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Newmark (Myer J.) Journal, 1852-1853
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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Myer J. Newmark Journal
Creator:
Newmark, Myer Joseph
Identifier/Call Number: MS.725
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 bound volume)
Date (inclusive): 1852 December 15 -1853 April 19
Abstract: The journal titled, "Incidents of a Voyage from New York to San Francisco around Cape Horn in the good ship Carrington, F.B.
French Commander. Commenced Dec 15, 1852. Ended April 20th 1853," was hand-written by Myer J. Newmark when he was approximately
12 years old. Myer J. Newmark was the cousin of Harris Newmark, author of
Sixty Years in Southern California.
Language of Material:
English
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Finding aid completed by Anna Liza Posas 2013 January 31. Final processing of collection and publication of finding aid made
possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Myer Joseph Newmark (1838-1911) was the cousin of Harris Newmark, author of
Sixty Years in Southern California. Born in New York in 1838 to Joseph and Rosa (Levy) Newmark, Myer was the second of six children. His father, an observant
Jew, came from a long line of rabbis in Poland and Germany. Myer was educated in New York and England, where he lived with
his maternal grandparents, attending grammar school and later New York's Columbia College for a short time. He celebrated
his bar mitzvah a year before making the voyage to California.
In California, Myer Newmark lived in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1859, he became a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles
at the age of twenty-one, returning in 1863 to San Francisco, where he entered a law partnership with Henry J. Labatt and
Robert T. Payne. Moving back to Los Angeles in 1871, he went into business with Harris Newmark. In June of 1874, Myer Newmark
married Sophie Cahen, a recent French immigrant. Together they had three children. Newmark died in 1911 in San Francisco.
Myer J. Newmark Journal, 1852-1853, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.725.
Newmark Family Papers, 1837-2006, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.227.
Donated to the Southwest Museum by Henry M. Newmark before 1931.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
The journal is a hand-written account by Myer J. Newmark, "Incidents of a Voyage from New York to San Francisco around Cape
Horn in the good ship Carrington , F.B. French Commander. Commenced Dec 15, 1852. Ended April 20th 1853."
Maurice H. Newmark, a relative of Myer's, wrote a note on the inside front cover of the journal stating that Myer was about
twelve years old when "he came around the Horn and wrote this diary."
The original journal pages have been pasted onto linen and tipped into a leather-bound volume. The linen is pasted over written
pages.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts
Cape Horn (Chile)
Ocean travel
Jews -- California
Diaries
Voyages to the Pacific Coast
Newmark, Maurice Harris