Title:
Autobiography and Reminiscence of Benjamin Hill, San Pedro, (Deceased), 1901.
[Institutional Records Digitization Project: Reminiscences of Early Pioneers: 1900-1904]
Creator/Contributor:
Hill, Benjamin, 1819-1895, creator
Abstract:
Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.182-185, 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 transcription 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 unfinished reminiscence was found among Benjamin Hill's papers after his death. It
contains some anecdotes about life in mining camps, particularly trouble with gamblers. The names of different steamboats
that traveled up the Sacramento River are also given.
Date:
1901 (issued)
Subject:
Hill, Benjamin --
1819-1895
Pioneers --
California --
Biography
Frontier and pioneer life
Gold mines and mining
Voyages to the Pacific Coast
Steamboats --
California --
San Francisco.
California --
Biography
California --
History --
19th century.
California, Northern.
Sacramento (Calif.) --
History
Note:
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 Benjamin Hill, San Pedro, (Deceased), 1901. The Society of California Pioneers
Benjamin Hill left Boston on January 27, 1849 on the Brig "Almena"- Captain John Lincoln- with a company known as the "Bay
State and California Trading Co." of twenty-eight members. After a stop at Talcahuanna, Chile they arrived in San Francisco
in the early part of July 1849, and proceeded from there, to Sacramento. In Sacramento, Hill bought a house and lot from
Captain Sutter for $1500. He then sent members of his company to Webber Creek to dig for gold. Hill assisted in the preparation
of the steamship McKinnon, claimed to be the first steamboat to carry passengers on the Sacramento River. Hill was also engaged
in lumber sales
Type:
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
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Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Society of California Pioneers
Autobiography and Reminiscence of Benjamin Hill, San Pedro, (Deceased), 1901.