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SUTTER, JOHN A.

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SUTTER, JOHN A.
(1803 - 1880) American pioneer and founder of Sacramento upon whose land gold was discovered on January 24, 1848, setting-off the California Gold Rush. Ironically, he died almost bankrupt! Rare A.L.S. "J. A Sutter" on his embossed monogram letterhead, 2 sep. pages 8vo., Washington, Dec. 13, 1869 to Mrs. George Harrington in Greensboro, Me. In part: "…I send you herewith our Photographs, which please to accept as a mark of high esteem…I have a great deal to attend to, because I should not like to pass another Winter at Washington. The[y] have a good many boarders in the Hotel at Litiz which will pass the Weinter there…Our grandson John is boarding at the Hotel, he could not stand it longer in the School and is a Day Scholar now…then we will send him from Baltimore to Bremen…I wish very much that we would have the pleasure of seeing you again in Litiz. Mrs. Sutter joins me in presenting to you our respects…". With holograph envelope. Light soiling, else near fine. "Litiz", now Lititz, is a small Pennsylvania town in which Sutter passed his final seven years and where he is buried.