Sources: References and Acknowledgments In the website text, citations are by this method: [Source Page]
- Rasmussen, Louis J., San Francisco Passenger Lists, Volume IV, June 17, 1852 to January 6, 1853, San Francisco Historic Records, Coloma CA, 1970
- Hartshorn, Derick S. III, The Hartshorn Families in America, Limited printing #440/500, Gateway press Baltimore Md 1997
- Roe, Ruth Hartshorn, Memories and Notes with Rolfe Hartshorn about Asa Hartshorn c.1990
- Hartshorn, Rolfe, Letter, “Asa Hartshorn My Grandfather” February 26, 1987
- Hartshorn, Rolfe, Letter, “Oil venture in PA”, August 16, 1991
- Hartshorn, Ryal P, Letter from Columbian Exposition Chicago, Oct 13, 1893
- Hartshorn, Ryal P, letter Spring 1951, “Asa early life, trip, Isthmus of Panama”
- Buck, Franklin A, A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, 1930 Houghton Mifflin, The Letters of Franklin A. Buck. From Weaverville p. 97 June 9, 1852 to p.200 January 18, 1866
- Cronan, Francis W., Red Sunday, 1965 The Record Publishing Company. Chapter VIII pp 127-156 Haverhill Massacre 1708. On p. 133-4 Thomas Hartshorn family.
- Warranty Deed, Asa Hartshorn farm, April 1, 1854
- Warranty Deed, Asa Hartshorn farm, July 28, 1877
- globalindex.com/clippers/museum Ships Built by John McKay
- Vosbugh, C. auction advertisement for Asa Hartshorn farm July 28, 1947
- Venango Historical Society, Franklin, PA “Petroleum History of the Oil Region 1984 reprint p. 1866, steam engines.
- Roe, L. W, Journal, land purchase in Iowa by Asa and Amos Hartshorn c. 1850
- Jury Records, Trinity County Courthouse, Weaverville, CA, October 16, 1854, courtesy of helpful staff in digging through boxes of over 100 year old files to find signatures of Juror Asa Hartshorn
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Acknowledgements and Research Locations
Acknowledgements
Author’s parents, Ruth Hartshorn-Roe and Laurence Roe for recollections and written genealogy documents and photos which preserved an overview of Asa Hartshorn’s exploits.
Rolfe Hartshorn, grandson of Asa, traveled to Weaverville CA. to the Syracuse City Library for voyage research, and to the oil discovery site in Titusville, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area, checking for records on Asa’s involvement in drilling investments.
(Anonymous) Hartshorn, another great-grandson, for many hours doing extensive and difficult research on the complex history of a watch that Asa passed on down to his son, and then subsequent recipients. The only physical objects of Asa’s known to be in existence are this watch, the fragment of Asa’s one letter, his ledger/journal, and a few photos. We hope other descendants have some objects and will advise us on the Feedback page of this website.
Research by Joanie C. W. Morgan on the construction, ownership, data, sailing date, and path of the voyage of the clipper ship “North America” to San Francisco.
Roe siblings who loaned several original photos for scanning and who searched their dusty storage areas for other information. Stan, Jim, Laureen.
Research locations visited by the author-webmaster:
Marshall Gold Discovery State Park on the American River at Sutters Mill in Coloma CA, multiple visits 1974 and later.
Weaverville, Trinity County, CA, research trips in July 1986 and in May 2005.
Raised from birth through 3rd grade on the Asa Homestead Farm, Lebanon Center, Madison County NY, followed by multiple subsequent visits through the early 2000’s while visiting relatives in that area.
California State Library, California History Section, Gold Rush, index cards of Forty-Niners and newspaper microfilms, located in Sacramento, CA.
Sutters Fort State Historic Park, Sacramento, which was settled a decade prior to the Gold Rush.
Author’s 2nd home locations in Placerville CA area for over 20 years, where gold mining was prevalent during the Gold Rush, and for awhile rented a business office, in a historic building in Placerville one block off Main Street, which had a former mining cave downstairs with an underground passageway to a downtown hotel.
Erie Canal Village, Rome, NY, where exhibits on the extensive Central New York railroad network, and cheese production, were linked to dairy farm milk processing. For example, my Mother said she took a train daily to commute to school from Lebanon NY to Earlville NY c.1912-1924. The author witnessed the last steam train and the first diesel train picking up milk from the Solsville Dairylea Milk Station.
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc., Columbia PA, Carter Howe a curator, to research Asa’s watch that is still operable and in the Hartshorn family.