Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , nearly all the kids attending the McKinley school ( now McKinley Elementary School ) at 1025 14th Street ( at Castro ) were Finnish . Following the 1906 earthquake , a large amount of Finns of San Francisco the Bay Area moved to Berkeley , where many already had settled before . A large part of the early Berkeley population was of Finnish heritage
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
Gustave Niebaum