Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901.

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Holladay, Samuel Wirt, 1823-1915. Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901.

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901.

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Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 116-163, Vol. 5. This is a typed transcript of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. A photograph of Holladay is included in this account. He discusses family history, his youth, schools, jobs, his name and his wife's family. He describes his trip to California, fellow passengers, San Francisco during the Gold Rush and cases he worked on as attorney for the City, the Board of Education and the California Academy of Sciences. Reprinted is his letter (1892) on the naming of Auburn and an account of the North Fork trial (Auburn 1850), by a journalist for the "New York Journal of Commerce" over which Holladay presided as Alcalde. Involving an African-American and a white man accused of stealing from a fellow miner, both received 75 lashings and were banned from the mines. An addendum by him, "The Log Cabin Trial Scene", gives his view of the journalist's account of the trial.

[49] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.

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