Title:

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Willard Brigham Farwell, San Francisco, 1901.

[Institutional Records Digitization Project: Reminiscences of Early Pioneers: 1900-1904]

Creator/Contributor:

Farwell, Willard Brigham, 1829-1903, creator

Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 88-115, Vol. 5. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. The original handwritten version exists in the member's biographical file. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs, but one photograph of Farwell is included. This account (1847-1900) describes his journey to California, experiences mining, the capture of a schooner and sinking of a Russian ship off Point Reyes (as Collector of the Port in San Francisco), travels in Europe and work with The Pioneers. He also discusses his family's history.

Date:

1901 (issued)

Subject:

Farwell, Willard Brigham -- 1829-1903

Society of California Pioneers.

Pioneers -- California -- Biography

Overland journeys to the Pacific

Frontier and pioneer life

Gold mines and mining -- California, Northern.

Gold mines and mining -- California -- Tuolumne County.

Gold mines and mining -- California -- Feather River.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Newspapers

Available also in the original handwritten form in the member's Biographical File, and online

Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader

Autobiography & Reminiscence of Willard Brigham Farwell, Alameda, Cal., 1901. The Society of California Pioneers

Willard Brigham Farwell, born in Marlboro, Massachusetts January 26, 1829, left his job in Boston (jan. 12, 1849) for California, organizing 150 men (Boston and California Joint Stock Mining and Trading Company) on the "Edward Everett". Stopping in Valparaiso, arriving in Benicia July 12, 1849, Farwell left on the first steamboat to navigate the Sacramento Rive (Aug.17, 1849). He went to Bidwell's Bar but failed at mining. Returning to Sacramento, then to S.F. with his brother and a shipmate, they left for the southern mines (1850). Having no luck in Wood's Creek, nor Angel's Camp, they returned to S.F., and bought land (Mission Lands) in San Jose. In 1852 Farwell helped found the S. F. newspaper "The Daily Whig". In 1854-55, he served in the State Legislature, and was nominated for State Senate (Whig) in the fall of 1855, but was defeated. Farwell was Editor-in-Chief of the "Alta California" in 1860 and moved to Washington D.C. to work for U.S. Senator E.D. Baker (Oregon). Appointed Naval Officer in the Customs House of S.F. (1861-65), he also was elected President of The Society of California Pioneers (1863). Appointed "Resident Agent - Abroad" of the U.S. Treasury Dept., he traveled in Europe, but resigned in 1870 to begin the "The North Atlantic Express Company" as Gen. Supt. for 3 years. In 1884, Mr. Farwell was elected Sup. of the Calif. State Central Committee

Type:

Autobiographies.

[29] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.

English

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Origin:

California

Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.

Collection:

The Society of California Pioneers collection of autobiographies and reminiscences of early pioneers