Manuscripts

In memoriam : biographical sketch of Calvin F. Fargo

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1900 May 7.
Call number: mssHM 84268
Creator: Society of California Pioneers(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Leonard J. Rose, Jr., April 1942.
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Society of California Pioneers. "In Memoriam: Biographical sketch of Calvin F. Fargo:" [obituary]

Manuscripts

Leonard John Rose, Jr. was an amateur historian and this collection contains drafts of his memoirs and descriptions of 18th and 19th century California social life and customs. In "A Serial in Three Parts," L. J. Rose, Jr. thoroughly describes the livestock management practices and horsemanship of Mexican cowboys in 18th and 19th century California. In Gringos Grandees he further illustrates the social life and customs of Mexicans and Native Americans living in a small village in the San Gabriel Valley. In this manuscript, L. J. Rose, Jr., narrates his and his father's life stories, with accounts of his family's move west, success in wine production and horse breeding, but it is also a local view of Los Angeles and California history in the second half of the 19th century. The writing in this collection of Leonard John Rose is limited to his accounts of leading a failed California bound emigrant train from the Midwest. The third section contains short biographies of L. J. Rose and Calvin F. Fargo, narratives of the Rose Party, and the diary of Martha True Fargo, L.J. Rose, Jr.'s mother-in-law. The diary provides a social history of women in Portage, Wisconsin in 1864. The ephemera section of this collection revolves around newspaper and magazine clippings about the Rose family, their homes and estates, their prize winning horses, and their wine production. Some of the newspaper articles are from the Los Angeles Times and the Illustrated Los Angeles Herald, while the magazine articles include a 1950 three part series entitled, "Pastime of Millions" by Carleton F. Burke in The Thoroughbred of California.

HM 70745

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In memoriam : Johann E. Knoche : a member of the Society of California Pioneers

Manuscripts

Short biographical sketch of Johann E. Knoche honoring him as a member of the Society of California Pioneers. Signed by John J. Spear, Secretary with a seal of the Society of California Pioneers.

mssHM 26057

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In memoriam : a biographical sketch of Thomas Stokes

Rare Books

273375

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In memoriam. James Phelan. : Read at a meeting of the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco, April 3, 1893

Rare Books

473841

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Fargo, C F sketch map]

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.

mssSolano

Fargo, C. F. - sketch map

Manuscripts

P. 6 of fastened document, "C.F. Fargo, S. Aspland to C.F. Fargo..." showing 3 lots with acres, courses, distances. Title supplied by cataloger.

mssSolano SR_Box_28(09).01

In memoriam : biographical sketch of Calvin F. Fargo

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