John Joseph Craven papers
Contributors: Craven, Catherine S.; Craven, William Darcy, b. 1846
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Medical care; Submarine Cables; Patents; Refrigerators; Telegraph cables; History
Description: Correspondence, diary, family papers, legal records, patent, photographs, and other papers.  Includes Craven's letters to his wife, Catherine S. Craven, from aboard ship and from California during the Gold Rush; fragments of a diary written at Fort Monroe concerning Craven's medical treatment of Jefferson Davis; text of a court trial (1874-1875) involving Craven's invention of a submarine telegraph cable; and a British patent (1876) for a refrigerator.  Family papers include his wife's diary (1863) and papers of their son, William Darcy Craven.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Chester D. Bradley, 1958.

Inventor, physician, and U.S. Army officer.

Collection material in English.