Papers of J. W. Stow, 1865.

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Papers of J. W. Stow, 1865.

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The collection consists primarily of letters and some documents related to the examination of quartz mines in Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne Counties, California, as well as several mines in Nevada. Many of the letters are addressed to Stow, but there are also a few addressed to Edward J. Pringle and others. The primary authors of the letters are W. A. Williams and Joseph Lee.

40 pieces.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Pringle, Edward Jenkins, 1826-1899

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Born into an aristocratic Charleston family, Edward J. Pringle attended the South Carolina College in 1841 and transferred to Harvard, where he graduated with honors in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, but first decided to enjoy his wealth, and embarked on a two-year grand tour of Europe. Strong to his family business of being wealthy planters, he wrote in defense of slavery in 1857 with a work titled, "Slavery in the Southern States." Finding insufficient legal work in Charleston, he e...

Stow, J. W. (Joseph Washington), 1828-1874

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Joseph W. Stow, early San Francisco businessman and philanthropist, was associated in several business enterprises with William C. Ralston, president of the Bank of California, which made loans to mines after their appraisal. Stow received the reports and sold mining machinery from his hardware warehouse. Ralston, Edward J. Pringle, and Stow were partners in an unsuccessful venture to treat refactory ores, called the Hagan Process for the Disintegration of Ores. From the description ...

Williams, W. A., fl. 1865.

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Lee, Joseph, fl. 1865.

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