Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

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Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

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The four volumes are entitled: 1. "Hastings Ranch - Chapman Tract;" 2. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, U.S. Govt Lands;" 3. "Hastings Ranch - Bailey Tract and U.S. Lands;" and 4. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, Sierra Madre Tract." The volumes contain handwritten and printed copies of the following documents: agreements, abstracts of title, land deeds, land grants (patents), legal documents, mortgages, plats, wills, tax documents, survey results, estate records, and inventories of property. The documents cover a 42-year history of Rancho Santa Anita and Hastings Ranch, California. All of the various owners of the property are represented in the volumes including: Hugo Reid, Henry Dalton, Lewis L. Bradbury, Alfred and William Chapman, Albert and Thomas Dibble, William Corbett, Lewis and William Wolfskill, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Leonard J. Rose, Joseph A. Rowe, and Charles Cook Hastings. More specifically there are several documents dealing with the estates of Hugo and Victoria Reid, the Chapmans, the Wolfskills and Charles Cook Hastings. There are also documents involving the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. Volume 4 includes one letter about a survey of the land.

4 bound volumes.

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Dalton, Henry, 1803-1884.

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Henry Dalton, California land owner, rancher, and businessman, was born in London and engaged in the coastal trade in Peru and Mexico before acquiring property in Southern California in 1843. After his purchase of Rancho Azusa in 1844, Dalton eventually became the owner of five adjacent ranches. During the Mexican War, Dalton supported the Mexican side and suffered damages and losses of livestock on his properties as a result. After the war he lost much of his land to squatters and in litigation...

Bradbury, L. L.

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Reid, Hugo, 1811?-1853

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Hastings, Charles M.

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Corbett, William A.

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Chapman, William, sheriff

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Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)

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The records offer a unique insight into the pre-statehood activities of the San Gabriel Mission, establish many facts concerning the individuals married at the Mission, and provide much genealogical detail for descendants. From the description of San Gabriel Mission matrimonial investigation records, 1788-1861. (Claremont Colleges Library). WorldCat record id: 668651328 Biography of Collection The San Gabriel Mission Matr...

Dibble, Thomas G

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Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878

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Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878), a native of Tennessee, was a pioneer California rancher and businessman who came to California from New Mexico in 1841 as a member of the Rowland-Workman party. He purchased the Jurupa Rancho (Riverside, Calif.) in 1843. In 1851-52 Wilson was elected the second mayor of Los Angeles, in 1852 he served as U.S. Indian Agent under Superintendent Edward F. Beale, and in 1855-57 and 1869-72 he served as state senator. He purchased Rancho de Cuati and adjacent land to...

Wolfskill, William.

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Rose, L. J. (Leonard John), 1827-1899

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Leonard John Rose was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1827. His family moved to the United States in 1839, where they lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and then moved to Waterloo, Illinois. Rose attended Shurtliff College in Alton, Illinois. He became a mercantilist, trading goods up and down the Mississippi River, and opened his own general store. Leonard John Rose married Amanda Markel Jones in Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa in 1851. They would have ten children: Annie (Sanderson), N...

Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California.

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Wolfskill, Lewis, 1848-1884.

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Lewis Wolfskill (1848-1884), Southern California rancher and businessman, was the son of the pioneer landowner, William Wolfskill, who had come to California in 1831. Lewis Wolfskill married Luisa Dalton, daughter of Henry Dalton, another ranch owner in the Los Angeles area. Wolfskill held extensive interests in ranching, mining, real estate, and other business ventures. In 1866 he inherited Rancho Santa Anita but sold it soon after. He conducted the affairs of Henry Dalton from 1873-75 and mana...

Chapman, Alfred, Rev.

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Dibble, Albert

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