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Bacon, Henry Douglas. Memorandum books, etc

Description: Volume I- Memo book, 1857-1867 Vol. II- Bank book, 1865 Vol. III- Bank book, 1865-1866 Vol. IV- Memo book, 1872 Vol. V. Pasturage book for Marengo Ranch, 1879-1881
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1857-1881
Call number: BC 177 (volumes 1-5)
Creator: Bacon, Henry Douglas (1817-1893)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn, January 1945.; Purchased from Charles Yale's Bookshop, March 1944.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Page, Francis W. Memorandum book relating to affairs of Page, Bacon & Co

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.

BC 1284

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Page, Daniel Dearborn Memorandum book [including family notes]

Manuscripts

BC 1276 (vols. 1-2)

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H. D. Bacon papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of California financier Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, California); and the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, California. Significant persons represented in the collection include Frank Page Bacon (19 items), Henry Douglas Bacon (164 items), Julia Ann (Page) Bacon (54 items), Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (57 items), James Buckland (31 items), William Tell Coleman (31 items), R. A. Fisher (18 items), Samuel Gaty (273 items), Walton G. Hughes (117 items), William Birdie Hyde (19 items), J. G. Mahany (19 items), Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (76 items), Daniel Dearborn Page (33 items), Francis W. Page( 33 items), Henry Starr (21 items), John D. Weems (15 items), Langston C. Winston(27 items), and Thomas M. Yerkes(100 items). Some notable items include: Bacon, Henry Douglas. Letters to Daniel D. Page and Francis W. Page concerning the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co., and efforts to recoup. 1855, Jan. - May Barlow, Samuel L. M. Letter to Henry D. Bacon concerning attempts to avert southern secession. 1860, Nov. 30 Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston. Letter to Henry D. Bacon explaining his use of military mines during the Schleswig-Holstein War. 1864, Sep. 15 Letters to Bacon from mining agents in Mexico, describing the political unrest and resultant obstacles to business. 1865-1866 Gaty, Samuel. Letters to Henry D. Bacon concerning attempts to get a land bill through the Illinois legislature by means of lobbying and bribery. 1866, Nov.-1867, June Carr, Jeanne C. and Winston, Elizabeth M. Letters to Henry D. Bacon concerning the Pasadena Library Society. 1883, Jan. - Feb. Hyde, William Birdie. Letters to Henry Douglas Bacon about Leland Stanford and the Southern Pacific. 1873, Aug. 14 - 22 Cambell, James and others. Letter to Henry D. Bacon differentiating between the Pasadena and San Pasqual school districts. 1879, Dec. 26 Bacon, Henry Douglas. Incomplete manuscript of his dedicatory speech for the Bacon Art and Library Building. 1881, Aug. Grant, Ulysses S., City Point, Virginia. Endorsement of Shaffner's system of artillery mining, 1865 March 22, contemporary copy (BC 2560, box 10)

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Page, Francis W. Account and memorandum books [includes family notes]

Manuscripts

BC 1285 (vols. 1-2)

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Anderson Family Papers

Manuscripts

This collection primarily contains letters and some manuscripts concerning William Marshall Anderson and the Anderson family, mainly for the period of 1838-1938. It covers family affairs, legal practices and business affairs of William Marshall Anderson, including his involvement in the McArthur lawsuit; the Catholic Church and its financial involvement in Ohio; the northwest United States in 1830s, archeological mounds; Mexico in 1865, civil engineering, bounty land grants to Virginia revolutionary soldiers; Richard Clough Anderson and George Rogers Clark, also William Marshall Anderson's diaries, including his trips to the Rocky Mountains (1834), Mexico (1865), and Mississippi (1871); family and business correspondence of Robert Marshall Anderson, including letters re: construction of Robert M. Anderson's home in Circleville, Ohio, designed by Charles S. Keefe. Anderson family members represented in the collection include Larz Anderson, Charles Anderson, Robert Anderson, Thomas McArthur Anderson, Richard Clough Anderson, Robert Marshall Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan Anderson, and Mary Anderson Olds. Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895. As author: 10 pieces; as addressee: 4 pieces Anderson, Ellen Columba Ryan. As author: 16 pieces (1858-1898); as addressee: 30 (1858-1891) Anderson, Larz, 1803-1878. As author: 13 pieces (1856-1877); as addressee: none Anderson, Richard Clough, 1829-1878. As author: 6 pieces (1864-1878); as addressee: none Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871. As author: 8 pieces (1825-1871); as addressee: 2 pieces (1842-1843) Anderson, Robert Marshall, 1862-1939. As author: 22 pieces (1872-1939); as addressee: 87 pieces (1879-1939) Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917. As author 5 pieces (1864-1901); as addressee 7 pieces (1876-1901) Anderson, William Marshall, 1807-1881. As author: 53 pieces (1838-1880); as addressee: 115 pieces (1837-1880) Clarke, Powhatan Henry, 1862-1893. As author: 6 pieces (1875-1893); as addressee: none Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. As author: 7 pieces (1843-1867); as addressee: none Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. As author: 1 piece (1865); as addressee: none Ellison, Robert Spurrier. As author: 11 pieces (1935-1939); as addressee: 22 pieces (1935-1941) Juncker, Henry Damian, 1810-1868. As author: 1 piece (1855); as addressee: none Longworth, Nicholas, 1782-1863. As author: 1 piece (1851); as addressee: none McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839. As author: 2 pieces; as addressee: 1817 and 1837 Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871. As author: 1 piece (1866); as addressee: none Olds, Joseph. As author: 12 pieces (1885-1901); as addressee: 8 pieces (1866-1903) Olds, Mary Anderson, b. 1846. As author: 12 pieces (1877-1896); as addressee: 1 piece (1885) Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883. As author: 4 pieces (1855-1868); as addressee: 1 piece (1868) Piatt, Donn 1819-1892. As author: 5 pieces (1884-1891); as addressee: none Sherman, Ellen Boyle Ewing, 1824-1888. As author: 1 piece (1872); as addressee: none Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895. As author: 1 piece (1875); as addressee: 1 piece (1851) The Rocky Mountain diary of William Marshall Anderson was published on various occasions in 1838-1967. His Mexican diary has been published in: An American in Maximilian's Mexico, 1865-1866: the diaries of William Marshall Anderson / edited by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. (San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1959).

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