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Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.)

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Angel Island Immigration Station, located in San Francisco Bay, operated from January 21, 1910 to November 5, 1940. The island was originally a fishing and hunting site for Coastal Miwok Indians before being colonoized by the Spanish and later the United States. Starting with the Civil War, the island served as a U.S. Army post. During the island's Immigration Station period, the island held hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the majority from China, Japan, India, Mexico and the Philippines. T...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...

Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893

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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and...

Worden, Willard E.

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Willard Elmer Worden began his career as a photographer in San Francisco in 1902. His first studio was at the Cliff House. Worden received acclaim for his photographs of Chinatown, the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition. From the description of San Francisco views photograph album, 1903-1904. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 501340064 ...

Perkins, George C. (George Clement), 1839-1923

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Perkins was a politician and a businessman, of Calif. He served as governor (1880-1883) and U.S. Senator (1893-1915). From the description of George C. Perkins family papers, 1873-1931 (bulk 1873-1920). (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122441455 ...

Ellis, Henry Hiram, 1829-1909

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Ellis joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1855 and served as Chief of Police from 1875 to 1877. From the description of Henry H. Ellis letters and notes : San Francisco, Calif., 1870-1877. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122558843 Biography Henry Hiram Ellis came to California in 1849 from Maine, was a gold miner and captain of several vessels before coming to San Francisco as policeman in 1...

American Federation of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of American Federation of Labor records, 1883-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980267 ...

Hyde, Helen, 1868-1919

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American artist. From the description of Letters from Mexico, 1911 Sept. 17 - 1912 March 20. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122370319 Hyde was a visual artist who spent her girlhood in San Francisco, then lived in France, Germany, and Japan as a student and professional artist. She died in Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Helen Hyde papers, 1881-1958. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122381659 ...

Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907

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Politician. President of Workingmen's party of California (1877). Campaigned against capitalists and Chinese labor. Former established Committee of Public Safety to protect their interests. Kearney was arrested but beat charges against him. Eventually his party succeeded in banning Chinese immigration (1882). Kearney subsequently became President of San Francisco Anti-Monopoly League (1883). Letter introduces H.C. Murphy, a professional thug. From the description of Denis Kearney let...

Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963

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Laura Adams Armer was active in San Francisco from 1899 to 1902 in her studio in the Flood Building. She continued to work in Berkeley after her marriage to Sidney Armer in 1902. From the description of Photograph album of portraits of men, women, and children [graphic] / Laura Adams Armer. [ca. 1900-1912] (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122381807 Laura May Adams was born in 1874 in Sacramento, California. Beginning 1893, she studied painting at the Cali...

Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903

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Painter, illustrator, muralist; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert Blum illustrated letters, [between 1875 and 1900?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594925 Robert Frederick Blum was an American artist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was employed for a time in a lithographic shop, and studied at the McMicken Art School of Design in Cincinnati, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, but he was practically self-taught, and early showed great a...

Arthur, Chester Alan, 1901-1972

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Sign painter and labor union official, of Richmond, Va. From the description of Chester A. Arthur papers, 1913-1962. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19106434 Chester A. Arthur was a sign painter who was born in northern New York. After taking a correspondence course in lettering and sign painting, he served his apprenticeship in New York City. He traveled and worked in upper New York, Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Memphis, Alabama, and Atlanta, before finally s...

Pon family

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Hulbert, Eri B. (Eri Baker), 1841-1907

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Eri B. Hulbert, Jr., born in Chicago, 1841. Attended Union College, Hamilton Theological Seminary (1865). Pastor of Fourth Baptist Church (1878). Professor, Union Theological Seminary (1881), acting president (1884-1885). First dean of University of Chicago Divinity School. Died 1907. From the description of Papers, 1836-1875. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 45680209 From the description of Papers, 1836-1875. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat rec...

Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.)

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The Palace Hotel opened in San Francisco, Calif. on Oct. 2, 1875. From the description of Palace Hotel records, 1919-1979 (bulk 1919-1949). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 63513521 ...

Roberts, Lee S.

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Composer of "Smiles" and other songs. From the description of Autograph note signed : [New York, to Irene Gallagher], [19]20 Sept. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910478 ...

Winkler, John William, 1894-1979

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Farmer, trapper, first settler of Shasta County, Calif. (1847). After Reading came to California (1843), he worked as a trapper for Captain John A. Sutter (1844-1846) until United States declared war on Mexico. Reading joined California Battalion under John C. Fremont and became its paymaster. Following discovery of gold, Reading found mineral on own lands along Clear Creek and Trinity River. Using his new-found wealth he started a commercial venture in Sacramento (1849) and following year retur...

Lee, Edwar

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Central Pacific Railroad Company

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Signed by Leland Stanford, President of the C.P.R.R. Co. and E.H. Miller, Jr., Secretary of the C.P.R.R. Co. From the description of Land sale document to Samuel Manning, 1870 Aug. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864271 California Central Railroad Company (CPRR); inc. 21 Apr. 1857; located at Folsom, Sacramento County; sold to Central Pacific Railroad, Nov. 10, 1864; in 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company (reorganized 1899 as Ce...

Speer, William, 1822-1904

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Rev. William Speer was a pioneer Presbyterian minister in San Francisco who established the first missions among the Chinese during the Gold Rush. He was also a strong advocate of fair treatment for Chinese immigrants in California. From the description of William Speer letter : San Francisco, [Calif.], to his family, Pittsburgh, Penn. : ALS, 1854 Jan. 1. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 49192720 ...

Lai, Yong

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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Watkins was a pioneer California photographer, most well known for his large-format photographs. From the description of Views of Thurlow Lodge by Carleton Watkins: photograph album, circa 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510599 An American landscape photographer, Carleton E. Watkins was noted for his views of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite. From the description of Carleton E. Watkins Collection. [1879]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); ...

Cowdin, Elliot C. (Elliot Christopher), 1819-1880

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Born in Jamaica Vermont. Entered business in Boston during the 1840's, where he mastered the intricacies of silk trade. In the 1850's, he established his own firm in New York York City with a branch in Paris, and lived alternately in one place or the other. He married Sarah Kate Waldron, circa 1853. Cowdin served in the New York Stat Assembly in 1877. From the description of Papers, 1835-1883. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 51299834 Elliot Christopher Cowdin (...

Jones, John P. (John Percival), 1829-1912

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John Percival Jones, born in Herefordshire, England, in 1829, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, before migrating west during the 1849 gold rush. Jones served as a U.S. Senator for the state of Nevada for thirty years (1873-1903). From the description of John P. Jones autograph, between 1873 and 1903. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 762831613 John P. Jones, mining investor and land speculator, earned his fortune in the silver mines of western Nevada after an uns...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

Yip, See

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Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930

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James D. Phelan was a businessman, civic leader, political figure, and philanthropist, of San Francisco, Calif. He served as mayor of San Francisco (1897-1901) and U.S. Senator from Calif. (1915-1921). From the description of James D. Phelan correspondence : ALS and TLS, 1898-1927. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122394967 Biographical/Historical note Phelan was the son of a pioneer California banker....

Leese, Jacob P. (Jacob Primer), 1809-1892

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Merchant, of Yerba Buena, Calif. (1836-1840) and Monterey, Calif., from 1849, where he also served as city treasurer; from 1840 to 1849 he lived on his land grant in Sonoma County, Calif. From the description of Papers, 1836-1863. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28419813 Calif. merchant and official. Born in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1809; came to Calif. in 1833, settling in Los Angeles in 1834. Relocated to Monterey, 1836, and entered into mercantile bus...

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Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880

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British born American publisher. From the description of Letters, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81189767 Frank Leslie (1821-1880) was an American engraver, illustrator and publisher of family periodicals. Born Henry Carter in Ipswich, England, he had an early interest in engraving and printing and by age 20 was superintendent of engraving for the Illustrated London News . He came to the United States in 1848 and began publishing illustrat...

Cong, Cang.

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Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902

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James Mason Hutchings was born in 1824 in England. At sixteen years old he traveled to New Orleans and worked as a clerk in a business house there. When he heard about the gold discovery, he left New Orleans in April of 1849, determined to satisfy his craving for adventure by taking the overland route. He arrived at the "gold-diggings" on October 9, 1849. He mined, made his fortune, and lost it all when the San Francisco bank, Frank Ward & Co., failed. He then returned to mining. In 1853, Hu...

Searles, Dennis

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In 1862, while looking for gold, John Wemple Searles and his brother Dennis discovered borax in what is now Searles Lake, California. In 1873 they formed the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company. From the description of Letter to Carrie Searles, 1863, Aug. 26. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122565195 Born 27 February 1874, Searles is sixteen years old when he visits the mining operation while on vacation from boarding school...

Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912

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Morris Badt was born in Schwersenz, Posen, Germany in 1830. He emigrated to New York in 1847 and moved to San Francsico in 1851, where he established a mercantile business. He later established businesses in Elko and Wells, Nevada. He married Lena Posener in 1868. Badt died in San Francisco in 1899. Mirel Lipshuetz Badt was the stepmother of Morris Badt. (From genealogical information provided by donors.) From the description of Morris Badt family portraits [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 18...

Talloires.

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San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856

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The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance of 1851 and 1856 were formed when crime became widespread in the city of San Francisco in the wake of the Gold Rush. In 1856, the murder of James King of William sparked the reactivation of vigilante activities. King, a San Francisco newspaper editor, was shot by James. P. Casey, a corrupt official, after King attacked Casey in the columns of his paper. Immediately 10,000 men hastened to join the vigilantes, and William T. Coleman was again chosen as lea...

Wores, Theodore, 1858-1939

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American artist, born in San Francisco, and known particularly for his paintings of Japan and California, and of the last, particularly for the orchards in bloom in the Santa Clara Valley and the wildflowers in the dunes of the San Francisco area. From the description of Theodore Wores papers, 1880-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398153 Landscape painter, portrait painter, illustrator, teacher. Year of birth also cited as 1860. Born in San Fr...

Kasten, Karl Albert, 1916-2010

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Painter, printmaker; Berkeley, Calif. Middle name is Albert. Teaches at University of California, Berkeley. Very personal form of Abstract Expressionism characterizes his work. Known for his collographs. "A collograph is printed on an etching press and developed by adding materials to the print plate using acrylic glue." From the description of Karl Kasten papers, 1940-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122397004 ...

Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963

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Brown, Harrison Bird, 1831-1915

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"H.B. Brown, banner, sign, and ornamental painter, no. 21 Exchange Street, Portland." From the description of Harrison Bird Brown business correspondence, 1851. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 768428058 ...

Sargent, A. A. (Aaron Augustus), 1827-1887

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Aaron A. Sargent was an attorney, a United States Senator, and congressman from California. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Germany in 1882. From the description of Aaron A. Sargent family collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37479061 ...

Beard, James Carter, 1837-1913

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James Carter Beard was born in Cincinnati, educated at Miami University of Ohio, and studied law under Rutherford B. Hayes. He was admitted to the bar, but pursued a career as an artist instead, following the tradition of his father and siblings. He taught briefly, served in the Civil War as a hundred days soldier, and found success as an illustrator, eventually moving to New York, where he worked as a staff artist for Scribner's and Appleton's. He produced numerous illustrations for various per...

Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

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Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....

San Yi Co.

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Shaw & Shaw

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Hart, Robert

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Epithet: of Stonham Aspel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x0000ea ...

Graham, C.

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Epithet: contributor to the magazine 'Bentley's Miscellany' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x000145 ...

Jeng family

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Song, W. F.

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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904

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The California Street Cable Railroad began operation in April, 1878. From the description of [California Street Cable Railroad Co. [graphic] : power house at California and Larkin streets]. [ca. 1878] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 48150769 American photographer known especially for his landscape views of the western United States, South and Central America, and for his photographic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge worked closely with Senato...

Stillman, J. D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819-1888

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Physician, of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Papers, 1849-1898. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28420175 Stillman was a physician who came to Calif. from New York in 1849. He practiced medicine in Sacramento and then San Francisco, where he was involved in various aspects of public life. He also served as Leland Stanford's personal physician. Stillman conducted research for Eadweard Muybridge's animal locomotion studies, which were commiss...

Yuk, Wong.

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Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.

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The Transylvania Presbytery was organized by appointment of the synods of New York and Philadelphia. The Synod of New York made part of the Presbytery of Abingdon into the Transylvania Presbytery, which encompassed the district of Kentucky and the settlements on the Cumberland River. The Reverend David Rice, Adam Rankin, Andrew McClure, and James Crawford met at the Danville, Kentucky courthouse to organize the presbytery. The synods of New York and Philadelphia appointed David Rice as moderator...

Ah, Sam

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Sing, Al.

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Levy, Nat

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Davis, Horace, 1831-1916

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Horace Davis was a United States representative from California, a member of the original Board of Trustees of Stanford University (1885-1916) and President of the University of California. From the description of Horace Davis papers, 1865-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 701289707 Horace Davis was one of the original trustees of Stanford University and served as the Board President from 1905-1907. From the description of Horace Davis photograph album, 1904-1...

Hoffman, Ogden, 1822-1891

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Ogden Hoffman was born October 16, 1822 in New York, the son and grandson of accomplished lawyers in that state. He graduated from Columbia College in 1840 and commenced the study of law, after which he established practice in New York City for three years. Hoffman arrived in San Francisco on May 16, 1850 and opened a law office; in March of 1851 he was appointed United States District Judge for the Northern District of California by President Millard Fillmore. Many of his decisions in this capa...

Thompson, Francis M. (Francis McGee), 1833-1916

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Francis M. Thompson, of Greenfield, Mass., was a Montana pioneer and later a judge for Franklin County (Mass.). His son, Francis Nims Thompson, followed in his footsteps by serving as a Franklin County lawyer as well. From the description of Francis M. Thompson miscellany ; and a speech on Chinese immigrants in California, ca. 1880-1916. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 40311134 ...

Fay, Luke

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Tong, Terry

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Coleman, William Tell, 1824-1893

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Businessman and vigilante. From the description of Certification of William Tell Coleman, circa 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451350 Coleman was a San Francisco businessman and Chairman of the Vigilance Committees of 1851, 1856 and 1877. From the description of Account of the Burdue Trial and Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856 / by William Tell Coleman : manuscript and typescript, circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866052 Coleman wa...

Bowles, Samuel

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Epithet: Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x00001a ...

Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910

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Biographical or Historical Data. From the description of Account book, 1820-1841; 1842-1851. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 298515587 ...

Del Mar, Alexander, 1836-1926

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Epithet: American economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000267.0x0001ea Alexander Del Mar (1836-1926) was an American mining engineer, economist, author, and historian, who served as the director of the Bureau of Statistics from 1866 to 1869. Born in New York on August 9, 1836, the oldest son of Jacques and Belle Del Mar, Del Mar's spent some of his adolescence in England and Spain....

Day, S.

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E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

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Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 3 February 1803 and died near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, on 6 April 1862. From the description of Photograph of Albert Sidney Johnston, ca. 1840-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 368044967 ...

Gregg, Ezra

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Tin Heong Chemical Company.

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Importers and manufacturers of oriental perfumes, essential oils, chemical preparations, and natural and artificial flower products. Offices in Canton, China and at 335-337 in the Consular Building, 510 Battery St., San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Tin Heong Chemical Company miscellany, 1912-1929. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 48239781 ...

Hayes, E. A. (Everis Anson), 1855-1942

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Everis Anson Hayes was born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, on March 10, 1855. He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1879 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. After several years spent practicing law throughout Wisconsin, Hayes moved to Ironwood, Michigan, in 1886 and begin mining ore. In 1887 he traveled to San Jose, California, where he continued mining and also grew fruit. In 1901 he began publishing the San Jose Daily Herald. Hayes was elected to Con...

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942

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German-born American photographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], [1915 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], Tuesday [ca. 1915]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196335 Photographer and pioneer in dance photography. From the description of Correspondence and writings, 1928-1942. (New York Public Library). Worl...

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918

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Ezekial Thatcher was clerk of the Parkville School District, Shasta County, Calif. He emigrated to California from Pennsylvania in 1850 and helped establish the first school district in the Parkville area. He is descended from the Thatchers of Uffington, England, the same family as Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. From the description of H.H. Bancroft letter : San Francisco, Calif., to E. Thatcher, Parkville, Shasta County, Calif. : ALS (photocopy)...

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