Charles C. Clement and family papers, 1839-1880.

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Charles C. Clement and family papers, 1839-1880.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313863822

Originals and transcripts of correspondence between Charles C. Clement, his wife Sarah, and his mother Lydia Clement. The main body of letters is between 1844-1862. Includes letters of Charles Clement and Sarah Lapham before their marriage in 1845 in New Hampshire. Later letters (1850-1852) are between Charles, Sarah, and Lydia Clement while Charles was in California during the Gold Rush. He described his arrival and conditions in San Francisco and in a letter of February 2, 1851 described his cabin in Calaveras County, California and a lynching there. In 1856, Lydia Clement joined her daughter and her daughter's husband in Faribault, Minnesota where she opened a milliner's shop. She wrote of conditions and the economy in Faribault where she died in 1860.

0.25 cu. ft. (9 folders).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Clement, Charles C., 1824-1893.

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Sarah Clement died in 1861. Charles Clement came to Minnesota in 1863. He worked as a master machinist for the Milwaukee Road and later the Winona and St. Peter Railway. He married Mrs. Elsie J. Wright in 1868. He was living in Hastings in 1880 when he became associated with George B. Wright, his wife's brother-in-law, and moved to Fergus Falls where he died in 1893. From the description of Charles C. Clement and family papers, 1839-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313863822 ...

Clement, Lydia, 1797-1860.

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Clement, Sarah Lapham, d. 1861.

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Wright, George B. (George Burdick), 1835-1882.

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