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Collection Title: Isaias W. Hellman papers
Dates: 1865-1929
Collection Number: MS 0981
Creator:
Hellman, Isaias William, 1843-1920
Physical Description:
Extent: 49 boxes [includes 52 v. in Boxes 27-46 and 49]
(20.75 Linear feet)
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: Business papers, chiefly correspondence,
pertaining to Hellman's activities in banking, electric and cable railway
transportation, and real estate investment, particularly in southern California and
San Francisco. Correspondence is with and about the banks and financial institutions
with which Hellman was affiliated, and reflects his interests in southern Calif.
electric railroad lines, Market Street Railway in San Francisco, Union Oil and
Associated Oil Companies, the Redondo Improvement Company, the Los Alamitos Land
Company, the San Gabriel and other wineries, and other agricultural concerns.
Includes papers of Hellman's son, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., in his capacities as
president of Union Trust Company and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, vice
president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, chairman of
Columbus Savings and Loan Society, and a member of the Relief Committee of 50 that
assumed control of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also reflects
his activities with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
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[Identification of item], Isaias W. Hellman Papers, MS 981. California Historical
Society.
Isaiah W. Hellman Papers: Additions, 1847-1964, MS 981 A
Printed materials have been transferred to the book and ephemera collections.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Columbus Savings and Loan Society.
Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
Hellman, Isaias W. (Isaias William),
1842-1920--Archives.
Hellman, Isaias W., 1871-1920--Archives.
Market Street Railway.
Nevada National Bank.
Union Trust Company of San Francisco.
Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank
Bankers--California-San Francisco
Banks and banking--California.
Letter books.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco,
Calif.)
Real estate investment--California.
Street-railroads--California, Southern.
Following is a partial list of correspondents in the collection, and the number of
letters written to or by them:
Ainsworth, John V. (7 letters)
Alvord, William (1 letter)
Banning, William (2 letters)
Bard, Thomas R. (2 letters)
Bicknell, John Dustin (14 letters)
Bixby, Fred Hathaway (13 letters)
Bixby, George H. (33 letters)
Bixby, John W. (1 letter)
Burr, Ephraim Willard (3 letters)
Chandler, Harry (3 letters)
Childs, Ozro W. (3 letters)
Borel, Antoine (11 letters)
Crocker, George (1 letter)
Crocker, William H. (2 letters)
De Guigne, Christian (12 letters)
Denis, George J. (6 letters)
Doheny, Edward L. (6 letters)
Downey, John G. (16 letters)
Duque, Thomas L. (16 letters)
Faymonville, Bernard (2 letters)
Fleishman, Henry J. (49 letters)
Flint, George C. (30 letters)
Flood, James Leary (1 letter)
Gage, Henry T. (3 letters)
Gerstle, Lewis (1 letter)
Gird, Richard (3 letters)
Grant, Adam (1 letter)
Garvey, Richard (18 letters)
Graves, Jackson Alpheus (338 letters)
Griffin, John Strother (2 letters)
Guasti, Secondo (1 letter)
Hanna, Mark (1 letter)
Harriman, Edward H. (5 letters)
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson (2 letters)
Hearst, William Randolph (1 letter)
Heller, Emanuel H. (24 letters)
Hellman, Herman W. (257 letters)
Hellman, Maurice S. (9 letters)
Herrin, William F. (4 letters)
Hill, Andrew P. (1 letter)
Hopkins, Timothy (1 letter)
Huntington, Collis P. (4 letters)
Huntington, Henry Edwards (81 letters)
Irwin, William G. (2 letters)
Jones, E. E. (19 letters)
Jordan, David Starr (1 letter)
Kahn, Julius (2 letters)
Kearney, M. Theodore (2 letters)
Keith, William (1 letter)
Keller, Matthew (19 letters)
Kerckhoff, William G. (61 letters)
Kinney, Abbot (1 letter)
Kohn, Kaspare (2 letters)
Lankershim, J. B. (2 letters)
Le Breton, Edward J. (1 letter)
Lubin, David (1 letter)
McAdoo, William Gibbs (2 letters)
MacKay, John William (16 letters)
Markham, Henry H. (4 letters)
Marye, George, T. (1 letter)
Meyer, Eugene (1 letter)
Milner, John M. (86 letters)
Mulholland, William (7 letters)
Newmark, Maurice (1 letter)
Nuttall, J. R. K. (5 letters)
O'Melveny, Henry W. (15 letters)
Otis, Harrison Gray (43 letters)
Patton, George (51 letters)
Pardee, George C. (4 letters)
Perkins, George C. (5 letters)
Plater, John E. (8 letters)
Reese, Michael (1 letter)
Rindage, Frederick H. (3 letters)
Robinson, Alfred (1 letter)
Rose, Leonard J. (2 letters)
Ross, Erskine Mayo (7 letters)
Ryland, Cassius T. (1 letter)
Sanderson, George W. (1 letter)
Sartori, Joseph Francis (34 letters)
Schiff, Jacob H. (2 letters)
Schwab, Charles M. (1 letter)
Shankland, J. J. (1 letter)
Shorb, James de Barth (6 letters)
Shortridge, Charles M. (1 letter)
Shortridge, Samuel W. (2 letters)
Sloss, Louis (1 letter)
Spreckels, Adolph B. (1 letter)
Spreckels, Claus (2 letters)
Spreckels, Rudolph (2 letters)
Stanford, Jane Lathrop (11 letters)
Stewart, Lyman (14 letters)
Strauss, Levi (2 letters)
Tevis, Lloyd (1 letter)
Truman, Ben C. (2 letters)
Valle, Reginaldo F. del (2 letters)
Van Nuys, Isaac N. (2 letters)
Wangenheim, Julius (6 letters)
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (13 letters)
White, Lovell (6 letters)
White, Stephen Mallory (35 letters)
Widney, Richard MaClay (1 letter)
Wilson, Mrs. Benjamin D. (1 letter)
Workman, William H. (13 letters)
The Isaias W. Hellman Papers were given to the California Historical Society by
I. W. Hellman III in 1967.
Processed by California Historical Society staff.
Organized into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence, 1865-1920 [these are
further divided into two sub-series: San Francisco Office and Los Angeles Office];
Series 2: Financial Records, 1910-1924; Series 3: Real Estate Title Abstracts and
Deeds, 1883-1929; Series IV: Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books,
1879-1920; Series V: Bank Statements of Assets and Liabilities, 1915-1919.
Business papers, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to Hellman's activities in
banking, electric and cable railway transportation, and real estate investment,
particularly in southern California and San Francisco. Correspondence is with and
about the banks and financial institutions with which Hellman was affiliated, and
reflects his interests in southern Calif. electric railroad lines, Market Street
Railway in San Francisco, Union Oil and Associated Oil Companies, the Redondo
Improvement Company, the Los Alamitos Land Company, the San Gabriel and other
wineries, and other agricultural concerns. Correspondents include Harry Chandler,
John G. Downey, Henry J. Fleishman, Jackson A. Graves, Herman W. Hellman, Henry E.
Huntington, William Mulholland, Harrison G. Otis, George Patton, George C. Perkins,
Claus Spreckles, Benjamin I. Wheeler, Stephen M. White, and others. Includes some
personal correspondence with family members. Other papers include financial records
for Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, Union Trust Company, Columbus Savings and Loan
Society, Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, United States National
Bank of Los Angeles, and other banks.
Interfiled with these are papers of Hellman's son, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., in his
capacities as president of Union Trust Company and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank,
vice president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, chairman of
Columbus Savings and Loan Society, and a member of the Relief Committee of 50 that
assumed control of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also reflects
his activities with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
I. W. Hellman was a banker and prominent financial figure of California and Oregon.
He served as president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, Nevada
National Bank, and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank. He also served as chairman of
the board of directors of Union Trust Company of San Francisco, and director of the
United States National Bank of Portland and the Security Trust and Savings Bank of
Los Angeles.