Robert Haley. Miscellaneous accounts and receipts [6 items]. San Francisco, California | Collections | The Huntington

Robert Haley. Miscellaneous accounts and receipts [6 items]. San Francisco, California | Collections | The Huntington

Description: The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1851, January 18-25.
Call number: WN 2010.
Creator: Wilson, Benjamin Davis (1811-1878)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. C.J. McClung, November 1933.; Gift of Anne W. Patton, 1959.; Gift of David and Peter W. Patton, August 5, 1971.; Gift of Mrs. James W. Totten, April 19, 1971.; Gift of Anne Totten, October 26, 1972.; Gift of Doyce Nunis, August 21, 1974.
Associated people: Banning, Phineas, (1830-1885.); Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, (1822-1893.); Brent, Joseph Lancaster, (1826-1905.); Couts, Cave Johnson, (1821-1874.); Foster, Stephen Clark, (1820-1898.); Frémont, John Charles, (1813-1890.); Griffin, John S. (1816-1898.); Gwin, William McKendree, (1805-1885.); Hayes, Benjamin, (1815-1877.); Huntington, Henry Edwards, (1850-1927.); Patton, George S. (1856-1927.); Patton, George S. (1885-1945.); Warner, Jonathan Trumbull.
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