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Hamilton & Young Family collection, 1864-1963.
MANUSCRIPT3475-3480
Collection Overview

Title:

Hamilton & Young Family collection, 1864-1963
Hamilton & Young

Creator/Contributor:

Hamilton, Hiram.

Abstract:

Photographs, correspondence, ephemera.

Date:

1864 (issued)

Contents:

Box 3475: Hiram Hamilton; Box 3476: Mary Josephine Hamilton and John Nellis Young; Box 3477: Florence Young, Leona Young, Emily J. Hamilton; Box 3478: Other members of the Hamilton and Young families; Box 3479: Scrapbooks; Box 3480: Oversize certificates.

Subject:

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Young, Mary Josephine Hamilton
Young, John Nelles
Young, Florence H
Young, Leona Esther -- 1895-
Correspondence -- 1860-1870
Certificates
Law -- California -- History
Photographs
Programs
California -- Religion -- 19th century

Note:

Hiram Hamilton (1820-1903) was an early California Baptist minister as well as a prominent beekeeper and horticulturalist. He received credentials to teach in the state, and was also named to the California State Board of Horticulture.
Hiram Hamilton's daughter Mary Josephine was born December 6, 1853 in Santa Clara County. In February of 1875 she married John Nelles Young, and the couple had three daughters: Florence H., Irma Victoria, and Leona Esther. In May 1879 Mary Josephine Hamilton Young became the first woman admitted to the Bar in California. She and her husband lived in Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, and Berkeley, practiced law, and were lifelong members of the Masonic Order. Mary Josephine died in Berkeley on August 2, 1946.
John Nelles Young was born in Canada on May 25, 1844. He graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan in 1869, and came to California the same year. He was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of California. Young was elected to the California Sate Legislature in 1878 and died in Berkeley on May 28, 1921.
Florence H. Young became a well-known actress in San Francisco.
Leona Esther Young became a student and instructor at the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry, and in 1916 developed a die that would not fade after being applied to cloth.
Hamilton & Young.
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Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Type:

biography

Physical Description:

print
4 manuscript boxes; 16 1/2 x 13 x 3 1/2 in.
1 manuscript box; 18 3/4 x 15 x 1 1/2 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.