Stuart, Reginald R. (Reginald Ray), 1882-

Collection displays letterheads and forms used in 19th century by Wells, Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo, founded 1852, was formed chiefly to transport gold dust and other valuables between California mining frontier and eastern seaboard. By 1866 Wells Fargo had 147 stations within California and controlled traffic between Salt Lake City and San Francisco.

From the description of Stuart Transportation Documents, 1859-1899. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 34661252

Author, historian, educator, realtor and collector. Stuart taught school in Oakland, Calif. (1914-1947). Subsequently, he became a realtor in partnership with first wife, Grace Harris. Stuart acquired property in Saratoga, Calif. that he later gave to Boy Scouts of America. Transactions involving this land, known as Camp Stuart, are described in papers. From 1940 collected books, documents, reminiscences and photographs pertaining to history of California, Oregon and the West. Stuart became Director of the Pacific Center for Western Studies at the University of the Pacific (1956) and first editor of the "Pacific Historian." Following the death of his wife (1966), Stuart retired and moved to Alameda County. There he married Winifred Bendel, one of the founders of Fremont, Calif. Stuart published several monographs on local history, including "San Leandro, A History" (1951) and "Tully Knoles of Pacific" (1956).

From the description of Reginald Ray Stuart papers. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 35247894

These materials were created by farmers, merchants, house-wives and politicians of 19th century Oregon. Many, though not all, involve the typical small exchanges of money and real property that characterize the lives of middle class people in any age. Some of the individuals represented here held state office during the first twenty years of Oregon statehood.

From the description of Oregon historical manuscripts collection, 1844-1937, 1850-1870. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 35348328

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The first user of this multi-use ledger was the Occidental Market of Portland, Oregon, which was operated by G.V. Marshall and Louis Jantzen. Occidental sold meats to grocers and hotels. Establishments doing business with Occidental included the Washington, Shakspear and Union Hotels, the California House, and the Franklin Market. In the fall of 1868 Marshall moved his business to Albany, Oregon. Here his principal customers were Frenchy Meats and the Empire Restaurant. Marshall appears to have ceased business operations in December 1868.

School District #50, Douglas County, Oregon, was newly formed in February, 1871. The first act of the trustees was to select a school site. This location was "on the south side of Mill Creek east of the road leading from Coles Valley to Roseburg." The building erected on that site subsequently became known as the Cleveland School. This ledger contains the record of each annual meeting of the District #50 trustees from the date of organization of the district through 1888. District records occupy this ledger. They were probably kept by F.M. Good, the Board clerk.

Cleveland, Oregon is situated on the Umpqua River about four miles south of Coles Valley. In 1884 the settlement had a post office, a general store, and a mill "all kept by Mr. F.M. Good." According to Walling's History of Southern Oregon (1884), under the school at Cleveland was begun in 1872 under the directorship of George B. Yale. When Walling's history was published, Cleveland school had forty-eight pupils.

The Cleveland Lodge No. 175 of Good Templars was organized in November, 1872. This group is not mentioned in 19th century Oregon local histories, but it seems to have been a coeducational social club with some interest in the temperance movement. The records in this volume consist of a list of charter members and the minutes of meetings held in 1872 and 1873. The business of Templars' meetings seems to have centered on nominations for membership, initiation of members, preparation of regalia, election of officers, and the reading of papers pertaining to temperance issues.

From the guide to the Oregon Multi-Use 19th c. Ledger, 1867-1888, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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George Chase, was Deputy Treasurer of Alameda County. He was born in Newburyport, Mass. (1841), a son of Moses and Emily (Stickney) Chase. The Chase family subsequently settled in Brooklyn (Clinton), Calif., now part of Oakland. The father of George Chase came to California in 1849. There, he supported himself on West Oakland Point by hunting. He joined in partnership with the Patten brothers and obtained land in Clinton which they subdivided into building lots. They built the first hotel in East Oakland, called the Clinton House. Moses Chase returned East in 1853 to visit family and in his absence the Clinton House burned. He returned to California the same year. Son George came to California (1854) in company with his aunt Mary and her husband, James Allen. George's mother, Emily (Stickney) Chase, had died when George was a baby.

Upon his arrival (1856) George Chase worked as an assistant to the toll-collector on Oakland's Twelfth Street Bridge. Meanwhile, he attended preparatory school at Durant College. Later, Chase worked with his father on a sloop the latter used in freighting goods to San Francisco. At eighteen, George learned the trade of carriage-painter with A. H. Cochran and was in business with Cochran for a year (1860). He then went to work for Bangle Brothers, carriage-painters, and, from 1865, was a house painter for them. In 1867 he and his old partner, A.H. Cochran, formed the firm of Cochran & Chase. Chase traveled East via Panama (1868-1869) visiting his three Stickney aunts in Newburyport, going also to Portland, to Hallowell, Me., and to Boston. He returned to California after five months and began a new contracting/painting partnership with the Bangle brothers. The firm continued in business until George Chase had an injury to his ankle (1878). He then became a copyist under P.R. Borein, County Recorder (1878-1881) and was later appointed Deputy Treasurer of Alameda County (1881 to at least 1892). He was married in Clinton (1869) to Miss Mandana E. Boynton (Danie of his letters), who was born in Hallowell, Maine, about 1843. They had three children: Mary Emily (b. 1870), George Moses (b. 1873), and Albert Boynton (b. 1879).

From the guide to the George Chase, Alameda County (Calif.) Papers, 1802-1911, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Reginald R. Stuart (1882-1975) was a California realtor, teacher, historian, book collector and author. From 1956 until 1965 he was Director of the California History Foundation and the Center for Western Studies at the University of the Pacific. He published How Firm a Foundation; a centennial history of the First Methodist Church, San Leandro, California (1953), A History of the Fred Finch Children's Home, oldest Methodist home for children in California (1955), Tully Knoles of Pacific (1956), Calvin B. West of the Umpqua (1961), and Corridor Country: An Interpretive History of the Amador-Livermore Valley (1966).

Stuart had a lifelong interest in Oregon history and apparently collected items related to this interest over many years. The materials in this collection constitute a random assortment of business and personal papers, including correspondence, bills of sale, deeds, work orders, stock certificates, receipts, and a biographical sketch. These materials date from 1844 to 1937, although the majority predate 1870.

In 1958, during his tenure as Director of the Center for Western Studies, Reginald Stuart donated over 20,000 items to the University of the Pacific Libraries. These materials were a small portion of that donation.

From the guide to the Stuart Oregon History Collection, 1844-1937, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Frederick E. Lockley (b. 1871) was a Portland, Oregon journalist, editor, author, and antiquarian book dealer. Starting as a newspaper carrier boy, he was a printer, pressman, reporter, and manager of several Oregon newspapers. Lockley was the general manager of Pacific Monthly Magazine, Portland (1905-1910) and editorial writer and columnist on the Oregon Journal (1911-ca. 1950). He was also the author or editor of a number of histories including Oregon Trail Blazers (1929), Oregon's Yesterdays (1928), Vigilante Days at Virginia City (1924), To Oregon by Ox-Team in '47 (1924?) and others. Specializing in Pacific Northwest history, he bought and sold books.

From the guide to the Frederick E. Lockley Papers, 1913-1950, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Wert Emmit Moore was an Oregon, Washington, and California educator and Mayor of Grants Pass, Oregon. His father was Glaudius Wilbur Moore, whose family had settled in Marysville, California in the early 1850s. Glaudius Moore went to Texas to "ride the range" when but fifteen and there met and married Annie E. Buttery. The couple had three children, Wert Moore being the eldest (b.1878). The family moved to Silver City, New Mexico (1882), where Glaudius Moore prospected for gold, then to Oregon (1885), where Moore's father again sought gold. From 1887 to 1889 the family farmed on several Eastern Oregon land claims, then, in 1890, the Moores moved to Gardiner, Oregon, where the father was proprietor of a hotel. Wert went to school in Gardiner and became interested in pioneer history. In 1892 the Moores moved to Drain, Oregon, where Glaudius was again a hotel proprietor. The family remained there until 1937, although Glaudius Moore left at times to prospect in Montana and Canada. In June 1899 Wert Moore graduated from the Central Oregon State Normal School. He then began a teaching career as head teacher at Lebam, Washington. In his subsequent early career he was Principal at Toledo and Kalama, Wash. and County High School, Enterprise, Oregon. He then taught at Puyallup High School, Wash., was Principal at Washington School, Olympia, Wash. and a high school teacher at Everett, Wash.

From 1915 to 1937 Moore was employed in the Oakland (Calif.) Public Schools. His different positions included: teacher at Oakland Technical High School; teacher at the Evening High School; Penmanship Supervisor in city schools; Principal, Oakland Evening High School; Director of Americanization Classes in schools; Principal of Longfellow School; teacher at Roosevelt School; and, Instructor at Merritt Business School. For six years he was a member of the Summer Session faculty at the University of California, both in Berkeley and in Los Angeles.

Moore earned an D.Ed. from the University of California at Berkeley following his retirement (1937). In 1941 he settled in Grants Pass, Oregon. There he served as Manager of the Chamber of Commerce; Mayor; Superintendent of Josephine County General Hospital; President of the Southern Oregon Hospitalization Board; and Chairman of the County Tax Budget Committee. He resigned as Mayor of Grants Pass to accept a position at Oregon State College in Corvallis. Moore and his wife, Martha Catherine, had four children: Elsie Bell Moore Abbott; Minnie Mona Moore Marsh; May Moore Smith; and, Wilbur Ransford Moore.

From the guide to the Wirt E. Moore Papers, 1899-1949, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Between 1870 and 1940, J.L. Stratton and family lived in Ottawa (Kan.), while A.M. Stratton and family farmed in Veronia, Columbia County, Carlton, Yamhill County (Ore.) and Oakland (Calif.). The Oregon towns were established in approximately 1875. A detailed history of Veronia can be found in the Portland Journal (3/29/31). A history of Columbia County by Adolph Chapples was published in the Commonwealth Review (11/38).

From the guide to the Stratton Family Collection, 1900-1941, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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John L. Shiman and his wife Johanna J. Shiman came to California from Germany in the mid-19th century. John Shiman settled at San Lorenzo, Alameda county, where he operated a general merchandise store, and, in 1857, became first postmaster. For about twelve years he was in partnership with Lewis Lengfeld (1853-c1865) then remained in business for himself until his death in 1898.

During the 1870s Shiman purchased substantial tracts of agricultural land east of San Lorenzo and north of San Lorenzo Creek where he grew cherries. He was one of the first California growers to ship fruit east by refrigerator railroad car.

By the 1880s Shiman apparently owned stores in San Leandro, Mt. Eden and San Lorenzo. His Mt. Eden store stood on the north corner of present-day Hesperian Boulevard and Jackson Street. Shiman's insurance accounts reveal that he also owned a butcher shop and a cobbler shop, as well as residential properties in Oakland and southern Alameda county. From the late 1880s, three of his four sons, Louis G., William J. and Lorenzo also participated in the operation of the various family businesses. The original Shiman Store in San Lorenzo ceased operations after 1901.

Southern Alameda county seems first to have been a German enclave, although by 1900 it was probably more widely known as a Portuguese colony. Many of the important pioneers of southern Alameda county--especially those with German and Portuguese surnames--did business with John L. Shiman. Biographies of nine of these individuals, including Edward Clawiter, Justus Gading, J.H. Gansberger, William Meek, Henry Meininger, George S. Meyer, Erik Ruus, and A.W. Schafer, are to be found in various histories of Alameda county.

From the guide to the Shiman Family Papers, 1859-1921, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Jackson County (Ore.) is the southernmost county in that state. Apart from the Rogue River Valley, a region well-suited to deciduous orchard crops, it is largely mountainous, forested terrain. The county, one of the last in Oregon to be settled, was organized (1852) following a gold strike. Its 19th century county seat was Jacksonville, near the present-day city of Medford. Most of the documents in this collection bear the signatures of long-time County Treasurer, David Linn (1855-1867), or of one of two early County Clerks, William Hoffman (1860-1866) and W.H. Hyde (1867-1870). Local businesses such as: J.A. Brunner, Sachs Bros. and Anderson & Glenn [dry goods]; T.S. Pomeroy, Henry Denlinger and B.F. Dowell [printers]; and, Comstock & Cawley Livery Stables are frequently represented by bills for goods delivered. Many early residents are named in lists of road crews and delinquent taxpayers.

From the guide to the Jackson County (Ore.) Records, 1853-1891, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) was a Mormon publisher and attorney who lent travel necessaries to Salt Lake City emigrants. He was later part of a delegation that petitioned the U.S. government for Utah statehood (1872), subsequently serving Utah Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives (1872-1880) until barred from his seat for practising polygamy. [Ms2.C226]

Heber Jeddy Grant (1855-1945) was President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for twenty-seven years (1918-1945). Before becoming President, he successfully led the fight in Utah for prohibition of alcoholic beverages (1908). Under Grant's leadership the Mormon Church experienced considerable material growth, especially duing the 1920s. His conservative views on religion and politics, however, alienated the liberal wing of his church during the Great Depression and several of the candidates he supported for political office during this period were defeated. [Ms2.G762]

From the guide to the Small Mormon Collections, 1860; 1918, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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The Burrells were a pioneer family of Santa Clara County, California. Lyman J. Burrell was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts(1801). By 1816 his family had moved to Lorain County Ohio and in 1839 he there married Clarissa Wright (1805-1857).

Clarissa had attended Oberlin College. Her brother, Elizur, Jr., a Yale graduate, was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Western Reserve University, national secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society (1833-40) and an editor of abolitionist journals. He was associated as an editor with William Lloyd Garrison and with John Greenleaf Whittier. Besides his reforming interests (woman suffrage and insurance laws protecting policy holders) Elizur was a translator of La Fontaine's fables, and, the first Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts. He is remembered today as the "Father of American Life Insurance." Two of Clarissa Wright Burrell's sisters married ministers and two were wives of Doctors. Her youngest brother, James, became a Presbyterian minister and subsequently migrated to California (1869).

The Burrells had three children, a son, Birney (b. 1840), and two daughters, Martha and Clara. In 1849 Lyman Burrell went overland to California for gold. In the winter of 1850-51 Burrell returned to Ohio with $2,000 in gold dust. A year later he returned to California to farm near Alviso, renting land from Cary Peebels (1852) and the following year from James Lick. His wife and children joined him there in early 1853. Burrell soon decided, however, that the South Bay climate was harmful to his wife, and, with his land titles hopelessly unresolved, he homesteaded in the Santa Cruz Mountains. These hills, bordering the coastal valleys, lay outside any Spanish land grant and were therefore public domain. Although the Burrell family soon experienced prosperity, they also faced hard work, a frugal life-style and ill health. Clarissa did not improve and died sometime in 1857.

Reginald R. Stuart obtained access to the Burrell family papers and created this collection of transcriptions in the course of publishing some of Clarissa Wright Burrell's letters in the California Historical Society Quarterly, 28:4; 29:1 & 2 (1949-1950). Stuart later republished those items bearing an "*" in the container list as a monograph titled, The Burrell Letters: Including Excerpts from Birney Burrell's Diary and "Reminiscences of an Octogenarian"; A Contribution to Santa Clara County History from the Original Manuscripts (1950). This publication includes a few photographs of the family not found in Ms132. A part of the collection has also appeared in the Summit (Calif.) Literary Society's irregularly published periodical Mountain Echoes or in the Redwood Social Club's Mountain Messenger.

From the guide to the Burrell Family Papers, 1824-1882, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Prominent wholesale hardware firm created (1871) after a merger between two Pacific Northwest businessmen, Henry W. Corbett & Henry Failing. Corbett also served one term as U.S. Senator from Oregon (1867-1873). Many of their goods were shipped by clipper ships and other transportation systems under their control.

From the guide to the Corbett, Failing & Co. (Portland, Ore.) Records, 1851-1898, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)

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Frank G. Wall (1852-1939) was a Hardin County, Iowa farmer. He corresponded with other farmers (generally relatives) in his home state, as well in New York, Kansas and Washington State (1871-1922), on topics related to farming and rural life.

From the guide to the Wall (Frank G.) Correspondence, 1871-1922, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)