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John C. Cabaniss Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 00620
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twelve letters written by John C. Cabaniss, a proprietor of the Folsom Street coal yards in San Francisco, California to his mother, Mrs. Nancy Hill [Nancy Sink Cabaniss Hill] in Franklin County, Virginia. Cabaniss moved to San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Most of his letters mention that he is coming home soon, is in good health and the business is doing well. For a time, a friend from home, Moses G. Noble, lives with him. The letters also mention...
Dates:
1851-1855
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Daingerfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00246
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an obituary written for Allen Daingerfield by Washington Parke Custis, published in the Alexandria Gazette in 1821. Allen Daingerfield was born in 1770 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia and died 1821 in Prince George County, Maryland. Letters from Leroy Parker Daingerfield and William Parker Daingerfield to their parents, brother Richard and sisters, Juliet and Sarah, in Bath County, Virginia. An 1850 letter was written in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia about visiting...
Dates:
1850-1852
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center