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Dougherty family correspondence, 1853-1969.
10/14/92 T08/31/92 T
Collection Overview

Title:

Dougherty family correspondence, 1853-1969

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Asa R., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Dougherty, Wilbur F.

Creator/Contributor:

Dougherty, Young.

Abstract:

Correspondence and travel diary. Letters desribe voyages to the Pacific Coast, daily activities, and comment upon the election of Lincoln and slavery. Diary describes Asa Taylor's 1969 trip east by van to see Taylor family homes.

Date:

1853 (issued)

Subject:

Dougherty family
Taylor family
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Pioneers -- California
Voyages to the Pacific coast

Note:

Not restricted. Pease credit California State Library.
Wilbur and Young Dougherty. Farmers. Settled in California in the 1850s. Young Dougherty and his wife, Mary, sailed from New York in 1851 and settled in Bear River, Sutter County.
In 1859 Wilbur Dougherty and his parents left New York on the steamer "Illinois," bound for Aspinwall, traveled across Panama, and sailed to San Francisco on the steamship "Sonora." The family settled in Garden Ranch, Yuba County[?].
CSL Manuscript Summary Sheets.

Physical Description:

1

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Not restricted. Pease credit California State Library.