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 David Saul Levy, San Francisco, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers David Saul Levy was born July 4, 1838 in New York City. He left Wilmington, North Carolina to take steamer "Falcon" with Lieutenant Harkstein, June 1, 1849 bound for Chagres, via New Orleans. Levy left Panama August 1, 1849 aboard ship "Eugenia", with Captain Thayer. They anchored in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 4, 1849. They were brought ashore in boats at $5/a head and landed at Clarks Point. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Levy started work assisting his father in the upholstery business. In the fall of 1850 he left San Francisco for an adventure in the interior. He traveled to Shasta County and mined. After not reaching much success Levy decided to go to Portland, Oregon and open a bookstore (in an alleyway next to the old "Arizona" hotel on First Street). There, Levy came to the conclusion that "Portland was too slow for a Californian" and so returned to San Francisco. He tried storekeeping and then went back into mining. Levy was a member of Company 6, Vigilance Committee Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.193-196, 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. 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 begins with a short description of Avery's overseas passage to San Francisco in 1849. During his journey from Panama a child died and the body was preserved in a tin coffin with brandy to be buried in San Francisco. Addresses are provided for different locations around San Francisco. Levy expressed his love of mining and claims it is "the only pursuit that ever keeps a man fully supplied with hope".
Levy, David Saul--1838-1922 Jewish pioneers--California Pioneers--California--Biography Frontier and pioneer life Gold mines and mining Voyages to the Pacific Coas California--Biography California--History--19th century California--Social life and customs--19th century
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California -- History -- 19th century California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
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Jewish pioneers California. Pioneers California Biography History 19th century. Social life and customs California, Northern.
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