Editing Mountain View, California (section)

===Residents===
Reverend Henry Merrill Henderson, born in Maryland, arrived here at age 35 with his family in 1852; he was meeting relatives: the Ricketts and others who had migrated from [[Missouri]] and [[Kentucky]]. He was the first Baptist minister in town. He soon rode a circuit for preaching, going by horseback to Half-Moon Bay and [[Saratoga, California|McCarthysville]] for services.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Later that year, Seligman Weilheimer and his brother Samuel immigrated from Dossenheim, [[Baden, Germany]]. They settled on the next plot, and in 1856 built the first big general merchandise store in the settlement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hodder |first=Mary |title=History Of Castro Street And Its Buildings |url=https://www.livablemv.org/2019/03/15/history-of-castro-street-and-its-building/ |access-date=March 2, 2023 |website=Livable Mountain View |language=en-US |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302220026/https://www.livablemv.org/2019/03/15/history-of-castro-street-and-its-building/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

William Bubb bought {{convert|80|acres|ha}} to farm in October 1851; he became a leader in town and died there in 1864. His heirs' descendants prospered, marrying into other pioneer families.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}