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Letter about a Jewish 49er to the California Gold Rush

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Letter about a Jewish 49er to the California Gold Rush

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Heading: (California Gold Rush)
Author: Selling, Philip
Title: Letter about Jewish merchant in Mississippi who had left for the California Gold Rush
Place Published: Macon, Mississippi
Publisher:
Date Published: June 1, 1849
Description:

Autograph Letter Signed. 1 pg.+ stampless address leaf. To M.B. Cohen, Mobile, Alabama.

About a financial transaction, adding: "John Selling left New York 21 the May for California with the Steamer Crescent City for Chagres and Panama."

21 year-old German immigrant John Selling, a dry goods merchant sailed aboard the Crescent City. He reportedly did not arrive In San Francisco until October 11 aboard the Steamer California. He settled in Petaluma, possibly its first Jewish residents - though the Jewish community in the city traces its origins to 1864.. The writer, Philip Selling, possibly John's brother, also sailed for California; in 1852 he and his fiancÃ© became the first Jewish couple married in the city of San Francisco. He first settled in Sonora, in the Gold Rush country, before moving Portland, where his son rose to political prominence as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.

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Letter about a Jewish 49er to the California Gold Rush

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