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Frederick Law Olmsted 



1863: 



Spring 



Trip to Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, 

 etc., on business for Sanitary Commission. "Ob- 

 vious want of a pleasure-ground" in Chicago 

 noted. 



May 14 Olmsted & Vaux resign as Landscape Architects 

 of Central Park. Resolution of confidence passed. 



Summer Obliged to withdraw from Sanitary Commission, 

 owing to overwork. 



Interested with Charles Eliot Norton and others 

 in a project for founding a weekly review. Later, 

 during his absence in California this project de- 

 veloped into the Nation. 



Aug. 10 Offered Superintendency of the Mariposa Mining 

 estates in California. Accepted. 



Sep. 14 Sailed without family in the "Champion" for 

 California. Arrived at San Francisco Oct. n. 



Late Personal property and professional library burned 

 Fall wn iie in storage at Staten Island Farm. 



1864 : 



Early 

 Spring 



Joined by family at the Mariposa Estates, Bear 

 Valley. 



Honorary A.M. from Harvard University, on 

 account of work for United States Sanitary Com- 

 mission. 



Summer Olmsted family in Yosemite camping. Mr. Olm- 

 sted made trip Eastward through the High Sierras 

 accompanied by John Charles Olmsted and 

 Professor Brewer of the State Geological Survey. 



