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 Edward R. Perrin, Oakland, Cal., 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Edward R. Perrin was born in Pontiac, Michigan on May 27th, 1825. In 1839 his family moved to Grant County, Wisconsin. Mr. Perrin was in the business of transporting lead ore from Boston to Cassville, Wisconsin. On May 4th, 1849 Mr. Perrin left St. Louis and joined the mass migration west. He arrived on Bear River in California the following September and began mining in the vicinity of Feather River. By October he headed to Sacramento and then started for San Francisco in November. At Shingle Springs Mr. Perrin and his wife were offered positions as hotelkeepers. They accepted the positions and continued to run hotels in Shingle Springs, White Oak Springs, Sacramento, and San Francisco Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 99-103, Vol. 6. 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. Details such as his life in the Midwest and his trip out West are discussed. He mentions his "spouse" and her work on the trail cooking, and an Indian raid as well. Next he describes his brief adventures mining and then he and his wife's business as hotelkeepers. He purchased a ranch, and subsequently opened the Pioneer Quaker Dairy on Sutter Street in San Francisco, while his wife still ran a boarding house across town. The many professional and fraternal organizations he belonged to are listed.
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