Résumé

The San Francisco Directory, 1869, (p. 125.), listed Sumner Bugbee as a "business agent" working at 402 Montgomery Street, the location of S.C. Bugbee and Son, Architects. He was listed as a business agent working at 402 Montgomery until at least 1876. (SeeSan Francisco Directory, 1876, p. 167)

Principal, Sumner, W. Bugbee, Architect, San Francisco, CA, 1897.

Relocation

He lived with his family at 641 Harrison Street in San Francisco, CA, in 1869. (SeeSan Francisco Directory, 1869, p. 125.) He had moved to "Oakland Point" by 1876. (SeeSan Francisco Directory, 1876, p. 167)

Sumner Bugbee, like his brother, Charles, lived in Oakland, CA. He resided at on the north side of Lake Street near Madison Street in 1878. (See Oakland, California, City Directory, 1878, p. 127.)

In 1897, Bugbee lived at 146 Lake Street in Oakland, CA. (See Oakland, California, City Directory, 1897, p. 130.)

Sumner Weld Bugbee died in 1899. According to Ruth Franklin, the biographer of author, Shirley Jackson, Sumner suffered a sudden, death, like his brother Charles, and father Samuel. "Sumner Bugbee, too, died uneexpectedly during a long-distance train journey from New York, where he had been living, back to California; he was buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery." (See Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson A Rather Haunted Life, [New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2016], p. 18.)

Parents

His father was the well-known architect, Samuel Charles Bugbee (1811-1877), his mother, Abigail Deborah Stephenson (c.1816-1879). They married on 05/12/1836 in ME.After her husband's death in 1877, Abby Bugbee resided on the south side of 10th Street between Jackson and Madison Streets. (See Oakland, California, City Directory, 1878, p. 127.)

• Roxbury, MA (Architect's Birth)
  Roxbury, MA

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