Californian and Western manuscripts collection, ca. 1760-1963.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902

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James Mason Hutchings was born in 1824 in England. At sixteen years old he traveled to New Orleans and worked as a clerk in a business house there. When he heard about the gold discovery, he left New Orleans in April of 1849, determined to satisfy his craving for adventure by taking the overland route. He arrived at the "gold-diggings" on October 9, 1849. He mined, made his fortune, and lost it all when the San Francisco bank, Frank Ward & Co., failed. He then returned to mining. In 1853, Hu...

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

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Stephenson, Terry E. (Terry Elmo), 1880-1943

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Typed notes and photographs collected by Terry E. Stephenson but not used in his 1941 biography of Don Bernardo Yorba. Includes a transcript of an article on Historic Yorba from the Daily and Weekly Blade, World's Fair Edition, June 1893. The photographs include those of a painting of Bernardo Yorba, the San Antonio Adobe, a panorama of the Bernardo Yorba homeplace at San Antonio, the Don Leonardo Cota Adobe, and the Chapel San Antonio, each with detailed captions. From the descripti...

Holton, Susan Burlingame.

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Zamara, Epigmenio.

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Waterman, Edwin R.

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Wheeler, Alfred, 1822-1903

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Wheeler became a prominent lawyer, of San Francisco, Calif., and the author of Land titles of San Francisco (1852). From the description of Journal of a gold hunter's voyage round Cape Horn : ms, 1849 May 21-Nov. 12. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122444174 Wheeler was a San Francisco attorney and landowner. From the description of Alfred Wheeler miscellany, 1851. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122563725 From t...

Wells, Fargo & Company

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Wells, Fargo & Company was founded in 1852 by Henry Wells and William G. Fargo. Wells and Fargo had also established the American Express Company with John Butterfield in 1850. In 1857 Wells Fargo, American Express, Adams Express, and United States Express formed the Overland Mail Company, which Wells Fargo took over in the early 1860s. Nat Stein served as Director of Wells Fargo from 1901-1902. From the description of Letters and receipts relating to Wells, Fargo & Company, ...

Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870

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Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts state senator, 1852; congressman, 1855-1860; U.S. minister to Peking, China, 1860-1867. From the description of Letter : Washington, [D.C], to W[illia]m L. Lincoln, 1860 June 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27988840 Anson Burlingame was American envoy to China. The city of Burlingame, Calif., was named in his honor by William C. Ralston. From the description of Anson Burlingame papers,...

Jones, William Carey, 1854-1923

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William Carey Jones, 1854-1923, served as the founder and first director of the School of Jurisprudence of the University of California. Prior to the founding of that school in 1912, he served on the faculty of the Departments of Latin and History, as well as the Department of Jurisprudence, founded at the University of California in 1894, largely through Jones' efforts. Jones also served the University of California in many administrative and advisory capacities, and authored The Illustrated Hi...

Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945

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Hiram Johnson was the governor of California, 1911-1917, a United States Senator from California, 1917-1945, and a leader in the Progressive Party. From the description of Hiram Johnson papers, 1895-1945. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 82192663 Hiram Johnson served as governor of Calif. (1911-1917), Progressive candidate for Vice President of the U.S. (1912), and U.S. Senator from Calif. (1917-1945). From the description of Hiram Johnso...

Borel, M. Antoine, 1840-1915.

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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...

Borel, Alfred and Co.

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Wright, William Lawton.

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Whitney, Anita, 1867-1955

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Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882

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Tilden, Charles L.

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Hichborn, Franklin, 1869-1963

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Franklin Hichborn, historian, writer and lecturer on politics, was born in California in 1869. He was editor of the San Jose Herald as well as the author of several publications regarding political corruption in California including The system : as uncovered by the San Francisco graft prosecution, which was published in 1913. From the description of Correspondence of Franklin Hichborn, 1925-1955. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 12244...

Melville, Frederick John, 1882-1940

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Author. From the description of The king's hobby : literary manuscript, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980909 ...