Typescript titled “A Sketch of the Life of Lysander Johnston, who left Boonville, Missouri, in 1850 for California with William Harley of Boonville,” written by his daughter, Miss Lois May Johnston, in 1940. The sketch describes the overland wagon train journey from Missouri to California via Ft. Kearney, Ft. Laramie, Independence Rock, Salt Lake City, and the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers, which departed around May 1, 1852, and arrived on the outskirts of the Sacramento Valley nearly six months later. Includes descriptions of conflicts with Indians. The sketch also includes a genealogy of the family; account of Johnston’s life in California through 1854; account of his participation in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua; account of his return to the U.S., service in the Civil War, and death in Chicago in 1922 (14 pages). Accompanying documents include two typescript letters signed Miss Lois May Johnston to Charles van Ravenswaay, February 3 and May 1, 1940, regarding the sketch of her father; photograph of Lysander Johnston at age 78; photograph of the Joe Cannon House in Danville, Illinois, the plans and specifications for which were drawn by Lysander Johnston; and two letterheads of the Elevated Suspension Electric Railway Co., Chicago, 189-. (6 items), 1940, Box: 1, Folder: 22. Oregon-California Collection, A1162. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center.

Typescript titled “A Sketch of the Life of Lysander Johnston, who left Boonville, Missouri, in 1850 for California with William Harley of Boonville,” written by his daughter, Miss Lois May Johnston, in 1940. The sketch describes the overland wagon train journey from Missouri to California via Ft. Kearney, Ft. Laramie, Independence Rock, Salt Lake City, and the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers, which departed around May 1, 1852, and arrived on the outskirts of the Sacramento Valley nearly six months later. Includes descriptions of conflicts with Indians. The sketch also includes a genealogy of the family; account of Johnston’s life in California through 1854; account of his participation in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua; account of his return to the U.S., service in the Civil War, and death in Chicago in 1922 (14 pages). Accompanying documents include two typescript letters signed Miss Lois May Johnston to Charles van Ravenswaay, February 3 and May 1, 1940, regarding the sketch of her father; photograph of Lysander Johnston at age 78; photograph of the Joe Cannon House in Danville, Illinois, the plans and specifications for which were drawn by Lysander Johnston; and two letterheads of the Elevated Suspension Electric Railway Co., Chicago, 189-. (6 items), 1940, Box: 1, Folder: 22. Oregon-California Collection, A1162. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center. https://mohistory.mobiusconsortium.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/16842 Accessed September 20, 2024.