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 Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Samuel Wirt Holladay was born April 29, 1823 in Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York, the 12th of 13 children. A member of "The Sons of the American Revolution", he attended school in N.Y. State and taught in Ohio while studying law and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Ohio (1847). in March 1849, he left N. Y. on the "Northerner" for California via Chagres and the Isthmus. In Panama he boarded the "Panama" arriving in S.F. on June 4, 1849, going directly to the mines (Wood's Dry Diggings), he was appointed Alcalde of the District (July 1849), moved to S.F. (1850) and was elected to the State Assembly (1857). He addressed the assembly on the S.F. Vigilance Committees and introduced bills on water pipes and railways in S. F. he served S.F. as official attorney and counsel from 1860-1863 and was a life member and Trustee of the California Academy of Sciences Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 116-163, Vol. 5. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. A photograph of Holladay is included in this account. He discusses family history, his youth, schools, jobs, his name and his wife's family. He describes his trip to California, fellow passengers, San Francisco during the Gold Rush and cases he worked on as attorney for the City, the Board of Education and the California Academy of Sciences. Reprinted is his letter (1892) on the naming of Auburn and an account of the North Fork trial (Auburn 1850), by a journalist for the "New York Journal of Commerce" over which Holladay presided as Alcalde. Involving an African-American and a white man accused of stealing from a fellow miner, both received 75 lashings and were banned from the mines. An addendum by him, "The Log Cabin Trial Scene", gives his view of the journalist's account of the trial.
Holladay, Samuel Wirt--1823-1915 Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.) James Lick Trust California Academy of Sciences California. Legislature Pioneers--California--Biography Voyages to the Pacific Coast Gold mines and mining--California--Placer County Courts--California--San Francisco--History Law and politics--California Justice, Administration of--California--San Francisco--History Vigilance committees--California--San Francisco Auburn (Calif.)--History California--Politics and Government--History San Francisco (Calif.)--History
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Pioneers California Biography Gold mines and mining Placer County. Courts San Francisco History Law and politics California. Justice, Administration of Vigilance committees San Francisco. Auburn (Calif.) Politics and Government San Francisco (Calif.)
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