Papers of Lewis Granger, 1851-1874.

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Papers of Lewis Granger, 1851-1874.

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The collection is made up of legal documents, correspondence, business receipts and miscellaneous notes. The legal documents include land deeds and leases for land in El Monte, California, and Los Angles County in general, and judicial records from various lawsuits in which Granger was involved; also included is a copy of an undated legal complaint against Benjamin D. Wilson. The correspondence, of which Lewis Granger and his wife Isabel are addressees, deals with land sales and money owned to the Grangers. A few pieces of the correspondence are personal in nature, but they are chiefly business related.

24 items.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 8219259

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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...

Granger, Lewis, 1819-1890

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Lewis Granger, lawyer and politician, was born in Ohio in 1819. In 1838 he graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania; he then went to Missouri where he practiced law. In 1849, the Granger family moved to Los Angeles where Lewis continued to practice law. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Granger was appointed District Attorney. In 1857, the Grangers moved north to Oroville, California. Granger served in the California state legislature and was the Receiver of the U.S. Land Office. He die...