Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dougherty Family Correspondence,
- Dates:
- 1853-1969
- Creators:
- Taylor, Asa R.
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Dougherty Family Correspondence, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence and travel diary. Letters describe voyages to the Pacific Coast, daily activities, and comment upon the election of Lincoln and slavery. Diary describes Asa Taylor's 1969 trip east by van to see Taylor family homes.
- Biographical / historical:
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Wilbur and Young Dougherty were early California settlers and farmers. Young Dougherty and his wife, Mary, sailed from New York in 1851 and settled in Bear River, Sutter County.
In 1859 Wilbur Dougherty and his parents sailed from New York on the steamer "Illinois" bound for Aspinwall, rode across Panama, and sailed to San Francisco on the steamship "Sonora". The family farmed in Garden Ranch, Yuba County[?].
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
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:
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[Identification of item], Dougherty Family Correspondence, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176