Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1855, Oct. 1.

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Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1855, Oct. 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/696173447

The receipt to B. D. Wilson is for "Sixty two 30/100 Dollars" which was "interest for the month of September on a certain promise note of twenty five hundred dollars." It is signed "J. P. Newmark per Harris Newmark." It is dated 1855, October 1 and was written in Los Angeles.

1 item, 11 x 20 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 7997815

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Newmark, J. P.

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J. P. Newmark came to California in 1848. His brother, Harris Newmark, author of Sixty years in California, followed him to California in 1853. The Newmarks were one of the founding families of the Los Angeles area. From the description of Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1855, Oct. 1. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 696173447 ...

Newmark, Harris, 1834-1916

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Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878

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Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878), a native of Tennessee, was a pioneer California rancher and businessman who came to California from New Mexico in 1841 as a member of the Rowland-Workman party. He purchased the Jurupa Rancho (Riverside, Calif.) in 1843. In 1851-52 Wilson was elected the second mayor of Los Angeles, in 1852 he served as U.S. Indian Agent under Superintendent Edward F. Beale, and in 1855-57 and 1869-72 he served as state senator. He purchased Rancho de Cuati and adjacent land to...