In 1905, Venice, California was founded by the millionaire real estate developer Abbot Kinney, whom became famous for creating the “Venice of America”.
Abbot Kinney hosted woman suffragist Susan B. Anthony and several African Americans for multiple events.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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