Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Biography / Administrative History
Chronology
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Faxon Dean Atherton Papers, 1863-1915
Dates: 1863-1915
Collection Size:
1 folder
Repository: The
Society of California Pioneers.
San Francisco, California 94107-1272
Abstract: Collection of 3 items belonging to and pertaining to Faxon Dean Atherton (1815-1877).
Physical location: Stored on-site at the Society of California Pioneers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection is open by appointment for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to reproduce or publish must be
submitted in writing to the Librarian.
Preferred Citation
Faxon Dean Atherton Papers, 1863-1915. The Society of California Pioneers.
Biography / Administrative History
Faxon Dean Atherton (b. 1815 -- d. 1877) was a successful business owner and landowner. He was born in Massachusetts and traveled
to California during the gold rush. Besides being the owner of a large estate in San Mateo County, he was prominent in building
railroads, banking and other various financial enterprises. He died in Fair Oaks (Atherton) in 1877, leaving a widow and seven
children.
Chronology
1863/1915 |
Faxon Dean Atherton Papers, 1863-1915 |
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists of three items. A letter from James Duncan to F.D. Atherton dated February 28th, 1863 and posted from
London. The letter mentions earlier days spent in Valparaiso, Chile, upcoming marriage of Prince of Wales to the Danish Princess
Alexandra, a pending legal case concerning a lawsuit against Daniel Gibb and another business interest in a mine that Mr.
Duncan was trying to sell. There is also a check addressed to F.D. Atherton for one hundred dollars drawn on a Bank of California
check dated July 14, 1873. The last item is newspaper clipping dated 2/3/1915 about a cookbook written by Mrs. Norman McLaren.
The recipes contained in the cookbook were collected by Mrs. McLaren beginning in the 1860's when she was a young person visiting
the Athertons, Ralstons and Mills in California. The article discusses these early California social gatherings and specifically
the Chilean recipes that she gathered through association with the Athertons.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Atherton, Faxon Dean, 1815-1877
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--History
Fair Oaks (Calif.)
Atherton (Calif.)