Joseph Pownall family papers, 1857-1905 (bulk 1876-1895).

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Joseph Pownall family papers, 1857-1905 (bulk 1876-1895).

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Contains correspondence, receipts and biographical information. Correspondence is primarily between Joseph Pownall and his wife Mary C. Pownall with their children Joseph B. Pownall (Benny) and Lucy Pownall Senger (Daisy). Correspondence also includes letters from Leonidas B. Benchley, John Bensley and F.H. Waterman, relating to the Tuolumne County Water Company.

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Waterman, F. H.,

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Grabhorn-Engel, Irma 1906-

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Painter and art patron; San Francisco, Calif. Born Irma Leisinger in Badenweiler, Germany, in 1910?. She was a student of Andre Lhote in Paris, and studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin under Carl Hofer. Married Samuel Engel, professor of ophthamology at Stanford University, in 1932. Had several exhibitions of her work in New York and San Francisco. Following the death of Mr. Engel, she married Edwin Grabhorn in 1964. From the description of Irma Engel Gra...

Pownall, Joseph, 1818-1890.

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Dr. Joseph Pownall made an overland journey from Louisiana to California seeking gold in 1849. After working the Mariposa diggings, he went to Columbia in 1852 and bought stock in the Tuolumne County Water Company, where he served as a company officer until his death. Dr. Pownall married Mary C. Harrison Newall, the widow of William Henry Newell, who had been one of the founders of the Tuolumne County Water Company in 1851. From the description of Papers of Joseph Pownall, 1840-1926....

Benchley, Leonidas B.

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Grabhorn, Edwin E.

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Of the Grabhorn Press. From the description of Letter "to whom it may concern, " 1942 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384592 ...

Senger, Lucy Pownall.

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Norris, Thomas W. (Thomas Wayne)

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Pownall family.

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Joseph Pownall, from Hackettstown County, New Jersey, was trained as a physician in New York City. After living in several locations in the southeast U.S., he traveled overland to California in 1849 to search for gold. In 1852 he aquired an interest in the Tuolumne Water Company. In 1857 he married Mary C. Newell and they had two children: Jospeh B. (Benny) and Lucy A. H. (Daisy). From the description of Joseph Pownall family papers, 1857-1905 (bulk 1876-1895). (University of Califor...

Pownall, Joseph Benjamin, 1858-

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Pownall, Mary c. (Mrs. Joseph Pownall)

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Bensley, John, 1812-

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Tuolumne County Water Company.

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History Tuolumne County Water Company, a private corporation, was formed in 1851 in Columbia with the intent of supplying water for placer mining in and around Columbia. It turned the water of Five Mile Creek into Columbia in May, 1852 and in August, 1852 completed a ditch to the South Fork of the Stanislaus River. The Columbia and Stanislaus River Water Company was formed in 1854, partly because of the outrageous charges for wate...