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 Gottfried Heinrich Westphal, San Francisco, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Gottfried Heinrich Westphal was born in Germany on October 4th, 1823. He traveled to San Francisco from New York aboard the Ship, "Henry Nesmith" on April 16th, 1849. He stayed in San Francisco until the winter of 1849 at which point he traveled to Portland, Oregon on the Bark, "John K. Keder". He spent four months in Oregon loading timber, and then returned to San Francisco and went to work for A.L. Fowler. In 1851, Mr. Westphal and his wife kept a boarding house at Chinese Camp in Tuolumne County. After a year or two they moved to "McGeary's Place". Mr. Westphal and his family later engaged in ranching and raising livestock Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 196-198, 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, but there is no longer a photograph of this member in our collection. This brief reminiscence covers the period of G.H. Westphal's life from 1849 to 1901. It offers some family history and details concerning Mr. Westphal's occupations in California.
Westphal, Gottfried Heinrich--1823-1903 Pioneers--California--Biography Voyages to the Pacific Coast Frontier and pioneer life German Americans--California
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Pioneers California Biography German Americans California.
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