Guide to the John Franklin Miller Collection, 1855-1890
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Guide to the John Franklin Miller Collection, 1855-1890
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- 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.
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.
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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.
Box 447
Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, ephemera, legal papers, notes and drafts, pamphlets and menus.
Box 448
Incoming correspondence n.d. to 4/19/1869.
Box 449
Incoming correspondence 4/20/1869 to 9/4/1885.
Box 450
Photographs and Senator Miller's telegraphic code book.