California, District Court (12th District) documents, 1854-1857.

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California, District Court (12th District) documents, 1854-1857.

Includes summons to John Davis; affidavit and order in case of Stafford vs. Lick; and interrogatories and testimony of Washington A. Bartlett in the case of John B. Montgomery vs. S.S. Burt, with Bartlett's correspondence with Montgomery, 1854-1855, and letter from Andrew J. Grayson.

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Montgomery, John Berrien, 1794-

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John Berrien Montgomery was a United States naval officer; as commander of the Portsmouth during the Mexican War, he occupied San Francisco and established authority of the United States on the California coast. From the description of Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78915132 From the description of Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, ...

California. District Court (12th District)

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Lick, James, 1796-1876

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Grayson, Andrew Jackson, 1818-1869

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Biography Andrew Jackson Grayson was born in 1819 on the family plantation In Louisiana. Subject to frequent illness he was permitted by his parents to occupy much of his time as he pleased. As a result he passed many of his days in the nearby woods hunting small game and observing birds and other wildlife. He attended a local school until the teacher found him drawing birds during class and told his father. He was promptly sent to college in...

Cowan, Robert Ernest, 1862-1942

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Robert Ernest Cowan was born in 1862 in Toronto, Canada; came to San Francisco in 1870; student at UC Berkeley 1882-84; San Francisco bookseller from 1895-1920 and author of bibliographies of history of California and the Pacific Coast; librarian for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1919-33; moved to Los Angeles at Clark's request in 1926; Cowan's collection of books and manuscripts form the nucleus of the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections' holdings in Californiana; married Marie Margaret Fleissner i...

Bartlett, Washington A.

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