Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Hiram Dwight Pierce Letters,
- Dates:
- 1849-1881
- Creators:
- Pierce, Hiram Dwight, 1819-1881
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Hiram Dwight Pierce Letters, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence.
- Biographical / historical:
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Hiram Pierce was born May 25, 1810 in New York. He came to California in 1849 and mined for gold at Washington Flat and Long Canyon in Mariposa County. He returned home in 1851. His son, George, came to California in 1875 and worked as a well digger in Sacramento and Bakersfield. George died an accidnetal death in July, 1881, in iOroville, California.
- 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], Hiram Dwight Pierce 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