Correspondence of Ellison Lassell Crawford, 1852-1857.

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Correspondence of Ellison Lassell Crawford, 1852-1857.

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Crawford wrote these letters to his father James B. Crawford. In the letters Ellison Crawford describes his life in California. He includes descriptions of Sacramento, San Francisco as well as the mining camps Willow Creek, Spanish Diggings, and Spanish Bar. Crawford also talks about mining and the difficulties in finding gold, trying to attend church regularly, bad weather, selling supplies to his fellow miners, the Chinese mining near him, vigilance committee activity, murders, and crime in general.

22 letters.

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Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895

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Ellison Lassell Crawford was born in Castine, Maine in 1833. He sailed to California in 1852. He first settled in San Francisco and worked in a hotel as a cook. He later mined and owned a store in Spanish Diggings and Spanish Bar in El Dorado County. From 1859 to 1861, Crawford was Postmaster and Justice of the Peace of Greenwood, California. In 1880, he served as Minute Clerk of the California Constitutional Convention. He died in California in 1895. From the description of Correspo...