Hague (James D.) Papers Addenda, 1836-1941

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Summary

Title:
James D. Hague papers addenda
Dates:
1836-1941
Creators:
Hague, James D. (James Duncan), 1836-1908
Abstract:
A collection of material related to the American mining engineer James Duncan Hague; an addenda to the James D. Hague papers.
Extent:
58 Linear Feet (67 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. James D. Hague papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, estate material, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material related to the work and family of James D. Hague. Other Hague family members represented in the addenda include Marian Hague, his son William Hague, and Mary Hallock Foote. Subjects included in the collection: Clarence King, mining, engineering, Guano Island, South Seas (Oceania), Japan, and the Lick Observatory. Also found in the addenda is a small group of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San Francisco, a friend of Clarence King; and a small group of papers of Edward Singleton Holden, who was an astronomer and Hague family friend. Holden was director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point. The addenda also contains unprocessed folders and boxes of ephemera and realia including a chemical set, ore specimens, and printed material; photographs in Boxes 57-63 were transferred to the Photo Archive.

Biographical / historical:

James Duncan Hague (1836-1909) was an American mining engineer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard in 1855 and did graduate work in chemistry and minerology in Göttingen and Freiberg, Germany. After returning to the United States in 1859, Hague was selected to explore several equatorial coral islands in the Pacific Ocean in search of phosphate deposits. He was associated with Edwin J. Hulbert in the discovery and early development of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines in Michigan; in 1867, he was made first assistant to Clarence King on the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. He later became a consulting mining engineer in San Francisco and developed many mining enterprises, including the North Star Mine in Grass Valley, California. In April 1872, Hague married Mary Ward Foote (1846–1898), sister-in-law of Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938); the couple had three children: Marian Hague (1873–1971), Eleanor Hague (1875–1954), and William Hague (1882–1918). Hague died August 3, 1908, at his summer home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Acquisition information:
Gifts of James Hague, 1970-1977.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1980. In 2022, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.

Arrangement:

Arranged by subject and format.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-07-01 09:51:45 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. James D. Hague papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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