Judgment in the matter of the estate of W.A. Leidesdorff, decd. : DS, 1850 Feb. 19.

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Judgment in the matter of the estate of W.A. Leidesdorff, decd. : DS, 1850 Feb. 19.

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Signed by Probate Judge, John W. Geary; attested by H.L. Dodge, Clerk, with seal of the Court. Appointment of Folsom as sole administrator of the estate, replacing W.D.M. Howard. Annexed to p. 3: Draft by J.L. Folsom, of advertisement for San Francisco newspapers.

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California. Probate Court (San Francisco)

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Howard, William Davis Merry, 1819-1856.

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Folsom, J. L. 1817-1855.

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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...

Dodge, H. L. 1825-1902.

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Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848

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William A. Leidesdorff, early California trader and official, was born in the Danish West Indies of a Danish father and mulatto mother. In 1841 he came to California as master of the ship "Julia Ann." He engaged in trade between Hawaii and San Francsico, and afterwards began a general exporting business in San Francisco. Leidesdorff became a Mexican citizen in 1844 and received a grant for Rancho Rio de los Americanos, east of Fort Sutter. The next year he was appointed vice-consul of the United...

Geary, John White, 1819-1873

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John W. Geary was a lawyer, politician and Union general in the Civil War (1861-1865). He was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1819. After serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War (1846-1848), Geary went to California for the 1849 gold rush. While in California, Geary became the first governor of San Francisco from 1850 to 1851 and was later governor of the Kansas Territory from 1856-1857. Following his term as governor, Geary returned to Pennsylvania and w...