Finding Aid to the Matthew Teed Autobiographical Manuscript MS.551
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 October 5
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Matthew Teed Autobiographical Manuscript
Creator:
Teed, Matthew
Creator:
Hunt, Honora J.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.551
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date: 1900
Language of Material:
English
.
Matthew Teed was born in England on 1828 April 17. Teed was a carpenter and came to the United States in 1849 or 1850 and
was an early pioneer of the American West. He served on the Los Angeles Common Council, an early governing body of the city,
between 1870 and 1887. In 1887 he was the Los Angeles City Auditor, and in 1905 he was a member of the first city Park Commission.
He died in Los Angeles, on 1904 March 31.
Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012
October 5, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Autobiographical manuscript typed on 1900 April 17 by Matthew Teed. Manuscript accompanied by a WPA, Divison of Women's and
Professional Projects manuscript form. The individual manuscript form was completed by Honora J. Hunt, WPA worker, March 16,
1939. Contents as listed on WPA form: His trip to America; experiences in the East; voyage to San Francisco; mining; mention
of Maricopa and Frazier River mines; the San Francisco State Fair circa 1857; his contacts with Kiowa Apache, Apha, and Comanche
Indians on his trip to Colorado by the southern route to avoid Mormon war in Salt Lake; his life in Colorado; the building
of Denver; his trip back to California; and his life and three marriages in Los Angeles; final visit to England.
Matthew Teed Autobiographical Manuscript, 1900, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.551.
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Purchase from Joseph Amasa Munk as part of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, 1910 May 10.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Colorado -- History -- Sources
Comanche Indians
Denver (Colo.) -- History -- Sources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Sources
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
San Francisco State Fair (1857)
Mines and mineral resources
Kiowa Apache Indians
Manuscripts
Typescripts
Los Angeles Common Council