Collection, ca. 1870-1890.

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Collection, ca. 1870-1890.

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Correspondence and clippings, including numerous articles and speeches made by Widney on a variety of topics with which he became involved throughout his career. Includes materials pertaining to proposals to divide California into two states, Wilmington/San Pedro harbor improvements, education (including a proposals of a State university at Elysian Park), medicine and climate in California, transportation development in Southern California. Correspondents include Leland Stanford.

l box ; 40 x 27 x 13 cm.1 v. ; 45 cm.

Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Foundation, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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SNAC Resource ID: 6864204

Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Foundation, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 1846-1923.

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Ohio-born doctor and educator, moved to San Francisco in 1862 where he attended Toland Medical College. He then went to Los Angeles, where he became the city's first health officer; joined his brother (Judge Robert M. Widney) in founding the University of Southern California, of which he became the second president; and, as a civic leader, worked to develop San Pedro as the city's harbor. [Hart, Companion to California.] At various times served as President of the Los Angeles Board of Education ...

Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

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Lawyer born in Albany, New York but moved to California where he became active in the Republican Party, running for governor and losing in 1860. Later president of the Union Pacific Railroad and founder of Stanford University. From the description of Letter, March 14, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662301 Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Waltervliet Township, New York. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1848 and married Ja...