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Register of the Stratton Family Collection, 1900-1941
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Access Points
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Stratton Family Collection,
    Date (inclusive): 1900-1941
    Collection number: Mss5
    Creator: Reginald R. Stuart
    Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
    Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
    Stockton, CA 95211
    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], Stratton Family Collection, Mss5, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

    Access Points

    personal name

    Stratton, J.L.

    personal name

    Stratton, A.M.

    subject

    Agriculture -Kansas

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    Farmers -Kansas -Photographs

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    Farmers -Oregon -Photographs

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    Farmers -California -Photographs

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    Lumbering -Oregon -Photographs

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    Agriculture -Oregon

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    Agriculture -California

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    Kansas -Social life and customs

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    Oregon -Social life and customs

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    California -Social life and customs

    Biography

    Between 1870 and 1940, J.L. Stratton and family lived in Ottawa (Kan.), while A.M. Stratton and family farmed in Veronia, Columbia County, Carlton, Yamhill County (Ore.) and Oakland (Calif.). The Oregon towns were established in approximately 1875. A detailed history of Veronia can be found in the Portland Journal (3/29/31). A history of Columbia County by Adolph Chapples was published in the Commonwealth Review (11/38).

    Scope and Content

    The Stratton Family Collection consists of correspondence and photographs relating to Stratton family business and farm matters in Ottawa (Kan.), Oakland (Calif.) and Veronia and Carlton (Ore.)