Lovina Walker Weeks diary, 1859.

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Lovina Walker Weeks diary, 1859.

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Consists of Lovina Walker Weeks' diary of her overland trip from Athens, Mich. to Alameda County, Calif. (1859) with notes added by her daugher, Florence Weeks Blacow (1929).

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University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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Weeks, Lovina Walker.

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Lovina Walker Weeks came to California (1859) with her husband Alfred Weeks and their two daughters, Esther (13) and Florence (8). They travelled from Athens, Michigan to Irvington, Calif. in the charge of Lovina Weeks' brother, Jared Tuttle Walker. Jared Walker (b. 1822) had first come to California in 1852. After a brief stint of mining he began farming in Alameda County, returning to Michigan for his sisters, their husbands and a wife for himself in 1858. Walker/Weeks Party trip was easy and ...

Blacow, Florence Weeks.

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Walker, Jared Tuttle, b. 1822.

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