Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
History
Correspondents
Material Transferred from the Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Memorial Grove Committee Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1896-1903
Box Number: 880-881
Collector:
Waggoner, Eliza Holloway
Extent: 2 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State 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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Memorial Grove Committee Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
California--History
Parks--California
California State Capitol Park (Sacramento, Calif.)
Contents
Correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuscripts, receipts, ephemera.
History
The idea for the Memorial Grove came to Mrs. Eliza Holloway on October 5, 1896 and was proposed before the Edward Roby Circle,
No. 2, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic on October 14, 1896. The proposal was accepted and the Memorial Grove Committee
appointed. Mrs. Waggoner was made chairman, Cornelia E. Shirland secretary, and Sarah A. Metcalf treasurer. A letter from
the Board of Capitol Commissioners, dated November 14, 1896, granted space in the Capital Park for the Grove. The official
dedication took place on May 1, 1897. A tree from George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, was planted April 25, 1903, and
Mrs. Waggoner received plants for the Grove as late as November 19, 1903, but the Committee per se is not mentioned in contemporary
accounts.
Correspondents
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Atkinson, R. W.
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Bailey, Belinda S.
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Bailhache, Addie L.
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Barker, H. L.
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Barrett, Edwin P.
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Barringer, Florence L.
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Barrows, Frank
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Betts, Edward Everett
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Brazelton, Bill
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Burgess, Carrie
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Chrishman, Henry K.
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Clark, James J.
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Cushing, F. W.
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Cushing, Venice
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Davies, W. W.
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Davis, J. V.
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Dickey, Marnie
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Dickson, R.
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Eby, E. W.
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Elroy, John W.
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Foot, John
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Foucher, Amanda
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Frame, Thomas
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French, Eva J.
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Garfield, Lucretia R.
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Graugh, U. I.
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Hager, Mary J.
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Hall, Susie Howard
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Hamilton, Calvin
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Harris, M. M.
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Harris, Thomas H.
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Harrison, Benjamin
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Harrison, G. Otis
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Hartwell, Mary E.
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Hartwell, Will H.
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Hill, Richard B.
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Jefferys, M. M.
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Jenks, W. M.
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McMurray, Frank
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Mansfield, J. H.
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Martin, Peter
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Metcalf, Sarah A.
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Milner, J[an] R.
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Myers, Emma E.
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Osbourne, Francis H.
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Page, Fannie M.
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Parker, A. C.
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Phillips, Anne M.
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Reith, F. M.
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Rhodes, Christian
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Savage, T. H.
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Shea, Thomas
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Smith, C. S.
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Stowe, Delia L.
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Sweeny, Charles H.
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Todman, Josephine Melvina
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Terry, L. L.
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Twidle, John
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Vandegrift, Nellie M.
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Waggoner, Eliza Holloway
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Weeks, Anna C.
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Ziegler, [T?] B.
Material Transferred from the Collection
Photographs
- Geographic pictures, portraits