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Call Number: SC0309
Creator:
Shay, Frank.
Title: Frank Shay, "A lifetime in California, 1860-1939" typescript
Dates: 1939
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet (1 volume: 326 leaves)
Summary: Autobiography, annotated by the author. Also includes newsclippings about Shay later in life.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Robert R. Tripp, 1984.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
A lifetime in California, 1860-1939:. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
California reporter and attorney. Growing up in California, Shay served in a wide variety of positions throughout his life,
including special reporter for Sacramento and Virginia City newspapers, accountant and telegrapher for the Sutro Tunnel Company,
and, after completing his law degree at Hastings Law College, attorney for the Southern Pacific Company and personal counsel
for railroad president Leland Stanford.
Autobiography, annotated by the author. Also includes newsclippings about Shay later in life.
Shay, Frank.
Southern Pacific Company
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Autobiographies.
California --History --1848-present.