Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lorenzo and Lavinia Hamilton Letters,
- Dates:
- 1851-1869
- Creators:
- Hamilton family
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Lorenzo and Lavinia Hamilton Letters, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence of members of Hamilton family to Mrs. Hamilton's brother, Joseph Delliber, in Hartford, Connecticut.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lorenzo Hamilton came to California from Hartford, Connecticut with the Henry Lee Company, sailing aboard the "Henry Lee," arriving Feb. 17, 1849. He went into business as a merchant in Sacramento. In 1851 his wife, Lavinia, and three children, Lillie, Frank and Joseph, joined him in Sacramento. The place of business, Hamilton & Brown, was destroyed by fire in 1852 and the family moved to the town of Washington, in Yolo County. Mr. Hamilton's partner at that time was Mr. Howlett. By 1857 the family was again in Sacramento. Mr. Hamilton bought out Mr. Howlett and in partnership with Mr. Daugherty of Daugherty & Company built a new store.
Lavinia Hamilton and the children returned to Hartford upon the death of her mother in 1864. Lorenzo joined them but returned to Sacramento and Daugherty & Company later in 1864. Lavinia and the children, now joined by Ida and Mary, stayed in Branford, Connecticut. Mary died, probably of whooping cough, in 1866.
In June or July of 1868 the family rejoined Lorenzo in Sacramento. On July 20, 1868, Lorenzo was killed in a fall downstairs. Lavinia stayed in Sacramento for about a year, settling business affairs and returned to Connecticut in 1869.
- Physical description:
- 1 box
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Lorenzo and Lavinia Hamilton Letters, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176