Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company papers, 1867-1868.

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Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company papers, 1867-1868.

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Articles of agreement between William A. Bolinger and Asbury Harpending, including certified copies of the articles of incorporation, of California Assembly Bill no. 716 concerning railroad bonds, and of power of attorney to General W.S. Rosecrans; abstracts from stockbook with names of stockholders and their shares; and unsigned draft of letter to W.B. Ogden concerning proposed rail route across the Sierra.

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Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company.

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Bolinger, William T.

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Harpending, Asbury

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Born in Kentucky, Harpending (1840-1923) was a financier, adventurer, and one of the primary figures in the Great Diamond Hoax of the 1870s. From the description of Asbury Harpending papers, 1863-1919. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122332383 Asbury Harpending (1839-1923) was a miner, mining investor and financier in the fields of real estate, mining, and railroads. His mining interests included gold mines in California, Utah and Mexico. Much of Harpend...

Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

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General during the Civil War; congressman from California (1881-1885); U.S. Register of the Treasury (1885-1893). From the description of Papers, 1864-1895. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24039377 William Starke Rosecrans was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer during the Civil War. He was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles such as Second Corinth, Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign,...