Guide to the German Letters, 1852-1888
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Guide to the German Letters, 1852-1888
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:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: German Letters,
Date (inclusive): 1852-1888
Box Number: 1156
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Access Points
Mother Lode (Calif.)--Biography.
Gold mines and mining--California--Amador County.
Gold mines and mining--California--Calveras County.
California--Gold discoveries--Personal narratives.
Contents
The collection consists of several apparently unconnected sets of correspondence written
in German and Low German. Letters are addressed to friends and relatives in California
mining towns during the period 1852-1888. Several sets were sent to Richard Vorlander in
Jackson --notably from his brother, Ewald, in Sonora and from Friedrich Euler in San
Francisco. Another substantial set is addressed to members of the Leding family in Sonora
(Charles, Elise and Wilhelmine) from their Mother.
Biography
Richard Vorlander emigrated from Germany to California via Massachusetts. He was
naturalized on August 17, 1858 in Del Norte County. In 1860 he lived in Crescent City and
between 1862 and 1865 in Jackson, Amador County. From 1884 to 1904 he was first a miner
and then a farmer in Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County. He died on November 15, 1905 in
Calaveras County. (Source: City directories, Great Register of Voters and the California
Death Index)
Friedrich Euler lived in San Francisco between 1862 and 1868 and is listed as a
draughtsman/draftsman at the Vulcan Foundry in San Francisco. (Source: S. F. city
directories)
Correspondents
- Brule, G.
- Euhler, Friedrich
- Fischer, Helene
- Fischer, Henriette
- Leding, Jenny
- Leding, S
- Leding, Wilhelmine H
- [Lodbranz?], Gustav
- Lodtmann, Ernst
- Lodtmann, Otto
- Schleider, Jacob
- Treichler, Heinrich
- [Vollhaben?]
- Vorlander, Ewald
- Vorlander, Richard, d. 1905
- Westhoff, William
Administrative Information
Box Box 1156
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Sets of correspondence written in German and Low German. Letters are addressed to friends and relatives in California mining
towns during the period 1852-1888. Several sets were sent to Richard Vorlander in Jackson -- notably from his brother, Ewald, in Sonora and from Friedrich Euler
in San Francisco. Another substantial set is addressed to members of the Leding family in Sonora (Charles, Elise and Wilhelmine)
from their Mother.
