Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the James Frazier Reed Papers, 1843-1851
356
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: James Frazier Reed Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1843-1851
Box Number: 356
Creator:
Reed, James Frazier, 1800-1874
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
Please credit California State Library.
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.
[Identification of item], James Frazier Reed Papers, California State Library.
Pioneers--California
San Jose (Calif.)--History
Reed, James Frazier, 1800-1874
Correspondence, legal papers, appointments, petitions for land timber, deeds, contracts, business and military papers.
James Frazier Reed was born in Ireland, November 14, 1800. He lived in Virginia and Illinois before comeing to California.
He and Abraham Lincoln were privates in the same company in the Black Hawk War. He, with his wife, four children and mother,
came to California as members of the Donner Party in 1846. He was a miner and later settled in San Jose,
working to make San Jose the capitol of the state, and contributing land for that purpose. He died in San Jose, July 24, 1874.
- Bannister, Edward
- Belden, J[osiah]
- Boggs, Lilburn W.
- Buchanan, John C.
- Burton, John
- Buxton, Juan (John Burton?)
- Davis, Walter
- Kerne, Edward M.
- Larkin, Thomas O.
- Lyon, Caleb
- McGile, Patrick and George Montgomery
- Mason, D. H.
- Mason, Richard B.
- Parker, R.
- Pickett, Charles Edward, 1820-1882
- Pinkney, R. F.
- Richardson, John T.
- Ruckel & Cooke
- Spear, Nathan
- Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
- Townsend, John
- Van Voorhies, William
- White, Charles
- Willson, Allen
- Winchester, Jonas, 1810-1887
- Winlack (Miss) (Day and Boarding School for Young Ladies)
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Account book (** cF 865 R32 A3)
- 1 map
- oversize materials
Title: John Augustus Sutter Collection.