Residents of 1860’s Downieville California Album

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Residents of 1860’s Downieville California Album – I believe this album belonged to William Henry Wright Sr. family and his children, William Henry Wright Jr., Emma Sierra Wright and one other brother and two other sisters.

Identified in album are:

  1. William Henry Wright, Emeline Frances Hutchins Wright, Emma Sierra Wright and Two Sisters
  2. Wright Son
  3. Wright Daughter
  4. Wright Daughter
  5. Wright Daughter
  6. Wright Daughter
  7. Wright Daughter
  8. Wright Son
  9. Emma Sierra Wright Shafer
  10. Wright Son
  11. Wright Daughter
  12. Mrs. Franz Eschbacher (Margretta L. Eschbacher) her husband owned The St. Charles Hotel  Find A Grave Memorial
  13. Unknown
  14. Wright Son
  15. Wright Daughter
  16. Wright Daughter
  17. The Bliss Brothers – Charles Woodhull Bliss and Richard Hudson Bliss were miners.
  18. Ellen Minges her husband Joseph Minges was a miner.
  19. Unknown
  20. Unknown
  21. Julius Place Hall  was a Clerk in Downieville.
  22. Hattie Garnosset
  23. Noble Samuel McKinsey in Downieville and he was a publisher and his father Andrew Jackson McKinsey was a miner in Downieville. See biographical excerpts below.   Find A Grave Memorial
  24. Hiram “Harry” Coridon Dickinson was a miner.
  25. Emmaline Frances Hutchens Wright and Daughter
  26. Unknown
  27. John Henderson
  28. James Harvey Stewart was a manufacturer. From Goodyears Bar.
  29. Unknown
  30. Unknown
  31. Unknown
  32. Unknown
  33. Unknown
  34. Unknown
  35. Unknown
  36. Unknown
  37. Unknown
  38. Unknown
  39. Unknown
  40. Unknown
  41. Buchanon Street Glasgow Scotland
  42. Emma Sierra Wright Shafer

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Residents of 1860’s Downieville California Album

Probably the most famous local inventor was Nobel Samuel McKinsey. McKinsey invented many things, but his most well-known invention was the Telephone Selective System, invented in 1904 by McKinsey and Anton R. Nelson. This system, which was used world-wide, allowed the user to switch a ‘party line’ to a ‘private line’, defeating those ‘busy bodies’ who used other people’s phone calls for their own entertainment.

It also allowed the user to route their own calls and bypass the local operators. McKinsey went on to invent several other important devices in the telephone and telegraph world. Anton Nelson continued patenting new inventions also, like the electronically wound clock that he invented in 1917 with Isaac Knoch.

 

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Weight 8 lbs

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