Born in Placentia, California on February 7, 1907, Donald R. Wright attended some of the nation's top institutions of learning on his path to becoming a prominent California lawyer and judge. After graduating from Stanford University in 1929,...
Nye County, Nevada was created by the state legislature in February of 1864 and named in honor of the Nevada Territory's first governor and later U.S. Senate representative, James W. Nye. The county seat and first county courthouse were built in...
Robert Alonzo Brock, historian, antiquarian, and collector, was born in Richmond, Va. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the 21st Virginia Regiment, transferring later to a hospital unit with which he remained for the duration of the...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896) was born in Frederick County, Maryland, a son of Dr. James Aloysius Shorb (1798-1867) and Margaret McMeal Shorb. He came to California in 1863 looking for oil in Ventura County, and married Maria de Jesus "Sue"...
The Comstock Lode, composed of silver and gold ore, was discovered in the 1850s. It was located in western Nevada (then Utah Territory). The discovery of silver and gold attracted numerous people consisting of proprietors, miners, journalists...
A native of Spain, Gaspar Oreña (1824-1904) came to the United States in the late nineteenth century. He married the widow of a prominent Californio family from Santa Barbara, Maria Antonia de la Guerra, after the death of her first husband,...
A street view of the bungalow court at 270 Madison Avenue. The court is first listed in a 1919 Pasadena directory under the name Gloria Court. After 1921 the court appears in directories as Madison Avenue Court.
Originally from case #544 Removed [four packets of material removed, all with this case # but seemingly from different cases with different parties]: a. Defendant’s exhibit 138: [scrap paper related to the Grapeland Tunnel, September 18, 1893....
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit 23; [ledger of mining accounts and expenses, 1881-1894. Filed with the Court Feb. 18, 1898.] b. Defendant’s exhibit CC: No.1 Bird Group. Bird Group as the claims were when Ann Arbor was located. Late Bird and...
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Frances Johnston, born 1864, was a photographer whose career spanned six decades and covered a vast array of topics. She is commonly considered the first female photojournalist and was also a charter member of the Photo-Secession. She was a...
Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott (1824-1895), was a member of the Pigott family, long settled in north Somerset. He was a fellow student, with Wilkie Collins, at Lincoln's Inn, then a journalist with The Daily News and The Leader; in 1874, Pigott was...
Ellen Devereux (Sewall) Osgood was born on March 10, 1822 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Edmund Quincy and Caroline (Ward) Sewall. Between 1839-1840, Ellen was close friends with John, Henry David, and Sophia Thoreau. She received marriage...
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit A: Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles, Surveyed and Drawn by E. O. C. Ord . Wm. R. Hutton, asst., August 29th, 1849. [Later excerpt of the area along Main and Spring streets from their junction to south of 2nd St,...
Marion DeVries attended San Joaquin Valley College and obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1887 and to the California bar in the same year. DeVries became the Assistant District Attorney...