Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Isaac Perkins Papers,
- Dates:
- 1850-1852
- Creators:
- Perkins, Isaac
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Isaac Perkins Papers, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Letters from Isaac Perkins to his brother Daniel in Salem, Mass.
- Biographical / historical:
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Isaac Perkins was born in Massachusetts February 2, 1816. He came to California in 1850 and became a general merchandise and lumber merchant in Sacramento. In 1867, he moved to San Joaquin County and started a flour mill. In later years, he was a banker in Modesto, where he died June 18, 1893.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Pioneers--California--Sacramento
- Names:
- Perkins, Isaac
- Places:
- Sacramento (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:
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[Identification of item], Isaac Perkins 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