Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection, 1848-1859.

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Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection, 1848-1859.

Business papers, certificates, correspondence, Folsom estate materials, Leidesdorff estate materials, legal papers, Pulgas Rancho materials.

1 manuscript box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7769433

California state library

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Suydam, Reed and Company (Calif.)

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Suydam, Henry

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Folsom, Joseph Libbey, 1817-1855.

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Joseph Libbey Folsom was born May 19, 1817, in New Hampshire. He was a graduate of West Point and went to California in 1846 as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Stevenson's Regiment of New York Volunteers. After the Mexican War, he settled in San Francisco and was the Collector of the Port of San Francisco. He invested in real estate in San Francisco and beyond, notably purchasing rights to William A. Leidesdorff's large estate, the Rancho Rio de los Americanos in Sacramento County. Folsom...

Reed, Almet.

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