Guide to the Wilhelmina Hihn Englander Collection MS.217

Alix Norton, Stanley D. Stevens, Jennifer Fosgate

University of California, Santa Cruz

2021

1156 High Street

Santa Cruz 95064

speccoll@library.ucsc.edu

URL: http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll

Contributing Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: Wilhelmina Hihn Englander collection

Creator: Englander, Wilhelmina (Billie) Hihn, 1909-2002

Identifier/Call Number: MS.217

Physical Description: 6.82 Linear Feet 5 boxes

Date (inclusive): 1817-1996

Date (bulk): 1910-1980

Abstract: This collection contains materials on the Hihn family, as collected and donated by Wilhelmina Hihn Englander (1909-2002). It includes correspondence, photographs, and legal and personal documents of the Hihn family. Also included are some genealogical research files, newspaper clippings documenting the Hihn family in Santa Cruz county, postcards showing Santa Cruz locales, and collected ephemera and artifacts.

Language of Material: English .

Access

Collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Wilhelmina Marjorie Teresa Hihn Englander in 1993-1995, 1997.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in four series:

Series 1: Family Papers
Series 2: Photographs
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Newspaper clippings
Series 5: Ephemera and Artifacts

Materials within each series are arranged chronologically unless otherwise specified.

Biographical / Historical

Wilhelmina "Billie" Marjorie Teresa Hihn Englander was born on November 10, 1909, in Santa Cruz, California, the daughter of Eulice William Hihn and Kathryn "Kit" Carrie Mae Bothwell Hihn. Hihn Englander was also the great-granddaughter of Frederick A. Hihn (1829-1913), a prominent businessman and early settler of Santa Cruz. Hihn Englander attended Santa Cruz High school, graduating in 1927. Her father Eulice was a member of the Santa Cruz Lodge No. 38 of the Free and Accepted Masons. Eulice died in 1915, and Hihn Englander's mother Kathryn re-married John Thomas McGeoghegan in 1918. Hihn Englander married Jack L. Burns in 1931 in Palo Alto, California, and was also later married to John Salazar, Mr. Morrison, and Mr. Vidak (first names unknown), respectively. Hihn Englander married Herman "Seig" Sigmund Englander in 1988. Wilhelmina Hihn Englander died on May 21, 2002 in Hemet, California.

Preferred Citation

Wilhelmina Hihn Englander collection. MS 217. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Processing Information

Preliminary inventorying and processing conducted by Stanley D. Stevens, circa 1990s. Processing completed in 2021 by Alix Norton.

Related Materials

Additional materials on Wilhelmina Hihn Englander and other Hihn family members can be found at the Capitola Museum and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH).

Related materials on the Hihn family and companies can be accessed by searching the following subject headings in UCSC Library Search:

Hihn, Frederick Augustus, 1829-1913
Hihn Family
F. A. Hihn Company

Papers and records of Frederick A. Hihn, great-grandfather of Wilhelmina Hihn Englander, and Teresa Hihn Moore, aunt of Wilhelmina Hihn Englander, can be found in these collections:

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials on the Hihn family, as collected and donated by Wilhelmina Hihn Englander (1909-2002). It includes correspondence, photographs, and legal and personal documents of the Hihn family. Also included are some genealogical research files, newspaper clippings documenting the Hihn family in Santa Cruz county, postcards showing Santa Cruz locales, and collected ephemera and artifacts.

Publication Rights

Property rights for this collection reside with the University of California. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. The publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Santa Cruz County (Calif.) -- History

Real estate development -- California -- Santa Cruz County

Writings (Documents)

Freemasonry

box 1, Folder 1-4, Box 3

Family papers 1817-1996

Scope and Contents

This series contains personal materials related to the personal and business affairs of Wilhelmina Hihn Englander and her relatives in the Hihn family. Included are birth certificates, death certificates, diplomas, and other certificates; membership cards for various organizations; licenses for marriage and other life events. Materials related to real estate, wills and testaments, divisions of estates, deeds, and land information are also included. Also included is Short Report of Siege and Blockage of the Royal Prussian Army in Erfurt by Georg Friedrich Hühn, written in German and published in 1817.

Names included in this series are Wilhelmina "Billie" Hihn Morrison Vidak Englander, Kathryn (sometimes spelled Katherine) Bothwell Hihn McGeoghegan, John Thomas McGeoghegan, Harriet Hihn, Jack Eulice Hihn, Phyllis (sometimes spelled Phillis) Goddard, and Eulice William Hihn.

Orgnizations named in this series include Order of the Eastern Star (Idlewild Chapter), Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Young Women's Christian Association of San Jose, and the International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots (AFL-CIO).

Box 2, Folder 1-4, Box 3

Photographs circa 1890-1990

Scope and Contents

This series contains photographs of the Hihn family, including Wilhelmina "Billie" Hihn Englander, F.A. Hihn, Kathryn Bothwell Hihn, Louis William Hihn, Eulice William Hihn, Harriet Hihn, and Jack Eulice Hihn. Photographs include formal portraits mounted on cardboard, snapshots, and some negatives.

box 1, Folder 5

Correspondence 1910-1996

Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence sent to and from Hihn Englander, as well as other collected correspondence from her family members. Some collected corerspondence includes letters from F.A. Hihn to Eulice William Hihn and his wife Kathryn "Kit" Hihn. Correspondents include Wilhelmina's brother Jack, Hihn family business stakeholders, her family members while she was a child ("Billie"), and later letters to UCSC Librarian Stan Stevens in the 1990s. Types of correspondence in this series include cards, letters, notes, telegrams, postcards, and some empty envelopes.

box 1, Folder 6-8

Newspaper clippings 1940-1996 1950-1960

Scope and Contents

This series contains newspaper clippings documenting news of the Hihn family, including births, deaths, marriages, and other life events, as well as Hihn properties in Santa Cruz County.

box 1, Folder 9, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5

Ephemera and artifacts circa 1910-1980s

Scope and Contents

This series contains collected ephemera and artifacts, including postcards showing photographs and illustrations of Santa Cruz and surrounding areas; tourist brochures; reports from the city of Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz County Historical Trust, and the California State Fair and Exposition 100 Year Club; loose pages from Hihn Englander's 1927 Santa Cruz High School yearbook, pieces of sandstone and wood, clothing labels, a piece of a Masonic trowel, an apron, a large piece of black lace cloth, and a table linen used by F.A. Hihn.

Box 5 contains a Masonic sword made of silver, gold, and ivory, measuring 35 inches long, which belonged to Hihn Englander's father. The sword is engraved with Eulice William Hihn's name on the ivory handle, was manufactured by the Henderson Ames Co. of Kalamazoo, Michigan in approximately 1913, and includes a leather scabbard.