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Title: John Franklin Miller Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1855-1890
Box Number: 447-450
Creator:
Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886
Extent: 4 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], John Franklin Miller Collection, California State Library.
Ranch life--California--Napa
Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886
Pioneers--California
California--Politics and government--1856-1885
Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, letters, calling cards, legal papers, pamphlets, menus, photographs.
John Franklin Miller, was a U. S. Senator from California from1881 through1886. He was born in South Bend, Indiana November
21, 1831. A lawyer and rancher, he lived in California during 1853-55. He returned to Indiana and served in the Indiana State
Senate. He was a Civil War General with the Indiana Volunteers in 1861-1865. He returned to California in 1865 and lived in
San Francisco and Napa. Until 18870 he was collector for the Port of San Francisco Miller died March 8, 1886 in Washington,
D.C.
- Miller, William, 1809-1879
- Mulhale, Daniel
- Miller, Clay
- Colfax, Shuyler, 1823-1885
- Ord, James C.
- Wheeler, E. D.
- Clover, Richard
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Photographs to picture file and photographers file.