Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
Biography
Material Transferred from the Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Otis K. Freeman Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1838-1881
Box Number: 1046
Collector:
Freeman, Mary P.
Extent: 1 box
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], Otis K. Freeman Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Freeman, Otis K.
Contents
Business papers and memorabilia.
Biography
Otis K. Freeman was born in or around 1836. He was employed as a purser for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company line for many
years. He first sailed at age twenty-one and had gone around the world one hundred times. He was the first white man to open
a steamship office in Japan and was in charge of the Pacific Mail office there for seventeen years. He died in San Francisco,
June 19, 1915.
Material Transferred from the Collection
Maps
Pictorial material
- Daguerreotype: Garretson, Nathan Hammond.
- 4 photographs