Title:

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Capt. Joseph S. Garcia, San Francisco, 1904.

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

Creator/Contributor:

Garcia, Joseph Silveira, 1823-1901, creator

Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 179-191, Vol. 7. 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. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes, , but there is no longer a photograph of this member in our collection. This reminiscence details the life of Capt. Joseph S. Garcia, providing information regarding his life before arrival in California and after. Many specifics are included pertaining to the subject's travels to various destinations around the world. The reminiscence recounts the subject's experiences in traveling on board a slave vessel bound for Zanzibar. On this particular trip the ship foundered off the African coast and the lives of the slaves were lost. Names of the vessels owned by J.S. Garcia are included in the reminiscence, as is employment history and some family history. The time period represented by this reminiscence is from 1844 to 1904.

Date:

1904 (issued)

Subject:

Garcia, Joseph Silveira -- 1823-1901

Pioneers -- California -- Biography

Voyages to the Pacific Coast

Voyages and travels.

Seafaring life

Cucamonga (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) -- History

Etiwanda (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) -- History

Ontario (Calif.) -- History

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 Capt. Joseph S. Garcia, San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers

Joseph S. Garcia was born in Fayal, one of the Azores Islands, on June 9, 1823. When he was thirteen years of age he became cabin boy to Capt. James Wooly of Lynn, Massachusetts on a voyage from Fayal to Boston. He received schooling in Lynn, MA and traveled to India, Manila, South Africa, Zanzibar, and Hong Kong. In 1847 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and arrived in San Francisco in 1849 on the Brig "Mary Adeline." His first occupation was running a river boat between San Francisco and Sacramento. He then mined in 1850 and returned to San Francisco and bought a share in a merchant ship. Two years later he went into partnership with two captains and bought several vessels. In 1868, Capt. Garcia left the seafaring life and settled in the Cucamonga vineyard. In 1875 he sold this property and moved to Etiwanda, a town he established. He stayed there for seven years and then built the first house in Ontario, California

Type:

Autobiographies.

[13] 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