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Denver, James William, 1817-1892. James William Denver papers, 1832-1925, (bulk 1832-1892)

Title: James William Denver papers, 1832-1925, (bulk 1832-1892)

Consists of personal, political, business and family correspondence of James William Denver and his family. Topics reflect the political focus of Denver and his family, with speculation about political success, discussion of the nuts and bolts of politicking, and the ethical foundations of Denver's democratic beliefs. Correspondents include William McKendree Gwin, Thomas A. Hendricks, and members of the Democratic Party and other California, Ohio, and national political figures. Topics reflecting his Washington DC based legal practice are claims against the government such as Civil War claims, tax litigation, especially the cotton tax, and other cases from around the United States. Denver's ongoing involvement with Mexican War veterans and the military in general is reflected in other letters. Family correspondence reflects current affairs, as well as conveying regular news from home and includes letters from Denver's siblings, between him and his wife Louise and their children.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes, 2 oversize folders (2.4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40479204 View

Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894. Articles of copartnership between Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker : San Francisco, Calif., ms., 1849 Nov. 1.

Title: Articles of copartnership between Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker : San Francisco, Calif., ms., 1849 Nov. 1.

Indenture forming a copartnership in the real estate business in the San Francisco bay area.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34883846 View

Santa Cruz (Calif.). Alcalde. Petitions and land grants, 1849.

Title: Petitions and land grants, 1849.

For lots in the town of Santa Cruz; one to J.D. Stevenson.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders in portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26275949 View

Jonathan Drake Stevenson papers, 1840-1892, bulk 1845-1880

Title: Jonathan Drake Stevenson papers 1840-1892, bulk 1845-1880

The papers of Jonathan Drake Stevenson consist of correspondence, miscellaneous legal and business papers and a few accounts and clippings. They are contained in one document box and range in time from 1840 to 1892, although the larger part of the material falls within the time span 1845-1880.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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Arthur, James P. Log book for the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins, 1845 Oct 29-1847 May 1.

Title: Log book for the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins, 1845 Oct 29-1847 May 1.

Holograph manuscript logbook, written by James P. Arthur, ship master, containing distinct logs for voyages of the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins. The California sailed between Monterey, San Pedro, and San Diego, 1845 Oct 29-Nov 18, lay in port in San Diego, 1845 Nov 19-1846 Feb 8, and returned to its home port of Boston, Massachusetts, Feb 9-Jun 24, with a cargo of hides. The Thomas H. Perkins left New York on 1846 Sep 26, transporting Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson and his regiment of New York Volunteers, their families, and supplies to California for service in the Mexican War. The log describes incidents of the voyage and Arthur's interactions with the soldiers, laying in port in Rio de Janeiro, Nov 22-28, and disembarkment from the Thomas H. Perkins and other ships at Yerba Buena (San Francisco), 1847 Mar 6-Apr 30. The ship departed for San Diego and Manila on 1847 May 1. Tipped in is a TLS regarding the logbook, from Thomas P. Martin, Archivist, Harvard Commission on Western History, to Mary Wheelwright, a former owner, dated 1917 Apr 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 200 p.) ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148388 View

Arthur, James P. Log book for the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins, 1845 Oct 29-1847 May 1.

Title: Log book for the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins, 1845 Oct 29-1847 May 1.

Holograph manuscript logbook, written by James P. Arthur, ship master, containing distinct logs for voyages of the ships California and Thomas H. Perkins. The California sailed between Monterey, San Pedro, and San Diego, 1845 Oct 29-Nov 18, lay in port in San Diego, 1845 Nov 19-1846 Feb 8, and returned to its home port of Boston, Massachusetts, Feb 9-Jun 24, with a cargo of hides. The Thomas H. Perkins left New York on 1846 Sep 26, transporting Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson and his regiment of New York Volunteers, their families, and supplies to California for service in the Mexican War. The log describes incidents of the voyage and Arthur's interactions with the soldiers, laying in port in Rio de Janeiro, Nov 22-28, and disembarkment from the Thomas H. Perkins and other ships at Yerba Buena (San Francisco), 1847 Mar 6-Apr 30. The ship departed for San Diego and Manila on 1847 May 1. Tipped in is a TLS regarding the logbook, from Thomas P. Martin, Archivist, Harvard Commission on Western History, to Mary Wheelwright, a former owner, dated 1917 Apr 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 200 p.) ; 40 cm.

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San Francisco (Calif.). District. Blotter B: District record of land grants and deeds in the city of San Francisco, 1847-1849.

Title: Blotter B: District record of land grants and deeds in the city of San Francisco, 1847-1849.

The blotter includes land grants and deeds processed in San Francisco District from 1847 to 1849. The grants and deeds are signed by alcaldes George Hyde and Thaddeus Leavenworth. The list includes deeds involving Sam Brannan, John White Geary, Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, William A. Leidesdorff, Robert T. Ridley, and J. D. Stevenson. Some of the entries are accompanied by hand drawn plats.

ArchivalResource: 63 pages, bound volume, 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79371046 View

Forman, Mary A. Gray (Mary Agnes Gray), 1843-1918. Papers of Mary A. Forman, 1853-1908 (bulk 1904-1908).

Title: Papers of Mary A. Forman, 1853-1908 (bulk 1904-1908).

The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers. The documents address Los Angeles history through a wide array of topics, including California state and local government, crime, medicine, architecture, education, land allotment, churches, agriculture, Indians, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Significant persons represented or discussed in the collection include George W. Hazard, Andrew Jackson King, Tomás A. Sánchez, Washington Bartlett, J. M. Guinn, L. A. Ingersoll, Juan Caballeria, William Heath Davis, Oscar Macy, John C. Frémont, Stephen C. Foster, Robert F. Stockton, Stephen Watts Kearny, Jonathan D. Stevenson, Thomas Foster, George Hansen (Hanson), Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, William R. Rowland, J. Kuhrts, George Lehman, Laura E. King, and Mary E. Johnston. Photocopies of photographs and a brief biography of Mary A. and Charles Forman are available in the finding aid.

ArchivalResource: 158 pieces.2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78678758 View

Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914. Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Title: Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Letters, manuscripts of writings, and clippings relating primarily to Edwin Allen Sherman, especially to his service in the Mexican War, his successful efforts to erect a monument in Monterey, California to honor John Drake Sloat, and other activities designed to commemorate historic events in California. His writings include Personal reminiscences of a California pioneer of '49 and The true account of the great Jesuit conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln "the martyr president" of the United States, Friday April 14th 1865. Includes also some correspondence and papers of his wife, Adeline A. Dodd Sherman; his son, Edwin Allen Sherman; and his grandson, Allen Banks Sherman. Four series: 1. Correspondence, 1871-1971; 2. Manuscripts ? 3. Miscellaney, 1882- 1936; 4. Clippings, 1892-1932.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.1 linear ft.).Sloat monument correspondence and MS of Sherman's autobiography (formerly BANC MSS C-B 719) : partial microfilm reel (36 exposures) : negative (Rich. 533:12) and postive (FILM C-B 719).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545142 View

Jones, Elbert P. Elbert P. Jones real estate papers : San Francisco, California, 1847-1851.

Title: Elbert P. Jones real estate papers : San Francisco, California, 1847-1851.

Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150314 View

United States. War Dept. William L. Marcy letter : Washington [D.C.], to Col. J.D. Stevenson, New York City, ALS, 1846 June 26.

Title: William L. Marcy letter : Washington [D.C.], to Col. J.D. Stevenson, New York City, ALS, 1846 June 26.

Official copy of a letter to Col. Stevenson reports authorization from the President to organize and send a regiment of volunteers around Cape Horn to the Pacific to prevent hostilities in some province of Mexico, probably Upper California. Marcy instructs Stevenson to select suitable volunteers and specifies that they remain in Oregon or any territory in the region when discharged after the war. Marcy's additional instructions concerning the confidential nature of the mission imply the intent of the U.S. to permanently occupy California.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43771263 View

Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894. Program of the first grand celebration of the admission of California into the Union in San Francisco, Oct. 29, 1850.

Title: Program of the first grand celebration of the admission of California into the Union in San Francisco, Oct. 29, 1850. [1850]

ArchivalResource: 1 p. l., 4 l., 1 l. 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19716833 View

Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894. Jonathan Drake Stevenson papers, 1846-1893.

Title: Jonathan Drake Stevenson papers, 1846-1893.

Part I. Letters, case files, and other papers relating mainly to activities in San Francisco from about 1849 as an attorney and claim agent. Part II. On film: letters and regimental orders written by Stevenson and others relating to the New York Regiment-organization, voyage to California, and military service, 1846-1848. Includes journals, Camp Polk and Fort Columbus, 1846-1847.

ArchivalResource: Part I : 2 boxes.Part II : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 532:9) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26549261 View

Hayes, Benjamin Ignatius, 1815-1877. Land matters in California. Bancroft Library : ms., 1875.

Title: Land matters in California. Bancroft Library : ms., 1875.

Notes on petitions for land grants; copies of deeds, wills, exhibits in land cases, decisions of U.S. land commissioners, decrees of district courts, etc., relating to lands in Los Angeles and San Diego counties. Compiled for H.H. Bancroft. Included also: two deeds for property in City of New York of the Pacific (i.e. Pittsburg, Calif.) from Jonathan D. Stevenson to John S. Griffin, Aug. 13, 1849; petition, n.d., from Griffin to San Francisco alcalde for land and the alcalde's grant, Jan. 7, [1850].

ArchivalResource: Originals : [1], 385 p. ; 31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 530:3) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215306154 View

Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894. J.D. Stevenson letter : San Francisco, Calif., to Isaac M. Baker : ALS, 1850 Oct. 4.

Title: J.D. Stevenson letter : San Francisco, Calif., to Isaac M. Baker : ALS, 1850 Oct. 4.

Letter asking Baker for the date of departure for a detachment sent in Dec. 1846. Apparently, Baker was a member of the party in question and had kept a journal.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded sheet, with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381837 View

Stevenson's California Expedition collection, 1846-1895.

Title: Stevenson's California Expedition collection, 1846-1895.

Includes original letters from Henry Magee, 1846 and John Magee, 1847; booklet: "Survivors of Col. Stevenson's Reg't, of New York Volunteers in Service in California during the Mexican War, 1847-'48," 1895; letter from Francis D. Clark, president of the Survivors of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers to Ansel J. McCall, 1890; and clippings about the group and about early California history.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

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Brown, John Henry, 1810-1905. John Henry Brown papers, 1846-1849.

Title: John Henry Brown papers, 1846-1849.

Collection includes: 1. Agreement, in writing of W.A. Bartlett, between Albert Packard and J.H. Brown for the settlement of debts of the firm of Brown, Packard, and Joel P. Dedmond, due to Henry Mellus, William D. Phelps, and William Fisher, Nov. 24, 1846; 2. Receipt to J.H. Brown from Eggleston (George W.) & Company, San Francisco, Jan. 15, 1849; 3. Deed, by Jonathan Drake Stevenson to J.H. Brown, for sale of property in New York of the Pacific [i.e. Pittsburg, Calif.], signed by Stevenson and witnessed by William C. Parker and Stephen C. Massett, San Francisco, California, May 22, 1849.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (3 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26276005 View

Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1826-1900. Letter to Josiah Royce, 1885, Apr. 9.

Title: Letter to Josiah Royce, 1885, Apr. 9.

William Crowninshield Endicott wrote this letter in reply to a letter from Josiah Royce asking for information regarding Colonel John C. Frémont and his actions in California from 1845 to 1847. Endicott informs Royce of several letters written by Secretary of War William Marcy to Frémont during the Bear Flag Revolt (Endicott often quotes from the letters). Frémont's court-martial and Colonel J. D. Stevenson are also discussed.

ArchivalResource: 6 pages, photostat, 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122288820 View

Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848. Papers of William A. Leidesdorff, 1840-1867.

Title: Papers of William A. Leidesdorff, 1840-1867.

The collection consists of letters, mostly received by Leidesdorff in the 1840s, concerning coastal trade and life in the mercantile business in San Francisco. There are also materials related to the Bear Flag revolt (1846) and the American occupation and establishment of American government in California.

ArchivalResource: 502 pieces.6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122593650 View

Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894. Papers, 1840-1892, bulk 1845-1880.

Title: Papers, 1840-1892, bulk 1845-1880.

Collection consists of correspondence, legal and business papers, accounts, and clippings related to the life of J.D. Stevenson. Includes materials related to his political career in NY, his command of the 1st NY Infantry Regiment of Volunteers in CA during the Mexican War, and his law practice and real estate business in San Francisco.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38273069 View

Dana, William Goodwin, 1797-1858. William G. Dana papers, 1825-1858.

Title: William G. Dana papers, 1825-1858.

7 letters and 7 items, including a letter from his sister, Adeline. Other letters from prominent Californians discuss topics such as land, livestock, family, court cases. Two letters are addressed to Dana's son, Carlos. Also included is a deed to lots in San Luis Obispo and miscellaneous receipts for goods and services.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.2 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453336 View

Los Angeles County Prefecture Records

Title: Los Angeles County Prefecture Records

ArchivalResource:

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Hale, Augustin W., 1814-1902. Augustin W. Hale papers, 1775-1909 bulk (1830-1859).

Title: Augustin W. Hale papers, 1775-1909 bulk (1830-1859).

The manuscripts consist of 1,112 items including business documents, legal documents, memoranda of letters written, stock certificates, receipts, and miscellaneous documents. The manuscripts document, in detail, the various business ventures of Augustin and his various business partners including Mark Hopkins. The manuscripts include business and financial records of the following companies: Magnetic Mining Company, New England Mining and Trading Company, San Joaquin Diving Bell Company, San Joaquin Railroad Company, Saucelito Water Company, Sierra Nevada Flour Mills, Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, and the Tuolumne Hydraulic Association. This group also contains material related to Trinity Church in San Francisco and Hale's voyage to California. The manuscripts also document Elisha Hale's business ventures, his inventions and patents. This material includes agreements, bills of lading, deeds, indentures, licenses, petitions, and powers of attorney. The manuscripts also deal with several lawsuits involving the Hale family and land ownership in New Jersey and New York. The collection contains 15 diaries, 11 of which are written by Augustin. His diaries illustrate his life and work from departure from New York in January 1849 to his mining and life in California in February 1851. Subjects in his diaries include his voyage to California, gold mining, gold discoveries, his encounters with Indians and his health conditions as well as Colonel Jonathan Stevenson, San Francisco, Sacramento, the New England Mining Trading Company, the Chinese in California, and the mining camps Shasta, Clear Creek and Mormon Island. The most significant of these diaries is the 217-page diary covering Augustin's departure from New York, his entire voyage, his experiences in Rio de Janeiro, and Callao and Lima, Peru, and his arrival in San Francisco. There are also two diaries by an unknown author who came overland to California in 1849 from Ohio. The author discusses the overland route to California, Hudspeth's Cutoff, William H. Warner, Peter Lassen and gold mining. The correspondence includes 3,102 items. About two-thirds of the correspondence relates to Elisha Hale and his business, inventions and patents. The remainder of the correspondence relates to Augustin and his life in California and Nevada from 1849 to 1894 (there are some letters from Augustin's life before his move to California). Subjects covered in the correspondence are: gold mining, including techniques and equipment; gold discoveries; conditions in the gold camps; fellow gold miners; the Episcopal Church and Trinity Church in San Francisco; Augustin's business ventures and financial problems; the Chinese in California; the San Francisco fire in May 1851; Vigilance Committees; the Comstock Lode; the American Civil War; and Abraham Lincoln. The correspondence also includes detailed descriptions of Big Bar, Chinese Camp, Clear Creek, Coloma, Grass Valley, Los Angeles, Michigan Bluff, Mormon Island, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Yankee Jim's, California as well as Gold Hill and Silver City, Nevada. There are also several pieces of correspondence from women living in California that discuss their experience living in mining towns. Notable participants include: John Carpenter Angell; August Belmont; Orville Hickman Browning; Nehemiah Bushnell; George Mifflin Dallas; Charles Goodyear; Lewis C. Gunn; Joseph Holt; John Henry Hopkins; Mark Hopkins; Douglass Houghton; D. Minor K. Johnson; James King; Bishop William Kip; John Marshall Krum; J. Pierpont Morgan; Antoine Perpigna; Isaac L. Requa; Lorenzo Sawyer; Origen S. Seymour; Reuben Sherwood; William Neely Thompson; Enos Thompson Throop; Robert Boyd Van Kleeck; Fernando Wood. The ephemera is made up of 1,011 items and includes business cards, miscellaneous printed items, broadsides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, two albumen prints, receipts, an autograph album and recipes. Some of the ephemera relates to Augustin's voyage to California, his business and gold mining. There are 6 artifacts and 8 oversize items. These include maps, sketches, diagrams, a stamp of Augustin's name, a postal cancellation stamp invented by Augustin, a pictorial letter sheet depicting San Francisco, and Augustin's balance scale for weighing gold.

ArchivalResource: 5,256 items.29 boxes.

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 1st (1846-1848). Records, 1846-1848.

Title: Records, 1846-1848.

Records, 1846-1848, consisting of Colonel Stevenson's letter book and two orderly books. The letter book contains copies of official letters to and from Stevenson, dealing with such matters as the transportation of the regiment to California by ship, a short stay in Rio de Janeiro, problems with Mission property, rumors of hostile actions and impending outbreaks, problems of administering the district under his command (Southern Militiary District, California Territory, with headquarters at Los Angeles), army administrative matters, miltary discipline, relations with the Indians, etc. Much of his correspondence was with Secretary of War William L. Marcy, General Stephen Watts Kearny, Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, Colonel Henry Stanton, Silas Wright, Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman, and General Robert E. Temple. One of the orderly books contains general orders of Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, governor of California Territory, issued from headquarters, 10th Military District, Monterey, usually through 1st Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman. It includes many reports of courts martial. The other is a regimental orderly book, containing Colonel Stevenson's orders issued at Fort Columbus, New York, on board the transport Thomas H. Perkins, and at San Francisco, Monterey, and Los Angeles. A few miscellaneous special orders on loose sheets of paper are laid into this volume. Accompanied by a typewritten transcript of selected letters.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58775792 View

Jones, Elbert P. Elbert P. Jones real estate papers : San Francisco, California, 1847-1851.

Title: Elbert P. Jones real estate papers : San Francisco, California, 1847-1851.

Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80062064 View

Carrillo, Pedro C. Pedro C. Carrillo private papers : ms., 1846-1848.

Title: Pedro C. Carrillo private papers : ms., 1846-1848.

Copies, made by Benjamin I. Hayes, of nine letters and documents relating to U.S. occupation of California and to the appointment of Carrillo as collector of the ports of San Diego and Santa Barbara. Include letters from S.F. DuPont, R.F. Stockton, H.S. Burton, J.D. Stevenson, H.W. Halleck and F.J. Lippitt.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 12 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 518:16) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215369269 View

Murrieta, Juan. Juan Murrieta diaries, record books, and family materials, c.1848-1990 (bulk 1848-1934)

Title: Juan Murrieta diaries, record books, and family materials, c.1848-1990 (bulk 1848-1934)

Collection of items related to Juan Murrieta and the Houghton and Donner families, predominantly covering the years from 1848 to 1934. Includes seven diaries and record books (most in Spanish) kept by Juan Murrieta between 1858 and 1934, and which include references to his bank accounts at California Bank, First National Bank, and Security Trust and Savings Bank, as well as listings of accounts kept for his children Henry (1931), Lita (1931), and A.J. (1922-1926). Other personal items belonging to Murrieta include his 1868 United States citizenship certificate, his 1868 renouncement of allegiance to the Queen of Spain, and his 1926 United States passport, as well as a 1983 letter from Sherman Block to Mrs. William R. Smith regarding Murrieta's time with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (including 2 photographs). Also included are a variety of items related to Sherman Otis Houghton and Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, the parents of Murrieta's daughter Lita's husband Sherman Jr. Sherman Houghton items include two letters from Henry Wagner Halleck (1861, regarding land in San Jose and the Donner Grant), a printed argument with map regarding the acquisition of land in California by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1876), miscellaneous notes on court cases, and a list of Houghton's military, judicial, and military appointments. Eliza Donner Houghton items include a letter from Eliza to Major Edwin A. Sherman (1910, regarding James Reed, the Donner Party, land in San Jose, and Eliza's friendships with William T. Sherman, John A. Sutter, and Jessie Benton Fremont), a letter from Robert A. Poppe (1912, including photographs of the "Sonoma House"), and a copy of the certificate of her marriage to Houghton. Other items include a general letter to stockholders of the Union Oil Company of California (1932), a letter from Richard Barnes Mason to Roger Jones (typescript, 1848, regarding the successes of the Tenth Military Department), a letter from Jonathan Drake Stevenson to Mason (typescript, 1848, regarding his shock at the disbanding of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers and complaints against Mormons and Indians), a photograph of the Murrieta Rancho (c.1885), a photograph of a Southern Pacific Railroad car decorated for the arrival of President Benjamin Harrison (1891), a plat map of the Pauba Rancho (1858-1859), and a Donner Party scrapbook which includes items on the Pioneer Monument at Donner Lake, Georgia A. Donner (Mrs. Babcock), C.T. Stanton, W.C. and Mary Graves, the Breen family, and various newspaper clippings on the Donner Party.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647767817 View