Legacy
Atherton's greatest legacy was his family name given to the town of Atherton, previously known as "Fair Oaks". On the town's incorporation in 1923, it was found that the name was already in use, so Atherton was chosen. As early as 1912, it was already being referred to by that name. Some of his children's names appear on West Atherton street signs: Isabella, Alejandra and Elena.
Faxon Dean Atherton married Dominga de Goñi (from Valparaíso, Chile) in 1843 and had they had seven children:
- Maria Alejandra Atherton (b.1844), married Jared Lawrence Rathbone.
- Elena Amanda Atherton (b.1845), married Frederick William Macondray, Jr of Boston, Massachusetts, son of one of the first merchants of San Francisco and large land owner.
- Anacleto Francisco Atherton (b. 1849)
- Jorge H. Bowen Atherton (b.1851), eloped with Gertrude Franklin Horn in 1876.
- Eulogia Isabel Atherton (b. 1853), married Enrique Edwards, of Valparaíso, Chile. Their great grandson, Dr. Carlos Lopez, became president of Menlo college in 2004.
- Francisco Fascon Atherton(1857), married Jane Selby, daughter of Thomas Henry Selby, 13th mayor of San Francisco, California, who built the Selby Shot Tower in San Francisco and founded the Selby Smelting Works.
- Florence Atherton (b. 1861), married Edward Lilburn Eyre, first mayor of Atherton in 1886.
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