Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
Biography
Correspondents
Material Transferred from the Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Daggett Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1864-1919, 1931, 1957
Box Number: 437-440
Creator:
Daggett, John, 1833-1919
Extent: 4 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
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
[Identification of item], John Daggett Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
Gold mines and mining--California
Indians of North America--California
Black Bear Mine (Calif.)
Daggett, John, 1833-1919
Contents
Business letters, legal instruments, accounts, scrapbooks, certificates.
Biography
John Daggett was born in Newark, New York, May 9, 1833. He came to California ca. 1852, at age 19, with his brother David
and was elected to the Assembly in 1858, and re-elected in 1859, and 1880. He bought into the Black Bear Mine in 1862, sold
out in 1863, re-opened in 1866, and sold out again in 1872. He bought it again in 1884-85. Daggett was elected Lieutenant
Governor in 1882. He was appointed Superintendent of the United States Mint in San Francisco in 1893, in which capacity he
served for four years. He held interest in the Calico Mine in San Bernardino County. The city of Daggett, in this mining area,
was named for him. He died August 30, 1919.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
-
Brizzard & Van Rossum
-
Denny Bar Company
-
Forester, H. B.
-
Oliver, William Letts
Other Correspondents
-
Ackley, J. C.
-
Baird, Charles
- Barrows, Thomas A. and Black Bear Quartz Mining Company
-
Barrows, Thomas A. and Dunphy, P. F., et. al.
-
Barrows, Thomas A. and Stephens, Joseph, et al.
-
Beith, James
-
Bell, H. C.
-
Bennet & Miller
-
Black Bear Quartz Mining Company
-
Brown, T. M.
-
Burrel, W. M.
-
Comstock & Martin
-
Cross & Company
-
Daggett, Nallie.
-
Denny Brothers
-
Dewitt, R. O.
-
Diggles, H. J.
-
Dunphy, P. F.
-
Evans, W. I.
-
Ferrel, James N.
-
Fitzgerald, J. P.
-
Fitzsimmons, Barry
-
Galletly, Alex J.
-
Gashwiler, J. W.
-
Glendening, J.
-
Glendening, T.
-
Green, W. C.
-
Hamilton, F. McN.
-
Harris, J. C.
-
Hearn, M. R.
-
Horn, David
-
Jenning, Orlando
-
Johnson, C. H.
-
Jones, Samuel
-
Kirkby, W. H.
-
Kotok, I. E.
-
Leach, Frank Aleamon, 1846-
-
McCall, J. M.
-
McConaughy
-
McConnell & McManus
-
MacKenzie, John S.
-
Marks, Edmund & Company
-
Moore, Joseph
-
Mount, Gregory Water & Mining Company.
-
Nesmith, J. G.
-
Phillips, Taber & Company
-
Quigley, William H.
-
Rayner, Herbert R.
-
Reichman, E.
-
Skaggs, T. C.
-
Smith, George
-
Smithsonian Institution
-
Stott, A. W.
-
Swain, Albert Free, 1893-
-
Taylor, R. P.
-
Ten Eyck, T. C.
-
Vogan, James H.
-
Warden, W. D.
-
Wells, Charles H.
-
Wells Fargo & Company
Material Transferred from the Collection
Maps