Guide to the Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection, 1848-1859
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Guide to the Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection, 1848-1859
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Title: Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1848-1859
Box Number: 200
Collector:
Wagner, Henry R.
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Joseph Libbey Folsom Collection, California State Library.
Folsom, Joseph Libbey, 1817-1855
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
California--History--1846-1850
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, Folsom estate materials, Leidesdorff estate materials, legal papers, Pulgas
Rancho materials.
Joseph Libbey Folsom was born May 19, 1817, in New Hampshire. He was a graduate of West Point and came to California in March,
1847 as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Stevenson's Regiment of New York Volunteers. He was the first Collector of
the Port of San Francisco under American rule. He invested in San Francisco real estate and his purchase of the Leidesdorff
estate made him very wealthy. The town of Folsom was built on property purchased from the Leidessdorff estate and named for
Captain Folsom. He died in San Jose, July 19, 1855.
- Suydam, Reed and Company (Calif.)
- Suydam, Henry.
- Reed, Almet.
- Hamilton, C. A.
- Hoskins, E. D.
- Peachy, A. L.
Box 200
Generally chronological