Letters and reminiscences on Ventura County, Calif., 1865-1942.

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Letters and reminiscences on Ventura County, Calif., 1865-1942.

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Typescripts of letters and reminiscences on the history of Ventura County, California. Includes a series of letters written by Thomas Robert Bard to his mother and sisters from 1865-1869, including references to his time in Soledad, Ojai, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and near the Mission San Juan Bautista; a letter from Thomas G. Bard to his sister Beryl Bard on the possible connection of Frederick William Seward to the elder Bard's time in California; essays on encounters with Tiburcio Vasquez by a Mrs. De Nure and William Whittemore; and various memoirs on Ventura from about the 1860s to 1880s by Whittemore (including an account of catching California condors), Carrie Hicks, E. M. Sheridan (including an account of the murder of T. Wallace More in 1877), and Hugh Warring.

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Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Bard, Thomas G.,

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Warring, Hugh.

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Bard, Beryl,

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Seward, Frederick William, 1830-1915

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Lawyer; Assistant Secretary of State under Lincoln; son of William Henry Seward. From the description of Collection, 1864-1906. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50991907 American lawyer and politician who served as the acting secretary of state under the Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes administrations. From the description of Autobiography, ca. 1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122550831 Brother of William H. Seward, Secretary of State for Ab...

Sheridan, E. Marcia

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Vasquez, Tiburcio, 1835-1875

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Hicks, Carrie.

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Bard, Thomas Robert, 1841-1915

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Thomas Robert Bard (1841-1915), U.S. Senator from California from 1900 to 1905 and president of the Union Oil Company, was born in Pennsylvania where he studied law. He came to California in 1865 to take charge of the large land holdings of eastern owners in Ventura County and was instrumental in the subsequent development of land and petroleum in the area. Bard laid out the town of Hueneme, CA, and was involved in many Ventura County business ventures. From the description of Papers...

Whittemore, William Meynell

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William Whittemore was a laborer in 1870 on a farm owned by William W. Bragg in Errol, New Hampshire. His diaries, one for 1870 and one for 1875, record his work on the farm and work as a trapper along the Magaloway River in Lincoln Township, Oxford County, Maine. From the description of Diaries, 1870-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 56604061 ...

Peckham, S.F.,

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San Juan Bautista (Mission : San Juan Bautista, Calif.)

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