Visual Materials
Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
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Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
Visual Materials
Variant view of photDAG 52.
(photDAG 53)

Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
Visual Materials
photDAG 52
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Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
Visual Materials
Margaret Hereford Wilson (1854-1857) was the first daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878) and his second wife, Margaret S. Hereford Wilson (1820-1873). Enclosed in case is a color photograph of her gravestone in San Gabriel Cemetery. See also variant view: photDAG 53.
(photDAG 52)
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Photographs of Margaret S. Hereford Wilson
Manuscripts
4 items. With one negative.
mssPattoncollection
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Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. Letter to Ozro W. Childs. Lake Vineyard, California
Manuscripts
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.
WN 1094.
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Emma Childs Dwight. Letter to Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. [New York, N.Y.]
Manuscripts
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.
WN 1275.