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Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267
SFH 314
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Title: Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267
Dates: 1895
Collection Number: SFH 314
Creator/Collector:
F. A. Rouleau
Extent: 1 volume
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Title abstract for lot on Hyde Street between Geary and Post streets, San Francisco
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item]. Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … part of 50 vara Lot No. 1267 .
Collection Number: SFH 314. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
Biography/Administrative History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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].
Real property—California—San Francisco
Land titles—California—San Francisco
Abstracts of title—California—San Francisco—19th century
Land tenure—California—San Francisco
Land grants—California—San Francisco
Gibson, James L., d. 1897
Pickering, Thomas L., d. 1851
Gibson family
German Savings and Loan Society (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.) –History—19th century
San Francisco (Calif.)—History--Sources