Background
Saunders, Charles Francis was born on July 12, 1859 in Buckinghamshire Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Parry) Saunders.
Saunders, Charles Francis was born on July 12, 1859 in Buckinghamshire Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Parry) Saunders.
Graduate Friends’ Central School, Philadelphia, 1875.
Editor The United Friend, 1894-1897. In business, 1875-1903. Secretary Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia, 1903-1905.
Quaker.
Author: Under the Sky in California, 1913. With the Flowers and Trees in California, 1914. The California Padres and Their Missions (with J. Smeaton Chase), 1915.
Finding the Worth While in California, 1916, review edit, 1937.
Western Wild Flower Guide, 1917. Finding the Worth While in the Southwest, 1918, review edit, 1937.
Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada, 1920. The Southern Sierras of California, 1923.
A Little Book of California Missions, 1925, review edit, 1938.
Trees and Shrubs of California Gardens, 1926. The Wild Gardens of Old Calirornia, 1927. The Story of Carmelita, 1928.
Capistrano Nights (with Saint John O’Sullivan), 1930.
Western Wild Flowers and Their Stories, 1933. Home: Pasadena, California.
Married Elisabeth Moore Hallowell, November 12, 1902. Married second, Mira Barrett Culin, May 11, 1921.