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Title: Clothilde Reed Papers
Dates: 1900-1956, bulk 1944-1956
Collection Number: MS.2019.023
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Extent: 1.5 linear feet
Repository:
Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley, California 94941
Abstract: Papers relating to the estate of Clothilde Reed, daughter of John Joseph Reed and granddaughter of John Thomas Reed
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Original materials may be viewed with permission from staff. Digital copies of materials
may be available. Materials in this collection do not circulate.
Clothilde Reed Papers. Mill Valley Public Library
Biography/Administrative History
Clothilde (or Clotilda) Josefa Reed was born out of wedlock in 1859 to John Joseph Reed, son of John Thomas Reed; and Barbara
Sibrian. Her grandfather, John Thomas Reed, was the first Anglo-Saxon settler in Marin County. Her father recognized her as
his daughter and heir, and the 1880 census shows her living with her father and his wife, Carlotta. She never married, and
died in 1940.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of legal documents and notes relating to the settling of Clothilde Reed’s estate, as well as postcards
written to her in her lifetime. It also includes maps of some of her properties, a handwritten family tree, real estate leases,
tax notices and insurance policies.
Deeds
Depositions
Insurance policies
Leases
Real estate transactions
Stock Certificates
Taxes
Wills
Arreagada, Everaldo Maclovio
Boyle, Hugh A.
Brazil, Mary
Deffebach, May H.
Deffebach, Thomas B.
Sibrian, Josephine
Sollom, C. O.
Sollom, Jessie O.
Deffebach Family
Reed Family
Marin County, (Calif.)
Mill Valley, (Calif.)