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Our pioneer ancestors : genealogical and biographical histories of the Cox-Stout families
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Microfilm of 29 letters sent to or by Hosea Stout and his brother Allen Stout between 1836 and 1859. Recipients of letters from Hosea Stout include his wife Louisa Stout, his sisters Surmantha and Anna Stout, and his brother Allen Stout. Letters to Hosea Stout were written by Brigham Young, Allen Stout, Willard Richards, and Stout's cousins Daniel B. Capps in Grainger County, Tennessee, and Thomas Smith. There is also correspondence between Allen Stout and Benjamin Jones, William Fowler, John and Lydia Larkey, and John and Sarah Capps. The letters, which are not in chronological or alphabetical order on the reel, were sent from Illinois, Utah, Arkansas, California, Missouri, Tennessee, and Iowa. Some notable items include a letter from Hosea to his sister Anna in which he writes that he had failed in getting a school and that "it appears that misfortune comes upon me at every attempt to make an honest living" (Apr.5, 1832). A letter to Hosea from his cousin Daniel B. Capps asks for a description of the Mormons, as Capps had heard some disconcerting stories about them, although he concludes that "I do not want you to think this is a reprimand against you for joining their society, for it is not" (June 6, 1839). A series of letters to Louisa Stout from 1852-1853 describe Hosea's mission to Iron County, include portions of a journal he kept while traveling to Los Angeles and sailing to Monterey Harbor and ultimately San Francisco to arrange for passage to Hong Kong, and his dissatisfaction with the Mormon mission work in San Francisco ("We can do nothing here among the Chinese"). There is also a letter from Allen Stout informing Hosea of Louisa's death in childbirth while he was serving on a mission in Hong Kong (Apr.11, 1853), and a letter from Brigham Young to Stout while he was still in Hong Kong in which Young writes of troubles in Utah with "Walker and his band of Utes," who had murdered Brother Kill, John Dixon, John Quayle, and William Walton, terrorized the populations of Springfield and settlements in Sanpete County (including causing the abandonment of Salt and Summit Creeks) and fled into the mountains. Young also writes that many new Mormon immigrants have been arriving, of the Temple Block wall construction, and of Stout's family living with Allen Taylor after Louisa's death (Sep.30, 1853).
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Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
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