Papers, 1911-1973.

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Papers, 1911-1973.

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Collection consists of Irwin E. Farrar's autobiography and related research materials. Includes correspondence from many California political figures, such as Governors Edmund G. Brown and Ronald Reagan, as well as from state and national legislators. Also includes materials about Farrar's political interests, his personal life, and business activities related to sugar beet experiments and his years as a bank director. Contains materials related to his involvement with water issues and the California State Water Project.

13 boxes (6.5 linear ft.)2 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401475

University of California, Los Angeles

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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)

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Farrar, Irwin E., 1893-1983.

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Irwin Elmer Farrar was born in 1893 near Camarillo, CA; attended Univ. of Southern Calif. and Stanford Law School; admitted to the CA bar and began practicing law in 1916; became president of Sierra Alfalfa Company, and later of the Farrar-Loomis Seed Company, experimenting with a new kind of sugar beet and seed; secretary, Corona Chamber of Commerce; founded Hemet chapter of Chamber of Commerce in 1919; in 1944 he became interested in water seepage from San Jacinto tunnel of the Metropolitan Wa...

California State Water Project

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