Statement ... on Vigilance Committees in San Francisco : ms., 1877.
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Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
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Ezekial Thatcher was clerk of the Parkville School District, Shasta County, Calif. He emigrated to California from Pennsylvania in 1850 and helped establish the first school district in the Parkville area. He is descended from the Thatchers of Uffington, England, the same family as Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. From the description of H.H. Bancroft letter : San Francisco, Calif., to E. Thatcher, Parkville, Shasta County, Calif. : ALS (photocopy)...
Cole, Richard Beverly, 1829-1901.
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Biography Richard Beverly Cole was born in Manchester, Virginia on August 12, 1829. He began his medical studies at the age of sixteen when he became an assistant to Dr. Benjamin Dudley of Lexington, Kentucky. After a few months of this apprenticeship, he enrolled in the Medical Department of Transylvania University (now the University of Louisville). After a year he transferred to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, receiving his M.D....
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
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The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance of 1851 and 1856 were formed when crime became widespread in the city of San Francisco in the wake of the Gold Rush. In 1856, the murder of James King of William sparked the reactivation of vigilante activities. King, a San Francisco newspaper editor, was shot by James. P. Casey, a corrupt official, after King attacked Casey in the columns of his paper. Immediately 10,000 men hastened to join the vigilantes, and William T. Coleman was again chosen as lea...
