Elisha Crosby, California Memoirs

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Even before the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, many East Coast residents fell victim to "California fever." Elisha Crosby sailed to the West in December of 1848 via Panama and became a distinguished lawyer and politician in California. This database is a collection of his reminiscences prepared in his old age. Researchers will find descriptions of his early life in New York, practicing law in the mining camps, the 1849 state Constitutional Convention, and his service in the state senate. Additionally he reflects on the inequalities of the California Land Act of 1851 and his term as U.S. minister to Guatemala, 1861-1864. For those persons wishing to better understand the politics of early California, this can be a useful source of information.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 71. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Crosby, Elisha Oscar. Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1945.

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