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...
Georgia Willis Read, historian and author, was the daughter of Dr. George Willis Read, who led a company across the plains in 1850 to California. Georgia attended Smith College and served with the Smith College Relief Unit in France during World...
Thomas Pinney, is a Professor of English, emeritus, at Pomona College. He has edited published volumes of the letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Rudyard Kipling, and is the author of A history of wine in America. BA Beloit C Phd Yale. Thomas...
James Augustin Brown Scherer (aka James A.B. Scherer) was born in Salisbury, North Carolina on May 22, 1870 to the Rev. Simeon Scherer and Harriet Isabella Brown. After earning his bachelor's degree from Roanoke College, Scherer accepted a position...
Stephen Tomaske (1956-2002) was an avid Pynchon fan and scholar. A student assistant and later a staff member in reference services at the library at California State University Los Angeles, he researched Pynchon's family history, youth and...
Image of an orange crate filled with wrapped and unwrapped oranges; Pure Gold logo at lower left, pointing hand at right. "Valencias"--text, middle left."T. M. Reg. U. S. / Pat. Off."--text, lower left. "Index Mutual Assn. / La Habra Calif. / Grown...
Foy Brothers, a Los Angeles harness and saddler firm was founded in 1854 by Samuel Calvert Foy and his brother, John Moran Foy. They did business with many prominent Californians including Abel Stearns, Pio Pico, and Phineas Banning. Their...
Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 15, 1935 to Michael and Helen Silverberg. He was an only child. At an early age Silverberg began writing and by the time he entered his teenage years he was submitting stories to science...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896), an attorney and civil engineer from Maryland, came to California in 1864. After his marriage to Maria de Jesus Wilson in 1867, Shorb joined his father-in-law, Benjamin Davis Wilson, in the development of their...
Royal H. and Florence Mary Noble were Montana farmers and ranchers whose families were among the first settlers of Broadwater County. Florence's father, Reuben A. Johnson (1845-1907), a Wisconsin man who had fought in the Union Army in the Civil...