Register of the Fahey-Sloan Family Collection,
1880-1960
Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by
Don Walker
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the
Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
Fax: (209) 946-2810
URL:
http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
© 1998
University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Register of the Fahey-Sloan Family Collection,
1880-1960
Collection number: Mss258
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University
Library
University of the Pacific
Contact Information
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- Fax: (209) 946-2810
- URL:
http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
- Processed by:
- Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- November 1998
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Fahey-Sloan Family Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1880-1960
Collection number: Mss258
Creator:
Robert & Al Fahey
Extent: 4 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, Mss258,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Access Points
personal name
Fahey, Dennis (1831-1914)
Fahey, William (1871-1957)
Fahey, John (1866-1950)
Fahey, Lilly Sloan
Sloan, William Albert
Sloan, Elizabeth Haskell (b. 1870)
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (1854-1927)
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson (1842-1919)
Rowell, Joseph Cummings
Fahey family
Sloan family
corporate name
Yosemite Logging Company (Calif.)
West Side Lumber Company (Calif.)
Pratt Institute -History
University of California, Berkeley -History
subject
Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915: San
Francisco)
Columbian International Exposition (1893: Chicago)
Women librarians
Lumber camps -California -Tuolumne County
Libraries -California -History
Oakdale (Calif.) -Social life and customs
Women photographers -California
Berkeley (Calif.) -Description and travel
New York (N.Y.) -Description and travel
Tuolumne County (Calif.) -Description and travel
Biography
Elizabeth Haskell Sloan (b. 1870) came to California (c1895) after
working as a stenographer for the Chicago Exposition, the Armour Institute and
other businesses in the Chicago area during the mid-1890s. Although she had
come initially to help her invalid sister, Clara, with the latter's three
daughters, the sister soon died and Elizabeth Haskell helped place the
daughters in foster homes. She then worked as University President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler's secretary while attending the University of California (1900-1904).
Sloan subsequently graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School (1906) and
returned as a librarian to the University of California (1907-1914). She
married her dead sister's husband, William Haskell Sloan, and moved with him to
the Yosemite region where he was Superintendent of the Yosemite Logging Company
(1914-1917). When Sloan became ill due to over work, they moved to Irvington,
Alameda County, where they became prune farmers. After Sloan's death Elizabeth
worked for the Pacific Rural Press and as associate editor for a local
newspaper. One of William Sloan's daughters, Lilly, married a member of the
Fahey Family (c1913).
Irish immigrant, Dennis Fahey (1831-1914) was a pioneer stockman in
Tuolumne County (1853). Three of his six children: John, William and Joseph
established the West Side Market which supplied lumber camps and developed a
strong retail trade in the Stanislaus and Tuolumne County region. The Faheys
jointly owned 5,000 acres and more than 1,000 head of cattle. The brothers
split their holdings in 1921. John Fahey's son, William, married Lily Sloan.
Their oldest son, Robert (1914-1994), was a long time resident of Oakdale, a
Stanislaus County Supervisor, developer and cattle rancher. He was an active
member of a local social organization that called itself the "Bronco Boys."
Scope and Content
The Fahey-Sloan Collection includes family history materials and
photographs. Several photo albums created by Elizabeth Haskell Sloan document
the activities of the Yosemite Logging Company (1914-1917). Other albums
created by Robert Fahey depict the activities of the Oakdale "Bronco Boys" club
(1930s-1950s), his World War II career and his research on the logging industry
in the southern Sierra. There is also an album of the Panama Pacific
International Exposition (1915).
BOX 1: FAHEY-SLOAN BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
1.1-Elizabeth Haskell Sloan biography
1.3-Elizabeth Haskell Sloan reminiscence &
memorabilia
1.4-Sloan Ranch, Irvington photos
1.6-Fahey Family/Oakdale High School
memorabilia
1.7-Portrait photos [unident.]
1.12-Washington trip, 1909
1.13-"Oakdale" from published history of Stanislaus
County
BOX 2: ELIZABETH SLOAN PHOTOBOOKS; YOSEMITE LOGGING CO.
PHOTOS
2.1-E. H. Sloan photobook #1 [West Side Lumber Company,
circa 1910, see addendum ]
2.2-E. H. Sloan photobook #2
2.3-E. H. Sloan photobook #3
2.4-E. H. Sloan photobook #4
2.5-E. H. Sloan photobook #5
2.6-Yosemite Logging Company photos
BOX 3: BOB FAHEY LOGGING INDUSTRY PHOTO ALBUMS
3.1-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 1-15
3.2-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 16-30
3.3-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 31-51
3.4-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11 photocopy
3.5-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 1-15
3.6-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp.16-30
3.7-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 31-40
3.8-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 41-50
3.9-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 51-65
3.10-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 66-78
3.11-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7 photocopy
BOX 4: FAMILY FILMS; BOB FAHEY WWII SCRAPBOOK; "BRONCO BOYS"
PHOTOS
4.1-FILM: "New Mexico trip, Aug 1952" [1 of 2]
4.2-FILM: "New Mexico trip, Aug 1952" [2 of 2]
4.3-FILM: "75826; 1 of 10"
4.4-FILM: "75826; 2 of 10"
4.5-FILM: "75826 - Three"
4.8-FILM: one loose white reel
4.9-Bob Fahey WW II Scrapbook ["Album #8"]
4.10-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #10
BOX 5: "BRONCO BOYS" PHOTOS, 1930s
5.1-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 1-37
5.2-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 38-60
5.3-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 61-80
5.4-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 81-101
5.5-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, photocopy
5.6-West Side Lumber Company (Calif.) Photos
(14)
5.7-"Company "D," 28th Engineer Training Battalion, Fort
Leonard Wood-Sept. 1941" Photo
BOX 6: PHOTO NEGATIVES [contains 53 env. of negs. + box
negs.]
BOX 7: PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION ALBUM; MISC.
PHOTOS
7.1-Panama Pacific Exposition Album
