Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Amos Parmalee Catlin Papers,
- Dates:
- 1850-1900
- Creators:
- Catlin, Amos Parmalee, 1823-1900
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Amos Parmalee Catlin Papers, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, Natomas Company papers, scrapbooks.
- Biographical / historical:
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Amos P. Catlin was born in New York January 25, 1823, where he studied law and came to California in 1849. He formed a law partnership in Sacramento with John Currey in 1850. In 1851, he organized the Natomas Water and Mining Company to provide water from the American River for agriculture and mining. In 1852, he was elected State Senator for Sacramento and was instrumental in permanently locating the state capital at Sacramento. He helped to defeat a scheme to extend the waterfront of San Francisco 600 feet further into the bay. In 1863, he argued the Leidesdorff ranch case before the United States Supreme Court and won the case. He was a friend of Theodore D. Judah and defended his reputation in articles appearing the the Sacramento Union. He subsequently served as editor of the Sacramento Unionand a judge of the Superior court. He died in Sacramento on November 8, 1900.
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], Amos Parmalee Catlin Papers, 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