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Title: Dubs, Michel Papers
Identifier/Call Number: C058833
Contributing Institution:
Society of California Pioneers
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 folder
(1 item)
Date: 1853
Abstract: This folder contains 1 damaged and fragmented letter of correspondence from 1853 written to Dubs by Richard R. Monis or Morris
(?).
creator:
Dubs, Michael, 1824-?
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection open for research.
There are no restrictions on access.
Michel Dubs Papers. The Society of California Pioneers.
Lieut. Adolph Dubs, Michel Dubs' son, on October 16, 1932.
Existence and Location of Originals note
The Society of California Pioneers, 300 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107
This folder contains 1 damaged and fragmented letter of correspondence from 1853 written to Dubs. The earlier letter was written
from Richard R. Monis or Morris (?) and discusses their personal lives and daily activities. Each page of the letter is stored
in an individual plastic sleeve due to the damage.
Dubs was born in Alsace, France, on September 27, 1824 to vineyardist Francis Joseph and Teresa (nee Schembacher) Dubs. His
father died in 1857, his mother 1868. Dubs went to Paris in 1843 as a gardener, but fled back to Alsace in August 1848 during
the French Revolution. He returned to Paris eleven months later. In April 1850 he sailed on the steamer Zurig from Havre and
landed in New York City on May 24. He lived in New York until September 1853 when he took the steamer Sophia to San Francisco,
landing in October. (He originally intended to sail on the New World, but took the Sophia by chance. The New World was later
blown up and all passengers killed.)
He worked in the mines in Columbia for a few months before returning to San Francisco nearly bankrupt. In 1854 he left for
the Mayfield Township in Santa Clara County, CA and bought a squatter’s claim. After living on it for two years he left and
bought land on the Santa Gregoria Rancho, settling there formally in 1857 and taking up dairying and farming. In 1871 he set
up a large home for his new bride, Miss Lutringer, another native of Alsace who came to America in 1864. As of 1888 they had
four living children, Felicite, Adolph, Emma, and Xavier. In 1879 they lost three children in two days from diphtheria, Maria
Teresa, Mathilda, and Josephine. Dubs was part of the Democratic Party.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence.