Fortune hunting and family ties :the Wilson family letters: Historical New Hampshire / Nancy Heffernan ; Ann Page Stecker.

Title:

Fortune hunting and family ties :the Wilson family letters: Historical New Hampshire / Nancy Heffernan ; Ann Page Stecker.

Author:

Heffernan, Nancy Coffee, 1936-,

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1988.

Physical Description:

p. 41 - 62.

Source:

Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring, 1988) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

In 1850, James Wilson, Jr., left Keene, New Hampshire, to join in the California gold rush. His wife died shortly before his departure, and his three daughters and son remained in Keene. In the family's correspondence, reproduced here in part, they detail their efforts to keep their homestead, the raising of their brother, their lives as they grew, and their thoughts on the main public concerns of the time, such as slavery, the coming Civil War, and rising industrialization.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Families. , Country life 19th century. New Hampshire

Locations:

Keene (N.H.).

People:

Wilson family , Stecker, Ann Page, 1942-

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