Victoria Ely and James Oscar Stewart Papers
Unprocessed
Identifier: CCCLD-002
Content Description
[Biographical] James Oscar Stewart was a metallurgist, mining engineer, and professor who came to Georgetown in the early 1860s. He developed the Stewart Amalgam Process, a novel way of extracting silver from ore. Victoria and James moved to California in the 1870s. [Scope and Content] Mostly correspondence of Victoria and James, including many letters that they wrote to each other. Also includes some clippings and ephemera, as well as a financial log book (only a few pages are filled out).
Acquisition Type
Transfer
Provenance
Transfer from Clear Creek County Archives & Records Department; November 2017. Donated by William G. Apger, great-grandson of Victoria and James, January 2015.
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1859 - 1867
Inventory
One unorganized shoebox of letters and material