Pringle family papers, 1803-1961 (bulk 1842-1961).

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Pringle family papers, 1803-1961 (bulk 1842-1961).

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Primarily correspondence of the extended families of Edward J. Pringle and his wife, Cornelia C. Johnson Pringle. Edward J. Pringle materials include his letters from Harvard, 1844-1845, and journals kept during his trip to Europe during 1847-1848. Much of the family correspondence is between Cornelia Johnson Pringle and their daughter, Cornelia Covington Pringle and her six siblings: Edward J., William Bull, Sidney J., E. Covington, Hess, Mary Motte, and Charles Alston. Notable among her other correspondents are Louis Janin, Ynés Mexía, and the Cooper Ornithological Club. Also includes letters her father, Sidney Law Johnson, wrote from San Francisco in the 1860s. The papers of Charles Alston Pringle contain correspondence and manuscripts of his writings, many relating to Mexico, along with various business papers concerning his mining interests. Papers of the Pringle family also include legal documents relating to Central Pacific Railroad litigation, 1882-1890, as well as genealogical and various property records, wills, scrapbooks, and clippings.

34 boxes, 1 carton, 2 v. and 1 oversize folder (15.5 linear ft.)

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Mexía, Ynés 1870-1938

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (1870-1938) was born on May 24, 1870, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. She lived in Texas, Philadelphia, and Mexico City before she moved to San Francisco in 1908. She was a social worker before she went to the University of California at the age of 51. There, she developed an enthusiasm for botany. In 1925, she began a series of trips to remote locations in South and Central America, and Alaska. She collected over 150,000 specimens, and more than 500 species of pla...

Pringle, Edward Jenkins, 1826-1899

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Born into an aristocratic Charleston family, Edward J. Pringle attended the South Carolina College in 1841 and transferred to Harvard, where he graduated with honors in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, but first decided to enjoy his wealth, and embarked on a two-year grand tour of Europe. Strong to his family business of being wealthy planters, he wrote in defense of slavery in 1857 with a work titled, "Slavery in the Southern States." Finding insufficient legal work in Charleston, he e...

Pringle, Charles Alston.

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Main, Charles

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Central Pacific Railroad Company

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Signed by Leland Stanford, President of the C.P.R.R. Co. and E.H. Miller, Jr., Secretary of the C.P.R.R. Co. From the description of Land sale document to Samuel Manning, 1870 Aug. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864271 California Central Railroad Company (CPRR); inc. 21 Apr. 1857; located at Folsom, Sacramento County; sold to Central Pacific Railroad, Nov. 10, 1864; in 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company (reorganized 1899 as Ce...

Pringle, Cornelia Covington.

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Houghton, Hess Pringle.

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Online Archive of California

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Johnson family.

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Pringle, Sidney J.

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Pringle family.

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Edward J. Pringle (1826-1899), who came to California from S. Carolina in ca. 1850, was the son of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881) and Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1826-1899) of Charleston, South Carolina. An attorney, he settled in San Francisco in 1853 and specialized in litigating Spanish land grant claims. He married Cornelia C. Johnson of San Francisco. From the description of Pringle family papers, 1803-1961 (bulk 1842-1961). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Pringle, Cornelia C. Johnson.

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Pringle, W. Alston (William Alston), 1822-1895

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Charleston, S.C. attorney. He was the son of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881) and Mary Motte Alston (1803-1884). William Alston Pringle was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was Recorder for the City of Charleston from 1858 to 1895. He married Emma Clara Pringle Smith in 1845. From the description of William Alston Pringle papers, 1844-1897. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953401 ...

Johnson, Sidney Law.

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Schurtleff, Gertrude Hope.

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Frost, Susan Pringle.

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Palmer, Alice

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Janin, Louis, 1837-1914

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Louis Janin (1837-1914) was a mining engineer educated at Yale and then at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He began his career in the Western United States, making his first mark on the profession on the Comstock Lode in Nevada in the early 1860s, and later obtained experience in mining fields all over the Far West. He acquired a growing list of clients including investors in Mexican properties and, in 1873, the Japanese government. His three sons, Louis, Eugene, and Charles, also became mining eng...

Cooper Ornithological Club

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