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Title Business Records and Correspondence, 1849
Reference MS Vault 5, box 2, folder 8a-8b
Library California Historical Society
Collection Faxon Dean Atherton Papers
Date 1849
Description The collection comprises business records and correspondence documenting Atherton's mercantile relationships and activities in Boston, California, the Pacific, and Valparaiso.
Document Type Ephemera, Business Records, Correspondence, Mercantile Papers, Manuscript
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords business, real estate, investment, pioneer, diary, hides, skins, tallow, war, commerce, deeds, ranch, prices, finance, merchant, goods, merchandise, accounts
Countries Chile; USA; Panama
Places Hawaii; California
Ports Valparaiso, Chile; Boston, USA; Monterey, USA; San Francisco, USA
Ships Panama
Language Spanish
Additional Information Atherton was an early California hides and tallow merchant and real estate investor. A native of Dedham, Massachusetts, Atherton first came to the Pacific coast around 1834 to work for a ship chandlery firm in Valparaiso, Chile. He settled in Valparaiso in 1840 and became a successful merchant dealing in hides and tallow, foodstuffs, and other commodities. Eventually he became one of the wealthiest men on the Pacific coast.

Atherton's real estate investments in California included Las Milpitas Ranch and Bolsa de San Cayetano Ranch in Monterey County, San Lorenzo Ranch in Alameda County, Los Putos Ranch in Solano County, and Valparaiso Park in San Mateo County.

Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue.

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