Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Charles Bigelow Cutting Collection,
- Dates:
- 1859-1910
- Creators:
- Cutting, Helen A.
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles Bigelow Cutting Collection, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Legal papers, certificates, photographs, correspondence, notebook, ephemera, election results and account books.
- Biographical / historical:
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Born in Lowell, Mass., June 26, 1834, Charles Bigelow Cutting came to California May 25, 1852 on the Steamer, Central America, with his father at the age of 18. In 1853 they settled in Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County. There he engaged in real estate, insurance, and collections. He was appointed Postmaster of Chinese Camp in 1861, elected Justice of the Peace in 1867, 1871, 1879, and granted Notary Public for Jamestown in 1902 by Governor Gage. His business interests include the Chinese Camp, Jamestown & Sonora Telegraph Co., the Cutting & Gould's Celebrated Chemical Erasive Soap Co., the YoSemite Transfer Co., and the YoSemite Turnpike Road Co. He belonged to the Jamestown Guards and the Chinese Camp Hook and Ladder Co. He died in Tuolumne County on August 4, 1919.
- Physical description:
- 1 box
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Pioneers - California
Roads - California - Yosemite - Names:
- Cutting, Charles Bigelow
- Places:
- Chinese Camp (Calif.) - History
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:
-
[Identification of item], Charles Bigelow Cutting Collection, 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