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    World Honored Park’s Gardener (Last part)

    January 28, 1943 /

    Thursday, January 28, 1943 The Call-Bulletin today presents the final chapter of the late J Lawrence Tool’e intimate biography of Uncle John McLaren, veteran park superintendent and “father” of  Golden Gate Park.  By J. Lawrence Toole With a fervor of affection and gratitude, San Francisco for decades celebrated the natal day of John McLaren, “father” of its public parks.  Underlying each succeeding civic observance of the day was the sentiment expressed many years ago by the late James Rolph Jr. As mayor and spokesman for the city: “Life in San Francisco has been better and more beautiful since the coming of John McLaren.” The sentence expressed in a few words…

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