History of California, Volume XXII, Part 73

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885-1890
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 816

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Block 8. Lot-owners, 1 sold in '49, 2 Wm S. Clark 47, 3 L. W. Hast- ings '47, 4 Dionisio Garcia '46, 5 John Townsend '47, 6 W. A. Leidesdorff (beach). Buildings: c, Dr Townsend, late iu '47, erected a wooden residence on his lot, where he lived with his family and had his physician's office in '48 and later. His alcalde's office was apparently not here. At a, Starkey, Janion & Co., merchants, had their store, with a separate office, on the Leides- dorff lot in '49-50. It was probably built in '48. They had also an office in '48 at the cor. of Clay and Kearny, probably in the City Hotel.

Block 9. Lot-owners in '47, 1 Charles C. Burr, 2 Charles Heath, 3 Jos Hicks, 4 Basil Hall, 5 Eliab Grimes '46, 6 Robert Ridley '44. Buildings: a, adobe house, or rather a mixed structure of wood and mud, built by Ridley on his lot in '46. E. W. Pell lived here with Ridley for a time. Early in '47 it was bought by Leidesdorff, who spent the rest of his life there. Leides- dorff's cottage is described as the only house in town which had a garden, be- ing the southernmost house until Russ built one over the sand hill far out in the suburbs. Ward gives a view of the cottage, with some other buildings in the distance northward. W. D. M. Howard lived here after L.'s death in '48-50. Above this building, at c, Swascy has an unnamed structure, which is also remembered by others. It was probably a shanty erected by Grimes to hold the lot. Ross mentions a house and lot on cor. of Pine and Kearny, offered to him in '48 for $350.

Block 10. Lot-owners in '47, 1 Howard Oakley, 2 Geo. Mckinstry, 3 Geo. Panano, 4 Keari Palani, 5 J. A. Sutter, 6 Jacob Dopken. Block 11, lot 1 E. H. Harrison '48, 2 C. L. Ross '47, 3 C. W. Wooster '47, 4 Rich. Knowles '47, 5 J. B. McClurg '47, 6 Johu Philips '47. Block 12, lots 1, 2, 3 sold in '49, 4 James Lick '48, 5, 6 Wm S. Clark '48.

Block 13. Lot-owners, '47, 1 John R. Robbins, 2 Leidesdorff (beach), 3. Wm Pettet, 4 blank. Buildings: a, Leidlesdorff's warehouse, on the beach, at what was later Leidesdorff and Cal. streets. Built by L. probably in '44 or '45, and used by him till his death in May '48, also apparently as U. S. quartermaster's warehouse. There was a small pier, or wharf, at the landing near the building. S. H. Williams & Co. had a store here in '49, and proba- bly occupied the old warehouse before the end of '48. Wm Pettet had a wooden building on his lot at c, occupied perhaps at first by himself as a painter. In June '47 Gelstor & Co. occupied the store with the Whiton's cargo in charge of C. L. Ross. They left this place in July or Aug. for the cor. of Washington and Montgomery (block 29), after having occupied for a short time Larkin's store on the beach (block 18 or 23). Wm Foster occupied the building next as a furniture shop, being succeeded in April '48 in the same business by McLean & Osburn, as appears from advertisements in the Californian. Before the end of '48 McL. & O., or perhaps Osburn in com- pany with Brannan, built a better wooden building west of the other, near the corner. This was the lot on which Donahue & Kelly's bank stood later. Post and Cooke are named as early owners.

Block 14. Lot-owners, 1, 2, 4, 5 John Fuller 1837 and '47, 3 Francisco Sanchez '45, 6 C. W. Flugge '44. Davis, a later owner of 3, is certain that he bought of Flügge, and not Sanchez, the numbers being transposed on the offi- cial map. Near the middle of his 100-vara lot, at e, Fuller in 39 put up three small wooden buildings, in which he lived with his family from that time. One of the three, that on the left, or south, was occupied by Leides- dorff in '45-7, until he moved to the Ridley place (block 9). Dr E. T. Bale's family lived here with Fuller in '44-5. In March '47 Fuller's property was advertised to be sold by the sheriff, but his occupation seems not to have been disturbed. The property is described in the adv. as bounded on the north by Howard St (Sacramento). An alley in this block still bears the name of Fuller

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Place. Lot 3, on which stood the granite building so long occupied by Wells, Fargo & Co., was bought in '45 by Wm H. Davis, who built on it a wooden shanty, a, and a red-wood fence. Mrs Montgomery occupied the house for a time in '45-6; and in '49 Davis put up a brick building, leased to govt for a custom-house, and burned in '51. Lot 6 was bought by Wm M. Smith, who at c built in '47 or '48 a house occupied by his partner, Frank Ward, till '49.

Block 15. Lot-owners, 1 J. M. Hudspeth '47, 2 Geo. McDougall '47, 3 Henry D. Fitch '46, 4 James R. Berry '44, 5 E. T. Bale '44, 6 Wm S. Hinck- ley '44. According to Swasey, Robert Ridley had a house at a in '47, which is confirmed by Brown; but others do not remember such a building, or that Ridley had a house in town after quitting his house in block 9. Block 16. Lot-owners, '47, 1 Geo. K. Winner (?), 2 Christina Read, 3 Asa Stevens, 4 J. Handerick, 5 Keaniu Cuani, 6 Wm Johnson '44. Block 17. Lot-owners, '47, 1 blank, 2 Robert Roberts, 3 Mills L. Callender, 4 L. C. Gray, 5 G. D. Le- moine, 6 Robert Smith.

Block 18, beach-lots, granted in '46 to the wife of James A. Forbes. A portion seems to have been owned by Larkin in '47, though there is some con- fusion in the matter. Ross, representing Gelston & Co. in Pettet's store (block 13, c), tried in '47 to buy or lease Larkin's lot, 'opposite, on the cor- ner, in a line with Ward.' Larkin's Doc. He did not get the lot, but rented from Larkin his 'house on the beach, on the Forbes' lot,' at $50, occupying it for less than a month as a store. A sick man occupied it in Oct. In Feb. '48 Larkin's 'little white house under the hill'-apparently the same-was vacant, and Ross, as L.'s agent, had a chance, hy improving it and moving it to the corner, to lease it for $300 to Mowry and wife for a shoe-shop and coffee-saloon. This was done-or at least the improvements were made. At the same time, Ross desired to obtain a lease of the Forbes' lot on which to build a warehouse on the beach, else he would have to build on his own lot, next to Starkey & Janion (block 8). It does not appear that he succeeded before the end of '48. All this appears from original corresp. in Larkin's Doc .; but nobody remembers anything about the matter, and it is complicated by the fact that L. had another Forbes' lot in block 23, and also lots with some buildings in block 21 on the hill. Wm H. Davis informs us that the Hud- son's Bay Co. built a kind of warehouse at c in '42-3, and it was still standing in '47-8; but he remembers no other building in the block except a shed at a, built by himself for Paty & Co. in '44, which was removed before'48. Davis thinks the wharf at e, foot of Commercial St., later known as Long Wharf, was begun in '48, but this seems doubtful. On the Clay-St. wharf at i, as recorded elsewhere in this chapter, considerable work was done before the gold excitement in '48, but nobody remembers that the result was of any practical use at that time. I suppose that the building at c may have been identical with the Larkin building alluded to above. The dotted line cross- ing this block and the one next north indicates the position of a steep bank rising from the beach. Near Clay St. it was about 10 feet high, but dimin- ished in both directions, and disappeared just above Washington and below Sacramento streets. In '35 et seq. Capt. Richardson's Indians are said to have had a temascal near the foot of Sacramento St.

Block 19. Lot-owners from '40, 1, 2, 4, 5 Jean Vioget, 3, 6 J. P. Leese. At a, about the corner of the later Commercial St., Leese built in '38 a large wooden store, and adjoining it, in '39, a small kitchen. L. lived here till '41, when he sold the buildings and both lots to the H. B. Co. Wm G. Rac, for the company, built an additional structure south of the kitchen in '42, used at first for a stable, and later as a warehouse; advertised as a warehouse at cor. Sac. and Montgom. streets in '47. The main building, used as a dwelling and store, is mentioned by every visitor, and is fully described in the narrative of Mrs Rae. After Rae's death in '45, Forbes occupied the buildings for a time, until in '46 the property was sold to Mellus & Howard, who lived and traded here in '46-8, Howard, however, moving his residence to the Leidesdorff cottage (block 9, a) in May '48. On the northern lot, at e, M. & H. erected late in '48 the first brick building in town. Perhaps John

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Fuller had a shanty here in '38, before moving to his house in block 14. At e, on his own land, Vioget in '40-1 erected a wooden structure, in which he lived and kept a drinking and billiard saloon till about '44. He was suc- ceeded in the same business-still remaining owner-by Juan N. Padilla, Robert Ridley, and (perhaps later) J. H. Brown, down to Ang. '47, when it was refitted and kept as a hotel by E. P. Jones, to the gold excitement, though it had been advertised for sale by Vioget in Oct. '47. The name had been changed from the Vioget House to Portsmouth House in July '46. Swasey has a separate building below the hotel as Jones' residence, which would seem an error. Piper describes the hotel as 'a small cluster of oue- story buildings.' Late in '48 a part was occupied as a store by Finley, John- son & Co .; and another part, the N. W. cor., as a hardware store by C. E. Wetmore.

Block 20. Lot-owners, '43, 1 Trinidad Moya, 2 Vicente Miramontes, 3 José Benavides '46, 4 .luan Castañeda, 5, 6 Leidesdorff. The City Hotel, at a, was a large adobe building erected by Leidesdorff in '46. It is mentioned as a new building in the Star of Feb. '47, and was kept as a hotel by John H. Brown-being often known as Brown's Hotel-until Oct., when Mr and Mrs Skinner took charge. The rooms fronting on the streets were much used in '47-8 as offices and stores. Shelly & Norris, Jasper O'Farrell, Alcalde Hyde, A. J. Grayson (book and variety store), McDonald, auctioneer, Wm S. Clark, C. V. Gillespie, MeDongall & Parker, brokers, and Starkey, Jan- ion & Co., seem to be among those who thus used the rooms. In the last half of '48 Brown was again in charge. R. A. Parker being the lessee at 82,000. The Annals, 346, has a view of the building, and quotes an account published in the Alta just after its destruction by the fire of '51. In '48-9 the City Hotel was the headquarters of the gamblers; and was from '49 leased at $16,000, and sublet for stores and rooms at a great profit. It was a low building with a veranda in front. The adobe house at c was built in 46 by Vioget on the Benavides lot, V.'s wife being a Benavides, and occupied by him in '47-8. At e on the same lot, according to Davis, was a small two- story wooden house where the Grimeses lived in '47-8, and where Capt. G. died. D). thinks this also may have been built by Vioget in '46. Above Grimes, at i, Vicente Miramontes built on his own lot about '44 a wooden house, in which he lived with his family to '48 and later. Swasey's no. 21, accredited to Noé, may be intended for this honse. At m, Wm Pettet advertises, in April 48, a store for the sale of glassware, etc., "opposite the school-house.' Swa- sey has a group of 3 buildings here, oue of them the residence of Padilla. Dr Fourgeaud seems also to have had an office in this vicinity.

Block 21. Lot-owners, I Win Kittleman '47, 2, 3, 5, 6 J. P. Leese '36, 4 Newell Bullen '47. At a Leese built in '36 the first house in town, as else- where recorded (vol. iii. p. 709), where the St Francis Hotel stood later. It is not known that it was occupied after Leese left it, and it was perhaps removed about '40. Davis is positive that it was not there in '46-8, though Swasey gives a small building not named. At c, or at Sac. and Dupont, ac- cording to the Alta of Oct. 26, 1852, the U. S. military authorities built a kind of block-house in '46. Nobody remembers such a structure, thongh Gillespie locates the jail in this vicinity in '48. The 100-vara lot, however, lecame the property of Larkin, and in '47 had on it a shed that had been built by Capt. Hull for a hospital, doubtless the blockhouse as above. A man named Antonio occupied it for L., but was ejected by order of Shubrick. L. had a cellar dny for a new house, and there are several communications on the subject. Later in '47 L. had two small houses rented for $3 and $7; also-perhaps the same-two sheds rented to a baker for $9. Larkin's Dor. There may be some confusion between this and L.'s other lots in blocks 18, 23, q. v. Block 22. Lot-owners, '47, 1 Matthew J. Haan, 2 Robert Petch, 3 Howard Oakley, 4 W'm Pettet, 3 Daniel Clark, 6 John Sirriue.

Block 23. Lot-owners, southern lot (beaeb) Nathan Spear '49, northern J. A. Forbes '46, perhaps owned later by Larkin. See note on block 18, there being some confusion about these Forbes-Larkin lots. At a, on the northern

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half of the Spear lot, Ward & Smith had their large wooden store in '47-8. It was advertised as ' No. 3 Montgomery St.,' this and the building nearly opposite being the ouly ones in town that indulged in numbers. Wells & Ward (J. C.), according to Davis, occupied part of the building in '48; and he also states that the Star and Californian at the end of that year was pub- lished here. In April, Ross occupied W. & S.'s 'warehouse,' which may have been the same building. Larkin's Doc. About the same time Mowry was liv- ing in W. & S.'s yard, but soon moved to Larkin's house near by. Id. At c, Davis states that at the foot of the bank was a spring, where in '38-9 Fuller, living diagonally opposite, had a kind of wash-house or shed. Late in '47 R. M. Sherman bought the southern half of the lot, and employed W. H. Merrill to erect a wooden store, which was occupied by Sherman & Ruckel in '48. In 1885 Sherman still owns the property, and has an office in the Sherman Building. The dotted line, as before explained, shows the bank ris- ing abruptly from the beach. S. says that he had a bridge from his front door to the bank, which proves that it was in the street at this point; others think it was not so far west. C. L. Ross seems to have had a lumber-yard on the flat either in this block or the one next north.

Block 24. Lot-owners, 1 Geo. Allen '42, 2 Nathan Spear '46, 3 Spear and Mrs Hinckley '47-6, 4 Peter Sherreback '42, 5 Wm S. Hinckley '39, 6 Juan A. Vallejo '40. Lot 3 was at first owned by Spear & Hinckley, but the part- nership was soon dissolved and the lot divided. At a, in '38, Spear put a ship's house from the Kent on the corner of his lot for temporary use till he could erect another building. Later he used it as a sleeping-room, and Kent Hall seems to have stood here till after '48. At c, next northward, Spear built his wooden store in '38-9, just north of Kent Hall and farther back from Mont- gomery St. Here he lived and traded till '46, when he sold out to Wm H. Davis the building and his half of the lot. Davis lived here for a year, as did his clerks later, and kept store till '49, when it was removed to make room for a new building erected by the lessees Bleeker, Van Dyke, and Belden. It was advertised as 'No. 2 Montgomery St.' The firm was Davis & Carter in '48. C. E. Pickett made the store his home in '46-8. Davis owned also lots 2 and 5. At e, Capt. Hinckley built an adobe house in '40 ou his half of the lot, where he lived with his family till his death in '46, and his widow later. Alcalde Bartlett had his office here for a time in '46-7. In April '47 the house was leased to Ward & Smith for 8 years, and was occupied as a dwelling by Smith, who married Mrs Hinckley. It was removed in '50. The site corresponds nearly to the corner of the later Merchant St. Davis thinks that adjoining it on the north a small wooden office was built early in '49, and used by Ward & Smith. The Vallejo lot next north was purchased by Lar kin, and had no building till after '48, though Swasey erroneously puts a building on it. The lot was for sale in '47-8, and there were many offers for the whole or part by Ross, Boggs, Hastings, and Holbrook, from $800 to $4,000. Larkin's Doc. In '48, after the gold fever began, it was sold to Bran- man for $10,000. At i, in '39-40, Spear built a 2-story heavy frame building for a mill run by mnule power. Daniel Sill was the builder and miller. It stood about 15 ft back from Clay St. Not used as a mill after '45, being bought by Davis in '46, and used as a storehouse, the machinery being sold. In '48 Davis sold the building to Cross, Hobson & Co., who occupied it as store, office, and dwelling. At m, Robert A. Parker had a store in '48-9, ad- vertised from April '49 as a 'new store opposite the Portsmouth House,' Parker moving there from his old 'adobie store.' There was free grog on the occasion of putting up the sign in April. Swasey and Leighton occupied it in '48, succeeding Parker. Swasey calls it the Ross building. Brown de- clares there was no such building between the mill and the adobe. Davis re- members it as a wooden store, and thinks it was built by Gelston. Holbrook brought out on the Sabine a store all ready to put together, and in March '48 was in search of a site. I think this may have been the same building. At 2 was Paty's adobe, probably built by Benito Diaz about '46, and sold to Capt. Paty in '47. Davis thinks this was Parker's adobe store in '47-8, but the

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weight of evidence seems to be against him. McDonald & Buchanan, auc- tioneers, seem to have been here Jan .- May '48, though their place is adver- tised both at s. E. and N. E. corner of the plaza, and Gillespie thinks he re- members them at the latter. Wm Beere had a cabinet-maker's shop in the rear of this building in '48; and Wm Hendricks a barber-shop in this or that adjoining, being advertised as opposite the Portsmouth House. At o, on his own lot, Peter Sherreback built a wooden house in '43, which he occupied through '48. John Sullivan, S.'s brother-in-law, lived with him in '44-6. The Hinckley lot, east of this, had, like the Vallejo lot, no buildings.

Block 25. Lot-owners, 1 Jesus Noe '43, 4 Stephen Smith '46, 2, 3, 5, 6 town plaza from the time of Vioget's survey in '39. On the plaza, at a, the adobe custom-house with tile roof was built in '44-5, as recorded in vol. iv. p. 669-70. From July '46 it was the U. S. military barracks, and later occu- pied by the alcalde and revenue officers. It stood till the fire of '51. A view is given in the Annals, 255. Adjoining the custom-house, at c, there was a jail built later. Clark remembers the jail, and it is on Swasey's view. Davis, Gillespie, and others fail to remember any such building. At e, on the plaza, was the small wooden school-house built in '47, as recorded in note 1 of this chapter. At i, on his own lot, Stephen Smith in 45-6 built a wooden house, which he perhaps occupied for a short time. In '46 he leased it to Brannan, who lived there and published the Star, which in Feb. '48 was moved up Washington St. to the next block, Brannan being succeeded in this house by Gillespie. There is a picture of Brannan's house-possibly the one farther up the street-in the Annals, 347. In the other corner, at m, Jesus Noe lived in a wooden house on his own lot in '46-8. Swasey's location of Noe's house is inaccurate.

Block 26. Lot-owners, I Wm Glover '47, 4 Sam. Brannan '47, 2, 3, 5, 6 Wm A. Richardson '36 (though in Wheeler's schedule E this 100-vara lot is left blank). At a was the adobe 'casa grande' built by Richardson in '37 on the site of his tent of '35 (see vol. iv. p. 668-9, 709). It was one of the largest buildings in town in '46-8. R. and family lived here till '42, his house being mentioned by all the early visitors. Its site was nearly that of the later Adelphi theatre. James Mckinley bought it at the end of '42, and Wm H. Davis occupied it as agent of McK. & Paty in '43-5, Benito Diaz also residing here part of the time. Many of the Mormons wintered here in '46-7. Davis thinks the building was unoccupied from the time he left it except for miscel- laneous occasional uses; but Josiah Belden states that he (B.) occupied it as a store for Paty in '46-7 (though this may possibly have been at n in block 24); and it is stated by Wm S. Clark, A. D. Piper, and a writer in the Alta of Sept. 21, 1851, that R. A. Parker had his store here. I think this must have been Parker's store at the 'adobie house' advertised in the Star from July '47 to March '48, when he moved to m in block 24. David Dring was the owner in '49-50. This was the only building of '47 still standing in the region of the plaza in Sept. '51. In May '52 it was taken down, having been undermined by winter rains. This left standing only one building (a in block 51) that dated back before the discovery of gold. Alta, May 3, '52. The office of the Star, as appears from an advertisement of Feb. 3, '48, was moved (from i block 25) about 100 varas up Washington St., 'within a stone's-throw of the old windmill.' I suppose that Brannan moved the office, and perhaps his residence, to his own lot at c, though nobody seems to remember such a change. Swasey has several small unnamed buildings in this vicinity. Wm Glover built a house and lived on his lot at e.

Block 27. Lot-owners, 1 Wmn Evans '47, 2 John Eagar '47, 3 Wm H. Montgomery '46 (Ed. Hudson '47), 4 Daniel Stark '47, 5 Wm J. Powell '46, 6 John B. N. Montgomery '46. Block 28, beach-lots granted to Dionisio García in '39. Nobody remembers any buildings on the block. In Oct .- Dec. '48, Edmonson & Anderson's centre market is advertised as on the cor. of Washington and Montgomery St. 'opposite Ross' N. Y. store,' and may have heen here.

Block 29. Lot-owners, 1, 2, 4, 5 John C. Davis '39, 3 Francisco Guerrero

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'43, 6 Gregorio Briones '45. At a, John C. Davis built his wooden house with carpenter and blacksmith shop in the rear about '39. As blacksmith, D. was succeeded in May '47 by E. Walcott, and in Nov. Davis & Co. by Rose & Reynolds, with D. as their agent. John Finch was also connected at some time with this business. Davis probably lived here off and on till his death. R. M. Sherman rented the house from the widow late in '48. On the Guer- rero lot at c, perhaps a little nearer Montgomery St, C. L. Ross built his 'New York store,' and occupied it from Oct. '47, as per advertisement in the Star. All remember this store, still occupied by Ross in '49. In the corner below Ross' store, Swasey and Brown put Wm Reynolds' house, which others do not remember. In July, a new building at the cor. of Washington and

Montgomery was used for preaching on one Sunday, and was immediately occupied as a store by Gelston & Co., who moved from their old 'store on the beach,' about the site of which there is some uncertainty (see note for blocks 13, 18). This appears from editorial items in the Star of July 24th, 31st, but G. & Co.'s adv. still continued 'Montgomery St on the beach.' Ross' adv. begins Oct. 16th and G. & Co.'s disappears Nov. 6tlı, R.'s adv. reading both ' Mont. St on the beach' on 'Cor Wash. and Mont.' This is somewhat confusing, but I have no doubt that Ross and G. & Co. occupied the N. Y. store together for a time, R. having been at first G. & Co.'s agent, or perhaps a partner. I think this was the only building near the corner. Ross had a lumber-yard somewhere on the beach, and at one time he occupied Ward & Smith's warehouse (a, block 23). From July '47, Lazarus Everhart advertised his tailor-shop at the 'Laagggoonn.' Clark remembers this shop at e as a ship's caboose, which he thinks was ' Keut Hall' (moved here from block 24, a); but Davis thinks it was a shanty farther N. W. at Jackson St. From April '48, Geo. Eggleston kept the Washington market, apparently at m, and later in the year Karl Schlottour had a bakery in the rear of the market. The lagoon at A. is represented on the city map, presumably from O'Farrell's survey, as longest from N. to s., almost reaching Washington St; but all wit- nesses agree that it was longest from E. to w., and that it did not touch the Guerrero lot. At i, Alcalde Hinckley is said to have built a slight wooden bridge in '44. The 'valley of dry bones,' a name which seems to have origi- nated from some experience of the N. Y. volunteers, was at the cor. of Kearny and Jackson, according to the Star of Jan. 15, '48.

Block 30. Lot-owners, 1, 2, 4, 5 J. B. R. Cooper, 3 Fran. Haro '43, John Finch '47, 6 Domingo Felix '43. From perhaps as early as '44-5 Finch, known as Tinker, lived and kept a saloon and bowling-alley at a. Thompson was his partner in '47-8. The building was quite a large frame. From March '48, Conway & Westcott (though W. ran away presently) advertised the Colonnade Hotel, on Kearny a few doors from the plaza. I think this may have been the Tinker building, but possibly a distinct one. Dörnte, a man who was murdered in '47, is said by Clark and others to have lived on this block at e. On the Cooper lot at c, John Cooper, a cousin of J. B. R., is said to have built a wooden shanty in '40, where he kept a groggery for a year or two, after which Hiram Teal used it as a store to '43. Its later oc- cupants are not remembered. David Ramsey's store was advertised as 'oppo- site the custom-house,' perhaps at ¿, from March '48; and the Star and Cali- fornian office as on Washington St and the plaza in Dec.

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History of California, Volume XXII, Part 73

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe Publication date: 1885-1890 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers Number of Pages: 816

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Publication date: 1885-1890
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, publishers
Number of Pages: 816