City Hotel mortgage settlement with James Lick and related material, 1848 and 1940.

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City Hotel mortgage settlement with James Lick and related material, 1848 and 1940.

Agreement by which a mortgage of $5,000 on the City Hotel was made and eventually cancelled and a letter transmitting the same as a gift to the University Archives via F.C. Stevens on behalf of Robert Sproul from George A. Merrill of the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6683241

California Digital Library

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Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848

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William A. Leidesdorff, early California trader and official, was born in the Danish West Indies of a Danish father and mulatto mother. In 1841 he came to California as master of the ship "Julia Ann." He engaged in trade between Hawaii and San Francsico, and afterwards began a general exporting business in San Francisco. Leidesdorff became a Mexican citizen in 1844 and received a grant for Rancho Rio de los Americanos, east of Fort Sutter. The next year he was appointed vice-consul of the United...

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...

Stevens, F. C.

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Merrill, George A. (George Arthur), 1866-

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City Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Lick, James, 1796-1876

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Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts (San Francisco, Calif.)

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