Guide to the Joseph Bennett Chaffee Letters, 1850-1851

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Guide to the Joseph Bennett Chaffee Letters, 1850-1851



California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

  • California History Room
  • California State Library
  • Library and Courts Building II
  • 900 N. Street, Room 200
  • P.O. Box 942837
  • Sacramento, California 94237-0001
  • Phone: (916) 654-0176
  • Fax: (916) 654-8777
  • Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
  • URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
Processed by:
The California State Library staff
Encoded by:
Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Joseph Bennett Chaffee Letters,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1851
Box Number: 352
Creator: Chaffee, Joseph Bennett, 1830-1882
Repository: California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language: English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Joseph Bennett Chaffee Letters, California State Library.

Access Points

Pioneers--California
Frontier and pioneer life--California
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Miners--California
Chaffee, Joseph Bennett, 1830-1882

Contents

Correspondence.

Biography

Joseph Bennett Chaffee arrived in San Francisco June 6, 1850. He was elected constable of Salmon Falls, October 1850 and appointed deputy sheriff, January 2, 1851. He left California for New York in April of 1853. He died December 29, 1882 at Binghamton, New York.

Correspondents

  • Chaffee, Joseph Bennett, 1830-1882.

Material Transferred from the Collection

  • Typescript of Justice White's letter to Mr. Jackson.

Box Box 352

Arranged chronologically.