Letter Book of the College of California, 1849-1867

Stow, Marietta Lois Beers, 1830 or 1837-1902

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Marietta Lois Beers was born in New York state about 1835, a daughter of Wakeman Beers and Lois (Louise) Wood. At 19 she married a Cleveland, Ohio, merchant named Bell; he and their only son died within the next five years. After the death of her second husband, San Francisco businessman Joseph Washington Stow (1874), the women's suffrage leader wrote Probate Confiscation (1876) and Probate Chaff (1879), as well as editing the periodical Woman's Herald of Industry (San Francisco), 1881-1884. Whi...

Bank of California

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The Bank of California, in San Francisco, was founded in 1864 by William C. Ralston and Darius O. Mills. From the description of Letter of credit : for Cabbel H. Maddox, 1874 Apr. 7. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122544516 ...

Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876

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Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, Connecticut on April 14, 1802. He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1830; B.D., 1833), and received degrees from Wesleyan University (D.D., 1842), Harvard (S.T.D., 1852) and Yale (LL.D., 1871). He served as pastor of North Church, Hartford, CT from 1833-1859. He was the author of "God in Christ" (1849) and "Christ in Theology" (1851), as well as other works uncongenial to the orthodox theology of his times. From the description of Horace Bush...

Hitchcock, Roswell D

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Sargent, A. A.

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Briggs, Martin C.

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Stiles, Anson Gale, 1809-1876

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Anson Gale Stiles (1809-1876), Millbury, Mass., general store proprietor and entrepreneur, was born in Amsterdam, N.Y., a son of Barney Stiles (1781-1868), Sutton (now Millbury), Mass., manufacturer of scythes, and Cornelia Clisbee Stiles (1784- ), of Amsterdam, N.Y. Anson Gale Stiles evidently formed a series of partnerships in Millbury during the 1830s and 1840s and served as Town Clerk, 1835-1838. In 1836 he married Ann Jane Waters ( - ), by whom he had three children...

Kip. William I.

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Stebbins, Horatio

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Jackson, C. T.

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Willey, Samuel B.

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Scudder, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1825-1886

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Brierly, B.

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Anderson, W. C.

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President

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Bidwell, John, 1819-1900

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Bidwell was a noted early Calif. pioneer, landowner, and statesman. He helped form the Western Immigration Society in 1840, which led to the formation of the Bidwell-Bartleson wagon train, the first emigrant train to Calif. He travelled through Utah in 1841, then forged the Calif. immigrant trail. In 1846 he wrote the Bear Flag platform. In 1848, he began buying his ranch, Rancho de Arroyo Chico, also known as Rancho Chico. From the description of Rancho de Arroyo Chico ledger and re...

King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864

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King was a popular Unitarian minister, of Boston, Mass. In 1860, he took over the parish in San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Thomas Starr King sermon notebook : ms, [18??]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145416609 American writer and clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1863 Apr. 29, [San Francisco, to Mr. Swain?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130298 King was a popular Unitarian minister from Boston, Mass., wh...

Trustees

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McGill, Alexander T. (Alexander Taggart), 1807-1889

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Alexander Taggart McGill was born at Canonsburg, PA on February 24, 1807. He graduated from Jefferson College at Canonsburg and then entered the Associate Presbyterian Seminary. He had to suspend his studies because of his health. He then taught at the Baldwin Academy in Milledgeville, GA and enter the bar in that state in 1830. He also was appointed as Surveyor of the Cherokee Land Reservation by the state legislature. He returned to Canonsburg in 1831 and was ordained in the ministry in 1835 b...

Alvord, William

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Coon, Henry P. (Henry Perrin), 1822-1884

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Hendrickson, C. R.

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Sherman, William

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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Bayles, James

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Gates, F.

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Cheney, D. B.

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Goddard, E. B.

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Swezey, S. I. C

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McLane Louis 1786-1857

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Member of Congress, 1817-1827, and U.S. Senator, 1827-1829, minister to England; secretary of the treasury, 1831; secretary of state, 1833; and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. From the description of Papers, 1830-1838. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902833 Secretary of Treasury and State under President Jackson. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Hezekiah Niles, [no year] Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Brewer, William

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College of California

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Chartered in 1855, and operated in Oakland, Calif. until 1869. From the description of Documents of the College of California, 1850-1869. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 45217065 Brief History The College of California was chartered in 1855 and operated in Oakland, California until 1869. Initially it functioned as a preparatory academy, under the name of College School, and the first college clas...

Dimick

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Lyman, Chester Smith, 1814-1890

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Rogers, William M.

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Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910

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Geologist, mining engineer and educator; he worked on numerous railroad and mining surveys throughout Europe and the western United States. In 1895, he became professor of geology and mining at the University of Arizona. From 1853 to 1856, he accompanied the Pacific Railroad Expedition. From the description of Blake papers, 1847-1910. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37905971 ...

Wylie, James

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Willey, Samuel H. (Samuel Hopkins), 1821-1914

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Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821-1914), a leading California educator, arrived in California in 1849. In 1855 he co-founded, with Henry Durant, the College of California, which was a forerunner of the University of California system and was later incorporated into UC Berkeley. Willey was also the author of several books, including Thirty years in California : a contribution to the history of the state from 1849 to 1879 (1879), History of the College of California (1887), American Congregationalism in...

Lees & Waller

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Billings, Frederick

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Sawyer, E. D.

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Barnes, William Henry, 1907-

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Barnes was county clerk and county surveyor of Kaufman County, Texas, and Confederate officer in the Civil War. From the guide to the William Henry Barnes Papers OCLC number 22711811., 1847-1933, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...

Shafter, Oscar Lovell, 1812-1873

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Oscar L. Shafter, an attorney from Vermont, came to California in 1854, having been offered a one-year position in a prestigious San Francisco law firm. At year's end he was engaged in a successful practice and believing the California climate to be better for his family's health, he sent for his wife and two daughters to join him. During the next eight years he established his reputation as an attorney, and in 1863 he was named an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. He served in ...

Ely, C. Arthur

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Bellows, Henry W.

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Macondray, Frederick

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Anderson, William C.

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Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer), 1820-1894

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Crockett, I. B.

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Hilgard, Julius E.

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Shedd, William

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Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910

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Brewer went to Yale in 1848 to study soil analysis with J.P. Norton. He left to teach for two years, retuned and got his Ph. D. from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1852. After Yale he went to study in Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. In 1858 he was made professor of chemistry and geology at Washington College in Pennsylvania. From 1860-1864 Brewer was first assistant on the Geological Survey of California and undertook extensive botanical surveys of areas that were still largely unexplored. In ...

Kellogg, Martin

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Stone, A. L. (Andrew Leete), 1815-1892

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Swain, Robert B.

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Stanley, Edward, 1791-1862

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Epithet: Reverend of Cockermouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x00003d Epithet: Sec to the Customs? British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001f6 Epithet: MRCS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000245.0x00030a Epithet: of Add MS 382...

Cleaveland, H. W.

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Dwinelle, John W. (John Whipple), 1816-1881

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Dwinelle was a lawyer and state legislator, of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of John W. Dwinelle papers, 1825-1936. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122332389 Biography Collected papers of prominent San Francisco lawyer, legislator and settler of 1849. Among his achievements while residing in California he was mayor of Oakland, a correspondent for the Daily Evening Bulletin, a founder and ...

Conness, John, 1821-1909

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John Conness was born in Ireland, September 22, 1821. He moved to New York when he was fifteen and followed the Gold Rush to California. There he mined Mormon Island, and the Middle Fork of the American River. From the description of Autobiography and Reminiscence of John Conness, San Francisco, 1904. (The Society of California Pioneers). WorldCat record id: 55979376 John Conness was a United States Senator from California from 1863 to 1869. J. Sloan...

Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893

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First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of California. From the description of William Ingraham Kip papers, 1837-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 659509525 ...

Lake, Delos

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Blakeslee, S. V.

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Larkin, Thomas

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Sather, Peder, 1810-1886

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McLane, Allan

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