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| Chauncey B. Kelton was born in Vermont in 1802. Kelton came to northern California with the Gold Rush in 1849. An oil of a miner’s camp on the Calaveras River in 1849 is extant. Due to illness and fever, he stayed only one year.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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