Joseph Libbey Folsom collection 1849-1855

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Joseph Libbey Folsom collection 1849-1855

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.folsom

Correspondence, documents, bills and receipts and writings by or relating to Joseph Libbey Folsom. The collection appears to have been formed by the executors of his estate, the San Francisco firm Halleck, Peachy & Billings. The correspondence contains approximately twenty letters to and from Joseph Folsom. These include correspondence with Suydam, Reed & Co., lawyers in New York who represented Folsom in a legal battle over land in California. There are approximately 150 letters to and from Halleck, Peachy & Billings. Principal correspondents are Peter Morris and James B. Wilson, who write about troubles with squatters, miners, and woodcutters on Folsom estate land. There are approximately 160 leases, many of them duplicates, for property in San Francisco owned by Folsom. The Bills and Receipts, most of them made out to Folsom, record both personal and professional purchases, including daguerreotypes, laundry services, materials used in constructing various buildings. The writings consist of two miscellaneous one page essays, probably by Folsom.

Total Boxes: 6; Linear Feet: 3.02

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349208

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Halleck, Peachy & Billings (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Suydam, Reed & Co.

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Suydam, Reed & Co.

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Wilson, James, 1861-

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James B. Wilson was a merchant in New York City. From the description of Receipt book, 1825-1853. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660300 ...

Wilson, James B.

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Halleck, Peachy & Billings (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Suydam, Reed & Co.

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Morris, Peter, fl. 1857.

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Folsom, Joseph Libbey, 1817-1855.

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Joseph Libbey Folsom was born May 19, 1817, in New Hampshire. He was a graduate of West Point and went to California in 1846 as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Stevenson's Regiment of New York Volunteers. After the Mexican War, he settled in San Francisco and was the Collector of the Port of San Francisco. He invested in real estate in San Francisco and beyond, notably purchasing rights to William A. Leidesdorff's large estate, the Rancho Rio de los Americanos in Sacramento County. Folsom...