Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, 1880-1960

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Summary

Title:
Fahey-Sloan Family Collection,
Dates:
1880-1960
Creators:
Robert & Al Fahey
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, Mss258, Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Fahey-Sloan Collection includes family history materials and photographs. Several photo albums created by Elizabeth Haskell Sloan document the activities of the Yosemite Logging Company (1914-1917). Other albums created by Robert Fahey depict the activities of the Oakdale "Bronco Boys" club (1930s-1950s), his World War II career and his research on the logging industry in the southern Sierra. There is also an album of the Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915).

Biographical / historical:

Elizabeth Haskell Sloan (b. 1870) came to California (c1895) after working as a stenographer for the Chicago Exposition, the Armour Institute and other businesses in the Chicago area during the mid-1890s. Although she had come initially to help her invalid sister, Clara, with the latter's three daughters, the sister soon died and Elizabeth Haskell helped place the daughters in foster homes. She then worked as University President Benjamin Ide Wheeler's secretary while attending the University of California (1900-1904). Sloan subsequently graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School (1906) and returned as a librarian to the University of California (1907-1914). She married her dead sister's husband, William Haskell Sloan, and moved with him to the Yosemite region where he was Superintendent of the Yosemite Logging Company (1914-1917). When Sloan became ill due to over work, they moved to Irvington, Alameda County, where they became prune farmers. After Sloan's death Elizabeth worked for the Pacific Rural Press and as associate editor for a local newspaper. One of William Sloan's daughters, Lilly, married a member of the Fahey Family (c1913).

Irish immigrant, Dennis Fahey (1831-1914) was a pioneer stockman in Tuolumne County (1853). Three of his six children: John, William and Joseph established the West Side Market which supplied lumber camps and developed a strong retail trade in the Stanislaus and Tuolumne County region. The Faheys jointly owned 5,000 acres and more than 1,000 head of cattle. The brothers split their holdings in 1921. John Fahey's son, William, married Lily Sloan. Their oldest son, Robert (1914-1994), was a long time resident of Oakdale, a Stanislaus County Supervisor, developer and cattle rancher. He was an active member of a local social organization that called itself the "Bronco Boys."

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
3.25 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: November 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, Mss258, Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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