Patricia, I live near the Sacramento CA area and am going to the State Library the end of next week to do a couple of lookups for others. I will ask and see if anyone knows what paper it might have been in and check it out for you and get back to you with what I am able to find out. Elaine kohnen wrote: > > Hi Listers: > > What a great list--interesting reading! > > Can anyone HELP SOLVE A MYSTERY? I'm looking for someone to look up an > article in San Francisco area newspapers. My family records have the > date of this article, May 20, 1898 but not the name of the paper. The > article reports a ship, the Helen W. Almy, in trouble in a storm near > San Francisco. Aboard this ship (maybe?) was my great grandfather > William McCrea and 11 other miners from Coalgate, Indian Territory--all > on their way to the Klondike. They checked into the Brooklyn Hotel, San > Francisco, on March 6, 1898 and were never heard from since. > > Here's a URL for the museum at FOSTER FARM: > http://www.teleport.com/~eotic/fosterfm.html > PHILIP FOSTER (b.1805, Maine) was a junior partner with Francis W. > Pettygrove (of Maine) and married to Pettygrove's daughter, Mary > Charlotte. Pettygrove was an agent of AG/AW Benson and Co. In 1842, > Foster, his wife and four children, Pettygrove, wife, and another child > set sail on the ship Victoria from New York. After a layover in Hawaii > (typical) they arrived in Oregon in early spring 1843 on the ship Fama. > They were living over their thriving store in Oregon City(corner of 3rd > and Main) by May 1843. In early 1844, Foster bought Samuel McSwain's > land claim in Eagle Creek. The Foster family moved to Eagle Creek, June > 1844. More at http://www.usgennet.org/alhnorus/ahorclak/timeline1.html > > I've gathered a list of OREGON TRAIL and Emigrant primary materials > (diaries, journals, letters, ship rosters, etc.) for the years > 1800-1843. View this list at > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/5531/ . Or write me at > [email protected] and I'd be happy to email you the most updated > listing for a spcific year. > > Patricia Kohnen