Thornton-Creswell Family Papers
Thornton-Creswell Family Papers

Author: Harry Thornton Creswell

Publisher:

Published: 1835

Total Pages:

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Chiefly papers of Harry Innes Thornton Creswell (1891-1964), military attache to Tokyo; together with papers of Harry Innes Thornton (1797-1861), member of California Land Commission for 1851; Harry Innes Thornton (1834-1895), lawyer, Calif. State Senator, and officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; and Harry Thornton Creswell (1850-1915), San Francisco City and County Attorney and Police Commissioner; and miscellaneous family papers. Papers of Harry Innes Thornton Creswell (1891-1964) consist of letters (1917-1964) to his mother in San Francisco, mostly written from Japan; reports on U.S.-Japanese relations and Japanese nationalism (1940-1946) by the American Embassy in Tokyo; and two published vols. of A dictionary of military terms, English-Japanese, Japanese-English, American and Japanese editions, co-authored by Creswell.

Frederick Billings
Frederick Billings

Author: Robin W. Winks

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780520214972

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00 Frederick Billings was the first lawyer to hang his shingle in San Francisco, the man who named the city of Berkeley, and an instrumental figure in founding the University of California. An early conservationist and advocate of national parks, Billings was also president of the Northern Pacific railroad. This riveting biography captures not only Billings's dynamic life, but also the spirit and excitement of California during the gold rush era. Frederick Billings was the first lawyer to hang his shingle in San Francisco, the man who named the city of Berkeley, and an instrumental figure in founding the University of California. An early conservationist and advocate of national parks, Billings was also president of the Northern Pacific railroad. This riveting biography captures not only Billings's dynamic life, but also the spirit and excitement of California during the gold rush era.

Thornton Family Papers
Thornton Family Papers

Author: Thornton (Family

Publisher:

Published: 1818

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Collection consists of: written notes on the Thornton family starting with Gilbert Thornton, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, who moved to Camden, South Carolina (includes notes from the will of Joseph Thornton of Kershaw County, South Carolina); and title pages of the 1818 printing of Rob Roy with handwritten annotation documenting that Joseph Thornton purchased the book on 15 June 1818 for $2.00.

Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell

Author: Nicholas Cresswell

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1429005874

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Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.

Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia

Author: Andrew Jenson

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780342525737

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