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Guide to the Eugene William Sawtelle Papers, 1860-1898
297-298
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Description
Correspondence, Charles Couvillaud receipts and checks, diaries, scrapbooks of Emma and Mary McKinsey.
Background
Eugene William Sawtelle was born in Maine, December 13, 1846 and came to California in 1852. In 1869, he was a rodman with
the Central Pacific surveying party which laid out the course the railroad followed to Pomontory Point, Utah. He worked for
the Central Pacific Railroad in various jobs, becoming in 1898 the captain of a Southern Pacific river steamer. He died in
Seattle May 10, 1924.
Restrictions
Please credit California State Library.
Availability
Unrestricted.