Stephen Davis, Gold Rush Merchant, 1850-54

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Prospective miners were not the only immigrants to California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. Stephen Davis and his brother left their homes in Nashua, New Hampshire, and traveled to Northern California to act as agents for local merchants. This database is a collection of Davis' journal entries between 1850 and 1854. The original journal is housed at the Henry E. Huntington Library in California. Researchers will find descriptions of Marysville, Coulterville, Stockton, San Francisco, and his four Panama crossings. It also includes an account of his trip to Oregon, and his business interests in general stores and boardinghouses. For persons attempting to understand the life of a typical merchant in the California gold rush, this can be an illuminating narrative.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 72. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Davis, Stephen Chapin. California Gold Rush Merchant. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1956.

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