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Finding Aid to the Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers, 1807-1961
BANC MSS M-B 10
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Collection Title: Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1807-1961
Collection Number: BANC MSS M-B 10
Creator:
Parkman, Samuel Paul Pablo, 1804-1873
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box, 1 v. and 1 oversize folder.
Number of microfilm reels: 1
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: The Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers includes correspondence, mining
documents, diaries, personal legal documents and genealogies.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English and Spanish
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item], Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers, BANC MSS M-B 10, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Material Catalogued Separately
- Plan de Guadalupe y Decreto del 12 de Diciembre de 1914 has been removed for cataloging as a printed item.
- "Tésis Profesional que presenta el alumno Pablo S. Parkman para obtener Titulo de Ingeniero de Minas y Metalurgista" has been catalogued for Bancroft's thesis collection.
- Portraits of Samuel Pablo Parkman and Pablo Parkman, lent to the Bancroft Library, have been photographed and catalogued separately.
- Facsimiles of letter, 1810, by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and document of 1814 by
José María Morelos have been removed and placed in
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS M-M 1830(Documentos relativos a la Guerra de Independencia).
These papers were given to the Bancroft Library by Don Pablo Parkman, Sept. 4, 1957.
Samuel Paul ["Pablo"] Parkman, the founder of the Mexican branch of the family, was born in February,
1804, in Aurora, New York, and died at Guanajuato May 2, 1875. When he was yet an infant, his parents
moved to Parkman Township, Geauga County, Ohio, where he was reared. In 1827 he made his way to
Missouri, and in 1828 was named postmaster at Petitsaw Bluffs, Lafayette County, Missouri. In 1829 he
went to the Rocky Mountains with William L. Sublette, returning the following year. He then became the
clerk of Jedediah S. Smith, and in the spring of 1831 accompanied Smith in the journey on the Santa Fe
Trail on which Smith was killed. Briefly he took charge of Smith's affairs, and afterward was associated
with Jedediah Smith's younger brother, Peter, in the firm Parkman & Smith. In the fall of 1832
he went down into Mexico and through a series of vicissitudes settled at Guanajuato, connected with
various mining enterprises. In 1835 he married Antonia de Vega, and to them 12 children were born, of
whom Felipe, Franco, and Juan Ignacio figure in these family papers.
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes correspondence, mining documents, diaries, personal legal documents and genealogies.
Correspondence contains a wage dispute with miners, economic conditions of Calif. in 1849, the American
Civil War in 1863, water rights in Guanajuato in 1900, letters from Franco Parkman to his father Samuel
Parkman concerning his studies and the pronouncement of the "Plan de Ayutla," and letters from Porfirio
Diaz to Antonia Vega de Parkman. Mining documents includes a record book and mining agreements. Diaries
of Samual Parkman's journey of Mexico in Nov. 1832 and of Robert Watson Noble, partner of Parkman, of
his journey through Mexico and Calif. from April to Aug. 1849. Personal legal documents include last
will and testaments, Ohio State Militia commission, being U.S. Postmaster General, passports and
identity papers and a gun permit.
Collection has been arranged chronologically, except for one volume that has been placed at the end of
the collection. At the end of the Container listing is a partial alphabetical listing of the persons
found in this collection.
Partial Index of Correspondents
Bocanegra, José María de
Folder 11
Díaz, Porfirio, pres. Mexico, 1830-1915
Folders 48-52,
55-58
McLean, John, 1785-1861
See U.S. Postmaster General
See U.S. Postmaster General
Morrow, Jeremiah, 1771-1852
See Ohio. Governor
See Ohio. Governor
Noble, Robert Watson
Folders 11,
13,
20-21
Ohio. Governor
Folders 3-4
Parkman, Felipe, 1836-
Folders 1,
59
Parkman, Franco, 1841-1887
Folders 25-36,
41,
45
Parkman, Samuel Paul, 1804-1873
Folders 3-4,
8,
12-15,
17,
19,
23-24,
37-38,
42-43,
46
Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896
Folder 47
Rosa, Luis de la, d. 1856
Folder 15
Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831
Folder 7
Storrs, Augustus
Folder 9
U.S. Postmaster General
Folders 5-6