Manuscripts

Aram family papers

Description: The collection contains letters and manuscripts related to Joseph Aram and his family. Subjects covered are: mining; pioneering in California before and after the gold rush; and the Methodist Episcopal Church in California. There is also a journal by Peter Y. Cool about mining and Methodism in Amador County, 1851-1852, and a scrapbook by Sarah Mahala Aram Cool containing material about her family, California pioneers, and the Methodist Church. The photographs are of Aram and Cool family members.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1835-1912
Call number: mssAR
Creator: Aram, Joseph (1810-1898)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn, January 1945.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Aram family papers

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters and manuscripts related to Joseph Aram and his family. Subjects covered are: mining; pioneering in California before and after the gold rush; and the Methodist Episcopal Church in California. There is also a journal by Peter Y. Cool about mining and Methodism in Amador County, 1851-1852, and a scrapbook by Sarah Mahala Aram Cool containing material about her family, California pioneers, and the Methodist Church. The photographs are of Aram and Cool family members.

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Genealogical data on Aram family by Sarah Mahala Aram Cool

Manuscripts

AR 31

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Photographs and scraps

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Isaac Owen letter book

Manuscripts

Typewritten copies of letters by and to Reverend Owen for the Methodist Church in various cities in northern California. With envelope of related used envelopes. Copies made in 1919 from letters in the Methodist Church in Berkeley, California by Mrs. Miller, Owen's sister.

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Pillot family papers

Manuscripts

The majority of this collection is made up of correspondence between Julian Pillot and his wife Petra (although there is also correspondence from family in Chile and Argentina to Julian and Petra Pillot). There is also correspondence from others in California including letters by the Pillots' sons, Adolph and Antonio, written from Guadalupe, California. The subjects of the letters include: Julian Pillot's voyage to California, early life in California, gold mining, personal events in the family, news from the family back in Chile, etc. There is one folder of documents which includes a deed for land in California. The material is in Spanish and French; there is one document in English.

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Sparks family papers

Manuscripts

Letters from Michael R. Reed, William Sparks, and Clara Jane Cavitt to Minerva Sparks Reed; also documents relating to the Sparks family. Michael Reed's letters describe the regiment's march through Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, the minutia of camp life, and encounters with Union prisoners. He at length discusses conscription, substitutes, and desertions, and duly reported war news, often rather distorted (thus he reported rumors of a complete Confederate victory at Gettysburg and Vicksburg). William Sparks' letters were written during the siege of Vicksburg and blockade of Galveston. They contain information about camp life, diseases, (especially the outbreak of yellow fever), conscripts, Methodist preaching in Galveston, war news, and discussion of Confederate politics. The letters of Clara Jane Cavitt and other papers of the Sparks family document life in Texas in 1850-1860s, including charity and war efforts, reaction to the conscript law of April 1862, and discussion of war news. Typewritten transcripts are available.

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