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 Elisha Oscar Crosby, Alameda, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Elisha Oscar Crosby, a New York lawyer, sailed for the West in December 1848 arriving in San Francisco aboard the Steamer "California" on February 28th, 1849, after a stop in Panama. In California he had a distinguished legal and political career that led to his appointment as U.S. Minister to Guatemala. Elisha Oscar Crosby was one of the delegates to the first Constitutional Convention at Monterey, acting as Chairman of the Finance Committee. He was also appointed Prefect of the Sacramento District, which constituted all land east of the Sacramento River and north of the Cosumnes River. Elisha Oscar Crosby held the position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the State Senate, during the First and Second Sessions of the Legislature of California. He was involved in convincing the State Senate during its first session of Legislature to have California adopt a Common Law system rather than the Civil Law rule which was in place at the time Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 32-40, Vol. 4. This is a typed transcript 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. 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. This reminiscence covers the period of Elisha Oscar Crosby's life from 1848 to 1850. The subject of the reminiscence is predominately the first Constitutional Convention which met September 1st, 1849 in Monterey. Crosby discusses the troubles the Finance Committee, of which he was Chairman, had in securing funds to pay the expense of the convention. He also describes his work as Prefect of the Sacramento District during the election of November 13th, 1849, which led to the approval of a State Consitution. Crosby was responsible for gathering votes from all men in his district, which inhabited half the population of California working in the mines at that time. Elisha Oscar Crosby has included in this reminiscence a table of votes cast in favor and against the Constitution in California's ten voting districts. The district that Crosby presided over contained the largest number of voters.
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