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Garcelon family correspondence, 1854-1873.
BANC MSS 2005/124 clocal
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Title:
Garcelon family correspondence, 1854-1873Garcelon family letters
Creator/Contributor:
Garcelon (Family), creator, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Garcelon, C. C. (Charles Clark), 1840-1896, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Warren, Helen M. Garcelon Kingsley, 1831-1916, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Steward, Lydia Garcelon, 1829-1931, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Steward, Joseph Ireland, 1828-1911, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Rogers, Lucetta, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Steward (Family), correspondent.Abstract:
Contains 45 letters to and from various Garcelon family members. Correspondents include C.C. Garcelon, William Garcelon, Helen
M. Kingsley (wife of Rufus Kingsley (1816-1867), sister of Lydia Garcelon Steward, later Helen M. Warren), Lucetta Rogers
(wife of Walter Rogers), and members of the Steward family (Lydia Garcelon Steward, Joseph I. Steward, Frank Steward). Letters
discuss being a railroad engineer in California, the Civil War in California and Maine, Northern Democrats called Copperheads,
the presidential election of 1864, running a vineyard and orchard in California and education in California.
Date:
1854 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-meRailroad engineers -- California -- Correspondence
Railroads -- California -- Employees
Presidents -- Election -- 1864
Vineyards -- California -- History
Orchards -- California -- History
Education -- California -- History
Ingénieurs ferroviaires -- Californie -- Correspondance
Vignobles -- Californie -- Histoire
Vergers -- Californie -- Histoire
Éducation -- Californie -- Histoire
Railroad engineers
Education
Orchards
Presidents -- Election
Public opinion
Railroads -- Employees
Vineyards
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion
California -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Maine -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Opinion publique
Californie -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
California
Maine
United States
Garcelon, C. C. (Charles Clark) -- 1840-1896 -- Correspondence
Warren, Helen M. Garcelon Kingsley -- 1831-1916 -- Correspondence
Rogers, Lucetta -- Correspondence
Steward, Lydia Garcelon -- 1829-1931 -- Correspondence
Steward, Joseph Ireland -- 1828-1911 -- Correspondence
Garcelon family -- Correspondence
Stuart family -- Correspondence
Stuart (Famille) -- Correspondance
Stuart family
Note:
Related collection: Garcelon-Steward family correspondence, 1849-1876 (BANC MSS 86/180 c).
Associated collection: Garcelon family papers. Also located at: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library,
Bates College; Lewiston, Maine.
Charles Clark Garcelon (September 18, 1840-April 3, 1896); son of Harris and Eliza Garcelon; born in St. Albans, Maine; married
to Mary Jane (Woods) Garcelon; railroad engineer; lived in Santa Rosa, California and Santa Cruz, California; died in San
Francisco, California.
Helen Maria (or Marie) Garcelon Kingsley Warren (September 4, 1831-December 14, 1916); daughter of Harris and Eliza Garcelon;
born in Maine; came to California in 1857 to live with her sister, Lydia Garcelon Steward; married Rufus Kingsley (1816-1867)
of Susanville in 1861; married Robert Emmett Warren (1828-1892) of Chico in 1871; died in Redlands, California.
Joseph Ireland Steward (1828-1911) was the proprietor of the Union House in Chico, California and the Princeton Hotel in Princeton
(Colusa County), California. He married Lydia Garcelon (1829-1931).
Garcelon family correspondence, BANC MSS 2005/124 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
HistoryPersonal correspondence
Physical Description:
print
1 (45 31 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2005/124 clocal