Charles Bolivar Sterling papers.

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Charles Bolivar Sterling papers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215313904

Contents: Journal and commonplace book, ca. 1842-1852, with newspaper clippings pasted in; autobiographical writings concerning his service in U.S. navy during the Mexican War and his employment by T.O. Larkin after leaving the navy.

1 microfilm reel (212 exposures) : negative (Rich. 88:15) and positive.

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Sterling, Charles Bolivar, 1825-

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Charles Bolivar Sterling was born in Ouachita, Louisiana in 1825. In the mid 1830s, his family moved to Kentuky where he attended the Lafayette Seminary in Louisville. While a child, Sterling spent lots of time at "Sterlington," the plantation owned by his uncle John T. Sterling (in what is now Sterlington, Louisiana). In 1843 he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the ships Ontario and Nonesuch; during the Mexican War he served on the the sloop-of-war Preble with the Pacific Squadron. He left th...

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858

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Thomas O. Larkin (1802-1858) was a merchant who settled in Monterey, California, who later became U.S. consul (1844-48) and served as a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention in 1849. From the description of Letter from Thomas Oliver Larkin to Job Francis Dye and party, 1845 Aug. 10. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499643 Thomas O. Larkin, early California pioneer, arrived in California in 1832. Became succe...