Teresa Doyle Casserly correspondence with John T. Doyle, 1861 February 14-1863 March 11.

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Teresa Doyle Casserly correspondence with John T. Doyle, 1861 February 14-1863 March 11.

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Sixteen letters written from San Francisco by Teresa Casserly to brother John T. Doyle discuss the Casserly lodgings at 410 Harrison Street - the Samuel Bowman residence - on Rincon Hill; the Casserly's infant son, Augustine; Eugene Casserly's activities in court and in politics; Emmet Doyle's political activities and his accidental blinding in one eye; illnesses and deaths in and outside the family circle, particularly of John Doyle, Sr.; railroad building; torrential rains and flooding in the Sacramento Valley; the political climate and its effect on the family. One letter (February 14, 1861) is written from San Francisco by Frances Doyle to son John T. Doyle. John T. Doyle is chiefly remembered for his work as legal representative of Archbishop Alemany in the litigation over the Pious Fund of the Californias.

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Casserly, Teresa Doyle, 1826-1911.

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Frances Glindon, born c. 1788 in Ireland, married John Doyle of Kilkenny. They emigrated to America, and Teresa Doyle, daughter of John Doyle and Frances Glindon, was born in New York c. 1828. The Doyles moved to San Francisco in 1851. Teresa Doyle married Eugene Casserly, law partner of her brother John T. Doyle, in San Francisco in 1854. They had five children: Augustine, John B., Margaret, Eugene, and a fifth who may have died in infancy. Eugene Casserly served as a U.S. senator 1869-1873 and...

Doyle, Frances Glindon, 1788-1866.

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Doyle, John T. (John Thomas), 1819-1906

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For fifty years, John Thomas Doyle worked on the "Pious Fund" case as legal counselor for San Francisco Catholic Archbishops Joseph Alemany and Patrick Riordan. Doyle was born on November 26, 1819 in New York. In 1851, he came to San Francisco and practiced law. He returned to New York in 1856. In New York, he married Antonia Pons, returning to San Francisco in 1859. He served in various positions throughout his life: member of the first Board of Regents for the University of California, Califor...

Casserly, Eugene, 1820-1883

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