Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- James M. Short Collection,
- Dates:
- 1859-1887
- Creators:
- Short, James M.
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], James M. Short Collection, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Business papers, legal documents, personal papers, letters, receipts.
- Biographical / historical:
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James Short was born in Kentucky, July 17, 1822. He arrived in California in 1850. He was a farmer in Galt, Sacramento County. He served as Deputy County Assessor, Justice of the Peace, and School Trustee. He married his first wife, Maria Wade, in 1863. He was married a second time to Mrs. Augusta R. Sawyer.
- Physical description:
- 1 box
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Pioneers--California
Frontier and pioneer life--California - Names:
- Short, James M.
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], James M. Short Collection, 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