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...
John Mills Whitaker was born in Centerville, Utah. His parents were Thomas William and Elizabeth Mills Whitaker. At an early age he studied the Isaac Pitman system of shorthand. While going to school at the University of Deseret he began working...
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....
Henri Coulette (1927-1988) was an award winning poet and educator. He published The war of secret agents (1965) and The family Goldschmitt (1971), and served as editor for The unstrung lyre : Interviews with fourteen poets (1965). Coulette...
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...
Removed: a. Report of George Hansen, Licensed Land Surveyor [includes:] Map of Fractional Lot 24 of the Sanchez Tract, City of Los Angeles, State of California. Surveyed September 17th and 18th 1893 . by Geo. Hansen, Licensed Land Surveyor...
[No judgment roll or complaint. Possible mold?] Removed: a. Undertaking on Injunction, filed July 2, 1881. b. Notice of Overruling Demurrer, filed July 12, 1881. c. Amendment to the Answer, filed August 31, 1881. d. Defendant’s Exhibit “A”...
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit 1: Plaza of the City of Los Angeles, Run on Monday 11th October A. D. 1852. Archives of Los Angeles City vol. V Page 100. [Topography along a line due north from the plaza to the northern boundary of the City of...
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit H: Map of A[rizona?]&P[acific?] Railroad in Cal, from Range 8 East to 17 West S.B.M. inclusive. Filed May 6, 1872 of effect from March 12, 1872. [On printed township grid, showing route of the A&PRR, 20 Mile Limit,...
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit 1: [map of Pomona City Park, showing topography, streets, railroad tracks, and San Jose Creek. [Linen. Filed with the Court Apr. 8, 1896.] b. Plaintiff’s exhibit 2: Covina Branch Culvert near Sta. 866+. [Plan...
The estate of Stowe in Buckinghamshire was purchased in 1590 by Peter Temple, and remained in possession of the Temple family throughout the seventeenth century. After the death of the childless Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham, the estate was...
Removed: a. Defendants’ Exhibit P. [Map of numerous parcels with names of owners and acreage in Altadena, Calif. Includes, among others, the parcels of W. Allen J. Allen, J. Crank, Brigden, J. Craig, A. Kinney, H. Visscher. Filed with the Court...
Removed: a. Plaintiffs’ statement on motion for a new trial, including: Plaintiff’s exhibit B, Plat of the Rancho Cañada de Los Alisos, surveyed and subdivided under instructions from the Mess.rs Serrano and Palomares by J. M. Baldwin and G....
Removed: a. Defendant’s exhibit 2: Map showing a southerly portion of the Rancho la Merced occupied by Welch, H. J. Stevenson, Sur[veyor], 1884. [Includes tabling, ditch, and portion of the San Gabriel River. Filed Nov 1891.] b. Plaintiff’s...
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,...
Removed: a. Plaintiff’s exhibit B: Preliminary Survey, preparatory to a final location of the Boundary Line between Ranchos La Ballona and Sausal Redondo in Los Angeles County, Cal., Surveyed May 23 – 1893 at the request of Daniel Freeman owner...
Removed: a. Defendant’s exhibit 22: Map showing the location of a dam and the currents of the creek in times of floods also Cross-section of Dam at Station A. on this Plat. [Shows canyon and location of dam, with cross section of the dam with...
Robert V. Hine is a prominent historian of the American West. Hine earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1952 and spent a year as a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California before accepting a faculty position at the...