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Title: [Josiah Morin]
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1885?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait.
1990-1691.
Also have negative: no. 357.
Born in Kentucky in 1791. Fought in the War of 1812 under General Winchester. Went overland to Oregon in 1846 where he farmed until Gold Rush in 1848 took him to Coloma. Spent time in the mines, ran a hotel near Coloma, farmed. Served as Justice of the Peace. Settled in Green Valley, Sonoma in 1850. Served on the Board of Supervisors. Died in 1885 in Sebastopol.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing on cardboard mount : charcoal ; 20 x 16 in.
Identifier: (C)001490599CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Morin, Josiah,, 1791-1885--Portraits
Pioneers--Oregon
Pioneers--California
Farmers--California
Farmers--Oregon
United States--History--War of 1812--Veterans--Pictorial works
Sonoma County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Portrait drawings
Charcoal drawings
Time Period: War of 1812
Place: Oregon
California
United States
Sonoma County (Calif.)

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