Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267, 1895

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Summary

Creators:
F. A. Rouleau (Firm) F. A. Rouleau Rouleau, F. A.
Abstract:
Extent:
1 volume
Language:
Preferred citation:

Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267 . San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center

Background

Scope and content:

This abstract of title includes 72 pages. Earliest instrument is the certificate of grant of Nov. 19, 1849 from John W. Geary, Alcalde, to Thomas L. Pickering, highest bidder at an auction sale; the latest instrument is the mortgage from Nancie Woodburn Gibson and James L. Gibson to German Savings and Loan Society, June 20, 1894. A map is found on page [20].

Biographical / historical:

Thomas L. Pickering was a native of New Hampshire; he worked as a joiner in San Francisco and then moved to San Diego to build wharves, dying there in 1851. James L. Gibson was born in Canada and came to California. In 1870 he was toll collector, Strawberry Valley, Yuba County, and he and his family settled in San Francisco about 1879. He was proprietor of Aldine Photograph Gallery in San Francisco in 1880, and died here in 1897.

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.

Preferred citation:

Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267 . San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center

Location of this collection:
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Contact:
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
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