Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
Biography
Correspondents
Related Collections
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Augustus Sutter Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1839-1879
Box Number: 311-314
Creator:
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
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must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the
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the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Augustus Sutter Papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
California--History--1846-1850
Sacramento (Calif.)--History
Contents
Correspondence, Sutter claim materials, miscellaneous papers.
Biography
John Augustus Sutter was born in Kandern, Germany in February of 1839. He came to California in 1839 and established Sutter's
Fort in Sacramento. He also had a hock farm in Sutter County. An agriculturist and military commander under California's Mexican
governor, he aided incoming pioneers. He moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania in 1868 and died in Washington, D.C. June 18, 1880.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
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Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
Other Correspondents
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Fluge, Charles W.
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Forbes, Diego Alexander
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Sunol, Antoine
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Andrews, A.
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Bidwell, John, 1819-1900
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Brown, Orlando
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Castro, Jose<
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Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872
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Jimeno, Manuel Casarin, d. 1853
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Jones, John C.
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Kearny, Stephen Watts, 1794-1848
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Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858
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Low, Frederick Ferdinand, 1828-1894
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Martinez, Ignacio, 1812-1858
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Mason, R. B.
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Mesa, Prado
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Osio, Antonio Maria, 1800-1878
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Richardson, William
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Sinclair, John
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Spence, David
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Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890
Related Collections
Title: John Augustus Sutter, Jr. Papers, 1850-1890