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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Available also in the original handwritten form in the member's Biographical File, and online 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 John Y. Hallock, New York City, NY, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers John Youngs Hallock was born in New York, Feb. 27, 1825. On Jan. 24, 1849, he sailed from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn, on the ship "South Carolina" with Capt. Joseph Hamilton. They arrived in San Francisco June 30, 1849. Hallock soon established his business "Bennett & Hallock" which would later be consumed by the fire of 1850 and again by the fire of 1851. In 1852 he moved his business to the west side of Sansome Street, one door north of Sacramento Street, operating under the name "J.Y. Hallock & Co.". This business was devoted to hardware, window-glass, and paints Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.105-108, Vol. 1. 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. The original handwritten version exists in the member's Biographical File. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes, but there is no longer a photograph of this member in our collection. This reminiscence covers the period from 1849 to approximately 1864. It provides family and business history. It begins with a description of Hallock's passage to San Francisco in 1849. Hallock offers some personal information regarding the well-esteemed Captain of the ship, "South Carolina". He also provides names and locations of businesses he shared land with.
Hallock, John Youngs--1825-1910 Pioneers--California--Biography Frontier and pioneer life Voyages to the Pacific Coast California--Biography California--History--19th century California--Commerce--History
Time Period
California -- History -- 19th century
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Pioneers California Biography History 19th century. California, Northern.
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