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Guide to the John Paul Dart Papers, 1849-1856
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Title: John Paul Dart Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1849-1856
Box Number: 161
Creator:
Dart, J. P. (John Paul), 1824-1891
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], John Paul Dart Papers, California State Library.
Dart, J. P. (John Paul), 1824-1891
Gold mines and mining--California
Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Politics and government
Pioneers--California
Letters of John Paul Dart to his brother and sister.
A card index has been made for items in this collection. Most of the letters have been published in the California Historical
Society Quarterly, September 1956, pp. 205-131, as "A Mississippian in the Gold Fields."
The collection consists of typed copies of letters made by the Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society from originals
owned by Mary Davis and John Dart (nephew) of Bovina, Mississippi.
John Paul Dart came to California by ship in 1849 and worked as a miner. In 1874, he was elected county surveyor of Tuolumne
County. He died in 1891.
- Dart, J. P. (John Paul), 1824-1891