Frank Colton Havens papers, 1881-1935.

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Frank Colton Havens papers, 1881-1935.

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Relating mainly to his real estate developments in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, Calif., and association with Francis Marion ("Borax") Smith, Wm. J. Dingee and Horace W. Carpentier. Records for the Piedmont Development Company, Hotel Claremont Company, Realty Syndicate, Peoples' Water Company and other enterprises, included. Some reflect participation of his nephew, George Sterling. Also, ledger, 1881-1883: transactions of Havens & Company, stockbrokers, San Francisco. With these, correspondence and papers of Mrs. Havens relating to settlement of her husband's estate and her own association with the Villa Site and Development Company. Added to the papers; (Box IV): copy of report by Henry A. Lafler on water and water companies in Oakland, 1866-1910; album prepared by the Business Men's Club of Oakland, 1962, on Havens' tree planting in the hill area and other tree planting data for Alameda County; file of related maps from Havens' papers.

Originals : 8 v. (in 4 pkgs.) and 4 boxes.Copy of Key to the collection; Cash book of Smith ? Francis Marion Smith correspondence; Ballard audit : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 745 : 1) and positive.Copy of Claremont Hotel (4 folders) , Contra Costa Property, Frank C. Havens Estate (2 folders) (Box 1); Miscellaneous, Piedmont Development Company, Piedmont Properties, Real Estate Combine (Box 2); Wildwood, Villa Site and Development Company (Box 3) : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3027) and positive.

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Smith, Francis Marion, 1846-1931

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Prospector, miner, civic builder, philanthropist, and sportsman, known as the "Borax King," who built a large estate on Shelter Island. From the description of Papers, 1900-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155556664 ...

Hotel Claremont Company (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Piedmont Development Company.

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Carpentier, Horace W., 1824-1918

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Horace W. Carpentier was born in 1824. He was one of the first Mayors of Oakland, a California Assemblyman of 1853, and once owned great land holdings in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. He built the first schoolhouse in Oakland. From the description of Autobiography and Reminiscence of Horace W. Carpentier, New York, 1901. (The Society of California Pioneers). WorldCat record id: 55979255 ...

Villa Site and Development Company.

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Online Archive of California

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Havens, Lila Mandana Rand.

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Sterling, George, 1869-1926

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California poet. From the description of Papers of George Sterling [manuscript] 1910-27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944409 American poet. From the description of To Ruth Chatterton : typed poem signed, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445441 From the description of Letter, San Francisco, Ca. to Norbert Hyatt, Hartford, Ct. [manuscript] 1922 March 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944413 George Sterli...

Havens, Frank Colton, 1848-1917.

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Biography Frank Colton Havens (1848-1917) a native of Sag Harbor, New York, came to California in 1866, after a year's shipping experience in China. At first employed by the Savings and Loan Society in San Francisco, he formed a stock brokerage firm about 1880 in partnership with Van Dyke Hubbard. He also organized several insurance and investment firms previous to his organization of the Realty Syndicate in 1895 in association with F. M. ("B...

Havens, Frank Colton, Mrs.

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Peoples' Water Company.

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Realty Syndicate Company.

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Business Men's Garden Club, Oakland, Calif.

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Dingee, William J.

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Lafler, Henry Anderson.

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Henry Anderson Lafler was a San Francisco poet and author. From the description of Correspondence of Henry Anderson Lafler, 1905-1906. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122383249 ...