Ira Austin papers, 1838-1904 [manuscript].

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Ira Austin papers, 1838-1904 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13175665

Collection contains chiefly legal documents (deeds, claims, abstracts, court decisions, insurance policies) and financial records (bills, IOUs, receipts, bullion deposits). Some correspondence, minutes, other memorandums of real estate and business dealings in Colo. and Ill.

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes), 1 oversize file folder

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6819584

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Austin, Ira, 1807-1893.

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Colo. pioneer businessman, born May 30, 1807 in Bristol, N.Y. He married Harriet Benjamin (b.1810) in 1831. The couple had three children: Schulyer D. (ca.1837-1901), Julia E. (ca.1843-1922), and Helen A. (ca.1848-1926). Austin and his family moved to a farm in Will County, Ill. (1838-1860). He journeyed alone to Placerville, Calif. as a gold prospector (1849-1850) before returning to Ill. Austin travelled to Colo. (1860), where he set up a mill in Gilpin County and also went into coal mining, r...

VanMale, John

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