Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- McInitire, John A. (John Albert), 1907-
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, business papers, estate materials administered by his executor, John A. McIntire, and mining investment materials.
- Biographical / historical:
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Cyrus T. Wheeler was born in New York in 1825. He came to California in 1850 and settled in Sacramento. In 1851, he and Newton Booth became partners in Booth & Co., importers and wholesale grocers. They remained partners until Wheelers'death in 1892. Wheeler was a prominent Sacramentan and was a private banker dealing with activities in the gold rush area in financing and speculation in mining.
- Physical description:
- 3 boxes
Access and use
- 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