Four California certified public accountants : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1958-1959 by Francis P. Farquhar for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1968 : and related material, 1958-1968.

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Four California certified public accountants : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1958-1959 by Francis P. Farquhar for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1968 : and related material, 1958-1968.

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Interviews with Harry J. Cooper (23 l.), John F. Forbes (15 l.), James E. Hammond (23 l.), and Anson Herrick (22 l.). Recollections of early days of public accounting in California, their own careers, and the formation of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Herrick's interview also comments on the San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds following the 1906 disaster and the accounting procedures used in the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. Included also is an issue of the California CPA Quarterly (Sept. 1959) containing excerpts from the interviews.

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, Cal. in 1915, where Illinois had a visitors' building. From the description of Register of visitors, Feb. 1915-Dec. 1915. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393876 History of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Officials from the Exposition printed postcards for the ...

Hammond, James Edward, 1895-

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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...

Cooper, Harry J.

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Herrick, Anson, 1883-

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Forbes, John Franklin, 1876-1965.

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John Franklin Forbes, born on Mar. 24, 1876 in Wilmington, Calif., died on July 5, 1965 in Ross, Calif. Forbes was educated in law and accounting. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley in accounting and auditing from 1907-1940. From the description of John Franklin Forbes papers, 1874-1968. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84658111 ...

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....