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Cornelius Cole: California Pioneer

Item:
John Henry Nash Book
Title:
Cornelius Cole: California Pioneer and United States Senator. A Study in personality and achievements bearing upon the growth of a Commonwealth.
Author:
Catherine Coffin Phillips
Artist:
Printer:
John Henry Nash
Place of Printing:
San Francisco, CA
Date of Printing:
1929
Format:
10 x 7 inches
McCune Location:
Sh. 12 Nash #11
Language:
 
Incipit:
 
Reference:
 

Author and Commentators

Catherine Coffin Phillips (1874-1942). Author, historian, printer and book collector.

Cornelius Cole (1822-1924). Born in New York, he moved to California to practice law. He became a congressman and then a senator from California.

The Book

1000 copies. 379 pages. Includes 28 illustrations, photos, or facsimiles.

Contents

  • Old Dutch Portraits
  • Bull's-eye and Blunderbuss
  • Gold Seeker
  • San Francisco in 1850
  • Olive Colegrove
  • The Republican Journalist
  • District Attorney of Sacramento
  • Civil War Congressman
  • A Friend of Lincoln
  • The United States Senator
  • The Pacific Railroad
  • President Grant and Santo Domingo
  • The Human Fraud
  • Vindictive Opponents
  • The Goat Island Controversy
  • Cole Family Life in Washington
  • Social Washington in 1869
  • Family Life in San Francisco, 1874 to 1881
  • Citizen and Sage
  • California's Grand Old Man
  • A California Sunset
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