Ray Billingsley papers, 1870 - 1928 1886 - 1900.

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Ray Billingsley papers, 1870 - 1928 1886 - 1900.

This collection consists primarily of the professional records from Ray Billingsley's law practices from 1886-1904 in Santa Ana, California and his personal records from his other business interests, specifically Villa Park Orchards from 1887. Included are legal forms, handwriten notes and transactions, receipts, correspondence, and ephemera.

5.2 linear feet (13 document boxes)

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Billingsley, Ray 1854- .

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Ray Billingsley, a prominent lawyer and orchardist in Santa Ana, California at the turn of the 20th century, was born in 1854 at Richmond, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa and in 1879 received his LL.B. and began practicing law in Vinton, Iowa. He married Eleanor A. Patterson in 1882 and they moved to Orange County, California in the summer of 1886. They settled on 84 acres of land in Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana and named their house "Villa Park". The land was bought at $125 to $225 an ...

First Congregational Church of Villa Park (Calif.)

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Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana (Calif.).

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Meadows, Donella H

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Meadows was employed four seasons (1946-1949) as summer Naturalist in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park. From the description of A manual of the history and biology of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California : typescript, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863429 Don Meadows was a prominent Orange County historian and scholar. Meadows was born in Shoals, Indiana on October 20, 1897 and his family moved to Orange County, California in 1903....

Online Archive of California

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