Records of Temple Oil Company, 1873-1910.

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Records of Temple Oil Company, 1873-1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697626063

The Temple Oil Company Records is comprised of ephemera, invoices, leases, deeds, letters of resignation, financial documents, receipts, proxies and resolutions. Prominent participants include Thomas Robert Bard, Prudent Beaudry, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and Francis Pliny F. Temple.

137 items.1 box.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Bard, Thomas Robert, 1841-1915

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Thomas Robert Bard (1841-1915), U.S. Senator from California from 1900 to 1905 and president of the Union Oil Company, was born in Pennsylvania where he studied law. He came to California in 1865 to take charge of the large land holdings of eastern owners in Ventura County and was instrumental in the subsequent development of land and petroleum in the area. Bard laid out the town of Hueneme, CA, and was involved in many Ventura County business ventures. From the description of Papers...

Beaudry, Prudent.

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Temple Oil Company.

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The Temple Oil Company was located in Los Angeles County. It was also known as the Temple Oil Boring Company and the Temple Oil Well Boring Company. C. Cabot was president and paymaster in the 1870s. From the description of Records of Temple Oil Company, 1873-1910. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 697626063 ...

Temple, Francis Pliny F., 1821-1880.

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...