She happened to be visiting her elderly father in time to help him evacuate his burning house during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , and to spend a week in an emergency camp for survivors . In widowhood Katharine Putnam Hooker moved back to San Francisco , where she lived with her daughter and with their friend , Alicia Mosgrove . The trio moved to Berkeley , California together , and then to Santa Barbara , California in 1924
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Katharine Putnam Hooker