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Water Resources Collection
h19xx.0498
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Title: Cyrus Grandison Baldwin Papers
creator:
Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison
Dates: 1891-1955
Abstract: This collection contains documents about Cyrus Grandison Baldwin's involvement with water issues in the Pomona Valley and
San Bernardino Mountains from 1897-1937.
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Honnold/Mudd Library.
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont University Consortium
Claremont, California 91711
Collection Number: h19xx.0498
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont University Consortium.
This collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Cyrus Grandison Baldwin Papers,
Water
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No additions to the collection is anticipated.
Cyrus Grandison Baldwin: Pioneer Developer of Electric Power in the Pomona Valley by Dr. E. Wilson Lyon, President, Pomona College.
Cyrus Grandison Baldwin was first president of Pomona College from 1890-1897. He graduated from Oberlin College, and from
that institution he brought to the newly established Congregational college in California . . high academic standards and
the principles.
He had some knowledge of the growing use of electric power, both in Europe and in the eastern part of the United States, and
he began to think of lighting the Pomona valley and the region as far away as San Bernardino by using the water power of the
San Antonio Canyon, [in the San Bernardino Mts.]
His enthusiasm was contagious and a group of men in Pomona, some of whom had joined in founding the new college, united with
him to establish a company to convert the power of the water into electricity and to bring it to the homes and offices of
the new Anglo-Saxon community which was replacing the Spanish ranchos of earlier California. From their efforts the San Antonio
Light and Power Company was born in 1891. The company planned to bore a tunnel through the Hogsback at the upper level, thereby
establishing a steep flume which would give a drop of nearly 400 feet to the power house below. The power would then be distributed
by high voltage transmission to the valley, This practice, a common-place today, had never before been undertaken in California.
President Baldwin and his associates were therefore proposing to establish the first hydroelectric installation for high voltage
transmission in our state.
Series 1 Water rights and Water use in San Bernardino County, California
Subseries 1.1 Publications
Subseries 1.2 Exhibits with correspondence and reports about water rights and water supply in California
Subseries 1.3 Microfilm
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison
Pomona College
Southern California History -- 1900 - 1960
California. Division of Water Rights
California--Water-supply.
Western Americana -- 1900-1960
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