Register of the Granger Family Butte County Papers, 1877-1890

Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University Library, University of the Pacific

Stockton, CA 95211

Phone: (209) 946-2404

URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html

Register of the Granger Family Butte County Papers, 1877-1890

Collection number: Mss82

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University Library

University of the Pacific

Contact Information

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
URL: https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections

Processed by:: Don Walker
Date Completed:: February 14, 1994
Encoded by:: Don Walker

Descriptive Summary

Title: Granger Family Butte County Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1877-1890

Collection number: Mss82

Creator:

Extent: 0.25 linear ft.

Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

Stockton, CA 95211

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

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Granger Family Butte County Papers, Mss82, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

BOX 1: GRANGER FAMILY PAPERS, 1877-1890

-Folder 1: BUSINESS CORRESP. TO LEWIS C. GRANGER,1877-1885

Blind Men's Assn., n.d. [1880?; incl. env.]

W.W. Moreland, 5-23-83

S. Herzenfeldt, 5-25-83 [3 l.]

H. Cummings, 5-26-83

-Folder 2: BUSINESS CORRESP. TO LEWIS C. GRANGER, 1887-1888

M. Matheson, 2-8-87

J. Clark (Union Club, SF), 2-17-87

S.L. Goldman (Oriental Importing Co.), 7-4-87

J.M. Barnett (Washington & Jefferson College), 2-10-88 [incl. printed report & pamphlet for alumni]

J.B. McConnell, 4-5-88

J.C. Holber, 7-22-88

L.B. Ayer, 8-23-88

A. Ekman (Norton & Ekman--Chemist & Apothecary, Oroville), 10-23-88

B.H. Ames, 11-18-88

G. Sexton (Gray & Sexton, Attys.), 11-19-88

J.M. Ward, 12-6-88

Emmons & Padgett (publishers of The National Domain), 12-8-88

W. Armstrong (Calif. State Lib.), 12-15-88

-Folder 3: BUSINESS CORRESP. TO LEWIS C. GRANGER, 1889

A. Ekman, 1-2

A.L. Brown, 1-28

A. Ekman, 2-19

E. Bowman, 2-20

R.E. Ragland (Atty.), 4-11

DeJarnatt & Crane (Lands, Loans & Abstracts), 5-10

D.G. Martin (Real Estate), 7-4

Recpt. for land notice in St. Helena Star, 7-29

C.E.K. Royce (Atty.), 8-26

K.O. Donnell, 9-1

C.E.K. Royce, 9-2

C.E. Smith, 11-5

J.P. Leonard, 11-7

Do., 11-15

J.J. Sanders, 12-10

P.F. Williams (Democratic Central Comm.), 12-11

Folder 4: BUSINESS CORRESP. TO LEWIS C. GRANGER, 1890

T.J. Davies, 1-1

A. Ekman, 1-20

C.E.K. Royce (Atty.), 1-20

A. Ekman, 1-25

Do., 1-30

D. Hilton, 2-9

A. Ekman, 2-11

N. Rideout, 3-4

T. H. Dawson (Corning Observer), 3-19

A.J. Martin, 5-12

Notice from Record-Union, 11-15

Folder 5: FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE---Alfred Granger to Belle Granger, 1885

1-25

2-1

2-8

2-15

2-22

2-26 [incl. article from St. Louis Drug Market Reporter

3-1

3-6

3-15

Folder 6: FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE---David B. Hays, Oroville [son-in-law] to L.C.G.

1-27-89

4-20-89

n.d. [1889]

9-4-89

2-7-90

2-9-90

4-3-90

Folder 7: FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE---Corresp. of L.C. & Belle Granger

"Pet," 10-23-77

BG to LCG, 1-8-89

LCG to BG, 1-13-89

Folder 8: FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE---Sure family to LCG

R.F. Sure [grandson], 7-15-89

Charles S. Sure [son-in-law], 2-16-90