Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
Biography
Correspondents
Material Transferred from the Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: James Frazier Reed Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1843-1851
Box Number: 356
Creator:
Reed, James Frazier, 1800-1874
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
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 Frazier Reed Papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Pioneers--California
San Jose (Calif.)--History
Reed, James Frazier, 1800-1874
Contents
Correspondence, legal papers, appointments, petitions for land timber, deeds, contracts, business and military papers.
Biography
James Frazier Reed was born in Ireland, November 14, 1800. He lived in Virginia and Illinois before comeing to California.
He and Abraham Lincoln were privates in the same company in the Black Hawk War. He, with his wife, four children and mother,
came to California as members of the Donner Party in 1846. He was a miner and later settled in San Jose,
working to make San Jose the capitol of the state, and contributing land for that purpose. He died in San Jose, July 24, 1874.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
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Bannister, Edward
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Belden, J[osiah]
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Boggs, Lilburn W.
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Buchanan, John C.
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Burton, John
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Buxton, Juan (John Burton?)
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Davis, Walter
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Kerne, Edward M.
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Larkin, Thomas O.
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Lyon, Caleb
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McGile, Patrick and George Montgomery
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Mason, D. H.
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Mason, Richard B.
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Parker, R.
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Pickett, Charles Edward, 1820-1882
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Pinkney, R. F.
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Richardson, John T.
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Ruckel & Cooke
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Spear, Nathan
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Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
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Townsend, John
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Van Voorhies, William
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White, Charles
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Willson, Allen
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Winchester, Jonas, 1810-1887
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Winlack (Miss) (Day and Boarding School for Young Ladies)
Material Transferred from the Collection
Books
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Account book (** cF 865 R32 A3)
Oversized material
Related Collections
Title: John Augustus Sutter Collection.