Title:

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Dr. James L. Cogswell, San Francisco, 1901.

[Institutional Records Digitization Project: Reminiscences of Early Pioneers: 1900-1904]

Creator/Contributor:

Cogswell, James L., Dr, 1830-1921, creator

Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.41-44, Vol. 1. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. The original handwritten version exists in the member's Biographical File. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. This reminiscence begins with a brief history of the Cogswell family, stating that the Cogswells first arrived in America in 1635. It covers the period of Dr. J.L. Cogswell's life from 1830 to 1894. Dr. Cogswell briefly mentions seeing Joaquin Murieta and "his band of fifty bandits" in 1851, while riding through Calaveras County. Mention is also made of an encounter with two bandetta in 1854 while traveling from Sonora after exchanging gold dust for gold coin. Dr. Cogswell addresses some of the challenges facing men in mining camps humorously (cooking, tailoring, washing laundry).

Date:

1901 (issued)

Subject:

Cogswell, James L., Dr -- 1830-1921

Cogswell family

Cogswell Polytechnical College -- San Francisco.

Pioneers -- California -- Biography

Gold mines and mining

Voyages to the Pacific Coast

Frontier and pioneer life

California -- Biography

California -- History -- 19th century.

California, Northern.

California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Available also in the original handwritten form in the member's Biographical File, and online

Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader

Autobiography & Reminiscence of Dr. James L. Cogswell, San Francisco, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers

Dr. James Lafayette Cogswell was born in Willington, Connecticut, on November 29th, 1830. On the 5th of March 1849, Dr. J.L. Cogswell sailed in the Bark "Floyd" from Providence, R.I. to San Francisco. They made one eight-day stop in Coquimbo, Chile and arrived in San Francisco Sept. 15th, 1849 after a trip of 193 days. Dr. Cogswell remained in San Francisco for three weeks and then went to Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, where he mined and practiced dentistry until 1857. Then he went to Garrote (now called Groveland) and built the Washington Hotel with Mr. Otis Perrin. Dr. Cogswell and Mr. Perrin ran the hotel until 1859 when Dr. Cogswell left for San Francisco and there practiced Dentistry for thirty-five years. Dr. J.L. Cogswell was married in 1867, to Mrs. A. Bernard of Stanford, Connecticut. They had two daughters, Emily May and Florence Edith, and one boy, Theron Eustice Cogswell, who died when he was six months old. On July 4th, 1899, Dr. J.L. Cogswell was elected President of the "Dental Society of Sitka" in Alaska and was also made an emeritus member of the Dental Association at that place

Type:

Autobiographies.

[4] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.

English

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Origin:

California

Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.

Collection:

The Society of California Pioneers collection of autobiographies and reminiscences of early pioneers