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 Marquis Clinton Winchester, "Biographical Sketch of Marquis Clinton Winchester, as Written by Himself", San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers Marquis Clinton Winchester was born on November 9th, 1825, in Windham County, Vermont. He moved to Cincinnati when he was 22 and worked as a surveyor for the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. In March of 1849 he joined eleven other young men in creation of a team to travel overland to California. They arrived at the mines of Yuba County on September 25th, 1849. Mr. Winchester was engaged in mining and farming. In 1897 he accepted the position of Secretary and Superintendent of the "Good Templars' Home for Orphans" at Vallejo Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 70-71, Vol. 8. 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 brief reminiscence provides an account of Marquis Clinton Winchester's journey to California and his life afterward. Details regarding his mining experience and dates of travel are included in the reminiscence. The time period represented by this reminiscence is from 1849 to 1902.
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