Payne J. Shafter papers, 1876-1894.

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Payne J. Shafter papers, 1876-1894.

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Include letters to him from California State Prison at San Quentin and from Robert Dollar re his supplying them with wood, and from the California State Board of Agriculture re reward for his gelding Viking; accounts.

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Polland, W. Scott (Walter Scott), 1904-

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California State Prison at San Quentin

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California State Board of Agriculture.

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Shafter, Payne J.

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Dollar, Robert, 1844-1932

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Biography The founder of a vast lumber and shipping empire, Robert Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1844. He emigrated to Canada with his father in 1858 and started work as a cook's boy in a lumber camp. By 1866 he was foreman of a camp and, in 1871, bought his first piece of timber land. He continually enlarged his scope of operations, moving first to Michigan, and, in 1888, to California where he opened an office in San Francisco and...