Guide to the Sweasey Family Papers, 1850-1948
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Guide to the Sweasey Family Papers, 1850-1948
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Title: Sweasey Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1948
Box Number: 409
Creator:
Sweasey family
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], Sweasey Family Papers, California State Library.
Humboldt County (Calif.)--History.
Sweasey family
Axton family
Sweasey, William John, 1804-1893
Axton, Esther Curl
Pioneers--California
California--History
Marriage certificates, picture albums, family memoirs.
William John Sweasey was born in England in 1804 and arrived in the United States in 1837. He came to California in 1850.
In 1854, he served as an Assemblyman in the State Legislature. He pioneered the Eel River Valley in 1855 and was a member
of the State Constitutional Convention of 1879. He died in San Francisco on September 30, 1893.
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Identified pictures placed in portrait file.
Arranged by type of material