Manuscripts

Metcalf and Holladay families

Description: The Metcalf and Holladay families subseries contains material related to families related to the Huntingtons through marriage. Caroline "Carrie" Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's youngest sister, married Edmund Burke Holladay in 1896. Elizabeth "Betty" Vincent Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's daughter, married John Brockway Metcalf in 1906. The Metcalf family papers consist of correspondence between family members, including Henry E. Huntington, business papers of George Metcalf, Brockway's father, a scrapbook belonging to Elizabeth H. Metcalf, and genealogical information about the Metcalf family. The Holladay family papers consist of business papers and diaries of Edmund Burke Holladay and his father Samuel W. Holladay, documents belonging to Caroline H. Holladay, legal documents, material related to property owned by the Holladay family, other financial documents, and a genealogical chart of the Ord and Holladay families.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1768-1994, bulk 1881-1936

Metcalf family

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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