Records of Adams & Co., post-1851-ca. 1885 (bulk 1855-1863).

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Records of Adams & Co., post-1851-ca. 1885 (bulk 1855-1863).

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The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.

750 pieces.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6697361

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King, James, 1822-1856

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Whiting, H. A.

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Richardson, Augustus G.

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Augustus G. Richardson, officer of the California Stage Company, was a resident of Sacramento, California. The California Stage Company was formed in Sacramento in 1854, with James E. Birch elected president and Frank Shaw Stevens as vice-president. In 1855, the company extended its lines into territory south of San Francisco, and when James Haworth replaced Birch as president in 1856, he promoted northward expansion of the lines. By 1860, the company had disposed of its southern lines and, oper...

Cohen, Alfred A. (Alfred Andrew), 1829-1887

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Alfred A. Cohen was an attorney in San Francisco and is the namesake of Cohen St. From the description of Alfred A. Cohen correspondence, 1871-1884 (bulk 1884). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 76685479 ...

Hoge & Wilson.

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Adams & Co. (Firm : San Francisco)

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Adams & Co. was a California branch of the eastern express firm of Adams & Company, founded in Boston in 1840. Successful throughout the state in the express and banking business, it was run by Daniel Hale Haskell and Isaiah Churchill Woods, with Adams as a special partner. The company closed down when the financial crisis of February 1855 forced it into receivership and numerous legal problems followed. From the description of Records of Adams & Co., post-1851-ca. 1885 (...

Woods, Isaiah Churchill, 1825-1880

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Cohen, Frederick R. (Frederick Ronald), 1945-

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Central Pacific Railroad Company

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Signed by Leland Stanford, President of the C.P.R.R. Co. and E.H. Miller, Jr., Secretary of the C.P.R.R. Co. From the description of Land sale document to Samuel Manning, 1870 Aug. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864271 California Central Railroad Company (CPRR); inc. 21 Apr. 1857; located at Folsom, Sacramento County; sold to Central Pacific Railroad, Nov. 10, 1864; in 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company (reorganized 1899 as Ce...