History of California: 1846-1848

by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor

1886

This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.

The Genealogy of the Bishop Family of Horton, N.S.

by William Edward Boggs

1918

Eleasar Bishop (ca. 1692-1755) emigrated from England to New London, Connecticut, and married Sarah Dart in 1704. His son, John Bishop (1709-1785), married twice and immigrated from Connecticut to Horton, Nova Scotia in 1760/1763. Descendants lived in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and elsewhere. Many descendants immigrated to New England, New York, Pennsylvania, California and elsewhere in the United States.

Seventy-five Years in California

by William Heath Davis

1929

William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was the son of a Boston ship captain engaged in the Hawaiian trade and a Polynesian mother. He visited California twice on trading voyages before setting up business there in 1838. In 1845 he settled permanently in San Francisco, becoming one of the city's leading merchants. His marriage to María de Jesus Estudillo tied him to the Hispanic community in his adopted region. Seventy-five years in California (1929) is an expansion of Sixty years in California, a book Davis published in 1889. It is a history of California as well as the author's memoirs of his life through the mid 1850s with an emphasis on the transformation of Yerba Buena to San Francisco, the Gold Rush, and the imposition of United States power in California.