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    Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802 – October 27, 1858), known later in life in Spanish as Don Tomás Larquin, was an American diplomat and businessman...
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  • military officer Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858), early American emigrant to Mexico and a signer of the original California Constitution Tom Larkin (diplomat)...
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    California's Sub-Prefect Francisco Guerrero had written to U.S. Consul Thomas O. Larkin that: a multitude of foreigners [having] come into California and bought...
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    The first known example of the style is the Larkin House in Monterey, California, built by Thomas O. Larkin in 1835. The largest example of the style is...
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    The Larkin House is a historic house at 464 Calle Principal in Monterey, California. Built in 1835 by Thomas O. Larkin, it is claimed to be the first two-story...
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    and Administration buildings (West Campus) Hearst family mausoleum Thomas O. Larkin Lefty O'Doul Jennie Roosevelt Pool memorial marked with the Angel of...
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  • Manuel Micheltorena to Francisco Larkin, Caroline Ann Larkin, and Sophia Adelaide Larkin, children of Thomas O. Larkin. The grant extended south from Glenn...
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    Congress' declaration of war to reach the Pacific coast. U.S. consul Thomas O. Larkin, stationed in the pueblo of Monterey, was concerned about the increasing...
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    California. After telling both the Mexican governor and the American Consul Thomas O. Larkin that he was merely buying supplies on the way to Oregon, he instead...
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    United States consulate had also been located in Monterey, under consul Thomas O. Larkin. In 1849, a state Constitutional Convention was first held in Monterey...
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    located at 510 Calle Principal in Monterey, California. It was built by Thomas O. Larkin in 1834. It was the quarters for Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman...
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  • Province of Massachusetts Bay Suffolk County, Massachusetts Thomas O. Larkin, John Larkin's grandson Weckle, Paul J. "The Webb Ancestry of Austin Parker...
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    community. Green worked closely with Thomas O. Larkin, a prominent merchant in Monterey, and became a key figure in Larkin's mercantile operations. Green's...
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    (barrel maker). At first, by his own account in an 1856 letter to Thomas O. Larkin, Gilroy was one of only two English-speakers resident in Alta California...
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  • José Antonio Carrillo, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Juan Bandini and Thomas O. Larkin, the United States Consul at Monterey (with whom he would later be...
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    Belford, Clarke. ISBN 9780608422800. Hague, Harlan & David J. Langum Thomas O. Larkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California, University of Oklahoma...
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    858 ha) Palo Escrito Mexican land grant from Monterey businessman Thomas O. Larkin who had acquired several land grants in California. He donated land...
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    City of Benicia was founded on May 19, 1847, by Dr. Robert Semple, Thomas O. Larkin, and Comandante General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on land donated...
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    President James K. Polk with secret verbal messages to the U.S. Consul Thomas O. Larkin in Alta California's Capital in Monterey, Commodore John D. Sloat commanding...
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  • Castro to John C. Frémont's camp at Gavilan Peak. Later he kidnapped Thomas O. Larkin and was second in command at the Battle of Natividad, where he was...
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    sent by President James Polk with secret messages to the U.S. Consul Thomas O. Larkin in Monterey, California, Commodore John D. Sloat in command of the...
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    Representing the District of Monterey Charles T. Botts Lewis Dent Thomas O. Larkin Pacificus Ord Henry Wager Halleck Representing the District of Sacramento...
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    Massachusetts when he was a boy. His mother married Thomas Larkin, whose son and John's half-brother Thomas O. Larkin became a prominent businessman and the United...
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  • off and his dead body was found several days after he was missing. Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858) bought Rancho Boga from Flügge. With the cession of California...
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    Frémont went to Monterey, California, to talk with the American consul, Thomas O. Larkin, and Mexican commandant Jose Castro, under the pretext of gaining fuller...
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    advantageous, whether in negotiations or in armed conflict. American Consul Thomas O. Larkin and Lansford Hastings communicated about the approach of thousands...
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  • constitutional convention — California's first two Senate seats. In 1847, with Thomas O. Larkin, he received a grant of land from Mariano Vallejo along the Carquinez...
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    Francisco: U.S. Surveyor General's Office. 1860. Hague, Harlan (1995). Thomas O. Larkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California. Norman: University...
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  • were: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, David Spence, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Thomas O. Larkin, Eliab Grimes, Santiago Arguello, and Juan Bandini. With Stockton's...
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  • Ó Lorcáin (Larkin) was the surname of an Irish brehon family. Natives of Síol Anmchadha in what is now south-east County Galway, members of the family...
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