Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Judge Walter Van Dyke, "Address by the Presdient, HOn. Walter Van Dyke, on the Fifty-First Anniversary of Admission Day, Sept. 9, 1901", San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers Soon after Judge Walter Van Dyke's admittance to the Bar in Cleveland he joined a company to head out west in search of gold. They left Cleveland in May of 1849 by steamer for Chicago where they organized an outfit for the journey across the plains. They reached California around the end of 1849 Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 204-206, Vol. 8. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of an address delivered by the member at Pioneer Hall on the fifty-first anniversary of Admission Day, September 9, 1901. The topic of this address is the admission of California into the Union. The author describes events that led up to California's statehood and provides a historical context for the occurrence.
Van Dyke, Walter--1823-1905 California. Constitutional Convention (1849) Pioneers--California--Biography Admission Day California--History--19th century
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California -- History -- 19th century
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Pioneers California Biography History 19th century.
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