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Foster, Stephen Clark, 1820-1898. Angeles from '47 to '49 : ms., 1877.

Title: Angeles from '47 to '49 : ms., 1877.

Experiences during Mexican War with the Mormon Battalion; alcalde of Los Angeles, 1848, and other public offices; constitutional convention; people and events in southern California.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 61 leaves ; 31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (64 exposures) : negative (Rich. 92:18) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26111312 View

Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. Collection of Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1836-1941 (bulk 1847-1894).

Title: Collection of Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1836-1941 (bulk 1847-1894).

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

ArchivalResource: 2,394 items.41 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767525959 View

Documents for the history of nineteenth-century Los Angeles, 1846-1908, bulk 1846-1857.

Title: Documents for the history of nineteenth-century Los Angeles, 1846-1908, bulk 1846-1857.

The collection consists of letters, circulars, petitions, a jury verdict, and other documents, some in Spanish and some in English. Five of the documents are undated. All documents are manuscripts, with the exception of the 30 October 1908 announcement regarding the opening of the LaPetite Theatre (Box 1, Folder 7).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (19 items)1 oversized box (4 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57404160 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

Benjamin Davis Wilson Collection, 1836-1941, 1847-1894

Title: Benjamin Davis Wilson Collection 1836-1941 1847-1894

Collected business and personal correspondence relating to southern California landowner Benjamin Davis Wilson and his family. The collection also includes account books, diaries (kept by Wilson's wife Margaret and their daughters Annie and Ruth), and assorted ephemera. The Shorb and Patton families are also heavily represented in the correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 2,394 items

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