There exists a great deal of information on the Palace Hotel. This section presents only information connected to the family.
John Kirkpatrick and the Palace Hotel
The following is an article from the journal, The Argonaut, published by the San Francisco Museum and History Society. It is excerpted from Volume 27, No. 2, Winter 2017.
John C. Kirkpatrick was manager of the Palace from 1894 to 1914. In 1880 he married Lillie Sharon Davis, a niece of Senator Sharon (his sister's daughter).