Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The bulk of these papers consists of business and family correspondence written to L.C. Granger while he was in the State Assembly. D.B. Hays informs him about activities on Hays' ranch. Adolf Ekman, who seems to have acted as Granger's business agent during his absence, keeps him abreast of his mining business. The correspondence also contains several charming, chatty, family letters from Alfred Granger, L.C.'s son, (a pharmacist in Sacramento), to his sister, Belle.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Granger family flourished in Butte county during the second half of the 19th century. The head of this clan, Lewis C. Granger (?-1890), an attorney and Justice of the Peace, represented his county in the State Assembly from 1883 through 1887. L.C. Granger was also a land registrar who owned agricultural lands and a gold mine in the vicinity of Oroville. Granger's son-in-law, David B. Hays, farmed orchard and row crops at Oroville.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 0.25 linear ft.
About this collection guide
- 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: February 14, 1994.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Granger Family Butte County Papers, Mss82, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404