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Title: David Hewes Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1913
Box Number: 217
Creator:
Hewes, David
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], David Hewes Collection, California State Library.
Hewes, David
Sacramento (Calif.)--History
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Pioneers--California
Correspondence and manuscript narrative of the life of David Hewes.
David Hewes was born May 16, 1822, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He came to California in 1850 and worked as a storekeeper.
In 1852, he moved to San Francisco and entered into a contracting business, grading and leveling hills and filling in the
San Francisco Bay. In 1881, he moved to Tustin, California, where he operated a fruit ranch. He died in Orange, California,
July 23, 1915.
- Coney, Charles
- Crafts, S. H.
- Ensign, George H.
- Hart, Mrs. John
- Hewes, David
- Hewes, George
- Hill, Robert R.
- Horton, D.
- Merrill, John R.
- Nickerson, Eliza
- Richards, George
- Rogers, Ford H.
- Seward, William H.
- Shattuck, Charles B.
- Schmidt, Alexis Walemer von, 1821-1906
- Vesler, Mrs. S. B.
- Zerbe, Charles F.