Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
Biography
Material Transferred from the Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Sweasey Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1948
Box Number: 409
Creator:
Sweasey family
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sweasey Family Papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Humboldt County (Calif.)--History.
Sweasey family
Axton family
Sweasey, William John, 1804-1893
Axton, Esther Curl
Pioneers--California
California--History
Contents
Marriage certificates, picture albums, family memoirs.
Biography
William John Sweasey was born in England in 1804 and arrived in the United States in 1837. He came to California in 1850.
In 1854, he served as an Assemblyman in the State Legislature. He pioneered the Eel River Valley in 1855 and was a member
of the State Constitutional Convention of 1879. He died in San Francisco on September 30, 1893.
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Identified pictures placed in portrait file.