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Great Western Power Company: Resignation Announcement

Description: Official company document announcing resignation of H.H. Sinclair from his posts as vice president and general manager of Great Western Power Co., effective July 1, 1911.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911
Call number: mssSinclairhh
Creator: Sinclair, Henry Harbinson (1858-1914)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Arthur W. Sinclair and Marjorie Sinclair, children of H.H. Sinclair, 1936.
Associated people: Cowper, Thomas, (1712-1778.)

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Opening note - "Notes taken on trip June and July 1901 Kern and Kings rivers. D.C. Hauer, Jr., A.W. Sinclair, H.H. Sinclair." Notes include times and places, meal times, arrival and departure times.

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Great Western Power Company

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Minutes of executive committee meeting of May 20, 1910, other pieces of correspondence; a financial spreadsheet.

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Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair

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Recipients include: Bennett, Ralph; Brown, Frank L. (President, Palmer Oil Co.); Bumgarner, Mr. & Mrs. J.A. (in Nevis, CA); Crocker National Bank (San Francisco); Denman, A.C. (of Redlands); Dicey, E.C.; Doan, A.C. (Transfer Agent, Great Western Power Company); Duke, Minnie W.; Ellis, George B. (Hartford Fire Insurance Co.); Freymuth Co. (L.H. Freymuth Co.); Gillis, R.C.; Great Western Power Company, New York, NY; Gregg, Wellington (Crocker National Bank); Hawley, Edwin (Pres., Great Western Power); Hobron, Thomas W.; Jayne, F.P. ; Johnson, Milbank; McCrillis, John; Marshall, John Murray; Naphtaly, S.L.; Robbins, Edward F.; Sinclair, H.H. Mrs. (in New Jersey); Stimson, G. Lawrence ; Stimson, George W.; G. Lawrence Stimson Co.; Stratton, H.C. (secretary, Palmer Oil Co.); Tompkins, F.M. (treasurer, Western Power Co.); Torrance, J.S.; United Mines Co.; United States Geological Survey; United States Department of Agriculture; Wilson, H.P. (sec., Great Western Power Co.).

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Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company: Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank Receipts

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The Henry H. Sinclair papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries, journals, newspaper clippings, and extensive personal and business correspondence. The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes the papers of his son, Arthur W. Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc. The collection also contains a diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers and a manuscript, by Englishman Thomas Cowper, of calculations regarding a solar eclipse on June 24, 1778.

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From the Board of Directors of Southern California Edison Company, a message of appreciation and condolence at the time of Sinclair's passing

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Henry Harbinson Sinclair Papers

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Great Western Power Company: Resignation Announcement

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