Accounts and diary : Deer Creek and Rough and Ready, [Calif.], 1850 Mar. 8 - June 7.

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Accounts and diary : Deer Creek and Rough and Ready, [Calif.], 1850 Mar. 8 - June 7.

Accounts, Mar. 8 - June 7, 1850, and diary, Mar. 9 - May 5, 1850, kept by C.B. Houghton enroute to the California gold mining region from Sacramento, and at Rough and Ready and Deer Creek.

1 v. (48 p.) ; 17 cm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Houghton, C. B. (Cornelius Briggs), b. 1823.

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California gold miner. Originally from Massachusetts, goldseeker C.B. Houghton emigrated to California in 1849, and settled in 1853 in Benicia. In 1878, his occupation was listed as lumber dealer. From the description of Accounts and diary : Deer Creek and Rough and Ready, [Calif.], 1850 Mar. 8 - June 7. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34594405 ...

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