Download or read book More Than Gold in California, 1849-1933 written by Mary Bennett Ritter and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Mary Bennett Ritter, M.D., (1860-1949) who graduated from Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1886. In 1891, she married William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944). Mary Ritter guided and taught in the Women's Physical Education program at the University of California, Berkeley. William Ritter later became the founding director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla. After retirement, the Ritters returned to Berkeley.