The Glide family collection documents the family, their California businesses, and related families. The Glide family is known for cattle and sheep ranching, land ownings, and philanthropic contributions in the Bay and Sacramento areas. Materials date from 1792 to 2003, and include ledgers, diaries, legal documents, personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, business records, ephemera, and military service papers, including letters from Burnett Miller to his relatives during World War II. Miller, former Sacramento Mayor and councilmember, was married to Mimi Glide Miller, great granddaughter of J. H. Glide and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Glide.

The Glide family is known in Sacramento, and surrounding areas, as the owners of the T. H. Glide Ranch in Davis in Yolo County and other prominent land holdings across the state. Joseph Henry "J. H." Glide, born August 15, 1835, immigrated to America from England in 1852. After spending some time in Philadelphia, Glide established a sheep and cattle ranching business in Solano County around 1855. The ranch specialized in pure-bred Shorthorn cattle and French Merino sheep. In pursuit of additional grazing land, Glide eventually expanded land holdings to include ranches in Sacramento, Solano, Glenn, Tulare, and Kern Counties. Glide married Elizabeth Helen "Lizzie" Snider and they had five children: Joseph "Henry," Elizabeth, Mary, Thornton, and Eula. J. H. Glide had a mansion built for himself and his wife around 1880 at 9th and H streets in Sacramento, where Sacramento City Hall is now located at 915 I Street. After J. H. Glide's death in 1906, Thornton and his mother, Lizzie, were the primary managers of family business ventures. By 1913, the Glide family owned homes in Sacramento and the Bay Area, and tens of thousands of acres of land in Solano County, Yolo County, and other counties.

4.8 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 1 legal manuscript box, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder)

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The collection is open for research.