Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Roy Alvin Filloon Collection
- Dates:
- 1907-1956
- Abstract:
- This collection includes personal papers, hand-written volumes, and photographs related to the life of San Joaquin County resident Roy Alvin Filloon (1888-1969).
- Extent:
- 0.5 linear feet
- Language:
- Records written in
- Preferred citation:
-
Preferred citation: [Item name], Roy Alvin Filloon Collection, Ms92, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, Lodi, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
-
Certificates, receipts, licenses, correspondence, service records, minute book, notebook, unpublished history, and photographs related to the life of Roy Alvin Filloon (1888-1969) and his family.
- Biographical / historical:
-
Roy Alvin Filloon was born in Sanger, California, in 1888. In 1910, he moved with his mother, father, and siblings to a vineyard the family had purchased near Atlanta, California. In that same year, he married Edith Etta McLaren, a local school teacher, only to see her die early the next year, two days after the birth of their first and only child, Alvin D'Vere Filloon. Ten years later, Filloon was married again, this time, to Virginia Whitcomb Gibbs, a nurse from the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally a farm laborer, Filloon also served in the U.S. Navy during the First World War. Afterward, he held jobs with the California Irrigation Company, the U.S. Railway Mail Service, and the U.S. War Department Army Engineers. Filloon died in Stockton in 1969.
- Physical location:
- Erickson Vault
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 2016
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid prepared by Leigh Johnsen June 17, 2016
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment.
- Terms of access:
-
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property.
- Preferred citation:
-
Preferred citation: [Item name], Roy Alvin Filloon Collection, Ms92, San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, Lodi, California.
- Location of this collection:
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11793 North Micke Grove RoadLodi, CA 95241, US
- Contact:
- (209) 331-2055