Barrows and Weyse families papers
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Barrows and Weyse families papers
Inclusive Dates: 1836-2008
Bulk Dates: 1850-1949
Collection Number: mssBarrowsWeyse
Collector:
Barrows and Weyse families
Extent:
17 boxes and 1 oversize folder
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Barrows and Weyse families papers include letters, diaries, photographs, and documents relating to early Los Angeles residents
Henry Dwight Barrows and Julius Guenther Weyse and their families, including Weyse’s journey to California around Cape Horn
and Barrows’ letterbook at the United States Marshals Service.
Language of Material: The records are in English and German.
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Preferred Citation
Barrows and Weyse families papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Frank C. Strayer, Sr., May 2017.
Biography
Henry Dwight Barrows (1825-1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshal,
Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern
California. Barrows was married three times. His first wife was Juanita Wolfskill, daughter of William Wolfskill and Magdalena
(Lugo) Wolfskill. The couple had one daughter: Alice Wolfskill Barrows (1861-1903). After the death of Wolfskill, Barrows
married Mary Alice Workman, daughter of John D. Woodworth and widow of Thomas H. Workman. Barrows and Workman had two daughters:
Ada Frances Barrows (1865-1939) and Mary Washington Barrows (1868- ). Barrows and his third wife, Bessie A. Green, had one
son: Henry (Harry) Prosper Barrows (1869- ).
Julius Guenther Weyse was born in Schleiz, Reuss, Germany around 1803. After taking part in an unsuccessful political attempt
to reform Germany, he fled to the United States in 1836. In 1850, he traveled from Liverpool to San Francisco via Cape Horn
and spent time in the California gold mines. He relocated to Southern California in 1852 and married Caroline Lange some years
later. The couple had three sons: Henry Guenther Weyse (1863-1941), Rudolph Guenther Weyse (1860-1933), and Otto Guenther
Weyse (1858-1893).
The Barrows and Weyse families were intermarried. Henry Guenther Weyse married Alice Wolfskill Barrows in 1868 and Rudolph
Guenther Weyse married Ada Frances Barrows in 1890.
Scope and Content
The Barrows and Weyse families papers include diaries, personal and business correspondence, journals, legal documents, photographs,
printed ephemera, and genealogical research material.
There are 63 annual diaries covering Henry Dwight Barrows’ life in California from 1852 through 1914. The entries are brief
and cover daily activities, agriculture, weather, health problems, along with local and national headlines. Some of the diaries
have newspaper clippings, notes, and tabs laid in. These diaries were used for Michael Konig’s unpublished master’s thesis
found in Box 13. Also part of this collection is Barrows’ United States Marshals Service letter book. This letter book was
kept by Barrows and his predecessor James C. Pennie and covers 1857 through 1864. The subject matter in this letter book primarily
concerns logistics and operations at the Marshals’ offices. There is also a scrapbook that contains clippings of articles
that were written by Barrows or that discuss his career. Other material related to Barrows includes genealogical notes, printed
ephemera, and photographs.
The material related to Julius Guenther Weyse includes two journals describing his journey to California around Cape Horn
in 1850. The contents of these journals include activities on the ship, fellow passengers, and features of sea travel. There
is another journal about Weyse’s experience in the gold fields once he arrived in California. In this small journal, he describes
the landscape, Native American settlements, European immigrants, mining process, and his earnings. There are also nine deeds
related to parcels of land in Los Angeles, purchased or sold by Otto Guenther Weyse from 1887 through 1888 in Box 11. Other
material related to the Barrows family includes genealogical notes, printed ephemera, and photographs.
The correspondence was originally separated into two categories: Barrows Weyse and Weyse. However, it appears that there is
some overlap because the families were intermarried. The Barrows Weyse correspondence spans from 1860 through 1942. These
letters were primarily from friends and family addressed to Weyse, Barrows, or Cullens living in Los Angeles, California.
Some of the letters are written in German. The Weyse correspondence covers 1836 through 1945. The majority of the letters
are written to Rudolph Guenther Weyse, and some to his brothers, Henry or Otto Weyse. These letters are primarily in German,
although, some are in English and relate to family and business matter. Due to the overlap, it is best to look at both the
Barrows Weyse and Weyse correspondence for thoroughness.
Box 15 includes material too large for the letter-size boxes. These items include certificates, clippings, Barrows’ United
States Marshals Service letter book, a notebook, and photographs. Box 16 includes five daguerreotypes and/or ambrotypes and
two unidentified loose portraits. The Barrows family photograph album is in Box 17 and includes approximately 94 photographs.
Most of these images are identified. The oversize folder contains a genealogical work compiled by Archivant Dr. Schmidt entitled
“Die Weyse” and a certificate for Rudolph Guenther Weyse from the American Turnerbund.
Arrangement
Arranged by genre.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Barrows family
Weyse family
Barrows, Henry D.
Weyse, Ada Frances Barrows
Weyse, Alice Wolfskill Barrows
Weyse, Henry Guenther
Weyse, Julius Guenther
Weyse, Otto Guenther
Weyse, Rudolph Guenther
Subjects
Agriculture -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California
Pioneers -- California
Voyages to the Pacific Coast
Corporate Names
United States. Marshals Service
Geographic Areas
Calaveras County (Calif.) -- Description and travel
California -- Description and travel
Horn, Cape (Chile) -- Description and travel
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Genre
Diaries
Journals (accounts)
Legal documents
Letter books
Letters (correspondence)
Photographs
Folder 1
Business cards -- [Barrows and Weyse]
Included: "E. Naud & Co" business card with price quote list on verso
Folder 2
Buttons (information artifacts) -- "Monterey Park Playdays, 1981"
Folder 3
Certificates -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1908-1930)
Included: Reward Merit for Rudolph Guenther Weyse; Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for Rudolph Guenther Weyse; Los Angeles Lodge
for Rudolph Guenther Weyse; United States Certificate of Naturalization for Alice Weyse Pimentel; National Conservation Association
(U.S.) for Henry Dwight Barrows; and Trade and Business College of Gera
Folder 4
Clippings (information artifacts) -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1855-2008)
In English and German
Included: When I Went to School --- Fifty-Two Years Ago by Mary June Burton, 1934
Folder 5
Commonplace books -- Weyse, Julius Guenther, [before 1863]
Poems by Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 and others
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Ada Frances, (1886)
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1852-1853)
Folder 8
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1854)
Folder 9
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1855)
Folder 10
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1856)
Folder 11
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1857)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1858)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1859)
Tabs laid in
Included: Newspaper clippings
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1860)
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1861)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1862)
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1863)
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1864)
Tabs laid in
Included: Sweet Memories of Thee [handwritten poem] and note
Folder 8
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1865)
Folder 9
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1866)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1867)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1868)
Included: Newspaper clipping
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1869)
Included: Agreements and receipts
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1870)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1871)
Included: Quarter Stretch. 1871. Southern District Agricultural Association ribbon
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1872)
Tabs and notes laid in
Included: [Pico, Pio, 1801-1894] signature and notes
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1873)
Tabs, notes, and newspaper clipping laid in
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1874)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1875)
Tabs laid in
Included: Newspaper clippings
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1876)
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1877)
Tabs laid in
Included: A receipt from Lewis Wolfskill dated October 27, 1877
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1878)
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1879)
Ticket laid in
Included: Deposit slips, letter to Sherman, John, 1823-1900, newspaper clippings, and notes
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1880)
Tab laid in
Included: Agreements, deposit slips, newspaper clippings, and receipts
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1881)
Included: Deposit slip, newspaper clippings, and receipts
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1882)
Included: Deposit slips, newspaper clippings, and receipts
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1883)
Included: Deposit slips, newspaper clippings, and note
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1884)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1885)
Included: Deposit slips, newspaper clipping, note, and receipt
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1886)
Tabs laid in
Included: Deposit slips
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1887)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1888)
Tabs laid in
Included: Newspaper clipping, receipt, and ticket
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1889)
Tab laid in
Included: Deposit slips, newspaper clippings, notes, and receipts
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1890)
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1891)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1892)
Tab laid in
Included: Deposit slips, newspaper clippings, notes, and receipt
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1893)
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1894)
Folder 8
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1895)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1896)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1897)
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1898)
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1899)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1900)
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1901)
Folder 7
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1902)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1903)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1904)
Tabs laid in
Included: Not Yet, Not Yet [printed poem] and note
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1905)
Tabs laid in
Included: Not Yet, Not Yet [printed poem]
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1906)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1907)
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1908)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1909)
Folder 2
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1910)
Folder 3
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1911)
Folder 4
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1912)
Folder 5
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1913)
Included: Business cards, newspaper clippings, and notes
Folder 6
Diaries -- Barrows, Henry D., (1914)
Folder 1
Diaries -- Cullen, Ada Weyse, (1932)
Primarily regarding daily activities and concerns
Folder 2
Diaries -- ----- -----, [undated]
Folder 3
Empty envelopes -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1878-1954)
The letters in this collection may or may have not been separated from these envelopes
Folder 4
Financial records -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1858-1913)
Primarily checks and receipts
Folder 5
Greeting cards -- [Weyse], [undated]
Folder 6
Invitations -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1891-1905)
For Throop Polytechnic Institute; Heinrich Gunther Weyse; and
Folder 7
Journals (accounts) -- Weyse, Julius Guenther, (1850)
In German
Entitled
Briefe meines geliebten Vaters wahrend seiner Reise nach Californien geschrieben Im Jahr
Folder 8
Journals (accounts) -- Weyse, Julius Guenther, (1850)
In German
No label or title page. Written in a different hand from journal in Box 10 ()
Folder 9
Journals (accounts) -- Weyse, Julius Guenther, (1851)
In German
Entitled
Vallecito, Calaveras County, Southern Mines
Folder 10
Journals (periodicals) -- Historical Society of Southern California, (1886, Jan.)
Box 11
Legal documents - Letters (correspondence)
Folder 1
Legal documents -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1842-1930)
Included: Affidavits, agreements, deeds, and wills. Also, deeds for sale of land parcels in Los Angeles, bought or sold by
Otto Guenther Weyse and document with seal of the county court in the principality of Reuss (Germany) concerning [debits and
credits?]
Folder 2
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1860-1869)
Folder 3
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1881-1885)
Folder 4
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1886-1888)
Folder 5
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1893-1898)
One letter in Spanish from Porfirio Diaz, 1830-1915
Folder 6
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1902-1909)
Folder 7
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1912-1914)
Folder 1
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1928-1939)
Folder 2
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, (1942)
Folder 3
Letters (correspondence) -- Barrows Weyse family, [undated]
In English and German
Included: Incomplete letters and a copy of a letter received from an appraiser
Folder 4
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1836-1869)
In German
Included: One letter from Woods Creek [Tuolumne County (Calif.)] and another from Jefferson City (Mo.)
Folder 5
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1871-1875)
Folder 6
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1876-1879)
Folder 7
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1881-1889)
Folder 8
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1890-1899)
Folder 9
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1900-1909)
Folder 10
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1912-1913)
Folder 11
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1926-1929)
In English and German
Included: One letter to Nettie F. de Temple with newspaper clipping regarding Montebello oil field
Folder 12
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, (1930-1945?]
Folder 13
Letters (correspondence) -- Weyse family, [undated]
In English and German
Included: Incomplete letters
Folder 1
Manuscripts -- Weyse, Ada F. Barrows, (1882, June 29)
Entitled "A Modern Tendency"
Folder 2
Manuscripts -- ----- -----, (1939)
Entitled "Life of Henry Barnes" and "A True Story of Life"
Folder 3
Marriage certificates -- Weyse, Alice Caroline and Pimentel, Antonio, (1918)
Folder 4
Masters thesis -- Konig, Michael Francis,
Henry Dwight Barrows, Builder of a Changing Los Angeles, (1977)
Tabs and letter from Michael Francis Konig to Mrs. Cullen
Folder 5
Miscellaneous -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1850-1932)
In English and German
Included: Fragments of letters, lists, manuscripts, and notes
Folder 6
Negatives (photographs) -- Earp (Calif.), [1950s]
Folder 7
Notebooks -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1887-1949)
Letters, newspaper clippings, and receipt laid in
Primarily copies of letters
Folder 8
Notebooks -- [Cullen, Ada Weyse], [undated]
Primarily genealogical notes
Folder 9
Notes -- [Barrows and Weyse], [undated]
Reading notes, bibliographical references, and genealogical notes
Included: The Barrows Family by Rev. Lucien Moore Robinson [printed ephemera]
Folder 10
Notes -- Weyse, Ada Frances Barrows and Weyce, Alice C., (1882-1909)
Primarily school assignments
Folder 11
Paintings (visual works) -- Weyes, Julius Guenther, (1849)
Folder 12
Photographs -- Greiz (Germany), (1881-1906)
Folder 13
Poems -- [Barrows, Henry D.], (1948)
Entitled "Pablo & Virginia / Song Cancion"
Included: Sheet music
Box 14
Printed ephemera - Stock certificates
Folder 1
Printed ephemera -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1828-1931)
Included: 60th Anniversary of Turnverein Germania Los Angeles [program]; Funeral Service of Southern California Lodge No.
278 Free and Accepted Masons [booklet]; Joseph Victor von Scheffel's
Ekkehard, [reproductions]; Los Angeles Herald, July 21, 1907 [photocopy]; Newport Bay, Orange County, California [map]; Newport Harbor
Yact Club [photocopy]; Old Episcopal Church [photocopy]; Hadersley Amt. [map]; and translations [photocopy]
Folder 2
Reprints -- Itzehoe Weekly, (1850)
The Naval battle at Neustadt (from the Weekly, 1850, Vm. 61, column 1289 and Letter from the Schleswig-Holstein department
of foreign/external affairs to the Senate of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck concerning the [steamship] “v. d. Tann” (von der
Tann)
Folder 3
Scrapbooks -- [Barrows], (1868-1917)
Newspaper clippings regarding Henry Dwight Barrows
Folder 4
Speeches (document) -- Kettner, Ludwig Anton, (1961, Mar. 20)
Folder 5
Sketches -- Weyse, Julius Guenther, [1850s]
6" x 7" sketch of a Julius Guenther Weyse
Included: 7 photocopies of additional sketches of mining scenes
Folder 6
Stock certificates -- [Barrows and Weyse], (1854-1868)
For The Macedonian Silver Mining Company; Moronga Silver Mining Company; San Francisco Turn Society; and Techattucup Silver
& Gold Mining Co.
Folder 7
Wills -- Leisewitz, Friedrich, (1924)
Testament by Thuringian notary public Friedrich Leisewitz in the district of Greiz recounting legal matters described to him
by lawyer and Dr. of Jurisprudence Franz Brösel
Box 15
Certificates - Photographs
Folder 1
Certificates -- Barrows, (1868-1870)
Los Angeles County [Teaching] blank certificates and stubs filled-in
Folder 2
Clippings (information artifacts) -- Greiz newspaper, (1930)
Fragile
Included: Photocopies
Folder 3
Letter book -- Barrows, Henry D. and Pennie, James C., (1857-1864)
United States. Marshals Service
Folder 4
Notebooks -- [Weyse], (1913)
Entitled
Stammtafeln der Familie Weyse, Im Auftrage der Frau Emilie Hey geb. Weyse-Kettner in Greiz
Included: English translation and photocopy
Folder 5
Photographs -- Barrows and Weyse, (1860?-1934)
Included: Barrows, Henry D.; Barrows, Juanita Wolfskill; Weyse, Ada Frances Barrows; Weyse, Henry Guenther; Weyse, Hermaine;
Weyse, Hermann Heinrich Guenther and tombstone; Weyse, Julius [?. N.]; Weyse, Rudolph Guenther...of Spanish War; and unidentified
Note: These were originally contained in a separate folder
Folder 6
Photographs -- Barrows and Weyse, (1886-1908)
Included: Barrows, Henry D.; Benton, Helene Augusta Weyse; Hermosillo Club Outing, Rubio Canon, Los Angeles (Calif.); Hey,
Emilie Weyse; Kelleher, Mary Alice Weyse; Los Angeles High School Class of 1882, 50 years later; Muller, Caroline; Weyse,
Ada Frances Barrows; Weyse, Alice Wolfskill Barrows; Weyse, Henry Guenther; Weyse, Irene...wife of Hermann Heinrich Guenther
of Unterlosa; Weyse, Otto Guenther; Weyse, Rudolph Guenther; homes; and unidentified
Folder 7
Photographs -- Miscellaneous, (1877 - ?)
Included: Breer, Adele; Breer, Henry; Breer, Louie; Breer, Willie; DeCamp, Clarence; DeCamp, Elmer; Den, R.S.; Hansen, Geo;
Hutton, Blossom; Mayer, Marguerite Rimfau; Reed, Haines W.; Rimfau, Wallace T.; Schrader, Julia Breer; oil well; and a house
Box 16
Ambrotypes (photographs) and/or daguerreotypes
Included: Barrows, Mary Alice Woodworth Barrows; unidentified; and two loose portraits
Box 17
Photograph albums -- Barrows, (1860s-1890s)
Included: Banning, Weyse, Workman, and Wordsworth families
Oversize folder
Weyse
American Turnerbund for Rudolph Guenther Weyse [certificate] and "Die Weyse" [printed matter]
