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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Foley and Sepulveda family papers
creator:
Morrow, Zelinda
creator:
Foley, William I.
creator:
Morrow, Bernard
creator:
Morrow, Viola Lillian Foley
Identifier/Call Number: 7042
Physical Description:
8.17 Linear Feet
10 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1850-1953, undated
Abstract: The Foley and Sepulveda family papers consists of letters, diaries, photographs, photograph albums, books, legal documents
and ephemera, 1850-1953 and undated, created and collected by various members of the Sepulveda and Foley families. The bulk
of the collection consists of materials created and collected by William I. (W.I.) Foley and his daughter Viola Lillian Foley
Morrow. Also included are some items from Foley's wife Sara Dolores Sepulveda, their children Zoraya, Rupert, and Elsa Zelinda,
Sara's parents Jose Dolores de Jesus Sepulveda and Maria Antonia Lugo, his granddaughter Zelinda Morrow, and various relatives
of Foley's. The Sepulveda and Foley families became connected through the marriage of William I. Foley and Sara Dolores Sepulveda.
Foley was the son of a 49er, Francis Foley, who settled in San Francisco. He was schooled in San Francisco and New York,
where he earned a law degree from Columbia University. He opened his first Southern California law office in Pomona in 1884,
and moved his practice to Los Angeles in 1887, where he met future Governor Henry Tifft Gage. When Gage was elected Governor
in 1899, Foley accompanied him to Sacramento as his private secretary. Foley and Gage would later open a law practice together
in Los Angeles, with offices in the Central Building. Foley married Sara Dolores Sepulveda, daughter of Jose Dolores de Jesus
Sepulveda and Maria Antonia Lugo, in 1889. The couple had four children, Zoraya Filema, Rupert, Elsa Zelinda, and Viola. Sara
died tragically in a street car accident in 1906.
Language of Material: The material is in both English and Spanish. Some materials are in French.
The Sepulveda and Foley families became connected through the marriage of William I. Foley and Sara Dolores Sepulveda. Foley
was the son of a 49er, Francis Foley, who settled in San Francisco. He was schooled in San Francisco and New York, where
he earned a law degree from Columbia University. He opened his first Southern California law office in Pomona in 1884, and
moved his practice to Los Angeles in 1887, where he met future Governor Henry Tifft Gage. When Gage was elected Governor in
1899, Foley accompanied him to Sacramento as his private secretary. Foley and Gage would later open a law practice together
in Los Angeles, with offices in the Central Building. Foley married Sara Dolores Sepulveda, daughter of Jose Dolores de Jesus
Sepulveda and Maria Antonia Lugo, in 1889. The couple had four children, Zoraya Filema, Rupert, Elsa Zelinda, and Viola. Sara
died tragically in a street car accident in 1906.
The Foley and Sepulveda family papers consists of letters, diaries, photographs, photograph albums, books, legal documents
and ephemera, 1850-1953 and undated, created and collected by various members of the Foley and Sepulveda families. The bulk
of the collection consists of materials created and collected by William I. (W.I.) Foley and his daughter Viola Lillian Foley
Morrow. Also included are some items from Foley's wife Sara Dolores Sepulveda, their children Zoraya, Rupert, and Elsa Zelinda,
Sara's parents Jose Dolores de Jesus Sepulveda and Maria Antonia Lugo, his granddaughter Zelinda Morrow, and various relatives
of Foley's.
The collection is organized into 6 series: 1. W.I. Foley; 2. Viola Lillian Foley Morrow; 3. Elsa Zelinda Foley; 4. Zelinda
Morrow; 5. Foley family; 6. Sepulveda family. Each series is generally arranged chronologically.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Foley and Sepulveda family papers, Collection no. 7042, Regional History Collection, Special
Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from The Bookshop, January 6, 2017.
The papers originally come from the estate of Zelinda Morrow, daughter of Viola Foley Morrow, great granddaughter of Jose
Dolores de Jesus Sepulveda.
Zoraya Filema Foley journal, Collection no. 6076, Special Collections, USC Libraries
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Archival resources
Books
Cabinet photographs
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Clippings
Correspondence
Drawings (visual works)
Ephemera
Legal documents
Photograph albums
Photographs
Realia
Textiles
Foley family -- Archives
Sepulveda family -- Archives
Barry, James H., 1855-1927 -- Archives
Foley, Elsa Zelinda -- Archives
Foley, Sara Dolores Sepulveda -- Archives
Foley, William I. -- Archives
Foley, Zoraya Filema -- Archives
Gage, Henry Tifft, 1852-1924 -- Archives
Morrow, Bernard -- Archives
Morrow, Viola Lillian Foley -- Archives
Morrow, Zelinda -- Archives
Sepulveda, Jose Dolores de Jesus -- Archives