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Joel Bolster correspondence, 1851-1852.
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Joel Bolster correspondence, 1851-1852Creator/Contributor:
Bolster, Joel, 1798-1876, creator, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Bolster, Catherine Brockway, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Bolster, Calista, 1836-1921, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Fidelia Bolster, 1826-1921, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Arad Towne, 1817-1886, correspondent.Abstract:
Thirteen letters from family members addressed to Joel Bolster in Parks Bar, California, which is located on the Yuba River,
and Rough and Ready, California. The letters are dated from July 1851 through December 1852 and included among them are letters
from his wife Catherine, his daughter and son-in law Arad and Fidelia, his daughter Calista, and a man named Horace Smith.
There is also one letter written by Joel Bolster from San Francisco to his family in Barre, Washington County, Vermont dated
January 18, 1851. The collection includes a few envelopes.
Date:
1851 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caGold miners -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California
Gold mines and mining
Gold miners
California -- Gold discoveries
California -- History -- 1850-1950
California
Bolster, Joel -- 1798-1876 -- Correspondence
Note:
Purchase from Ken Harrison Western Americana ; 2011.
Joel Bolster was born in 1798 in New Hampshire and died in 1876 in Barre, Washington County, Vermont. He married Fidelia Reed.
Together, they had daughters Fidelia Bolster (1826-1921), who married Arad Towne Smith (1817-1886), and Calista Bolster (1836-1921),
who married Levi J. Bolster (1836-1908). Upon his first wife's death in 1844, he remarried twice. His second wife was Lucinda
Bancroft (married in 1845) and his third wife was Catherine Brockway (married in 1848). In the 1850 U.S. census, Joel Bolster
is listed as working as a carpenter. He had arrived in San Francisco by January 1851. From there he seems to have headed for
diggings in Yuba County and Nevada County.
Joel Bolster correspondence, BANC MSS 2011/237, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
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HistoryPersonal correspondence.
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Language:
English