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Samuel A. Shumway diary, 1853.
MANUSCRIPTSMCII : Box 28 : Folder 19
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Title:

Samuel A. Shumway diary, 1853
Shumway diary

Creator/Contributor:

Shumway, Samuel A., 1830-1913, creator

Abstract:

Dairy written in Pocket Memorandum Almanac, 1853.

Date:

1852 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Voyages and travels
California -- Gold discoveries
Coloma (Calif.)
Georgetown (Calif.)

Note:

Samuel A. Shumway was born August 18, 1831 in Massachusetts, son of Alpheus Shumway and Phila Marsh. He sailed to California from New York aboard the Prometheus on December 5, 1852 and must have traveled via the Isthmus if Panama, since he arrived in San Francisco on January 7, 1853. Shumway subsequently engaged in mining in the Coloma and Georgetown areas. He returned to Massachusetts at an unknown date, married Lucinda Jeanette Stoddard, and served in the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment during the Civil War. Shumway married his second wife, Anna Congdon Holmes, on August 16, 1870, and died in Massachusetts in 1913.
Shumway diary.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Samuel A. Shumway gold rush letter, 1853 Sept 26; California State Library, California History Section, SMC II, Box 16, Folder 11.

Physical Description:

print
Diary in file folder; 15/34/ x 9 1/2 in.

Language:

English

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Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.