Miller & Lux records : relating to Bloomfield Farm, 1860-1961.

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Miller & Lux records : relating to Bloomfield Farm, 1860-1961.

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Included are general correspondence, 1922-1926, among company officials; newspaper articles regarding the history of Miller and Lux, Inc. and the celebrated 1954 Trust fraud case; a sketch of the Poso Farm house plan; a report on the registered cattle herd; a handwritten reminiscence ("A Charcoal Portrait") by an unidentified employee; a soil strata chart for a proposed well; a transcript of president Ulysses S. Grant's settlement of the Las Animas land claim; a wage scale for hired help; a letter from a creditor addressed to company founder Henry Miller, and an 1860 daily journal of farm finances kept by Miller.

2 boxes (.4 linear ft.).

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Miller & Lux

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Cattle ranching and land company firm; formed in 1858, as a partnership of Henry Miller and Charles Lux, German immigrants and former competitors in the butcher business of San Francisco. From the description of Miller & Lux records, 1897-1919. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 123945376 Started by Henry Miller and Charles Lux, Miller & Lux was involved in the cattle industry in California, buying huge swaths of land, including Rancho Sanjon de S...

Miller, Henry, 1827-1916

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Large-scale cattle rancher from Calif., who owned ranches in Calif., Oregon, and Nevada, in partnership with Charles Lux, of Miller & Lux. From the description of Henry Miller letter : San Francisco, Calif., to Mr. and Mrs. Otto : ALS, 1877 Feb. 24. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122550223 Rancher; proprietor, with Charles W. Lux, of Miller & Lux, a company dominant in the wholesale and packaged meat business in California for 75 years. ...