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Title: Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1871
Box Number: 1526
Creator:
Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], Ellison Lassell Crawford Collection, California State Library.
Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895.
California--Politics and government--1850-1950.
Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County.
Frontier and pioneer life--California--El Dorado County.
Georgetown (Calif.)--History.
Account books, assessor's notebook, typescript of journal, typescript of letters to
"Placerville mountain democrat", obituary of Crawford and his wife.
Ellison Lassell Crawford was born in Castine, Maine, January 27, 1833. He sailed around
Cape Horn to arrive in San Francisco October 20, 1852. He married Lucinda H. Hooper in
1856 and they had four children. His wife died in 1871. On September 15, 1878, he was
married to Dora Jones and had three more children. From 1859 to 1861 Crawford was
Postmaster and Justice of the Peace of Greenwood. He moved to Georgetown in 1863. He was
Assistant Clerk of the Legislature from 1869 to 1870 and 1879 to 1880. He served as
Minute Clerk of the Constitutional Convention in 1880. He was Mining Recorder of
Georgetown District from 1883 to 1887 and again from 1889 until his death in 1895. He was
Deputy Assessor of El Dorado County sixteen years, Notary Public for thirty years,
Justice of the Peace of Georgetown from 1883 to 1889 and 1890 until his death. and was an
insurance agent for 25 years. He published and printed the "Georgetown GEM" and was an
active member of the Masonic Lodge.
Material Transferred from the Collection
25 stereo cards and 2 photographs to picture file.