Bagai Family in Berkeley, California
Timeline: year / date vs. documented address or location
By PJ Singh
This page summarizes documented dates and Berkeley locations shown here: the July 22, 1916 store opening at Center Street (Berkeley Daily Gazette), 1916 residence of two Bagai’s children with the Frohliger family on Milvia Street, the August 7, 1916 purchase of 1610 Edith Street (Alameda County deed), and Vaishno Das Bagai’s 1917 WWI registration listing residence at 1820 Todd Street, Berkeley. Later Edith Street transfers and diary context appear on the main story page and The Missing Chapter: 1610 Edith Street.
Visual timeline
Bagai’s India Arts and Curios — business / retail location.
Source: Berkeley Daily Gazette, July 22, 1916, evening edition, p. 3, col. 3,
“New Art and Curio Curio Store Opened Here.”
Two Bagai’s children were living with a German(?) family: John C. Frohliger and
Mrs. Frohliger, at this address.
Source: UK Archives, 1916 FO 115.
Vaishno Das Bagai purchases the property from Watkins. Described on this site as linked to misappropriated Ghadar Party funds.
Source: Alameda County Assessor’s Office, deed recorded August 7, 1916 (Watkins to V.D. Bagai), 1610 Edith Street, Berkeley.
The WWI Draft Registration Card for Vaishno Das Bagai (1917, U.S. Selective Service System, World War I) lists his home / permanent address as
1820 Todd Street, Berkeley, California (Alameda County).
Source: Vaishno Das Bagai, WWI Draft Registration Card, 1917 (U.S. Selective Service System, World War I).
Vaishno Das Bagai listed as Laborer at this address.
Source: Local Berkeley Historian.
Vaishno Das Bagai.
Source: Local Berkeley Historian.
Kala and the two younger boys were on an extended visit to India. They were away from November 1919 until March 1921.
Source: Local Berkeley Historian.