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Register of the Granger Family Butte County Papers,
1877-1890
Mss82
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Title: Granger Family Butte County Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1877-1890
Collection number: Mss82
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Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
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Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Granger Family Butte County Papers, Mss82,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
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.
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.