Finding Aid to the Vallejo Family Papers: Additions
Lara Michels
The Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Language of Material:
Spanish
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Vallejo family papers: additions
creator:
Vallejo (Family : Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890)
creator:
Emparàn (Family : Emparàn, Ricardo de, 1853-1902)
creator:
Frisbie (Family : Frisbie, John B., 1823-)
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS76/79 c
Physical Description:
.8 linear feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1846-1950, undated
Abstract: Additions to the Vallejo family papers at the Bancroft Library. Consists mostly of family correspondence but also contains
financial papers and writings.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: In English.
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Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Vallejo family papers: additions were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Mrs. Madie Brown Emparàn in 1975.
Processing Information
Electronic finding aid created by Lara Michels in 2015.
Related Materials in the Bancroft Library
Vallejo family papers, approximately 1824-1938 (BANC MSS C-B 441)
Vallejo family photographs from the Thomas W. Norris collection [graphic] (BANC PIC 1954.030--PIC)
Photograph collection of family members and descendants of General M.G. Vallejo [graphic] (BANC PIC 1978.195--PIC)
Related Materials in Other Institutions
Vallejo family papers, California State Parks, Sacramento, California (Collection number: 243.1)
Vallejo family papers, Autry National Center, Autry Library (Collection number: MSA.Vallejo)
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vallejo family papers : additions, BANC MSS 76/79 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Biographical / Historical
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the eighth of thirteen children, was born in 1808 in the then capital of Alta California, Monterey.
At the age of fifteen, Vallejo became a cadet in the Mexican Army and would later serve as head of the San Francisco garrison
and military commander of the northern part of Alta California. As a reward for his service and to encourage his leadership,
Vallejo was granted 66,000 acres near Petaluma, on which he operated a large cattle ranch from 1836 to 1846. In 1835, Vallejo
founded the pueblo of Sonoma. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, Vallejo was forced into lengthy battles to claim his
lands. When he died in 1890, Vallejo was leading a fairly modest life on his remaining 200-acre piece of land in Sonoma he
called Lachryma Montis.
Among Vallejo's siblings were: Jose Manuel Salvador Vallejo (1813-1876), Captain of the Militia in Sonoma and grantee of Rancho
Napa, Salvador's Ranch, and (with another brother) Rancho Lupyomi; Encarnacion Vallejo (1809-1902), wife of John Bautista
Rogers Cooper, grantee of Rancho Nicasio and other properties; Maria Paula Rosalia Vallejo (1811-1889), wife of Jacob P. Leese,
grantee of Rancho Huichica and other properties; Jose de Jesus Vallejo (1798-1882), grantee of Rancho Arroyo de la Alameda;
and Maria Isadora Vallejo (1792-1830), wife of Mariano de Jesus Soberanes.
In 1832, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo married Francisca Maria Felipa Benicia Carrillo. The couple had sixteen children, ten of
whom survived into adulthood. Among the Vallejo children were Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo (1835-1905), wife of John B. Frisbie;
Adelayda Vallejo (1837-1895), wife of Levi Cornell Frisbie; Natalia Veneranda Vallejo (1838-1895), wife of Attila Haraszthy;
Dr Platon Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1841-1925), husband of Lily Wiley; Jovita Francisca Vallejo (1844-1878), wife of Arpad
Haraszthy; Uladislao Vallejo (1945-unknown); Napoleon Primo Vallejo (1850-1923), husband of Martha Brown; Luisa Eugenia Vallejo
(1856-1943), wife of Ricardo de Emparan; and Maria Ignacia Vallejo (1857-1932, wife of James Harry Cutter.
Content Description
Includes correspondence (primarily exchanged among members of the Vallejo family), financial records, poems, and biographical
sketches concerning Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, apparently gathered by Napoleon Primo Vallejo for a biography his father, which
was never completed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vallejo (Family : Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890)
Emparàn (Family : Emparàn, Ricardo de, 1853-1902)
Frisbie (Family : Frisbie, John B., 1823-)
Vallejo , Mariano Guadalupe
Vallejo, Platon Mariano Guadalupe (1841-1925)
Vallejo, Francisca Benicia Carrillo de (1815-1891)
Vallejo, Napoleon
Vallejo, Uladislao P.
Cerruti, Henry (1836-1876)
Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1832-1918)
Haraszthy, Natalia Veneranda Vallejo de
Frisbie, John B. (1823-)
Frisbie, Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo de
Families -- California
Sonoma (Calif.) -- History
California -- History -- To 1846
California -- History -- 1846-1850
California -- History -- 1850-1950
box 1, folder 1, reel 1
Encarnacion Vallejo de Cooper outgoing correspondence to nephew
1875-1895
Physical Description: 6 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1809. Died 1902. Sister of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and wife of John Bautista Rogers Cooper.
box 1, folder 2, reel 1
Harry Leo Cutter outgoing correspondence
1914-1930
Physical Description: 3 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1879. Died 1930. Son of Maria Ygnacio Vallejo and James Harry Cutter.
box 1, folder 3, reel 1
James Harry Cutter outgoing correspondence
1891-1985
Physical Description: 2 letter.
Biographical Note
Born 1854. Died 1925. Husband of Maria Ygnacio Vallejo.
box 1, folder 4, reel 1
Maria Ignacia Vallejo outgoing correspondence
1878-1899
Physical Description: 3 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1857. Died 1932. Daughter of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo. Wife of James Harry Cutter.
box 1, folder 5-6, reel 1
John Q. Adams Day and Oriana Day outgoing correspondence
1879-1885
Physical Description: 6 letters.
Biographical Note
Native of Massachussetts. Resident of Vallejo, California in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Husband of Oriana Day, who between
1867 and 1884, painted all of the 21 California missions.
Content Note
Letters to Platon Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and unidentified cousin, mostly pertaining to Oriana Day's drawings
and paintings depicting California history and the California Missions (commissioned by Vallejo).
box 1, folder 7, reel 1
Luisa Eugenia Vallejo Emparan incoming and outgoing correspondence
1871-1928
Physical Description: 18 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1856. Died 1943. Daughter of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo. Wife of Ricardo de Emparan.
Content Note
10 letters and a postcard to brother Platon Vallejo; 2 letters to sister Maria; 2 letters to Dr. George Lyman; 1 letter to
niece Adela Vallejo (Platon Vallejo's daughter); 1 annotated note from Robert E. Cowan; 1 letter from Dorothy Lyman; 1 letter
from W.F. Chipman.
box 1, folder 8, reel 1
Adela Vallejo Frisbie
1854-1896
Physical Description: 1 photocopy, 2 letters, 1 telegram, 1 note, and 2 legal documents.
Content Note
1 photocopy of a letter to her father (Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo); 1 letter to brother Platon; 1 letter to her sister Epiphania
(Fanny); a telegram to Platon Vallejo; a note to Harry Cutter; estate documents for Adela.
Biographical Note
Born 1837. Died 1895. Daughter of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo. Wife of Dr. Levi Cornell
Frisbie.
box 1, folder 9, reel 1
Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo Frisbie outgoing correspondence
1863-1891
Physical Description: 11 letters, 1 photocopy.
Content Note
9 letters to her brother Platon; 1 photocopy of a letter to Platon; 2 letters to her niece Adela (Platon Vallejo's daughter).
Biographical Note
Born 1836. Died 1890. Daughter of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo. Wife of John Blackman
Frisbie.
box 1, folder 10, reel 1
Fannie Natalia Frisbie letters to her uncle Platon Vallejo
1878-1885
Physical Description: 3 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1855. Died 1909. Daughter of Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo and John Blackman Frisbie.
box 1, folder 11, reel 1
John B. Frisbie outgoing correspondence
1856-1885
Physical Description: 1 photocopy of letter; 9 letters; 2 telegrams; 1 photograph of Frisbie coat of arms.
Biographical Note
Born 1827. Died 1909. Son-in-law to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Husband to Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo.
box 1, folder 12, reel 1
Levi Cornell Frisbie outgoing letter and certificates
1854-1876
Physical Description: 1 letter; 2 certificates (with letter).
Biographical Note
Born 1829. Died 1892. Son-in-law to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Husband of Adela Vallejo Frisbie.
box 1, folder 13, reel 1
Luis Platon Frisbie outgoing correspondence
1924-1925
Physical Description: 2 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1865. Died 1955. Son of Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo and John Blackman Frisbie.
box 1, folder 14, reel 1
Jovita Francisca Vallejo Haraszthy letters to Platon Vallejo
1961-1865
Physical Description: 2 letters.
Biographical Note
Born 1844. Died 1878. Daughter of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo. Wife of Arpad Haraszthy.
box 1, folder 15, reel 1
Natalia Veneranda Haraszthy
1857-1891
Physical Description: 1 photocopy of letter; 2 telegrams; 6 letters; 1 document.
Content Note
Mostly letters to her brother Platon. Photocopy in the file is a letter to her father. Includes one 1890 hand-written document
(in Spanish) entitled "Mama's last conversation with me a few hours before she was struck by paralysis."
Biographical Note
Born 1838. Died 1913. Daughter of Gen Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Vallejo. Wife of Attila Haraszthy.
box 1, folder 16, reel 1
Francisco Vallejo McGettigan
1889-1950
Physical Description: 4 poems; 1 letter to father; 1 letter to Mrs. Madie D. Brown; copy of marriage certificate.
Biographical Note
Born 1875. Died 1962. Daughter of Platon Vallejo and Lily W. Wiley Vallejo. Wife of Charles D McGettigan (1873 - 1931).
box 1, folder 17-19, reel 1
Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo incoming and outgoing correspondence and other materials
1850-1891
Physical Description: 1 volume; 1 typescript; approximately 27 letters; 2 telegrams.
Biographical / Historical
Born 1815. Died 1891. Wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.
Content Note
One volume of copies of drafts of outgoing letters; 1 typed transcription and translation of a lengthy unidentified letter
to one or more of her children. Incoming letters from son Andronico Vallejo; Charles E. Pickett; William B. Hooper; L.W. Juilliard
(County Clerk of Sonoma); Jovita Vallejo; and daughter Maria. Outgoing letters mainly to her children and her siblings.
box 1, folder 20, reel 1
Guadalupe Vallejo
1902
Physical Description: 2 sheets.
Biographical Note
Born 1798. Died 1882. Son of Don Jos de Jesus Vallejo, elder brother of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.
Content Note
Handwritten documents relating to the history of the Vallejo family.
box 1, folder 21, reel 1
Leila L. "Lily" Poole Wiley Vallejo
1862-1875
Physical Description: 6 letters; 1 marriage certificate.
Biographical Note
Born 1849. Died 1885. Wife of Dr. Platon Vallejo.
Content Note
1 letter from friend Mollie Frances; 1 letter from her nieces and nephews; 1 letter from Francis Vilarrasa; 3 letters from
Lily to her husband Platon; 1867 marriage certificate for Lily and Platon Vallejo.
box 1, folder 22, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo financial papers, assorted
1853-1890
Physical Description: 11 items.
box 1, folder 23, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo incoming correspondence
1852-1889
Physical Description: 5 letters; 2 photocopies of letters, 1 note.
box 1, folder 24, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo deeds, clippings, and other family records
1853-1921
Physical Description: 19 items.
box 1, folder 25-28, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo outgoing correspondence
1853-1888
Content Note
Mostly letters to his children and other members of the family.
box 1, folder 29, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo poems
1867-1889
box 1, folder 30, reel 1
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo writings
1846-1877
box 2, folder 1, reel 2
Napoleon Primo Vallejo incoming correspondence
1890-1922
Biographical Note
Born 1850. Died 1923. Son of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo.
Content Note
Much of this correspondence consists of recollections and impressions of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo sent to Napoleon
Primo Vallejo to help with a planned biography.
box 2, folder 2, reel 2
Napoleon Primo Vallejo outgoing correspondence
1857-1922
Content Note
Assorted letters to family members and correspondence relating to his father's legacy.
box 2, folder 3-5, reel 2
Napoleon Primo Vallejo manuscripts relating to California history
approximately 1880-1920
box 2, folder 6-8, reel 2
Napoleon Primo Vallejo manuscripts, drafts, notes relating to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
approximately 1900-1920
box 2, folder 9, reel 2
Napoleon Primo Vallejo notes on Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
approximately 1900-1920
box 2, folder 10-11, reel 2
Platon Vallejo incoming correspondence
1859-1913
Biographical Note
Born 1841. Died 1925. Son of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo.
Scope and Contents
Mostly letters from persons outside of the Vallejo family. A number of letters are from Hubert Howe Bancroft employee Henry
Cerruti.
box 2, folder 12, reel 2
Platon Vallejo outgoing correspondence
1857-1916
box 2, folder 13, reel 2
Platon Vallejo writings
approximately 1880-1920
Content Note
Included, among other items, are manuscripts relating to the secularization decree of the Mexican government in 1834-1835
and to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and his house in Sonoma.
box 2, folder 14, reel 2
Uladislao Vallejo correspondence
1882-1982
Biographical Note
Born 1845. Died 1892. Son of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo Vallejo.
Content Note
Letters to various members of the Vallejo family.
box 2, folder 15-16, reel 2
Miscellaneous Vallejo family correspondence
1855-1925
