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Description: The collection consists primarily of correspondence regarding the publication of History of the Donner Party by Charles Fayette McGlashan, 1879. Persons represented in the collection by three or more pieces include: Tamsen Donner, Richard C. Kerens, and Charles Fayette McGlashan. There are also two letters from Jessie Benton Frémont to Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, a petition written to President Benjamin Harrison recommending Sherman Houghton for the office of Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth District, and a copy of "The California Regiment of 1847" by Albert Gallatin Brackett. There are also nine certificates belonging to Sherman Houghton for various military and political achievements.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840s-1850s
Call number: mssHOU
Creator: Houghton, Sherman Otis (1828-1914)(Opens in new tab)
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Sherman Otis Houghton papers

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The collection consists primarily of correspondence regarding the publication of History of the Donner Party by Charles Fayette McGlashan, 1879. Persons represented in the collection by three or more pieces include: Tamsen Donner, Richard C. Kerens, and Charles Fayette McGlashan. There are also two letters from Jessie Benton Frémont to Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, a petition written to President Benjamin Harrison recommending Sherman Houghton for the office of Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth District, and a copy of "The California Regiment of 1847" by Albert Gallatin Brackett. There are also nine certificates belonging to Sherman Houghton for various military and political achievements.

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1831 June 28-1880 February 20

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1880 March 6-1914 November 7

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Carte-de-visite photograph of C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan (1847-1931)

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The collection contains correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, land tracts, scrapbooks, cartes-de-visites and ephemera. Although the majority of the material in the collection deals with the Donner Party, several items written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton deal with California history. Half of the correspondence deals with the Pioneer (Donner) Monument, which was financed by the Native Sons of the Golden West. Correspondence also includes letters by C.F. McGlashan, Patty Reed Lewis, and seven letters by Tamsen Donner. A letter from Eliza to "My Children" was written immediately after her visit with John Baptiste Trudeau. There is an incomplete handwritten draft of The expedition of the Donner Party and its tragic fate.

HM 58188.

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Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner. Notes re: Ulysses S. Grant's Inauguration, 6 p., collected by the author in an envelope labeled "Personal Reminiscences, Feb. 1, 1916."

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HM 58124.

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Carte-de-visite photograph of C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan (1847-1931)

Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner. Notes re: Ulysses S. Grant's Inauguration, 6 p., collected by the author in an envelope labeled "Personal Reminiscences, Feb. 1, 1916."

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