Biography of first Cal. legislature, [1850].

Randolph, Edmund, 1819-1861

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Baldwin, Drury P.

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Bidwell, John, 1819-1900

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Bidwell was a noted early Calif. pioneer, landowner, and statesman. He helped form the Western Immigration Society in 1840, which led to the formation of the Bidwell-Bartleson wagon train, the first emigrant train to Calif. He travelled through Utah in 1841, then forged the Calif. immigrant trail. In 1846 he wrote the Bear Flag platform. In 1848, he began buying his ranch, Rancho de Arroyo Chico, also known as Rancho Chico. From the description of Rancho de Arroyo Chico ledger and re...

Douglass, David F., 1821-1872.

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Tingley, George Brown, 1815-1862.

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Crittenden, Alexander Parker, 1816-1870

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Biographical/Historical note Crittenden was born in Lexington, KY and was assassinated on the ferry between Oakland and San Francisco in 1870. He was married with children. He was a military cadet at West Point Military Academy from 07/01/1832-07/01/1836. He joined the army as a lieutenant and resigned 09/30/1836. He worked as an assistant engineer for the railroads in Baltimore, MD, York, PA, Charleston, SC, and Augusta, SC. He was a lawyer ...

Guerra, Pablo de la, 1819-1874

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Woodworth, Selim Edwin, 1815-1871

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Selim E. Woodworth, United States naval officer and son of poet Samuel Woodworth, led the rescue of the Donner Party shortly after his arrival in San Francisco in the winter of 1847. He was elected to the California State Senate in 1849, became president of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance in 1851, and re-entered the Navy to serve as an officer in the United States fleet on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. From the description of Papers of Selim Edwin Woodworth, 18...

Hughes, John Taylor, 1817-1862

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Soldier in the United States Army during the war with Mexico. From the description of Diaries, 1846-1847. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497511 ...

Wheeler, Alfred, 1822-1903

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Wheeler became a prominent lawyer, of San Francisco, Calif., and the author of Land titles of San Francisco (1852). From the description of Journal of a gold hunter's voyage round Cape Horn : ms, 1849 May 21-Nov. 12. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122444174 Wheeler was a San Francisco attorney and landowner. From the description of Alfred Wheeler miscellany, 1851. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122563725 From t...

Lippincott, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Evans), 1902-

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Benjamin S. Lippincott travelled overland to California with the Bryant party. He helped to raise recruits during the Mexican War and served as lieutenant of Company H, California Battalion. He lived in San Francisco in 1847, served in California constitutional convention of 1849, represented San Joaquin County in the first state legislature, and represented Calaveras County in the legislatures of 1855 and 1861. From the description of Benjamin S. Lippincott letters : ALS, 1847-1851....

Brown, Elam C. (Elam Cameron)

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Aram, Joseph, 1810-1898.

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Joseph Aram, pioneer resident of Santa Clara County, came to California with his family from Illinois in 1846. He served as a captain in the Mexican War, as a delegate to the first California Consitutional Convention, and as a member of the first state legislature. He established the first tree nursery in San Jose, where he lived from 1849-1898. Of Joseph Aram's five children, only two (Eugene and Sarah) reached old age. From the description of Aram family papers, 1835-1912. (Hunting...

Vermeule, Thomas L., 1814-1856.

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Sacramento Society of California Pioneers

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Covarrubias, José María

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Chamberlain, E. Kirby 1805-1852.

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Crosby, Elisha Oscar, 1818-1895

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E. O. Crosby was a California pioneer of 1849 and one of the framers of the California state constitution. From the description of Reminiscences of E. O. Crosby : one of the delegates to the first constitutional convention of California, and state senator and chairman of the senate judiciary committee during both the first and second sessions of the California Legislature, 1849-50. 1875-1895. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 31057933 From the descri...

California. Legislature

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Broderick, David C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859

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U.S. Senator from Calif., 1857-1859. From the description of David C. Broderick passport and letters testamentary : DS, 1849-1860. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122563619 ...

Heydenfeldt, Elcan, 1821-

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Cave, John

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Henley, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1810-1865

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Gray, James A.

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Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890

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A copy of speech commencing the celebrations of the centennial of San Francisco. From the description of Discurso, 1876, San Francisco. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 743385385 Perhaps compiled for Vallejo's "Recuerdos." Some entries in the handwriting of Henry Cerruti. From the description of Cuadernos para la historia de California, 1821-1846, 1874?. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122502111 Vallejo ...

Cory, Benjamin, 1822-1896

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Ogier, Isaac Stockton Keith.

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Robinson, Henry E.

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Fair, William D.

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Morehead, Joseph C.

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McKinstry, Elisha Williams, 1825-1901.

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Bateman, Ebenezer Bower.

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