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| Scott Number | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date | June 23, 18xx |
| From City | Worcester |
| From State | MA |
| To City | Brighton |
| To State | MA |
| Addressee | J. L. L. F. Warren |
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| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
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5c Dark Brown (1a). Large to full margins, tied by red grid and matching "Worcester Ms. Jun. 23" circular datestamp on folded cover to Brighton Mass., red "5", blue ms. "Paid", otherwise Very Fine
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale 870 Lot 904 realized 260
Not listed in Alexander
Year date probably 1848 as Warren left for California March 1849.
Letter to James Lloyd LaFayette Warren (1805-1896), horticulturist, reformer, the “Father of California Agriculture”. Warren was the son of Captain Joseph Warren, carpenter, farmer, and a long-time Brighton Town Clerk.
As early as 1820, when he was just 15, a nursery he laid out on his family’s Brighton estate was attracting wide notice from horticultural enthusiasts. By 1829, this establishment, the “Nonantum Vale Gardens,” was a famed and thriving enterprise.
In 1838 he received a medal from the Boston Horticultural Society for growing the first tomatoes in Massachusetts. He also propagated new varieties of the camelia, which he later introduced into Britain and California, and was said to have introduced the tulip to Massachusetts.
Warren went to California as part of the Gold Rush of 1849, where he founded a general provisioning firm, Warren & Company, in California’s capital city of Sacramento.
In 1853, Warren shifted his business headquarters to San Francisco, the state’s largest city, thereafter running the enterprise in association with his son, John Quincy Adams Warren. In addition to his role as initiator of the first state fair, Warren was also largely responsible for establishing the principal agricultural publication in the west, The California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, and also took the lead in the foundation of the California State Agricultural Society, His office served as a clearinghouse for the exchange of information, specimens, and seeds, not merely within California, but with other parts of the United States, South America, and the Orient. (Article by William P. Marchione, Sept 1999, Boston Tab newspaper)
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale 870 Lot 904 realized 260
Not listed in Alexander
Year date probably 1848 as Warren left for California March 1849.
Letter to James Lloyd LaFayette Warren (1805-1896), horticulturist, reformer, the “Father of California Agriculture”. Warren was the son of Captain Joseph Warren, carpenter, farmer, and a long-time Brighton Town Clerk.
As early as 1820, when he was just 15, a nursery he laid out on his family’s Brighton estate was attracting wide notice from horticultural enthusiasts. By 1829, this establishment, the “Nonantum Vale Gardens,” was a famed and thriving enterprise.
In 1838 he received a medal from the Boston Horticultural Society for growing the first tomatoes in Massachusetts. He also propagated new varieties of the camelia, which he later introduced into Britain and California, and was said to have introduced the tulip to Massachusetts.
Warren went to California as part of the Gold Rush of 1849, where he founded a general provisioning firm, Warren & Company, in California’s capital city of Sacramento.
In 1853, Warren shifted his business headquarters to San Francisco, the state’s largest city, thereafter running the enterprise in association with his son, John Quincy Adams Warren. In addition to his role as initiator of the first state fair, Warren was also largely responsible for establishing the principal agricultural publication in the west, The California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, and also took the lead in the foundation of the California State Agricultural Society, His office served as a clearinghouse for the exchange of information, specimens, and seeds, not merely within California, but with other parts of the United States, South America, and the Orient. (Article by William P. Marchione, Sept 1999, Boston Tab newspaper)
