William Letts Oliver miscellany, 1876-1907.

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William Letts Oliver miscellany, 1876-1907.

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Vol. 1 and v. 2: Abstracts of title and related papers for two properties in Oakland, Calif. The first, dated 1887, for land on Central Ave. (or West Twelfth St.) near Linden, contains loose title papers relating to Oliver's purchase of a home at 1110 Twelfth St. from Gustave C.P. Hornung of Marysville, and includes deeds to the property from Harriet G. Loring, 1876 and from R. W. Edwards, 1877, as well as the sales contract and tax receipts. The second, dated 1906, for Block 37, between Jackson and Madison St. and Fourth and Fifth Streets, contains a letter from attorney, Frederic W. Hall, reporting his filing of the deed from Madison Street Planing Mills to Oliver. A small (1.25"x.75") black and white portrait of G.W. McKeand, the searcher of records, is mounted on the back inside cover of v. 2. Vol. 3: "Extracts from a report to the Borneo Company, on the occurrence and metallurgy of quicksilver ores," by Louis Janin, Jr., M.E. Vol. 4: Scrapbook on explosive materials and explosions, 1876-1882.

Originals : 4 v.Copies of scrapbook, v. 4 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2679) and positive.

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Hall, Frederic W.

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Frederic W. Hall, attorney at law, Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Frederic W. Hall correspondence : San Francisco, Calif. : TLS, 1904-1905. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 54712070 ...

Loring, Harriet G.

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McKeand, G. W.

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Hornung, Gustave C. P.

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Edwards, R. W., fl. 1877.

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Janin, Louis, 1837-1914

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Louis Janin (1837-1914) was a mining engineer educated at Yale and then at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He began his career in the Western United States, making his first mark on the profession on the Comstock Lode in Nevada in the early 1860s, and later obtained experience in mining fields all over the Far West. He acquired a growing list of clients including investors in Mexican properties and, in 1873, the Japanese government. His three sons, Louis, Eugene, and Charles, also became mining eng...

Madison Street Planing Mills (Oakland, Calif.)

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Oliver, William Letts, 1844-1918.

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Biography According to a written statement by his son Roland L. Oliver, William Letts Oliver "was born in Valparaiso, Chile, August 6, 1844. [He] was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, graduated from Edinburgh University as a mining engineer, and then went back to Chile. [In 1861, he went] to Peru, then to San Francisco in 1868 in time for the big earthquake of that year." His experience with nitrates led him to establish the California Cap Com...

Borneo Company

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