Duchow family papers, 1815-[ca. 1955].

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Duchow, John Charles, 1830-1901. Duchow family papers, 1815-[ca. 1955].

Duchow family papers, 1815-[ca. 1955].

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Papers relating to John Charles Duchow, newspaper publisher in Tuolumne Co., Calif., and his family. Certificates of birth and Baptism for Johann Carl Duchow; a letter from his sister and a passport. The will of Thomas Peach Reaves. Account book and journal, 1845-1855, containing accounts for apprenticeship to Caleb Foote; journal, Apr. 30-July 4, 1852, of voyage to California on ship, Staffordshire, (ends with rounding of Cape Horn) and miscellaneous accounts. Certificate of apprenticeship and recommendation from Caleb Foote; certificate of U.S. citizenship (issued by the Deputy Collector of the District of Salem and Beverley, Mass.); order for a subscription to the Tuolumne Independent, 1896, and a receipt from Wells Fargo & Co. Letters from Lydia (Reaves) Duchow to her sons, John C. and William A. Duchow, in California; receipt for the burial of her husband, Johann Carl Duchow, and lock of his hair. Notes, clippings and photostats of pages from a family Bible. Copies of three letters written to his family from California, 1853. A list of complaints of conditions aboard the Staffordshire on her voyage to California.

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