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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John C. Gore, Sr. family papers
creator:
Gore, John C., Sr.
source:
Gore family
Identifier/Call Number: M1847
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1833-1952
Abstract: Papers of John C. Gore and family, principally concerned with a property dispute in Rancho Pescadero (now Pebble Beach), California.
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
[identification of item], John C. Gore, Sr. family papers (M1847). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased, 2011. Accession 2011-140.
The Gore family lived on the 4400-acre Rancho Pescadero, California, (now Pebble Beach) and was involved in a land dispute
with David Jacks and later the Pacific Improvement Company over this property. John C. Gore, Sr. had purchased the Rancho
in 1852 from the widow of John Frederick Romie, who died while mining in Placerville in 1850. Romie had bought the land from
Maria Madariaga four years prior. However, in 1860 Madariaga sold the land once more to investor David Jacks, who already
owned the adjoining Rancho Aguajito. He also married the daughter of John Frederick and Maria Romie. Litigation over the two
deeds to the former Mexican land grant began in 1860, made more complicated by Jacks' sale of the land to the Pacific Improvement
Company in 1880.
Included is a 150-page manuscript vellum-bound diary/journal, numerous manuscript letters, and notes dealing specifically
with the dispute and subsequent legal proceedings between the Gore family and David Jacks, contemporary copies of pleadings
and exhibits in the case, and a large quantity of other material related to the Monterey area, Rancho Pescadero, as well as
family correspondence and documents.
Stanford Special collections also holds the David Jacks papers, 1845-1905 (M0068): https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082762
as well as several collections on the Pacific Improvement Company, including JL001 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082959)
and JL017 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082958).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pebble Beach (Calif.)
Monterey County (Calif.) -- History.
Law -- California -- Monterey County -- History.
Rancho Pescadero (Barreto)
Gore, John C., Sr.
Gore family
Jacks, David, 1822-1909
Pacific Improvement Company