Editing Hubert Howe Bancroft (section)

==Personal life==
Bancroft's first marriage was to Emily Ketchum in 1859.  They had one child, a daughter named Kate who was born in 1859. Emily died in childbirth in 1869. In 1879, Bancroft married his second wife, Matilda Coley Griffing, with whom he had four children.<ref name=MWA />

Although he never graduated from college, in 1875 Bancroft was awarded an honorary [[Master of Arts]] degree from [[Yale University|Yale]] in recognition of his massive historical work on ''Native Races of the Pacific States.''<ref name=Summoned>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2232962/hubert_howe_bancroft_historian_is/ "H.H. Bancroft, Historian, is Summoned: Greatest Writer of California's Achievements is Stricken at Home"], ''Oakland Tribune'', vol. 139, no. 11 (March 3, 1918), pp. 27, 30.</ref> He was also elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1875.