Henry Harbinson Sinclair Papers: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Charla M. DelaCuadra.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Henry Harbinson Sinclair Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1802-1937
Bulk dates: 1909-1914
Collection Number: mssSinclair papers
Creator:
Sinclair, Henry
Harbinson, 1858-1914
Extent:
1,681 pieces in 8 boxes and 1 rolled item
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains diaries, journals, and extensive
personal and business correspondence of Henry Harbinson Sinclair (1858-1914), a
hydro-electrical engineer and entrepreneur active in California from 1887 until
1914. Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power
Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and
notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in
California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; and the California to
Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes the papers of his son, Arthur W.
Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Henry Harbinson Sinclair Papers, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Arthur W. Sinclair and Marjorie Sinclair, children of H.H. Sinclair,
1936.
Biographical Note
Henry Harbinson Sinclair (1858-1914) was a hydro-electrical engineer and entrepreneur
active in California from 1887 until 1914. Born December 22, 1858, Sinclair was a
native of Brooklyn, New York. Sinclair married the former Agnes Rowley, also of
Brooklyn. The couple had two children, a son, Arthur W. Sinclair, and a daughter,
Marjorie Sinclair.
At 15, he went to sea, and first visited California in 1874 after a voyage around
Cape Horn. In three years of seafaring, he rose to the rank of Second Mate.
Illustrated Redlands for 1897 states: "During 1877 and 1878,
Sinclair took a scientific course at Cornell University. He then went into the
shipping business in New York as an employee of the firm of Lovell & Sinclair,
and afterwards became a partner in the firm of N.B. Sinclair & Son."
Like so many Northeasterners of that era, he relocated to California for health
reasons. He arrived in Redlands, in San Bernardino County's citrus-growing region,
in 1887. He purchased thirty acres in the Lugonia tract to raise oranges. He served
four years on the first Board of Trustees of the City of Redlands (incorporated in
1888). In 1892, Sinclair, with a number of other investors and businessmen, created
the Redlands Electric Light and Power Company, which within a few years created the
world's first three-phase electrical system. During his Redlands years, Sinclair
also served as a director of the Lugonia Water Co., director of the South Fork Ditch
Assn., president of the Southern California Power Co. (from 1897) and part-owner of
the Terracina Hotel and related street railway (1892-94). He was a director of both
the California Power Co. and Southern California Edison and was at one time the
general manager of the Edison Electric Co.
Among Sinclair's avocations was yachting. In the 1890s and early 1900s, before his
health failed, he sailed in a number of races and regattas in the Pacific. During
the last few months before his death in 1914, Sinclair was arranging with a
northeastern company to either charter or purchase another yacht.
During the closing years of his life, Sinclair lived in Pasadena and was on the Board
of Directors for the Tournament of Roses. He was also a member of the Bohemian Club,
a San Francisco-based, men-only social club for "movers and shakers." Though he had
homes first in Redlands, then in Pasadena, Sinclair spent much time traveling both
to northern California and the East Coast by rail. He faced repeated health problems
after 1900 and died in September of 1914.
Scope and Content
The Henry H. Sinclair Papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries,
journals, newspaper clippings, and extensive personal and business correspondence.
The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes
mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt.
Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant
inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of
Roses Association; the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also
includes the papers of his son, Arthur W. Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta
Farms, Inc.
Call numbers for the papers in this collection are 1 (1) through 8 (4), with the
first digit representing the box number and the second digit the folder within the
box. For the most part, items are not foldered individually; however, a rolled
diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers
is slightly oversized and housed separately. A more detailed, searchable database of
the attached container list is available at The Huntington Library.
Related materials
- Sinclair, Jenkins,
Rowley Family Photograph Album (photCL 12)
- Sinclair, Jenkins,
Rowley Family Photographs (photPF 120-149)
- Additional items in the Huntington Library’s holdings relating to H. H.
Sinclair can be found in the Southern California Edison Records (call number
393:7) in the folder Logos and Letterheads (undated).
- The Special Collections division b of A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands,
California (125 W. Vine Street), has the other known significant repository of
material related to H.H. Sinclair, stemming from his activities in and around
the city.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following 4 series:
- Notebooks, Diaries, and Ledgers (Boxes 1, 7, 8)
- Loose Financial Records (Box 2)
- Miscellaneous Personal Items (Box 3 and Rolled Item 1)
- Manuscripts and correspondence (Boxes 4, 5, 6)
Indexing Terms
Subjects
California Delta Farms,
Inc.
Engineers -- California, Southern --
Archives.
Fontana Water
Company.
Great Western Power
Company.
Hydroelectric power plants -- California
-- Kern River.
Mt. Hood Railway and
Power Company.
Palmer Oil
Company.
Pasadena Community
Playhouse.
Pasadena Tournament of
Roses Association.
Redlands (Calif.)
Sinclair, Henry
Harbinson, 1858-1914 -- Archives.
Southern California
Edison Company.
Tournament of Roses.
United
Mines.
Vasquez, Tiburcio,
1835-1875.
Yachting.
Yacht racing.
Forms/Genres
Business papers --
California.
Clippings -- California.
Diaries -- California.
Letters (correspondence) --
California.
Personal papers --
California.
Contributors
Edmonds, John W. (John Worth),
1799-1874, correspondent.
Barker, Marks,
correspondent.
Rowley, Agnes Munson,
correspondent.
Rowley, Mary Jenkins,
correspondent.
Sinclair, Arthur W.,
correspondent.
Sinclair, Marjorie,
correspondent.
I. Notebooks, Diaries, and Ledgers (Boxes 1, 7, and 8).
Box 1
Notebooks, Diaries, and Ledgers.
Folder 1
Notebook: Marriages and deaths.
1880-1906
Physical Description: 1 item.
Newspaper clippings about marriages/ deaths are pasted onto pages.
Also many loose clippings. Additional loose news clips are inserted
between pages.
Folder 2
Notebook.
1893
Contains various lists and notations.
Folder 3
Notebook.
1893-1894
Includes notes on time cold water takes to boil (?) etc. Notes
consist mostly of figures and calculations, often crossed out.
Folder 4
Notebook.
1895
Miscellaneous business and financial notes.
Folder 5
Notebook.
1896
Miscellaneous notes and lists. Many blank pages.
Folder 6
Diary.
1896
Diary entries -- business and personal.
Folder 7
Notebook.
1896-1897
Opening page notations--"1896-1897, San Gabriel Canon data, Santa Ana
Canon data." General notes and calculations.
Folder 8
Diaries.
1897
Physical Description: 6 items.
Six matching monthly diary booklets June through December are
included, only October is missing. June and Nov. have few entries,
booklets for some other months nearly filled.
Folder 9
Notebook.
1898
Calendar and appointment book. Notations are appointments and misc.
notations. Many of pencil entries smudged and unreadable.
Folder 10
Diary.
1898
First entry reads, "Diary of a trip over Whitewater River..."
Detailed diary of the trip.
Folder 11
Diary.
1899
Detailed notes about personal and work appointments, weather. Very
few skipped days.
Folder 12
Diary.
1899
Opening page, handwritten in pencil - "Record of trip on Kern and
Kaweah rivers, July 1899..." Notes range from stream flow
measurements to comments about hikes and fishing.
Folder 13
Diary.
1900
Notations cover both personal and business matters. Other notes
include comments about weather, health, etc.
Folder 14
Diary.
1900
Opening page notation - "Kern River trip..." Last half of booklet
blank.
Folder 15
Diary.
1900-1902
Personal and professional diary of activities for the time
period.
Folder 16
Diary.
1901
Includes notations for most days from Jan. until early Dec., when
Dec. 12, when notation reads, "left for S.A."
Folder 17
Diary.
1901
Opening note - "Notes taken on trip June and July 1901 Kern and Kings
rivers. D.C. Hauer, Jr., A.W. Sinclair, H.H. Sinclair." Notes
include times and places, meal times, arrival and departure
times.
Folder 18
Diary.
1902
Early months consist of diary-type entries, general comments on
Sinclair's movements and activities. Later in spring, entries
largely dollar amounts, expenditures on items. July - September
largely blank.
Folder 19
Diary.
1906
Entries for most days in January and early February. Most of
remainder of year left blank except for some August entries.
Primarily entries work and social notes.
Folder 20
Diary.
1907
Daily entries fairly complete Jan.-Aug., remaining months of the year
left blank. Work notes and details of trips to survey various
terrains.
Folder 21
Notebook.
1909
Working notes with dates, times, comments and measurements. Names of
people and places, appointment notations. Chico and possibly
Oroville mentioned in notes.
Folder 22
"Diary of Marks Barker from 1762 to 1837."
approximately 1910
Contains rewritten autobiographical material and personal
reminiscences.
Folder 23
Resolution from board of directors of California Delta Farms,
expressing the firm's appreciation for Sinclair's career and
sympathy to his family at his passing.
1914
Folder 24
From the Board of Directors of Southern California Edison
Company, a message of appreciation and condolence at the time of
Sinclair's passing.
1914
Box 7
Check registers and ledger books
Volume 1
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: check
register.
1909-1912
Register for 1039-1333, inclusive.
Volume 2
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: check
register.
1912
Register for 1334-1633, inclusive.
Volume 3
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: check
register.
1912-1913
Register for 1634-1933, inclusive.
Volume 4
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: check
register.
1913
Register for checks 1934-2233, inclusive.
Volume 5
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: check
register.
1913-1914
Register for checks 2234-2528, inclusive.
Volume 6
Crocker National Bank: check register
1911-1912
Check register for Crocker National Bank checks 495-745,
inclusive.
Volume 7
Ledger book.
1901-1908
Single bound volume of indexed, handwritten financial data.
Volume 8
Ledger book.
1901-1914
Single bound volume of handwritten financial data on stocks and
bonds.
Volume 1
Ledger book.
1909-1914
Single bound volume of handwritten financial data about cash
holdings. Two loose handwritten pages in the front of ledger on
where to write data.
Volume 2
Ledger book.
1909-1914
Single bound volume of indexed, handwritten financial data.
Volume 3
Ledger book.
1901-1906
Single bound volume of handwritten financial data on cash
holdings.
Volume 4
Ledger book.
1906-1909
Single bound volume of handwritten financial data about cash
holdings.
II. Loose Financial Records (Box 2).
Folder 1
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company: Los Angeles Trust &
Savings Bank Receipts.
1882-1911
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 2
Loose Financial Receipts.
1908-1914
Physical Description: 61 items.
Folder 3
Crocker National Bank: deposit book.
1909-1911
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 4
Crocker National Bank: statements and canceled checks.
1911-1912
Physical Description: 5 items.
Folder 5
Crocker National Bank: statements and canceled checks.
1912-1913
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 6
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: statements and canceled
checks.
1911-1912
Physical Description: 7 items.
Folder 7
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: statements and canceled
checks.
1912
Physical Description: 7 items.
Folder 8
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: statements and canceled
checks.
1912-1913
Physical Description: 6 items.
Folder 9
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: statements and canceled
checks.
1913
Physical Description: 9 items.
Folder 10
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank: statements and canceled
checks.
1913-1914
Physical Description: 11 items.
III. Miscellaneous Personal Items (Box 3 and Rolled Item 1).
Box 3
Miscellaneous Personal Items.
Folder 1
Barker, Marks: Citizenship papers.
1802
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 2
Marquis of Northampton.
1819, Dec. 5
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 3
Centennial facsimile: Declaration of Independence.
1876
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 4
Trans-Pacific Yacht Races: correspondence.
1905-1906
Physical Description: 16 items.
Folder 5
Trans-Pacific Yacht Races: printed items.
1906-1908
Physical Description: 6 items.
Folder 6
Trans-Pacific Yacht Races: newspaper clippings.
1906-1908
Physical Description: 189 items.
Folder 7
Trans-Pacific Yacht Races: scrapbook.
1904-1908
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 8
Sinclair, Arthur W.: California Delta Farms materials.
1912-1929
Physical Description: 80 items.
Includes maps, company information, notes, correspondence, and
newspaper clippings.
Folder 9
Sinclair, Marjorie: “Pasadena Community Playhouse
Beginnings.”
1937
Physical Description: 1 item.
Folder 10
Genealogical notes on Barker and Jenkins families.
Undated
Physical Description: 2 items.
Folder 11
Sinclair, H. H. coat of arms.
Undated
Physical Description: 1 item.
Rolled Item 1
American Institute of Electric Engineers diploma to H.H.
Sinclair.
14 November 1914
Physical Description: 1 item.
Rolled diploma of Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of
Electric Engineers. With seal and signatures.
IV. Manuscripts and Correspondence (Boxes 4, 5, 6).
Folder 1
Edison Securities.
approximately 1912
Physical Description: 3 items.
Includes financial statements and business card of James R.
Martin.
Folder 2
Fontana (Union) Water Company.
1912-1915
Physical Description: 11 items.
Includes financial records, balance sheets, and letters.
Folder 3
Harbor Land Company.
1910-1914
Physical Description: 9 items.
Miscellaneous balance sheets for company operations.
Folder 4
Great Western Power Company.
1910-1911
Physical Description: 5 items.
Minutes of executive committee meeting of May 20, 1910, other pieces
of correspondence; a financial spreadsheet.
Folder 5
Engineering Associations.
1911-1915
Physical Description: 7 items.
Includes official announcements and other printed items from the
International Engineering Congress, International Electrical
Congress, and others.
Folder 6
Whittier Extension Company.
1912-1913
Physical Description: 5 items.
Financial statements and estimates.
Folder 7
Southern California Edison Company.
1907-1910
Physical Description: 3 items.
Financial records and stock share information.
Folder 8
Palmer Oil/Union Oil/Palmer Union Oil.
1909-1913
Physical Description: 39 items.
Miscellaneous official correspondence, telegrams, newspaper
clippings, two pieces relating to annual report for 1911.
Folder 9
Midway Royal Petroleum Company.
1911-1913
Physical Description: 5 items.
Various pieces of financial and legal correspondence.
Folder 10
Torrance, Marshall and Company.
1912-1914
Physical Description: 10 items.
8 financial balance sheets; a prospectus for Gage Canal Company; a
contract/proposition sheet for a purchase of land (4100 acres) at
Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela and Sausal.
Folder 11
City of Pasadena.
1912-1913
Physical Description: 3 items.
2 assessment lists for 375 Waverly Drive for years 1912 and 1913; one
postcard from City of Pasadena giving notice of street improvement
on Waverly Drive between Orange Grove Ave. and Pasadena Ave.
Folder 12
United Mines.
1910-1912
Physical Description: 22 items.
Stockholder information, minutes of stockholder meetings, board
meetings, company financial statements, etc.
Folder 13
Unites States Department of the Interior.
1911-1914
Physical Description: 28 items.
Department of Interior publications lists, invoices with charges for
books ordered by Sinclair.
Folder 14
Centinela Improvement Company.
1913
Physical Description: 10 items.
Stockholder information, financial balance sheets, and other company
correspondence.
Folder 15
A-L Corporate Entities.
1912-1914
Physical Description: 15 items.
Correspondence and forms related to Dominguez Land Corp., First
National Bank of Long Beach, J.H. Adams & Co., Hotchkin &
Co., etc.
Folder 16
M-Z Corporate Entities.
1911-1913
Physical Description: 4 items.
Business correspondence related to Union Home Telephone &
Telegraph Corp., G. Lawrence Stimson Co., and Security Trust &
Savings Bank / Central National Bank of Los Angeles.
Folder 17
Notes and calculations.
1906
Physical Description: 1 item.
6 pages of lists of personal names and locations as well as figures,
presumably made by Sinclair.
Folder 18
Tournament of Roses (Rose Parade) expenses.
1914
Physical Description: 1 item.
Contains itemized list of parade expenditures for the tournament of
New Year's Day 1914. Items include concessions, postage,
advertising, music, decorating, etc.
Folder 19
Sinclair, Marjorie: correspondence regarding Tiburcio
Vasquez.
1930
Physical Description: 3 items.
Two letters about the activities of outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez in the
1870s and a document of excerpted material from "Scouting on Two
Continents" by Frederick Russell Burnham.
Folder 20
Rowley, Mary E: memoirs.
approximately 1908
Physical Description: 2 items.
Handwritten, autobiographical memoir, 50 pages; and the beginning of
a personal letter which begins, "My dear Mother..."
Folder 21
Rowley, Agnes Munson: childhood letters.
1872-1874
Physical Description: 3 items.
Two letters addressed to "Aunt Carry," the other to "Cad and Law." A
separate letter is addressed "Dear Mama."
Folder 22
Misc. correspondence: Sinclair not sender or recipient.
1908-1914
Physical Description: 13 items.
Various documents including business correspondence, informal
financial notes and one form letter from a homeowner group to the
City of Pasadena.
Folder 23
Construction of Sinclair house.
1911-1912
Physical Description: 16 items.
Various documents specifying design and construction of rooms,
closets, etc., for the building of the Sinclair house.
Folder 24
Great Western Power Company: Resignation Announcement.
1911
Physical Description: 1 item.
Official company document announcing resignation of H.H. Sinclair
from his posts as vice president and general manager of Great
Western Power Co., effective July 1, 1911.
Folder 25
Memorial tributes to Sinclair.
1914
Physical Description: 2 items.
Resolution of respect from Tournament of Roses Assn. dated Sept. 14,
1914; and a memorial proclamation from International Development
Co., dated October 22, 1914.
Box 5
Correspondence to and from H. H. Sinclair (1908-1911).
Folder 1
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1908
Physical Description: 1 item.
Brief letter from James McLachlan.
Folder 2
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1909
Physical Description: 55 items.
Correspondents include: Brown, Frank L. and the Brown Walker Simmons
Company; Clark, C.M.; Barbour, F.F.; Clark, E.P.; Dicey, E.C.;
Finkle, F.C.; Gillis, R.C.; Hawley, Edwin; Jardine, John ; Josselyn,
B.S. ; Lewis, John H.; Macy, Lloyd; and Wilson, H.P.
Folder 3
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1909
Physical Description: 44 items.
Recipients include: Barbour, F.F.; Brown, Frank L.; Clark, Clarence;
Clark, C.E. (c/o Portland Railway Light & Power Co.); Finkle,
F.C.; Fleming, Arthur H.; Gillis, R.C.; Hawley, Edwin; Josselyn,
B.S.; Lewis, John H.; McCay, W.S.; Staats, William R. (William R. Staats Co.); Waller,
C.W.; Wilson, H.P.
Folder 4
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1910
Physical Description: 101 items.
Correspondents include: Adams, James H.; Brown, Frank L.; Chase,
Henry L.; Cone, W.S.; Cook, Harold S.; Dicey, E.C. ; Edminson, J.W.;
Ellis, George B.; Fisher, Henry; Great Western Power Co.; Hubbard,
A.G.; Jardine, John; Johnson, Milbank ; Miller, John B.; Miller,
John B. ; Montgomery, Charles C.; Phillips, John R.; Robinson, Henry
M.; Schaefer, L.P.; Stimson, George W. ; Thornley, Julian; Ward,
George M. and Wilson, H.P.
Folder 5
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1910
Physical Description: 68 items.
Recipients include: Adams, James H. (& Co.); Brown, Frank L.;
Cone, W.S.; Cook, Harold S.; Dicey, E.C.; Earl, E.T.; Ellis, George
B.; Edminson, J.W.; Fisher, Henry; Hubbard, A.G.; Irvine, James;
Jardine, John; Johnson, Milbank; Martin, James R.; Miller, John B.;
Percey, W.L.; Robinson, Henry M.; Staats, William R. (William R.
Staats Co.); Stimson, George W.; United Mines Company; Wagner &
Cook; Ward, George M.; Wilson, H.P. (sec., Great Western Power Co.).
Folder 6
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1911
Physical Description: 80 items.
Correspondents include: Arnold, Joseph A. (U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture); Bogaardis, J.C. (William R. Staats Co.); Booge, J.H.
(First National Bank, Pasadena); Bradley, Lucy N.; Brown, Frank L.
(Palmer Oil Company); Brown Walker Simmons Company; Bumgarner, J.A.
(Mr. & Mrs.); Chase, Harry L. (Brown Walker Simmons Company);
Cook, Harold S. (United Mines Company); Dicey, E.C.; Doan, A.C.
(Transfer Agent, Great Western Power Company, New York, NY); Duke,
Minnie [?] Woodward; Ellis, George B.; Freeman, Lewis R. ; Freeman,
M. (aide of Robert C. Gillis) ; French, M.H. (general contractor);
Gregg, Wellington, Jr. (Crocker National Bank); Hilborn, Lewis A.
(Palmer Oil Company); Hobron, Thomas W. ; Johnson, Milbank (United
Mines Company); Kelsey, (N.E.?) (L.H. Freymuth, Co.); Martin, T.C.
(National Electric Light Assn.); McCrillis, John (clerk, Superior
Court of New Hampshire, Sullivan County); Midway Royal Petroleum
Company; Montgomery, Charles C. (attorney); Mulligan, Edward H.
(Southern California Edison Company) ; Naphtaly, S.L.; Newberry,
J.R. (Newberry's Wholesale & Retail Grocers) ; Norberg, C.F. (G.
Lawrence Stimson Co.); Penna, W.E. (Union Engineering Co.); Ralphs,
W.D. (Ralphs Plumbing and Electric Co.) ; Robbins, Edward F. ;
Schaefer, Leo (United Mines Company); Spence, Jay (Cashier, Los
Angeles Trust & Savings Bank) ; Staats, William R. (William R.
Staats Co.); Stimson, G. Lawrence (G. Lawrence Stimson Co.,
builders, real estate, fire insurance); Stimson, George W. (G.
Lawrence Stimson Co., builders); Stratton, H.C. (Palmer Oil Company,
secretary); Tomkins, F.M. (Western Power Company, New York, NY);
Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and Walker, George L.
(Brown Walker Simmons Company).
Folder 7
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1911
Physical Description: 60 items.
Recipients include: Bennett, Ralph; Brown, Frank L. (President,
Palmer Oil Co.); Bumgarner, Mr. & Mrs. J.A. (in Nevis, CA);
Crocker National Bank (San Francisco); Denman, A.C. (of Redlands);
Dicey, E.C.; Doan, A.C. (Transfer Agent, Great Western Power
Company); Duke, Minnie W.; Ellis, George B. (Hartford Fire Insurance
Co.); Freymuth Co. (L.H. Freymuth Co.); Gillis, R.C.; Great Western
Power Company, New York, NY; Gregg, Wellington (Crocker National
Bank); Hawley, Edwin (Pres., Great Western Power); Hobron, Thomas
W.; Jayne, F.P. ; Johnson, Milbank; McCrillis, John; Marshall, John
Murray; Naphtaly, S.L.; Robbins, Edward F.; Sinclair, H.H. Mrs. (in
New Jersey); Stimson, G. Lawrence ; Stimson, George W.; G. Lawrence
Stimson Co.; Stratton, H.C. (secretary, Palmer Oil Co.); Tompkins,
F.M. (treasurer, Western Power Co.); Torrance, J.S.; United Mines
Co.; United States Geological Survey; United States Department of
Agriculture; Wilson, H.P. (sec., Great Western Power Co.).
Box 6
Correspondence to and from H. H. Sinclair (1912-) and others;
Miscellaneous written material.
Folder 1
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1912
Physical Description: 87 items.
Correspondents include: Bartow, R.C. (Tournament of Roses
Association); Batchelder, George A. ; Bedford, A.C.; Bennett, Ralph
(Dominguez Land Company); Blankenhorn, David (David Blankenhorn
Company, Pasadena--real estate, stocks, etc); Brown, Frank L.
(Palmer Union Oil Co.); Bullock, E.S. (Physician-in-Chief, New
Mexico Cottage Sanatorium...); Chino Land and Water Company; Clark,
L.W. (L.W. Clark Realty Co.); Cockley, Henry H. (Okey Manufacturing
Co.); Comegys, C.W.; Craig, Volney H. (attorney); Crane, Harold O.
(La Hacienda Inc., Marysville, CA); Darrow, E.L. (Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Co. of California); Dean, B.D. (Assistant Cashier,
Crocker National Bank, San Francisco); Denman, A.C., Jr. (A.C.
DENMAN & SON - citrus fruit growers); Dicey, E.C. ; Doty, J.
Lamb (Mojave River Land and Water Company, Los Angeles); Duke,
Minnie W.; Ellis, George B. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph);
Fisher, Henry (Redlands, CA); Gates, R. Woodland (attorney,
Washington, DC); Grafton, Edward L. (Grafton Publishing Company);
Graham, T.A. (Southern Pacific Company); Guy, I. Clark (Penn Mutual
Life Insurance - Philadelphia); Harvey, Fred; Hedges, W.V. (United
Mines Company); Henry, J.D.; Hilborn, E.P. (Mission Olive Orchard
Company); Hubbard, A.G.; Johnson, Milbank Dr.; Josephs, James;
Kellogg, D.D. (Auditor and Assessor, City of Pasadena); Kellogg,
Giles (Secretary, Union Oil Company of California); Lardner, Henry
A. (J.G. White & Company); [Long, Olin F.]; Lutz, W.H.;
McCargar, J.B. (Crocker National Bank); Montgomery, C.C. (Groff
& Montgomery - attorneys); Munger & Munger (Plumbing,
heating, etc); Munson, Spencer, M. (Pasadena, Office of City
Treasurer and Tax Collector); Newberry, J.R. (Newberry's - grocers);
Nolan, George N. (Nolan Garage - Pasadena); Off, Edward T.
(Tournament of Roses); Pearson, B.F. (Southern California Edison
Company); Phillips, Lee A. (Holland Land & Water Company);
Ranney, W. St. J. (accounting department); Reding, A. (The "P" Oil
Syndicate Ltd.); Rizer, H.C. (United States Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior); Robinson, Henry M. ; Short, Frank H.
(Lawyer); Snook, John P. (Snook Brothers - Real Estate and
Insurance); Spence, Jay (cashier, Los Angeles Trust & Savings
Bank); Stimson, G. Lawrence (G. Lawrence Stimson Co.); Tompkins,
F.M. (California Electric Generating Company - New York);
Trowbridge, H.H. (attorney); Walker, George L. (Palmer Union Oil
Company); Willcox, O.B. (William Bonbright & Co. - Bankers and
Brokers, New York); Wilson, Wayne McVeagh (New Mexico Cottage
Sanatorium).
Folder 2
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1912
Physical Description: 110 items.
Recipients include: Adams, J.H., & Co. (attn: James R. Martin);
Bartow, R.C. (secretary, Tournament of Roses Assn.); Batchelder,
George A.; Bedford, A.C.; Clark, L.W.; Cone, W.S.; Cook, D.S.;
Cookley, Harry H.; Cortright, B.B. (also spelled Courtright, B.B.);
Crane, Harold O. (Marysville, CA); Crocker
National Bank (San Francisco, CA); Denman, A.C. Jr. (Redlands,
Calif.); Dicey, E.C. ; Doty, J. Lamb; Dr. Bullock (New Mexico Cottage
Sanatorium; Duke, Minnie; Ellis, George B. (president, Union Home
Telephone Company); Fisher, Henry (Redlands, CA); Graham, Thomas K.;
Guy, I.C.; Hall, H.S.; Harbor Land Company; Hilborn, E.P.; Jardine,
J.E.; Johnson, Milbank; Lardner, H.A.; Long, Oscar Fitzalan (US
Army, general, retired); Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank;
Marshall, E.J. (Chino Land Company); McCuiston Company; Miller,
H.L.; Mulligan, E.H. (Southern California Edison Company); Munger
& Munger (a Pasadena company); Munson, S.M. (City Tax Collector,
Pasadena); Newberry, John R.; Nolan, G.N.; Off, E.T. (Tournament of
Roses Association); Palmer Oil Company, San Francisco (Attn: Mr.
Walker); Pasadena, City of - Tax Collector; Phillips, Lee (Pac.
Mutual Life Ins. Co); Powell, C.L. ; Robinson, H.M.; Short, Frank H.
; Sinclair, Elizabeth (Nutley, N.J.); Snook, John P. (Sacramento);
Staats, William R. (William R. Staats Co.); Stimson - G. Lawrence Stimson Co.,
Pasadena; Tompkins, F.M. (treasurer, California Electric Generating
Co.); Torrance, J.S. (Torrance-Marshall Co.); United States
Geological Survey; Willcox, O.B. (W.P. Bonbright & Co.);
Williams, Silas (Domestic Water Co., Redlands, CA).
Folder 3
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1913
Physical Description: 149 items.
Correspondents include: ; Bannister, E.W.; Barnabee,
Henry Clay; Barnes, H.H. (General Electric Co.); Bartow, R.C.
(Tournament of Roses); Batchelder, George A. (E.H. Rollins &
Sons, Bonds); Bennett, John E. (attorney); Bennett, Ralph
(Consulting Engineer); Bent, Arthur ; Bidwell, A.R. (Great Western
Power Company); Boyd, D. Macpherson (Torrance, Marshall &
Company); Brown Walker Simmons Company; Brown, Frank L. (Palmer
Union Oil Company); Bumgarner, J.; Burck, Lawrence B. (California
Real Estate And Building Co.); Burritt, Elizabeth (University of
California, Berkeley, Dept. of Pathology/Bacteriology) ; Centinela
Improvement Company; Chandler, Leo S. (Los Angeles Trust &
Savings Bank); Chapin, Roy (Detroit) ; Chappell, Delos A. (Southern
Sierras Power Company); Chapple Publishing Co., Ltd.; Clarke,
William M. (Chas. H. Jones & Co., Investment Securities) ; [Comly, H.I. ?] ; Cone,
W.S. (United States Department of the Interior); Conklin,
Mrs. S.M. (Long Beach, CA); Craig, Volney C. (attorney); Crawford,
K.W.; Davis, R.D. (President, Tournament of Roses); Dicey, E.C.;
Doolittle, S.H. (City of Pasadena, Department of Public Works);
Dupuy, E.J. (International Engineering Congress); Ebner, G.W.
(Crocker National Bank, San Francisco); Edwards, M.L. ; Ellis,
George B. (Home Telephone & Telegraph Company); Finkle, F.C.
(Consulting Engineer); Fleishhacker, M.; Fuller, T.S. ; Gillespie,
C.F. (Palmer Union Oil Company); Gregg, W., Jr. (Crocker National
Bank, San Francisco); Gregory, B.B. (Dominguez Land Corporation);
Gregory, B.B. (Huntington Land And Improvement Company, Tax Agent's
Office); Hanscom, P.T. (Great Western Power Company); Hartmann, H.W.
(Palmer Union Oil Company); Hedges, W.V. (Thomas D. Campbell &
Company); Heron, R.F. (La Tuna Packing Company); Hervey, W.R. (Los
Angeles Trust & Savings Bank); Hobron, T.W. (Manufacturer's
Agent, San Francisco); Holbrook, Harry (Holbrook, Merrill &
Stetson, San Francisco); Hornung, J.H. (San Francisco, Napa &
Calistoga Railway, Napa, CA); Hotchkin And Company; J_____, L.B.
(Chino Land & Water Company}; Jardine, J.E. (william R. Staats
Co.); Johnson, E.C. (asst. Chief Engineer, Pacific Electric Railway
Company); Johnson, H.M. (California Unit Brick and Tile Company);
Judkins, R.D. (Vice President & Cashier, First National Bank of
Long Beach); Judson, Wilbur; Kauffman, Milton ; Lardner, Henry A.
(J. G. White & Company - Engineers); Malaby, Z.T. ; Marble, John
E. (Valley Hunt Club); Marsh, Robert (Centinela Improvement
Company); Masten, J.M. (Crocker National Bank - San Francisco);
McCrea, G.V. (Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.); McCrea, R.L.
(Fontana Company - Land and Water); McNally, W.A. (W.A. McNally
& Co. - Pasadena); Mead, S.E. (J.H. White & Company - New
York); Milbank, Isaac ; Miller, A.B. ; Montgomery, Charles C. (Groff
& Montgomery - Attorneys); Moody, Robert R. (Palmer Union Oil
Company) ; Needham, J.C. (United States House of Representatives -
Committee On Ways And Means); Off, E.T. (Tournament of Roses);
Olney, Jesse (attorney); Smith, Emery & Company, Los Angeles
(chemists); Smith, J.W. (Bohemian Club, Ass't Secretary &
Manager); Southern California Edison Company; Spaulding, W.H.
(attorney, San Francisco); Spence, Jay (Los Angeles Trust &
Savings Bank, Cashier); Stevens, J. Franklin (engineer); Torrance,
Marshall & Co.; Touhy, W.P. (Ebro Irrigation And Power Company,
Limited); Tournament of Roses; Van Wagenen, Dan; Wagner, James R.H.
; Walker, George L. (Palmer Union Oil Company); Wheeler, Roy Bradley
(Torrance, Marshall & Company); Whitlock, E.M. (Whittier
Extension Co.); Wilcox, O.B. (William P. Bonbright & Co.);
Williams, S. (Redlands, Lugonia & Crafton-domestic water
company); Wright, C.L. (First National Bank of Long Beach).
Folder 4
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1913
Physical Description: 104 items.
Recipients include: Bankers Trust Company, New York City; Bartow,
R.C. (Tournament of Roses Association); Bennett, John E. (attorney);
Bidwell, A.R. (c/o Great Western Power Company); Bohemian Club, San
Francisco; Britton, John A. (Pacific Gas and Electric Company);
Brown Walker Simmons Company; Brown, Frank. L. (Palmer Union Oil
Company); Bumgarner, J.A.; Burck, Lawrence B.; Burger Van &
Storage Company; Chapin, Roy D. (president, Hudson Motor Car Co.);
Clarke, E.P. (Riverside, CA); Cone, William S. ; Craig, Volney H.
(Whittier Extension Company); Crawford, H.M. (Sacramento,
California); Crocker National Bank (San Francisco); Dicey, E.C.;
Dupuy, E.J. (International Engineering Congress, San Francisco);
Ellis, George B. (Home Telephone & Telegraph Company);
Finkle, F.C. (Los Angeles, CA); Francis, E.D. ; Francis, Edmund C.
(Vancouver, B.C.); Garbutt, F.A. ; Gielow & Orr; Hall, H.S.
(Giant, Contra Costa County, CA); Hanscom, P.T. (San Francisco);
Hedges, W.V.; Hellman, Isais; Heron, R.F. (La Tuna Packing Company);
Hobron, T.W. (San Francisco); Hornung, J.H. (Great Western Power
Company); Hotchkin & Company; Judkins, R.D. (First National
Bank, Long Beach, CA); Kauffman, Milton (Los Angeles); Lardner,
Henry A. (c/o G.G. White & Co.); Los Angeles Trust & Savings
Bank; McIlhenny, John A. (United States Civil Service Commission);
McKee, H.S. (National Bank of California); McKnight, Francis Herron;
McNally, W.A. (Messrs.) Pasadena, CA.; Midway Royal Petroleum Co.;
Miller, A.B. (Fontana Company, Rialto, CA); National Bank of
California, Los Angeles; Olney, Jack (San Francisco, CA); Palmer
Union Oil Company; Pasadena, City of (City Clerk); Sinclair, H.H.;
Smith, F.M. (Bohemian Club, San Francisco); Spaulding, William H.
(Great Western Power Company); Stevens, J. Franklin - Philadelphia,
PA; Torrance, Marshall & Co. - Los Angeles, CA ; Touhy, W.P.
(Lerida, Spain); United States - Government Printing Office,
Washington, DC; United States - Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, DC; United States Geological Survey, Washington, DC; Van
Wagenen, Dan; Willcox, O.B.; Williams, Silas; Wright, C.L. (Asst.
Cashier, First National Bank - Long Beach, CA).
Folder 5
Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair.
1914
Physical Description: 44 items.
Correspondents include: Bennett, Ralph (consulting engineer);
Burritt, Elizabeth S. (Berkeley, CA); Cone, W.S. (United States,
Department of the Interior, Reclamation Service); Cox & Stevens,
New York, NY (yacht sales & charters); Duke, Minnie W.; Dupuy,
E.J. (Executive Secretary-International Engineering Congress, 1915);
Ellis, George B. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corporation);
Fleming, Clarence S. ; Franklin, Blake (Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of California); Gent, Charles Robert (Union Power
Camp, San Bernardino County); Gielow & Orr (yacht brokers) ;
Harris, Ford W. (consulting engineer, Los Angeles); Hendrie, G.W.
(W.C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hendrie, W.C. (W.C. Hendrie
Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hobron, Thomas (San Francisco); Holbrook,
H.M. ; Huntington Land & Improvement Company, Pacific Electric
Building; International Electrical Congress, San Francisco;
International Engineering Congress, 1915 (San Francisco, CA); Kato,
Frank (writing from his home in Japan); Kaufman, Milton; Montgomery,
Charles (Martin & Montgomery, Lawyers, Los Angeles, CA); Rizer,
H. ?. (United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior,
Washington, DC); Rugg, J.M. (Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank,
Los Angeles, CA); Scharff, E. Jr. (Union Home Telephone &
Telegraph Corporation, Los Angeles); Sterling, E.C. (Torrance,
Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, CA); Torrance, Marshall &
Company, Los Angeles, Ca; Western Union Telegraph Company; Wright,
C.L. (First National Bank of Long Beach).
Folder 6
Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair.
1914
Physical Description: 36 items.
Recipients include: Burritt, (Miss) Elizabeth (Berkeley, CA);
Cattell, W.A. (Secretary-Treasurer, International Engineering
Congress, 1915); Centinela Improvement Company; Cone, W.S. (United
States Reclamation Service, Phoenix, AZ); Cooper, Hugh (Mississippi
River Power Company, Keokuk, Iowa); Cox & Stevens (New York
City); Denman, A.C. (c/o California Industrial Co., Los Angeles, CA;
Drexel, Henrietta M. (a letter of recommendation of her); Ellis,
George B. (Los Angeles, CA); First National Bank, Long Beach, CA;
Fleming, Arthur H. (Pasadena, CA); Gielow & Orr (New York City);
Gregory, B.B. (Los Angeles, CA) ; Halloran, A.H. (International
Electrical Congress, San Francisco); Hendrie, W.C. (Torrance, CA);
Hobron, T.W. (San Francisco, CA); Hobron, Thomas W. (San Francisco,
CA); Judkins, R.D. (cashier, First National Bank, Long Beach, CA);
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California; Sinclair, (Miss)
Elizabeth, Nutley, NJ; Sinclair, Jean S. (South Orange, NJ);
Torrance, J.S. (president, Dominguez Land Corporation, Los Angeles,
CA); Torrance, Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, CA; United
States Geological Survey, Washington, DC; Wright, C.L. (First
National Bank of Long Beach).
Folder 7
Correspondence to Mary Jenkins Rowley.
1842-1847
Physical Description: 7 items.
Correspondents include: Baldwin, E.H. ; Jenkins, Thomas M.
Folder 8
Correspondence from Mary Jenkins Rowley.
1843-1855
Physical Description: 9 items.
Recipients include: Jenkins, Mrs. Elizabeth (c/o Mr. James Jenkins);
Jenkins, Thomas; Rowley, Levi.
Folder 9
Correspondence to Mary Jenkins Rowley from Levi Rowley.
1848-1866
Physical Description: 7 items.
Folder 10
Correspondence to Mary Jenkins Rowley from John W. Edmonds.
1852-1853
Physical Description: 7 items.
Folder 11
Correspondence related to H. H. Sinclair: alphabetical by
author.
1909-1913
Physical Description: 16 items.
Correspondents include: Brown, Frank L. ; Burritt, E.S. ; Ellis,
George B.; Finney, John H. (Appalachian National Forest Association,
Washington, DC); Litchfield, Edwin C. (Hudson); Miller, C.W. ;
Mumma, Fred T. (Great Western Power Company); Naphtaly, S.L.
(Oakland Antioch And Eastern Railway, San Francisco); Orcutt, W.W.
(Union Oil Company of California, Los Angeles, CA); Parsons, S.J. ;
Smith, C.B. (Smith, Skerry & Chace - Toronto, Canada); Sullivan,
T.W. (Oregon City, Oregon); Wilson, H.P. (Secretary).
Folder 12
Correspondence: sender unknown.
1906-1913
Physical Description: 8 items.
Folder 13
Miscellaneous written material: poetry and other small
pieces.
Undated
Physical Description: 19 items.
Correspondence, poetry, cancelled check and other small pieces. From
various sources, including Thomas Jenkins.