Growing up with California : San Francisco / by C.M. Wooster, 1938.

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Growing up with California : San Francisco / by C.M. Wooster, 1938.

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Bound typescript carbon autobiography with manuscript annotations. Wooster describes his childhood as the son of a miner and foundry owner in Amador and Alameda Counties, California (circa 1858-1871); his work as a young man for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in various capacities including telegraph operator, ticket agent, and station manager in Nevada, Placer, and San Joaquin Counties (circa 1872-1886); and his advancement from an insurance agent to a prominent real estate developer throughout the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Santa Clara Valleys (circa 1886-1938). Wooster's name and address at 544 Market St., San Francisco, is typed at the top of page one and written in ink on the bottom of page 415.

1 v. (415 p.) ; 30 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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