Guide to the Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection, 1860-1871

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California State Library. All rights reserved.

Guide to the Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection, 1860-1871



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: Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1871
Box Number: 1526
Creator: Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895
Repository: California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Unrestricted.

Conditions of Use

Please credit California State Library.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection, California State Library.

Access Points

Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895.
California--Politics and government--1850-1950.
Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County.
Frontier and pioneer life--California--El Dorado County.
Georgetown (Calif.)--History.

Contents

Account books, assessor's notebook, typescript of journal, typescript of letters to "Placerville mountain democrat", obituary of Crawford and his wife.

Biography

Ellison Lassell Crawford was born in Castine, Maine, January 27, 1833. He sailed around Cape Horn to arrive in San Francisco October 20, 1852. He married Lucinda H. Hooper in 1856 and they had four children. His wife died in 1871. On September 15, 1878, he was married to Dora Jones and had three more children. From 1859 to 1861 Crawford was Postmaster and Justice of the Peace of Greenwood. He moved to Georgetown in 1863. He was Assistant Clerk of the Legislature from 1869 to 1870 and 1879 to 1880. He served as Minute Clerk of the Constitutional Convention in 1880. He was Mining Recorder of Georgetown District from 1883 to 1887 and again from 1889 until his death in 1895. He was Deputy Assessor of El Dorado County sixteen years, Notary Public for thirty years, Justice of the Peace of Georgetown from 1883 to 1889 and 1890 until his death. and was an insurance agent for 25 years. He published and printed the "Georgetown GEM" and was an active member of the Masonic Lodge.

Material Transferred from the Collection

25 stereo cards and 2 photographs to picture file.

Box Box 1526, Folder Folder 1

Typescript of letters written to "Mountain democrat"

Folder Folder 2

Typescript of journal, March 11, 1869 -Sept. 2, 1870.

Folder Folder 3

"Georgetown GEM"

Folder Folder 4

Obituaries

Folder Folder 5

Group photograph

Folder Folder 6

Assessor's notebook, 1860s

Folder Folders 7 - 11

Cash and account books, 1860 -1871