Parkman (Samuel P.P.) Papers, 1807-1961

Summary

Title:

Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman Family Papers,

Dates:

1807-1961

Creators:

Parkman, Samuel Paul Pablo, 1804-1873

Abstract:

The Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers includes correspondence, mining documents, diaries, personal legal documents and genealogies.

Extent:

Number of containers: 1 box, 1 v. and 1 oversize folder. Number of microfilm reels: 1

Language:

Collection materials are in English and Spanish

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers, BANC MSS M-B 10, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

Includes correspondence, mining documents, diaries, personal legal documents and genealogies. Correspondence contains a wage dispute with miners, economic conditions of Calif. in 1849, the American Civil War in 1863, water rights in Guanajuato in 1900, letters from Franco Parkman to his father Samuel Parkman concerning his studies and the pronouncement of the "Plan de Ayutla," and letters from Porfirio Diaz to Antonia Vega de Parkman. Mining documents includes a record book and mining agreements. Diaries of Samual Parkman's journey of Mexico in Nov. 1832 and of Robert Watson Noble, partner of Parkman, of his journey through Mexico and Calif. from April to Aug. 1849. Personal legal documents include last will and testaments, Ohio State Militia commission, being U.S. Postmaster General, passports and identity papers and a gun permit.

Collection has been arranged chronologically, except for one volume that has been placed at the end of the collection. At the end of the Container listing is a partial alphabetical listing of the persons found in this collection.

Biographical / historical:

Samuel Paul ["Pablo"] Parkman, the founder of the Mexican branch of the family, was born in February, 1804, in Aurora, New York, and died at Guanajuato May 2, 1875. When he was yet an infant, his parents moved to Parkman Township, Geauga County, Ohio, where he was reared. In 1827 he made his way to Missouri, and in 1828 was named postmaster at Petitsaw Bluffs, Lafayette County, Missouri. In 1829 he went to the Rocky Mountains with William L. Sublette, returning the following year. He then became the clerk of Jedediah S. Smith, and in the spring of 1831 accompanied Smith in the journey on the Santa Fe Trail on which Smith was killed. Briefly he took charge of Smith's affairs, and afterward was associated with Jedediah Smith's younger brother, Peter, in the firm Parkman & Smith. In the fall of 1832 he went down into Mexico and through a series of vicissitudes settled at Guanajuato, connected with various mining enterprises. In 1835 he married Antonia de Vega, and to them 12 children were born, of whom Felipe, Franco, and Juan Ignacio figure in these family papers.

Acquisition information:

These papers were given to the Bancroft Library by Don Pablo Parkman, Sept. 4, 1957.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Related resources

Separated material:

• Plan de Guadalupe y Decreto del 12 de Diciembre de 1914 has been removed for cataloging as a printed item.
• "Tésis Profesional que presenta el alumno Pablo S. Parkman para obtener Titulo de Ingeniero de Minas y Metalurgista" has been catalogued for Bancroft's thesis collection.
• Portraits of Samuel Pablo Parkman and Pablo Parkman, lent to the Bancroft Library, have been photographed and catalogued separately.
• Facsimiles of letter, 1810, by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and document of 1814 by José María Morelos have been removed and placed in BANC MSS M-M 1830 (Documentos relativos a la Guerra de Independencia).

Indexed terms

Indexes:

Partial Index of Correspondents

Bocanegra, José María de	Folder 11
Díaz, Porfirio, pres. Mexico, 1830-1915	Folders 48-52, 55-58
McLean, John, 1785-1861	See U.S. Postmaster General
Morrow, Jeremiah, 1771-1852	See Ohio. Governor
Noble, Robert Watson	Folders 11, 13, 20-21
Ohio. Governor	Folders 3-4
Parkman, Felipe, 1836-	Folders 1, 59
Parkman, Franco, 1841-1887	Folders 25-36, 41, 45
Parkman, Samuel Paul, 1804-1873	Folders 3-4, 8, 12-15, 17, 19, 23-24, 37-38, 42-43, 46
Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896	Folder 47
Rosa, Luis de la, d. 1856	Folder 15
Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831	Folder 7
Storrs, Augustus	Folder 9
U.S. Postmaster General	Folders 5-6

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by The Bancroft Library staff

Date Prepared:

© 1997

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by James Lake; revised 2004. Date of source: ca. 1958-1966.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Samuel Paul Pablo Parkman family papers, BANC MSS M-B 10, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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