Man Who Raised First American Flag on California Soil
Jacob P. Leese, an early California settler who arrived in 1833, built Yerba Buena’s first house and raised the first American flag on the peninsula. His life included trading posts, a 500 mule, 100 horse expedition, and a later effort to purchase Lower California. He witnessed Washington’s war parade and pursued a Mexico claim, returning to California to stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Francisco Examiner
Jacob P. Leese
Yerba Buena
Peninsula
Sierras
Leese
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Edwin M. Stanton
Rogers
Toffae
Fort Smith
Ark
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Mountains
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Bent & St. Baron
Taos
San Bernardino
Death Valley
Los Angeles
Col
Isaac Williams
Monterey
Clay
Dupont Streets
Santa Cruz
Dupont
Montgomery Street
Sacramento
Hudson’s Bay Company
Sonoma
Hudson
Maximilian
Mexico
Lower
East
United States
Washington
Europe
A Patchwork of Oddities and Legends Across Cities
A miscellany of brief items from American and British papers notes curious court fines in Japan, a Memphis girl’s bold act against a would‑be father, corn heights in Kansas, a wall of brick joke, a buyer and seller gag about shoes, amusing fishing yarns, textual errors in newspapers, wedding garment returns, cow law quips, and a long anecdote about Lord Strathnairn his manners and a Prussian marshal interwoven with a medical hotel scene from Versailles highlighting quirks of taste and authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Memphis
Pidlsburg Chronicle
Kansas
Detroit Free Press
Chicago
Petersburg
Appeal
Lord Strathnairn
Hugh Rose
Manteuffel
Lord Straithnairn
Auberge
Versailles
London
Gladstone Denied Confederate Cotton Loan Link Revisited
John Bigelow revisits the 1863 Confederate cotton loan accusation against Mr. Gladstone in Harper’s November piece on Lord Houghton. Bigelow notes Gladstone did not deny at the time, while others published denials. Ellis Yarnall then informs the New York Evening Post that Gladstone did deny the charge in the London paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gladstone
England
John Bigelow
Lord Houghton
Harper’s
Bigelow
Gladstone
Mr. Bigelow
London
Ellis Yarnall
Philadelphia
New York Evening Post
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Pioneers
Boston
Horsford
Messatsoose
Massachusetts
Great Hill
Boston Journal
Concord
N. H
Monitor
Lowell Courier
Boston Advertiser
Esau
Nemesis
Nessus
Jerald
Dennis Kearney
Eagu
Boston Herald
Athens
Elbert County
C. O.D
Florida
Corpus Christi
Terras
China
Orient
Custom House
Morton
Baltimore
Gunpowder Bridge
Baltimore Times
Houghton
Thistle
Scotland
Dunbar
James IV
Margaret Tudor
NEW Photographic Firm
Greeley
Main Street
Salomon’s Corner
Marsh Bros
C. M. Marsh
Iron Hall Insurance Co
Fighty Acres
Hale & Hotchkiss
Foundry & Machineco
8Th and
Larimer Streets
Denver, Colo
Main
Walnut
Pine
Alfred T. Bacon
Hunter
Mitchell
Greenlee & CO
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
Castoria
HL. A. Ancier
Cantoria
Tax Ceytavx Company
Fulton Street
Wells
First National Bank
J. A. Rogers
D van Buskirk &O
Sixteenth Street
Opera House
C. A. Myers
Weld County
Carl Weis
Broadway
N. Y
Walker Street
Vienna
Austria
Saac Yardley
Platte Valley
Sterling
Colorado
Packard & King
Sterling, Colorado
Cinches
SPURS
Greeley, Colorado
E. Hart
True & Co
Augusta
Maine
America
Alliex
HM Hatuerr & Co
Portland
C. A. Roberts & CO
Larimer ST
Jewett’s Bird C
Collins’ Picks and Haimers
Hayden & Dickinson
Lawrence Street
BUY
Sknl
Baemved
Favora of
Pieris
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
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