Mary Comerford letter : to Chester Ferguson : ALS, 1930 Aug. 17.

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Mary Comerford letter : to Chester Ferguson : ALS, 1930 Aug. 17.

Letter from Comerford to Ferguson, who is probably the announcer for the radio program KHJ, broadcast in Los Angeles by Standard Oil Company of California, which had apparently featured a story about forty-niners. Comerford, of San Francisco, Calif., requests membership applications for herself, her daughter, Alice, and her son, James, to the "49'er club", based on the fact that her mother, Mrs. Ann Crowley, of Ohio, arrived in Calif. in 1852, eventually settling in Grass Valley.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6714588

California historical society

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Ferguson, Chester.

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Standard Oil Company of California

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Crowley, Ann K.

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Comerford, Mary Teresa, 1821-1881

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