Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … being part of 50 vara Lot 2 in Block No. 118, Western Addition
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Title: Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … being part of 50 vara Lot 2 in Block No. 118, Western Addition
Dates: 1889-1919
Collection Number: SFH 541
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 north side of Vallejo Street between Gough and Franklin Streets, San Francisco
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Abstract of title to all that lot of land situated in the City … being part of 50 vara Lot 2 in
Block No. 118, Western Addition . Collection Number: SFH 541. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
Gift, 2014-18
Biography/Administrative History
Amariah Wilson was born in Ohio, came west with his family to Oregon in 1844, and was living in San Francisco by the end of
1847. He was granted several lots in 1848, but he and his family moved to Texas early in 1850, and he had sold the properties
by 1853. Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson was recruited from New York by Secretary of War Marcy to lead a military force to California
for service in the Mexican War, but arrived by ship too late for service (April 1847); he settled in San Francisco and was
active in politics. John Evans was proprietor of Spring Valley Bath House in San Francisco, on the Presidio road. Lyman
I. Mowry was a San Francisco attorney who organized a San Francisco steamship company.
Scope and Content of Collection
This abstract of title includes: the Alcalde Title, p. 7-92; the Stevenson Title, p. 93-230; the Evans Title, p. 231-256;
Taxes, p. 257-258. This is followed by a Continuation as to same lot of land, dated May 28, 1899 (11 leaves, manuscript),
which is followed by Continuation of preceding abstract of title to same premises… May 28, 1899 (20 p., typescript) by California
Pacific Title Insurance Company, with a handwritten abstract of a Mortgage appended dated March 24, 1915. Ending the volume
is a Continuation of preceding abstract of title (5 p., typescript) by California Pacific Title Insurance Co., with a handwritten
abstract of Mortgage dated Nov. 25, 1919 from Elizabeth J. Mowry and Lyman I. Mowry to Savings Union Bank and Trust Co., recorded
Dec. 10, 1919. The earliest instrument recorded is the Grant from Alcalde T. M. Leavenworth to Amariah Wilson, July 12, 1848;
a Map of lots granted follows on p. 11 ½.
Abstracts of title—California—San Francisco—19th century
Land grants—California—San Francisco
Land tenure—California—San Francisco
Land titles—California—San Francisco
Real property—California—San Francisco
Evans, John
Leavenworth, Thaddeus, 1802-1893
Mowry, Lyman I., 1848-1928
Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894
Wilson, Amariah, 1799-1889
California Pacific Title Insurance Co.
San Francisco (Calif.) –History—19th century
San Francisco (Calif.)—History--Sources
Pacific Heights (San Francisco, Calif.)