Herbert Hamrol, 106, who survived the Great Earthquake of 1906 and recalled for later generations how his mother carried him to safety that day, has died.
Hamrol, one of the last survivors of the catastrophic quake and fire that leveled San Francisco, died Wednesday at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, a hospital spokeswoman said. His death came less than a month after he celebrated his 106th birthday with a big bash at a steakhouse.
He smoked cigars into his 90s and told whoever wanted to know that his secret to a long life was “wild women and good liquor,” said Janine Barrett, a manager at Andronico’s Market in San Francisco.
Until last month, Hamrol had worked at Andronico’s stocking shelves and greeting customers — a job he took after retiring as a grocer in 1967.
Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang, 49, a stem-cell scientist who successfully cloned the first farm animal in the United States, has died after a long battle with cancer.
Yang, director of the Center for Regenerative Biology at the University of Connecticut, died Thursday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, school spokesman David Bauman said Friday.
In 1999, Yang put UConn on the world’s scientific map when a Holstein named Amy was born in Storrs, Conn. She was the first cloned farm animal in the United States. The world’s first cloned animal was Dolly the sheep, created in 1996 in Scotland.
