conjunction with this Matthias, Micheal and john (also a logger for the same company), that were tied to land holdings later held by the Anna Burt we see from the 1880 info. I am thinking they are brothers to the elder Matthias. While I didn’t make the connection I had hoped I do believe the connection is right around the corner.Thank you.
I started writing all this stuff down after finding out that Wyman attended St. Mary’s. As you may recall I made the determination that the Phillips 66 code solves to Christian Brothers St. Mary’s College via trilateration. You may not remember that I had also suggested that the bus bomb correlated to streets in San Francisco relating to the areas of Anza Vista and the park Buena Vista (don’t have the info in front of me to be exact). Anyway, the junction box that the supposed mirrors connect to, correlates to St. Mary’s Hospital on a map. I don’t know. At this point I am just wondering what his (the Zodiac) deal was with St. Mary’s.
I am not sure which as, at the time, I wasn’t writing this down but one of the Fenwick’s (thinking the father) was a member of the Sierra Club. Just thought that interesting.
Soze
Soze, I finally went to the library to look up the editor info for the Examiner and Chronicle. I did not have any luck finding the editor for the Examiner. To recap, the SF Chronicle and SF Examiner published jointly on Sundays, I was hoping that there would be something in the Sunday paper that named the editors of both newspapers. The library I go to has only the SF Chronicle including the combined Sunday edition but not the daily Examiner.
This was the only thing I could find that was in the neighborhood of what you wanted, lower left corner-
This is the editor info for the SF Chronicle. Looks like Charles De Young Thieriot was the publisher and editor. Upper right corner-
Thank you for taking the time to check. I did phone the Chronicle myself in hopes of gaining the info that way but it seems their offices are all automated with answering machines at every terminating point. I wasn’t sure which office was the right office to ask my question so I never left a message. I might try again this week. I did see where a July 1969 paper was being sold on eBay. I may try contacting the seller and ask them for the editor/publisher name. The paper is cheap enough that if I don’t receive a response I will just buy it and hope it’s there.
Soze
We do know the Chronicle’s editor’s name, it’s the Examiner editor that is in question.
The Examiner was owned by William Randolph Hearst back then.
Edited to add-
It looks like William Randolph Hearst Jr. was the editor and publisher of the Examiner. He is not to be confused with William Randolph Hearst II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R … _Hearst_Jr.
When I mentioned contacting the Chronicle I was thinking of the merger, etc, and thought maybe (probably too big of a hope) they would have the answer.
Last night before bed I went to respond with the above and noticed the bit about William Randolph Hearst Jr. That left me in a bit of shock and awe. I’m thrilled we have the answer now and thank you for your help in finding it. A little bothered by the answer because it is so obvious. Not knocking it. It’s clearly the right answer.
Depending on, how one views the time period in which the Zodiac wrote his letters, we could also add Randolph Apperson Hearst. I read last night he edited the paper from 1973 and at a time when his daughter Patty was kidnapped.
Soze
Yes, I was surprised at how obvious the editor of the Examiner answer was, too. Both papers had very socially prominent family heirs as their editors. The Examiner was especially confusing as the Hearst Corp. owned the paper and the corporation was run by non family members as per WRH wishes in his 1951 will.
Read this SF Gate article, it might answer a few of your questions.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hear … 936534.php
And read this one, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/us/he … apers.html
Read both articles. The one about the heir suing was shocking. What in the world was Hearst thinking when he drafted his will? I would assume he wanted his paper to live on but, dang, that was a recipe for disaster.
Soze
