Guide to the John Thomas Doyle Collection, 1893-1902
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Guide to the John Thomas Doyle Collection, 1893-1902
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Thomas Doyle Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1893-1902
Box Number: Boxes 470-477
Collector:
California State Library
Extent: 8 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Thomas Doyle Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
Doyle, John T. (John Thomas), 1819-1906
Religion and law
Pious Fund of the Californias
Lawyers--California--San Francisco
Contents
Correspondence, leases, legal materials, notes and drafts, pamphlets, tax receipts.
Biography
For fifty years, John Thomas Doyle worked on the "Pious Fund" case as legal counselor for San Francisco Catholic Archbishops
Joseph Alemany and Patrick Riordan. Doyle was born on November 26, 1819 in New York. In 1851, he came to San Francisco and
practiced law. He returned to New York in 1856. In New York, he married Antonia Pons, returning to San Francisco in 1859.
He served in various positions throughout his life: member of the first Board of Regents for the University of California,
California State Commissioner of Transportation in 1877-78, and first President of the California Historical Society. He died
in Menlo Park on December 23, 1906.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
Other Correspondents
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Vaughn, Herbert Cardinal
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Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903
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Bard, Thomas Robert, 1841-1915
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McCreery, Fenton R.
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Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
Box 470
Personal correspondence, leases, legal papers, pamphlets and tax receipts.
Box 471
Correspondence regarding the Pious Fund, n.d., 1870-March 1907.
Box 472
Pious Fund legal materials presented as exhibits arranged by exhibit number.
Box 473
Pious Fund materials, arranged alphabetically by title or first line.
Box 474
Checkbooks; Antonia Doyle, [1871-1881] and 1868-1870.
Box 475
Checkbooks; John Thomas Doyle, 1862-1866.
Box 476
Checkbooks; John Thomas Doyle, 1866-1869.
Box 477
Checkbooks; John Thomas Doyle, 1870-1874.
