Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby
Subtitle: reminiscences of California and Guatemala from 1849 to 1864
By: edited by Charles Albro Barker.
Contributors: Barker, Charles A. 1904-
Series: Huntington Library publications
Publisher: The Huntington library
Published: 1945
Place of publication: San Marino, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Urbanization -- California.; Real estate development -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; Mines and mineral resources -- California.; California -- Description and travel.; California -- History -- 1850-1950.; Guatemala -- Description and travel.
Description: Elisha Oscar Crosby (1818-1895), a New York lawyer, fell victim to "California fever" and sailed for the West in December 1848. In California he had a distinguished legal and political career that led to a diplomatic appointment. Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby (1945) prints handwritten reminiscences and anecdotes prepared by Crosby in his old age. Topics include: early life in New York, the voyage west via Panama, law practice in mining camps, the 1849 Constitutional Convention, and service in the state senate. Crosby also reflects on the inequities of the California Land Act of 1851 and his term as U.S. minister to Guatemala, 1861-1864.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found.
"Bibliographical note on the Crosby papers": p. xxiii-xxvi.
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