Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Warner Family Papers,
- Dates:
- 1871-1901
- Creators:
- Warner Family
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Warner Family Papers, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Letters written by Mr. and Mrs. William Warner of Sweetland, Calif. to family members.
- Biographical / historical:
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Mr. and Mrs. Warner came overland to California in 1853 settling in Nevada City. Until 1870, the family moved frequently and William worked in sawmills throughout Placer County. In 1870, he opened a general merchandise store in Sweetland, California, where he remained until his wife died on January 8, 1897. He then lived in Oakland, California until his death May 30, 1905.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Pioneers--California.
Frontier and pioneer life-California. - Names:
- Warner family.
- Places:
- Sweetland (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], Warner Family 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