Ella Stirling Mighels

5 May 1853 – 10 December 1934

Born 1853 on Mormon Island, California as Ella Sterling Clark, first married to Adley Cummins (d. 1889), adopted pen name Aurora Esmeralda. Later married to Philip Verrill Mighels (d. 1911).

• Bruvver Jim's baby
• Fairy tale of the white man
• Literary California, poetry, prose and portraits
• San Francisco redi-vivus!
• Society and Babe Robinson, or, The streets of old San Francisco
• The full glory of Diantha
• The story of the files
• Life and letters of a forty-niner's daughter
• The little mountain princess: a Sierra snow-plant
• Wawona