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  1. George Edward Parker: Birth: 22 Apr 1863 in Geneseo, Henry, Illinois. Death: 8 Aug 1945 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois


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a. Note:   pF1wwaHlQtdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ovv4Otf1rIk/VkShfmmKv4I/AAAAAAAAB3I/NMguFWaAq40/s288-Ic42/GWP.jpg" height="288" width="197" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101087389908224627084/GeorgeWParker18221912?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">George W. Parker, 1822-1912</a></td></tr></table> Notes for George W. Parker:
  His middle name hasn't been found on any document. Many infant boys in the early 1800s were given the first and middle names of George and Washington, in honor of the first president. So Washington seems most likely to have been George's middle name.
  George W. Parker was probably living at his parents' home as an 18-year-old, at the time of the 1840 U.S. census. Only the names of heads of households were written in that census.
  Like his father and grandfather, George was a Protestant.
  George's 1912 obituary (linked to near the bottom of this page) mentions where George traveled between the 1840 and 1860 U.S. censuses. It states that George left his hometown of Norridgewock, Maine, about 1843. He went to Boston for several years. Then in 1849, after hearing about the gold rush, he went to California. Then in 1852, he went back to Boston, and in June of 1855, to the newly incorporated Village of Geneseo, in Henry County, in northwestern Illinois. Most of the land there was farms. George apparently went to Geneseo because his older, widowed brother Levi and Levi's young son and daughter had moved there in 1853, from Norridgewock. Or maybe the obituary was incorrect and George had stopped in Geneseo while heading east from California.
  On August 19, 1848, the New York Herald was the first major newspaper on the east coast to report the discovery of gold in California. At some point during the next few months, George W. Parker read or heard about the major discovery of gold in California, and decided to go there.
  The transcontinental railroad wasn't completed until 1869. So before that year, the most feasible way to get from the east coast of the United States to the west coast of North America was by a sailing ship which would sail all the way around the southern tip of South America and on to the west coast. There were only two other options. Travelers could cross the continent, including either the Rocky Mountains or the desert southwest, in a covered wagon. The third way was to take a sailing ship to Panama, then cross mountains and jungles to get to the Pacific side, then get on another ship. But many Panama crossers got yellow fever, malaria or dysentery. Many had to wait some time for a ship to show up.
  Maybe George saw this advertising poster, which was slightly larger than 15 by 21 inches: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/iuame3V9qGyteauSA">Poster</a>
  On March 1, 1849, George W. Parker boarded the sailing ship <I>Sweden</I> in Boston Harbor. The passengers were 173 men, one wife, and two teenaged boys.
  A Boston newspaper printed a list of the names of the passengers, the day after the <I>Sweden</I> left Boston Harbor. "Geo Parker" is on the last line: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/PjjnYFmDMpkBqinS7">Newspaper's 1849 <I>Sweden</I> passenger list</a>
  A much more detailed <I>Sweden</I> passenger list: <a href="http://www.sfgenealogy.com/californiabound/cb416.htm">1849 <I>Sweden</I> passenger list</a>
  Also onboard were 30 male crew members, the captain's wife, their five-year-old son, and one crew member's wife or girlfriend. One passenger died April 29th. The captain's wife gave birth July 13th. The ship's captain was Jesse G. Cotting, whose uncle Henry Plympton was the principal owner of the <I>Sweden.</I>
  During the first week of the voyage, many of the ship's passengers were vomiting because of very rough seas. And the bad food made conditions worse. There was no heat on the ship. More than two dozen people contracted mumps or measles during the trip.
  There was a lot of time to pass each day. At least six of the passengers kept a diary, journal or other account of the trip.¹ That is how details of the voyage are known. More than one account included a list of all the passengers. One passenger was "G. W. Parker", a 27-year-old laborer from Norridgewock, Maine.
  A photo of the handwritten listing of passenger G. W. Parker on page 61 of the logbook of <I>Sweden</I> passenger Benjamin Bailey: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/oWZpWe1KeiovAi9FA">Photo</a>
  To supplement the food brought on board, the passengers and crew caught fish, sharks, a dolphin, and even albatross birds to eat. The passengers saw many other sailing ships at sea.
  On May 13th, and for another nine days, the ship passed within sight of Cape Horn, which is the southernmost tip of South America.
  The <I>Sweden</I> finally arrived in San Francisco on August third. The sailing ship hadn't stopped at any port, although they had stopped in the Pacific Ocean on July 13th because there was no wind for a while. The ship had sailed 19,708 miles in a little over five months. That's an average speed of five and a third miles per hour.
  Once in San Francisco, George apparently traveled northeast more than 100 miles overland to get to the gold prospecting areas.
  Nothing is known about exactly where George was in California through the time he supposedly left in 1852, or what he did there. He can't be located in the 1850 U.S. census or the 1852 California census.
  The 1860 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. George was enumerated June fourth. One census page shows that George Parker, a laborer, lived in Geneseo, Illinois. His age was written as 32, but he was actually 38. He was correctly listed as being born in Maine. George's brother Levi Parker, a 44-year-old merchant (a grocery store owner) was listed as living next to or across the street from George. Levi's place of birth was also correctly written as Maine. Levi's 14-year-old son Charles was also living in Geneseo, but with an unrelated family.
  A photo of that 1860 census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/rwvUqHUm8AdXoh6T8">Photo</a>
  The population of Geneseo had zoomed up from 500 in 1850, to 1,794 in 1860, plus thousands more residents within the 10 square mile surrounding area. The reason for the huge population increase was that in June of 1854, the Rock Island Line railroad had been completed between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois, with a depot in Geneseo.
  On October 19, 1860, in Henry County, George Parker and Sylvia Vader obtained a marriage license: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/g9QMZLHDDyE9nhJq5">Photo</a>
  Sylvia was from New York state. She had moved with some family members to Henry County in recent years. More information about her is in her "notes" in this chart.
  The local Geneseo newspaper printed a brief marriage announcement after the couple's October 21st marriage. The image quality is very poor: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/j7miQj6tj98MrCBZA">Photo</a>
  George and Sylvia Parker had five children, all born in Geneseo:
  <b>1)</b> Ada Parker (a daughter) born November 22, 1861. Ada died two months later, on January 24, 1862. Ada's FindAGrave memorial includes a photo of her grave marker: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77849720">Memorial</a>
  <b>2)</b> George Edward Parker, born April 22, 1863. More about him is in this chart.
  <b>3)</b> Frances Elizabeth Parker, known as Fannie (sometimes spelled by others as Fanny) born August 31, 1865. Fannie E. Parker married Grant Sherman on August 22, 1884, in Chicago. They apparently had only one child, a daughter named Ada E. Sherman, who died at the age of five or six on December 31, 1890, in Geneseo. That happened while Ada, her two younger half-sisters, their mother Fannie Parker Sherman Brown and Fannie's second husband Minor Brown were in town from Iowa. They were in Geneseo from about Christmas Day, or just before, through early January, visiting Fannie's parents George and Sylvia Parker. Ada was buried in the same plot as her grandfather George's brother Levi Parker, in Oakwood Cemetery in Geneseo. Years later, George and Sylvia were also buried in the same plot. Only George has a grave marker.
  Fannie E. Sherman divorced Grant Sherman in Henry County a few weeks or months before she married Minor Brown, a farmer, in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, on February 23, 1887. The couple's first four children were born a couple of miles outside the very small town of Hancock, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Those children were:
  a) Eva Louise Brown, born December 24, 1887. Eva, a never-married nurse, age 30, married the widower and divorced man Henry Presley Thornton, age 46, on November 12, 1918, in Fresno, California. The couple did not have any children together. They lived for years in Piedmont. City directories show Eva listed as living with Henry through at least 1935. But the 1940 census shows Henry listed as divorced. (Eva can't be found in the 1940 census.) Eva Thornton lived to the age of 96. She died October 1, 1984, in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
  b) Blanche Brown, born November 26, 1889. Blanche married Melvin George Axman in the 1910s in California. They divorced in the 1920s, without having had any children. Blanche was a nurse. Blanche Axman married the divorced Frank August De Voto in 1939 or early 1940, likely in or near Oakland. By that time, she was about 50 years old; too old to give birth. They lived in Novato, Marin, California, where Frank had been living. Frank died in June of 1940, after a very short marriage with Blanche. Blanche De Voto died September 11, 1973, in Alameda County, California.
  c) Elsie M. Brown, born in March of 1892. Elsie was unmarried as of the 1920 census enumeration date. But later that year, on November 14, in Alameda County, Elsie married Ross McDonough. Elsie and Ross were listed in the 1930 U.S. census as living in Oakland with Elsie's mother Fannie Brown in the home of an old woman. By then, Elsie and Ross had been married for more than nine years, but there were no children living with them. Elsie McDonough died at the young age of 39 on June 7, 1931, in Alameda County. There is no listing in the "California Birth Index, 1905-1995" for a baby born with the last name of McDonough, whose mother's maiden name was Brown, in the 1920s or 1930s in all of California.
  d) Harry M. Brown, born in September of 1894. I can't find any information about Harry after a mention in his father's May 21, 1913 obituary (below) when Harry was eighteen years of age. However, it seems certain that Harry died before his sister Elsie died on June 7, 1931. That's because Harry's name was not included in Elsie's Oakland Tribune obituary, but his mother and four other siblings were named.
  At some point during the next few years after Harry was born, the Minor and Fannie Brown family moved from Iowa to a location near Oroville, in Butte County, in northern California, where Minor became a gold miner, and fathered two final children:
  e) William Bryan Brown, born January 18, 1898. He was a florist beginning in 1917 and continuing for decades in Oakland, California. William married Alice Uren about 1927. They did not have any children. Their marriage did not last long. William married Maria "Mary" Munoz of Spain, apparently in mid or late 1939 or early 1940, according to Oakland city directories. Mary was first listed as living with William in the 1940 directory.
  William and Mary had at least one child, Frances Joyce Brown, born January 14, 1939, in Alameda County, likely in Oakland. The online "California Birth Index, 1905 - 1995" is showing one more possible child of the couple. That database lists a Sylvia Marie Brown, born May 18, 1943, in Alameda County, whose mother's maiden name was Munoz. No full birth certificate transcription or photo is available.
  It seems that William Brown's marriage to Mary Munoz also did not last long. William B. Brown died September 11, 1973 (almost unbelievably the same exact date as his sister Blanche, who lived in California!?) in Honokaa, Hawaii, Hawaii.
  f) Alfreda E. Brown, known as "Freda", born December 21, 1900. Freda was still unmarried by the dates of the 1930 and 1940 censuses. "Freda E. Brown" died in Alameda County in December of 1973. She, like all three of her sisters, never had any children. - So despite giving birth to seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood, Fannie E. Parker Sherman Brown may have had just that one grandchild, William's daughter Frances Joyce Brown, unless the above-mentioned Sylvia was her sister, or unless Harry had children.
  Minor Brown died May 20, 1913, in Oroville. The <i>Oroville Daily Register</i> newspaper printed an obituary and two short stories about the man: <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/ho2hCwepS1J4M2AXA">Obituary</a>
  Fannie Brown soon moved herself and her children to Oakland, in time to be included in a 1914 Oakland city directory. She lived there the rest of her life. Frances E. Brown died December 23, 1942, in Alameda County, likely in Oakland. She was buried back in Butte County next to Minor. Frances' FindAGrave memorial includes photos of her grave marker, and links to memorials of some of her children: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45839163/frances-elizabeth-brown">Memorial</a>
  <b>4)</b> Franklin Jefferson Parker, known as Frank, born July 27, 1867. He married Emma Rearie on June 18, 1901, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. They lived in Herington, Kansas, at the time of the 1910 U.S. census, and were still there in early 1912. The couple did not have any children. By the time of the 1920 U.S. census, they had moved back to Emma's birth state of Pennsylvania, and were living in New Castle, in Lawrence County. They were still there in 1930. Emma Parker died there December 23, 1936. Frank was still living in New Castle at the time of the 1940 census, with his second wife, Comfort. Comfort Scott Parker died in 1958. Frank J. Parker lived to the age of 95. He died January 28, 1963, in New Castle. Frank's obituary contained at least four incorrect facts; date of birth, place of birth, father's name, wife's first and maiden name: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/Ly93fXQFKzNvJxtr5">Photo</a>
  Frank's FindAGrave memorial: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146923952/franklin-jefferson-parker">Memorial</a>
  <b>5)</b> Elsie Louise Parker, born December 25, 1869. Her first full name might have been Elizabeth. She married Henry A. Joseph on March 21, 1898, in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois. In 1900, they lived in Blue Island. In 1910, they lived in Los Angeles, California. They never had any children. The couple was listed in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses, still in Los Angeles, but Elsie's husband was listed as "Harry" A. Joseph in all three. "Harry" A. Joseph died January 6, 1949, in Los Angeles County. Elsie Joseph died June 11, 1950, in Alameda County, California. --- For a period of time near and after George W. Parker's marriage to Sylvia, he worked at a meat market in town. At some point in the next few years, he became a farmer. His farm was located not too far southeast of downtown Geneseo.
  Three and a half years after marrying, at the age of 42, George W. Parker enlisted in the U.S. Army on May 12, 1864. Private Parker served June 1, 1864, through October 28, 1864, in Company K of the 139th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
  <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/J3qzlbBXA8BDs95j2">All 88 of the men of Company K</a> lived in Geneseo.
  The 139th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at Peoria, Illinois, and mustered into federal service on June 1, 1864, for a 100-day enlistment. It departed for St. Louis by steamboat on June 8th, arriving there on the 10th. From there it moved to Columbus, Kentucky for a week. The regiment then went to Cairo, Illinois, where they performed garrison duty.
  Around August 1st, the regiment was directed by General Payne, commanding the Department of Northern Kentucky, to raid several nearby farms owned by Confederate sympathizers, to seize horses and cattle to make up for livestock stolen by guerrillas. The regiment returned to Cairo until September 25th, when it was returned to Peoria to be mustered out of service.
  Although its first term of enlistment had expired, the regiment was asked by President Abraham Lincoln to help federal efforts against General Sterling Price during his raid into Missouri. When the men agreed to go, Lincoln sent them a letter, thanking them for their patriotism and willingness to serve. The 139th marched toward Franklin, Missouri as part of the Union pursuit of Price in October, but the Battle of Westport on October 23rd forced Price to retreat southward and ended the need for the 139th Regiment's service. The regiment mustered out two days later. They did not lose any men in action.
  Private Parker was given his discharge paper in Peoria. Included information states that George was five feet, seven and three-quarter inches tall, with light colored skin and hair. He had blue eyes. <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/gYKTqWAt89KG8RH27">Discharge paper</a>
  George W. Parker went home; back to being a husband, father of 18-month-old George E., and a farmer.
  The 1870 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Parker household was enumerated July twenty-seventh. The census page shows "Geo", 48, a farmer; his wife Sylvia, 39; and their children "Geo. E.", 7; "Fannie", 5; Franklin, 3; and "Esie" (Elsie) 7 months of age. They lived at an unstated location in Geneseo. The value of George's real estate was listed as $2,000. A photo of that 1870 U.S. census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/RzaCoG6YEpSFFHWC7">Photo</a>
  There was also an 1870 U.S. census agricultural schedule written in areas with farms. The size of the farm, the amounts of livestock owned, and the amounts of crops and food products produced was recorded. It isn't known if George owned or leased the 50 acres he worked. A photo of George's listing in that schedule: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/33xSWN7z9soCyFsGA">Photo</a>
  The 1877 book <i>The History of Henry County, Illinois, Its Tax-Payers and Voters</i> states that "PARKER GEO" was a farmer who lived in Section 22 of Geneseo Township, which was the closest section southeast of downtown Geneseo.
  George was a member of the Republican political party. Geneseo held municipal elections each April. In March of 1879, George announced that he was running for the position of Commissioner of Highways of Geneseo. George came in second out of five candidates in the vote count the next month, losing by 20 votes. In March of 1895, at the age of 73, George announced he was running for the position of Tax Collector of Geneseo. I could not find the results of the April election. The next year, George ran for the same position. The 1896 newspaper announcement wasn't as descriptive as the 1895 announcement. George was elected in 1896 by a large margin. <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/hoMuP6vjjxkV25SY2">Photos of those newspaper stories</a>
  The 1880 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Parker family was enumerated June tenth. The census page shows George W., 57 (actually 58); Sylvia, 49; and their children, George E., 17; Fannie, 15; Frank, 12; and Elsie, ten. They lived at an unstated location in Geneseo. George was still a farmer.
  A photo of that 1880 U.S. census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/qXfYgccLJPJ5VFTw7">Photo</a>
  Even though his occupation in that census was a farmer, George's name was not written in the 1880 agricultural schedule anywhere in Henry County. That would probably mean he did farming work on somebody else's farm.
  The 1890 U.S. census records were almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1921. Most of the remaining records were destroyed about 1934.
  In July of 1890, George signed and submitted an application to obtain a pension from the U.S. government because he had been a soldier during the Civil War and he had some disability. George's 1902 application for residence at the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home stated his disabilities were varicose veins in his left calf, and blindness in his right eye.
  The pension application can be ordered from the <a href="https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe?SWECmd=GotoView&SWEPostnRowId=1-29XS&SWEView=GPEA+Product+Catalog+Category+Detail+View+FFO&SWEHo=eservices.archives.gov&SWEPostnApplet=GPEA+Product+Catalog+Category+Form+Applet+FFO">National Archives website,</a> but the cost is $80, which I shouldn't be spending now (2018). I do have a photo of an index card which contains the basic information needed to order the pension documents (either on paper or in digitized form - apparently a pdf file.) <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/wHwCQPSDbP71HuDk6">Pension information</a>
  George's application was approved and he did begin receiving a pension; $12 per month.
  A photo of George W. Parker, seemingly from the 1890s: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/K7QuZSEb8vFCj5wo7">Photo</a>
  The 1900 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. George Parker was enumerated June fourth. The census page shows that 78-year-old George was a "boarder" and a pensioner, living in a hotel on First St. in Geneseo. His wife Sylvia was ill and was living at the Illinois Western Hospital for Insane, 15 miles northwest of Geneseo, in what is now East Moline, in Rock Island County, Illinois. She was listed in the 1900 census as living there. Sylvia died in October of 1900. A photo of George's listing on one census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/QqxZDDQU9Sxe3uHP6">Photo</a>
  After his wife died, George apparently continued to live in his residence in Geneseo. Then on November 12, 1902, at the age of 80, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJJXK2tzqO4qZdq_r3zn5_LGKzpy4IyB/view?usp=sharing">George applied to be admitted as a resident in the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois;</a> 124 miles southwest of Geneseo, and 238 miles southwest of Chicago, where his son George E. Parker lived.
  Information in the documents stated that George was born in Norridgewock, Maine, and that he was five feet, seven inches tall, with blue eyes. Also, George was receiving a military pension of $12 per month. He owned property worth $250. His disabilities were old age, vision loss in his right eye and varicose veins on his left calf. (George does look like he is favoring his left leg in the above photo.)
  George was admitted to the Soldiers' Home on November 18th. But there were periods of time over the next eight years where he traveled to Chicago and briefly visited his son George, or even lived with him for months, including an 11 consecutive month period in 1906 and 1907. When George returned to the Soldiers' Home in 1907, he signed a simple will, which gave everything to his son George, after death expenses were paid.
  The 1910 U.S. census shows George, 88, living in the home of his son, George E. Parker and his family, at 2585 W. 45th St., Chicago. A photo of that census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/FMACTchtULJFVwgv5">Photo</a>
  George W. Parker died three days after his 90th birthday, at his son George's home in Chicago in 1912. His body was brought to Geneseo, to be buried next to his wife, Sylvia, at Oak Wood Cemetery. George's older brother Levi is also buried there. Levi had died March 31, 1870.
  George's death certificate: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/pZHiL7y4eDBqcZAG6">Photo</a>
  That document is the best known piece of evidence that shows that George's father was Edmund Parker of Maine. Other evidence would be the 1860 census page showing George and his brother Levi, living more than 1,200 miles from their place of birth, combined with the 1850 census page showing Levi living with his parents in Norridgewock, Maine.
  Even though George spent little time in Geneseo between the time he was first admitted to the Soldiers Home in late 1902, and the time he died nine and a quarter years later, on February 15, 1912, the <i>Geneseo Republic</i> newspaper printed both a death notice for George in the February 16th issue, and a lengthy, interesting and informative obituary for George a week later, in the next issue.
  The text of the February 16th death notice: <i>George W. Parker, a former resident of this community and a veteran of the Civil war, passed away at the home of his son George E. Parker, in Chicago, Thursday, February 15. The deceased was 90 years of age. The body will be brought to Geneseo next Saturday for burial.</i>
  A photo of the February 23rd obituary: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/8K9jcDzmRqzqqJhm6">Photo</a>
  On March 22, 1926, a military grave marker, referred to then as a "headstone", was ordered for George's gravesite. It may have been the local American Legion Post which finally placed the order, 14 years after George was buried. The grave marker wasn't made and delivered to the local American Legion Post until a whopping 20 months after the date of the application. A photo of that grave marker application: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/6Tv1NKGTTQhxxewp9">Photo</a>
  George's FindAGrave memorial includes a photo of his grave marker: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80088926/george-w-parker">Memorial</a> ______________
  ¹ As of this writing in 2015, two accounts of the 1849 <I>Sweden</I> voyage have been posted online, and others have not.
  The book <I>Reminiscence of George W. Goodwin 1849-1881</I> is online at <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822035075324;view=1up;seq=1">Goodwin book.</a> The original format was similar to a diary. A list of the passengers begins on page 68. The name "G. W. Parker"; his age, 27; his occupation, laborer; and his original hometown, "Norridgewalk Me" (actually Norridgewock, Maine) was printed as part of the list, on page 73.
  Passenger Benjamin Bailey wrote what can be described as more of a logbook. That is online. Page one of 64 pages is at <a href="https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l031716">Bailey logbook.</a> That includes a list of the passengers, including their occupation, age and last place of residence, beginning on page 56. The entry for G. W. Parker is near the bottom of page 61. The order of the names is about 98% identical to the order of the names in the Goodwin book. And "Norridgewock" was misspelled the same way by both authors. That shows that the authors copied names, occupations ages and last residences from the ship's manifest, instead of asking passengers for their names and personal information.
  The book <I>The Gold Rush Diary of Moses Cogswell of New Hampshire</I> is not now available online. I read it April 10, 2015, at the library at the Claremont Colleges, in Claremont, California. The Cogswell book is the most professionally written of the three accounts that I have read of the <I>Sweden</I> voyage. The book I read seems to be a reprint published in 1940, although there was no date of the reprint or of any original version. The paper and text quality is high. Only about 16 passengers were named. Those names do not include the name of any G or George Parker.
  James Lloyd LaFayette Warren was not only a passenger, he was the man who chartered the <I>Sweden.</I> He left <a href="http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/mcb418_cubanc.pdf">18 small boxes</a> of documentation about his life, including some about the <I>Sweden</I> voyage, including a passenger list, in box 13. That collection of documents is known as the <I>James L. Warren papers, 1846-1889.</I> They are held at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. (Call number BANC MSS C-B 418 Box 13)
  Passenger Charles H. Fuller a.k.a. C. Herbert Fuller also wrote a journal during the trip, which became the book <I>Diary of a voyage around the Horn from Boston to San Francisco.</I> That book is also at the Bancroft Library. (Call number BANC MSS 96/100 cz). This book includes names of ship's passengers who were members of the newly formed Roxbury Sagamore Company. The book apparently does not include a list of every passenger.
  Passenger John Tolman also wrote a journal, which became the book <I>John Tolman journal of voyage around the Horn.</I> This book is also at the Bancroft Library. (Call number BANC MSS 82/9 c)
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