Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Waring (Richard) Miller & Lux Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1900-1986
Collection number: mss228
Creator:
Richard Waring
Extent: 1.5 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], Waring (Richard) Miller & Lux Collection,
mss228, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the
Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Lux family
personal name
Lux, Charles (1823-1887)
personal name
Miller, Henry (1827-1916)
corporate name
Miller & Lux
subject
Land titles -California -Registation and transfer
subject
California -History -Sources
subject
San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) -History -Sources
Biography
Richard Waring served as Stanislaus (Calif.) County Recorder
(1931-1965). In this post, Waring was able to study at first hand documents
relating to the land acquisitions of 19th c. cattle barons, Charles Lux
(1823-1887) and Henry Miller (1827-1916). Miller was the last surviving partner
in the firm of Miller & Lux, which once owned the greater part of the San
Joaquin Valley, as well as lands in Oregon and Nevada. Lux and Miller were
German immigrants who first worked together as San Francisco butchers during
the 1850s. For many years the two purchased cattle lands in the Central Valley,
acquiring many of these acres from U.S. Army veterans and others who preferred
cash to land options, until, with 1.4 million acres, they had become the
state's largest landowners. After the firm was dissolved (1900), attorneys for
the estate had the record of the distribution of the firm's property published
in a single volume and distributed to county recorders throughout California.
Richard Waring had this volume microfilmed and gave the original hardcopy to
the University of the Pacific. Waring also donated materials he had gathered on
Henry Miller and Charles Lux.
Scope and Content
The Waring Miller & Lux Collection consists of Stanislaus County
Recorder, Richard Waring's notes on Henry Miller and Charles Lux together with
a copy of the Decree of Distribution of their estate (1900).