Citations from December 1957
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Custom House Letters
Monterey Adrift in the Doldrums, 1849-1870
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Milton Little, merchant
Name: Milton Little
merchant
Years: 1846/47
Notes: d. 1879 (73Mar, 4); early settler; small store (60Sep, 2); "early American storekeeper" (73Mar, 4), "well liked merchant, original developer of what we now call New Monterey, and a personal friend of Walter Colton" (75Jun, 12); juror Graham-Rosillion trial; member of first tax-supported school board 1853-54, and first school (64Jun, 5); and Milton Little Library; 1854 named trustee first Congregational church (60Sep, 3); commissioner of Monterey school district (72Jun, 14); "Mrs. Milton Little, still living in 1892" Jane Eager Little, m. by Walter Colton in Stevenson House (75Jun, 9, 12)
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mining, mining camps, miners
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Monterey cemetery
Entity: Monterey cemetery
Notes: old Monterey cemetery and gravestone "Williamson" (57Dec, 1); land for, 1847 (60Jun, 5); "Catholic Cemetery" (78Jun, 30)
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Monterey Public Library
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Monterey Public Library
Illustration: 75Jun, 11; 95Mar, 1
Notes: MPL; co-founders Gleason, Spence, and Curtis, "a 'literary and scientific' corporation" 1857 (58Sep, 5; 75Jun, 10); also California Room, Local History collection, "California History Room," "California Collection" (94Mar, 13; 02Feb, 6); photo source acknowledgment (67Dec, 25; 78Mar, 17; 78Jun, 26; 81Jun, 1); feature article "Monterey's First Public Library" June 1975 (incl. "871 titles" and 14+ sections), library in old Quartel (76Mar, 6); "Monterey Library Association" 1849 (75Jun, 9, 12), 1854 (76Mar, 6); Carnegie Building 1911-1952 (95Mar, 1-5)
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Bartlett, members
Name: Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Bartlett
MHAA members
Notes: in memoriam Paul Bartlett 1966
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Mrs. C. D. Hyde, director
Name: Mrs. C. D. Hyde
MHAA director
Notes: same as "Ethel Wolter Hyde"?
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Mrs. C. Tod Singleton, Jr., MHAA honorary lifetime director
Name: Mrs. C. Tod Singleton, Jr.
MHAA honorary lifetime director
Notes: Mary Frances Singleton (60Sep, 7; 67Jun, 14; 67Sep, 21; 74Dec, 31; 75Mar, 6; 76Jun, 15; 78Dec, 3); and general chair for annual Adobe Tour (59Dec, 7); to MHAA Hospitality Committee 1962; life member 1963 (63Sep, 6); and Rear Admiral C. Tod Singleton (64Mar, 7; 64Jun, 6); director MHAA 1970 (70Sep, 23); chair of Casa Serrano committee 1977-78 (77Dec, 15)
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Mrs. F. L. Knudsen, director
Name: Mrs. F. L. Knudsen
MHAA director
Notes: FN "Kay"? (72Dec, 30); to MHAA House Committee 1962
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Mrs. Horace [Hugh?] Dormody, director
Name: Mrs. Horace [Hugh?] Dormody
MHAA director
Notes: Mrs. Florence Dormody? (58jun, 3); to MHAA House Committee 1962; Hugh Dormody was mayor 1944
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Mrs. M. R. Gragg, director
Name: Mrs. M. R. Gragg
MHAA director, committee chair
Notes: "Cragg" (error, 57Jun, 8); "Gragg family" and Stokes Adobe (70Mar, 6); chaired Transportation Committee for Adobe House Tour, and chair of hostesses at Meriendas (59Mar, 7); chaired Tickets Committee (59Dec, 7); gift (monetary) to MHOD (70Sep, 23)
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Mrs. Robert Giet, director
Name: Mrs. Robert Giet
MHAA director, life member, donor
Notes: same as "Mrs. George Giet"? donor (67Dec, 31-32); gift of statue of St. Francis to garden at Casa Serrano (62Sep, 7); life member by 1971, Prof. and Mrs. (71Sep, 23); Mrs. in memoriam 1982
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Mrs. Wesley (Elizabeth) Heard director
Name: Mrs. Wesley (Elizabeth) Heard
MHAA director
Notes: sustaining member 1962; and Casa Alvarado (70Mar, 6)
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Myron and Dorothy Oliver founding director (MO)
Name: Myron and Dorothy Oliver
MHAA founding director (MO)
Notes: and 1869 Denny oil painting (also 67Mar, 6); valances at Casa Serrano; life member, "distinguished Peninsula artist" (60Dec, 7); to MHAA House Committee 1962 and chair Acquisition Committee 1962; honored by Governor Brown Merienda 1965 (65Jun, 7); honorary director 1966; b. 1891, d. 1967 (67Mar, 6); Mrs. Myron A. Oliver donor to Doud House and MHOD library restorations (70Jun, 14); in memoriam Mrs. 1975 (75Mar, 7); new member 1978 (78Dec, 5)
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Pacific Grove
Place Name: Pacific Grove
Notes: and Pacific Grove Tennis Club; Pacific Grove Post Office [1888] (68Sep, 51, 54); Pacific Grove High School (69Jun, 9; 95Jun, 4), and Stanton (94Jun, 4); "Monterey-Pacific Grove Quota Club" (81Sep, 4)
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pack trains
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Notes: packtrain, pack-train; mule trains; "20-mule team" (74Sep, 18-19)
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Portsmouth (ship)
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Notes: Captain Montgomery (91Dec, 11)
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Portugal Portuguese
Place Name: Portugal
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Portuguese
Notes: and fishing industry (98Oct, 9; 85Sep, 10); in whaling industry, "Old Company" and "New Company" (67Dec, 26); language (76Jun, 9)
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Protestantism
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Notes: and Protestant minister(s); not permitted to marry Catholic in Monterey 1829 (82Jun, 6); "Protestant work ethic" (91Mar, 4)
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R. H. Partridge, director
Name: R. H. [Roudi] Partridge
MHAA director
Notes: life member by 1971
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R. P., Esq. Hammond, collector
Name: R. P., Esq. Hammond
collector
Years: 1854
Notes: of San Francisco
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Rancho Gonzalez
Place Name: Rancho Gonzalez
Notes: note "camped at Gonzalez, Corporal of the Dragoons of the Santa Barbara company" 1824 (62Jun, 4); same location?; town of Gonzalez est. 1873 (69Mar, 4)
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Rancho Guadalupe, Salinas Valley
Place Name: Rancho Guadalupe, Salinas Valley
Notes: and David Jacks (89Mar, 6)
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Rev. Walter Colton, alcade
Name: Rev. Walter Colton
alcade
Illustration: 80Apr, 1
Notes: published travel books 1835-36, author of Three Years in California (81Jun, 7; 00Apr, 2); served as alcade and sole magistrate from June 28, 1846, with appointment confirmed by popular election Sep. 15 (94Mar, 2), to October 1848 (59Sep, 2); chaplain in Navy (61Jun, 4; "appointed 1831" 94Mar, 2); on ship Congress of Commodore Robert Stockton in Pacific 1845 (94Mar, 2), on ship of Commodore Sloat (64Jun, 3; 70Jun, 10); co-owner of "Californian" newspaper with Semple (64Jun, 3); role in first Monterey public library (75Jun, 9); "the Colton Adobe Jail" (94Mar, 2); b. VT 1797, d. Philadelphia 1851, ordained Congregational church 1825 after seminary (94Mar, 2)
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Revenue Department (port of Monterey)
Entity: Revenue Department (port of Monterey)
Years: 1854
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Richard Barnes Mason general (and military governor)
Name: Richard Barnes Mason
general (and military governor)
Years: 1850
Notes: b. 1797, d. 1850; "Governor Mason" (military governor before statehood, 59Mar, 5; 83Jun, 2; 02Feb, 13); also "Colonel Mason" officer of 1st Dragoons (not 2nd Infantry; 61Jun, 2-3), (73Jun, 9), and "Col." (73Jun, 11; 75Dec, 30)
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Rip Van Winkle
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Rip Van Winkle
Notes: Monterey as "Rip Van Winkle town" in press ca. 1849 (02Feb, 2)
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Robert F. Stockton, commodore
Name: Robert F. Stockton
commodore
Notes: and U.S. senator from California; replaced by Commodore Sloat July 23, 1846 (59Sep, 2)
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Salinas
Place Name: Salinas
Notes: the "Queen City of Monterey County" (96Mar, 2); "Salinas City" (Stevenson; 86Dec, 7); Salinas High School (84Jun, 4); "Plains of Salinas" (57Sep, 3) and "Salinas plains" (58Sep, 5; 66Dec, 3) and "the great Salinas plain" (90Jun, 9); and 1906 earthquake (79Jun, 4); aka "Saloonas" ca. 1913 (93Sum, 3); and Civic Club (93Sum, 3); county jail, 1911-1968 (94Mar, 10)
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Place Name: Salinas Valley
Notes: S. V. Memorial Hospital, and Stanton (94Jun, 4)
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San Benito
Place Name: San Benito
Notes: San Benito County independent of Monterey County in 1872 (1874? see 68Dec, 62); prior, San Benito post office [p.o.] (68Dec, 62); County Hospital, Hollister, and Stanton (94Jun, 5)
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San Jose
Place Name: San Jose
Notes: pueblo (63Jun, 5; 91Mar, 1); capital 1849-50 (02Feb, 2)
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San Jose Mercury
Work Title: San Jose Mercury
Years: 1869
Notes: San Jose Mercury-News 1960
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San Luis Obispo
Place Name: San Luis Obispo
Notes: Kennedy Library at Cal Poly; SLO County (57Sep, 6; 71Jun, 10; 02Fal, 11); and port of (57Dec, 3)
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San Simeon
Place Name: San Simeon
Notes: and port (57Sep, 6); and bay (57Dec, 2); tours (58Sep, 8; see also "Hearst"); 90-page booklet "Fabulous San Simeon" from California Historical Society (59Mar, 4)
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Secretary of State, California
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Years: 1855
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sheep
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sheep
Notes: and blanket weaving (59Jun, 2); and cattle and hogs and grizzly bears (60Jun)
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Sierra, the; Sierra Nevada; Sierra foothills
Place Name: Sierra, the; Sierra Nevada; Sierra foothills
Notes: also "the Sierra Mountains" (76Dec, 28)
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Soledad
Place Name: Soledad
Notes: and post office [p.o.] 1869 (69Mar, 4); first Southern Pacific train to Soledad 1874 (93Sep, 3); "end of the railroad" 1885 (69Dec, 27); cf. "Mission Soledad"
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Sonora, Mexico
Place Name: Sonora, Mexico
Notes: Marques de Sonora (Gálvez; 76Jun, 9); province, opposite Baja California (76Dec, 28)
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Spanish government
Entity: Spanish government
Notes: and "King of Spain" (57Dec, 3; 64Jun, 2; 65Mar; 75Mar, 1; 91Mar, 2) and "His Majesty" (65Jun, 3; 65Sep, 3; 02Win, 16); "Spanish rule" (59Mar, 2; 02Win, 33); and "court politics" (60Jun, 6)
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Stevenson's Regiment of New York Volunteers
Entity: Stevenson's Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers
Notes: Company D; Col. J. D. Stevenson (Jonathan, 61Jun, 2-3; 92Sep, 1; "Johnathan" 74Jun, 14); and court martial of son Matthew (61Jun, 2-3)
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