Van Ness family papers, [ca. 1850-1890].

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Van Ness family papers, [ca. 1850-1890].

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Includes letters to Captain Henry Van Ness, his pilot licenses for the harbor of San Francisco, and accounts; correspondence of his wife, Mary Ann, including an 1850 letter describing her voyage from Boston to California on the Northern Light, with stop in Rio de Janeiro, and letters to her from California State Hospitals at Agnews (F.W. Hatch) and Stockton (William H. Mays); and correspondence and accounts of their children, Tillie, James and William Henry. Some letters relate to swamp land, district no. 118 in Contra Costa County; some letters from Moses L. Wicks, Lansing B. Mizner, Thomas A. Brown and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Mizner, Lansing B., 1825-

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Brown, Thomas A., 1823-1889.

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Mays, William H.

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Van Ness, Mary Ann Elliot.

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Hatch, F. W.

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Wicks, Moses Langley, 1852-

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Van Ness, Henry, 1820-1867.

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