Guide to the Decker-Jewett Bank Papers, 1850-1890
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Guide to the Decker-Jewett Bank Papers, 1850-1890
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Decker-Jewett Bank Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1890
Box Number: Boxes 137, 140, 142-145
Creator:
Decker-Jewett Bank (Marysville, Calif.)
Extent: 6 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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[Identification of item], Decker-Jewett Bank Papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Banks and banking--California--Marysville--History
Decker-Jewett Bank (Marysville, Calif.)
Deeds--California--Yolo County
Land titles--California--Yolo County--History
Contents
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, deeds, mining papers, sales of public land materials, tax receipts.
History
In 1858, Peter Decker and John H. Jewitt took over the business of Marysville, California's first bank from Mark Brumagim
& Co. and formed the partnership of Decker and Jewett. The bank was conducted as a private bank until the death of Peter Decker
in 1888, when it was incorporated as the Decker-Jewitt Bank. In 1910, Elliot McAllister became president of the bank after
acquiring John Jewitt's holdings. John Jewitt died in 1911. The bank continued in business until 1934 when its assets were
taken over by the Liquidation Office of the State Department of Banking. Prominent Marysville customers of the bank included
Pioneers John Q. Packard and Edwards H. Woodruff who were associates in a Marysville general mercantile business from 1849
to 1862. They remained partners in various enterprises until the death of Woodruff in 1899. John Packard died about 1907.
William C. Belcher was also a customer of the bank. Belcher, a lawyer, settled in Marysville in 1856 and formed a law partnership
with his brother I.S. Belcher. William Belcher died in 1895.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
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Decker, Peter, 1822-1888
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Jewett, John H.
Other Correspondents
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Bennett, C. W.
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Hanauer, A.
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Lawrence, Joab
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McChrystal, John
Related Collections
Title: John Augustus Sutter Jr. Collection,
Boxes 315-16.
Box 137
Certificates; correspondence: 1879, 1882, 1903; estates of G. W. Colby, Peter Decker and Caroline Woodruff; mining papers, stocks, tax receipts: 1852, 1869- 1893.
Box 140
Business papers: Companies: Central Pacific Railroad; Decker, Jewett & Co., Bank 1860-90; Decker & Jewett Land Co., ca. 1900; Sonoma County Land & Improvement Company, ca. 1890; Spring Valley Hydraulic Gold Company 1880-90.
Box 142
Land sales: Abstracts of title and surveys to Hock Farm, McMurry Farm and New Helvetia; Levee District #5, Sutter County ca. 1850; sales of public lands to John Jewett and W. P. Harrington; survey of Woodruff Ranch 1889; swamp and overflow lands: letters patent, deeds, contested papers and patents 1870-90.
Box 143
Land sales: Deeds: sale of public lands to William E. Belcher 1870; 1873.
Box 144
Land sales: Deeds, etc.: To persons A - Z, 1850-1902. (Includes some swamp and overflow land deeds, etc.)
Box 145
Land sales: Land sales: Deeds: To John Q. Packard and Edwards Woodruff 1852-1887.