Gold Rush Fassetts - Letters on line
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Gold Rush Fassetts - Letters on line
| Roger P. Kohin (View posts) | Posted: 20 Aug 2001 1:42AM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Fassett, Germain
In March 1852, Parker Germain, his wife Ann Fassett Germain, their three children Dwight, Guy, and Clara (aged six to two), and Ann's younger brother Noah Chittenden Fassett left their homes in Ohio and traveled overland to California. During the next ten years they and another brother, Harris Harding Fassett, who joined them in 1854, wrote back to their parents, Dr. Harry and Clarissa Fassett in Granville, Ohio. 103 of these letters were preserved by Fassett descendants in Ohio. In the 1970s, William A. Castle, a great grandson of Dr. Harry Fassett transcribed the letters, and the typewritten pages are now being scanned, edited, and made available on line. The first 17 are now available. Links can be found at
http://physics.clarku.edu/~rkohin/Fassett.html
http://physics.clarku.edu/~rkohin/Fassett.html