Records of the California State Parks Council

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

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Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War, and various conflicts with Native Americans. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 presidential election, but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. He was known as Old Fuss and Feathers for his insi...

Stevenot, Fred G.

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Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-

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Conservationist. From the description of Parks and Redwoods, 1919-1971 : oral history, 1972. With introductions by Horace M. Albright and DeWitt Nelson. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445603 From the description of Reminiscences of Newton Bishop Drury : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744063 Drury (1889-1978), served as director of the National Park Service from 1940 to 1950. From the descripti...

State Parks Association of California

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California State Parks Council.

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History The California State Parks Council (known originally as the California State Parks Committee) was formed in January 1925 to urge legislation which would give California a comprehensive state park program. The change in nomenclature was made in 1927. The Save-the-Redwoods League furnished headquarters and general office facilities for the Council, and Newton B. Drury, secretary of the League undertook the direction of the legislative c...

Yard, Robert Sterling

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Epithet: Editor of' The Century Magazine' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x00017d ...

Breed, Arthur Hastings, 1865-1953.

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Chandler, Harry, 1864-1944

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Harry Chandler was the son-in-law of Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. From the description of Letter of invitation to a luncheon to discuss the building of the Army-Navy YMCA building, 1924, May 12. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446591 ...

Reynolds, G. E.

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William & Colby

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Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975

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Sproul was at this time the president of the University of California; according to Alma's letter, he was a personal acquaintance of General Mark Clark, the U.S. high commissioner in Austria in the immediate postwar period. Ida was Robert's wife. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864521 Personal correspondence and papers as President and President Emeritus of the U...

Redwood Empire Association

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Jones, Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin), 1880-1970.

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Lawyer and state legislator (1913-1934) from San Jose, California. From the description of Herbert C. Jones papers, 1921-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122560460 Herbert C. Jones was born in Wichita on June 24, 1884. In 1915, while working for his father at the Jones Milling Company, Jones established the first bus line in Wichita by equipping a 1915 Ford with a wooden body that could hold up to 70 people. Jones operated the Wichita Motor Bus Company until...

Lubin, Simon Julius, 1876-1936

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Simon Lubin, son of David Lubin (1849-1919), was a labor and agricultural economist, social worker, and educator. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1903, after having studied economics and philosophy. As a businessman, he ran Weinstock and Lubin, Inc. As the president of the California State Immigration and Housing Commission (1913-1923), he worked to improve the conditions in agricultural labor camps, developed an educational program for aliens, mediated and investigated labor disput...

California Forest Protective Association.

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Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945

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Professor of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley. From the description of John C. Merriam papers, 1904-1934. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 81162069 Paleontologist, educator, and author. From the description of Papers of John C. Merriam, 1899-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78407628 Biographical Note 1869 ...

Young, Clement Calhoun, 1869-1947.

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Biography Clement Calhoun Young was born in New Hampshire on April 28, 1869, and moved to California with his family the following year. He taught at Lowell High School in San Francisco, serving as head of the English Department and becoming the author of a textbook on English. In 1902 he married Lyla J. Vincent in San Francisco. He resigned from school work in 1906 and went into real estate development. He served in the California State Asse...

Tubbs, Tallant

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Wagner, Harr, 1857-1936

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California historian and publisher. From the description of Harr Wagner correspondence, 1899-1903. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26517093 ...

Melville W. Erskine

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Erskine, Melville W

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Sierra Club, San Francisco

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Goethe, C. M. (Charles Matthias), 1875-1966

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Biography / Administrative History Charles M. Goethe was born in Sacramento. He was a public activist for civic causes, land developer, scientist, and influential member of eugenics associations. From the guide to the Charles M. Goethe papers, 1875-1970, 1907-1970, (California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.) ...

Commonwealth Club of California.

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Private nonprofit organization for the study of public issues, based in San Francisco, California. From the description of Commonwealth Club of California records, 1903-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872782 Historical Note The Commonwealth Club of California is a private, nonprofit organization for the nonpartisan study of public issues based in San Francisco, California. It was founded on February 3, 1903, by Sa...

Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-

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Conservationist. From the description of Parks and Redwoods, 1919-1971 : oral history, 1972. With introductions by Horace M. Albright and DeWitt Nelson. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445603 From the description of Reminiscences of Newton Bishop Drury : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744063 Drury (1889-1978), served as director of the National Park Service from 1940 to 1950. From the descripti...

Boynton, Albert E, 1875-

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Gregg, John William, 1880-1969

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John W. Gregg (1880-1969) was the first full professor and the director of UC Berkeley's Division of Landscape Gardening and Floriculture upon its establishment in 1913. He served as director of the school and primarily taught design and planning courses until his retirement in 1947. His activities outside of teaching included consulting Landscape Architect for the UC Berkeley campus in 1926, for UCLA in 1930, and for the Bureau of Reclamation on the "All American Canal" project in Imperial Vall...

Brackenridge, William Algernon

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Albright, Horace M. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987

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Second director of U.S. National Park Service, 1929-1933; conservationist, industrialist. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1949-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526451 Conservationist. From the description of Reminiscences of Horace Marden Albright : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309720604 From the description of Reminiscences of Ho...

California State Parks Association

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Jepson, Willis Linn

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Cheney, Charles Henry, 1884-1943

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Cheney was an Architect and town planner. From the description of Charles H. Cheney papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122514477 ...

Yard, Robert Sterling

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Epithet: Editor of' The Century Magazine' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x00017d ...

National Conference on State Parks

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Torrey, Raymond H.

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San Joaquin Valley Tourist and Travel Association

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Mather, Stephen Tyng, 1867-1930

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Biographical Sketch Stephen Tyng Mather, first director of the U.S. National Park Service, was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1867. Here he attended the Boys High School, and went on to the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1887. His interest in journalism led to his first job as a cub reporter on the New York Sun in September of that year. He left this employment shortly after his marriage to Jane Thacker Floy in 1893 to ...

Wing, Charles B.

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California academy of sciences

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Phelps, Ralph L., 1880-1957.

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Charles A. Whitmore.

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Grant, Madison, 1865-

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Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974

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Farquhar was born on Dec. 31, 1887 in Newton, MA; AB, Harvard Univ., 1909; became public accountant in Boston and San Francisco, 1909-59; also served as an accountant with the US National Park Service, 1922-25; president of the California Academy of Sciences, and California Historical Society; president of the Sierra Club, and editor of the Bulletin, 1926-46; president, California State Board of Accountancy, 1953-54; recipient of the John Muir award for conservation, 1965; made expeditions to Mt...

Native Sons of the Golden West

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National Parks Association

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Crocker, William H. (William Henry)

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William Crocker was a painter and paper hanger in Worcester, Ma. From the description of Account book, 1835-1845. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122559345 ...

Abbott, Clinton G. (Clinton Gilbert), 1881-1946

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Save-the-Redwoods League

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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Natural History Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego

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California Development Association

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E. J. Murphy

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Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932

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Barton Warren Evermann was a botanist who collected in Alaska, Idaho, and Indiana in the late 19th century. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_298_pid_EACP295 Biographical note Barton Warren Evermann, educator, scientist, and long-time director of the California Academy of Sciences, was born on October 24, 1853 in Monroe County, Iowa. Evermann's family moved to Indiana while he...

McDuffie, Duncan

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Knowland, Joseph R. (Joseph Russell), 1873-1966

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Owner of Oakland tribune. From the description of Joseph Russell Knowland papers, 1889-1961. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122558878 Biography Born in Alameda on 5 August 1873, Joseph Russell Knowland was one of the best known figures in the public life of California during the first half of the 20th century. His parents were among the first settlers to move west, and established a successful lumber...

Deering, Tam

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Merriam, John Campbell

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Sacramento Region Citizens Council

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J. D. Grant

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Colby, William Edward, 1875-1964

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Biographical Sketch William Edward Colby was born in Benicia, California, in 1875. His mother, Caroline Amelia (Smith) Colby, had been a teacher in the Young Ladies Seminary, and his father, Gilbert Winslow Colby, was a `49er, merchant, state assemblyman and state senator. After attending public schools in Benicia and Berkeley, Colby was graduated from the Hastings College of Law in 1898. He began his practice in San Francisco and soon specia...

Williamson, C. J.

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Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971

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Ralph W. Chaney was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at the University of Chicago. From 1922 he was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution and from 1931 a professor of paleobotany at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for his ecological approach to paleobotany. From 1943 he was a member of the U.S. National Park Service Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and from 1928 a member and officer of the Save the Redwoods League. ...

Mulford, Walter

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Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949

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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949), physician and educator, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1929 to 1933. From the description of Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582818 American educator; United States secretary of the interior, 1929-1933; president, Stanford University, 1916-1943. From the description of Ray Lyman Wilbur papers, 1906-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867219 ...

Charles B. Wing.

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