Guide to the McCulloh Family Papers, 1852-1936
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Guide to the McCulloh Family Papers, 1852-1936
Collection number: BANC MSS 68/97 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Processed by:
- The Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1968
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
© 1996 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: McCulloh Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1852-1936
Collection Number: BANC MSS 68/97 c
Creator:
McCullough family
Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes
Number of microfilm reels: 1
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, land papers, accounts and clippings, of Jane E. and John McCulloh, and of their children, Frank,
John G., Hiram William and Frances Jane, pertaining to mining and ranching in Amador County, sheep shearing in the West, and
education in California. Included are letters from George Franklin Shiels to John G. McCulloh, and some correspondence and
papers relating to the Bartlett family.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], McCulloh Family Papers, BANC MSS 68/97 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Scope and Content
This group of papers, gift of Mrs. Gellatly in February 1968, contains correspondence, diaries, land Papers, accounts and
clippings, of Jane E. and John McCulloh, and of their children, Frank, John G., Hiram William and Frances Jane, pertaining
to mining and ranching in Amador County, sheep-shearing throughout the West, and education in California. There is also some
correspondence and material relating to the Bartlett family.
Box 1
Correspondence and papers of Jane E. McCulloh (Mrs. John McCulloh)
Outgoing letters, 1863-1904
Diaries, 1885-1886, and 1891-1897
Correspondence of John McCulloh
Outgoing letters, 1856-1880
Correspondence and papers of John G. McCulloh
Outgoing letters, 1874-1903
Incoming letters, A-Z
Additional Note
Include three letters, 1893-1894, from George Franklin Shiels.
Accounts of money earned, mainly shearing sheep, 1882-1892
Physical Description: (2 v.)
School papers (compositions, etc.)
Box 2
Correspondence of Frank McCulloh
Outgoing letters, 1878-1901
Correspondence of Hiram McCulloh
Outgoing letters, 1878-1903
Land Papers
Scope and Content Note
Re property in Alpine Co., 1873; Amador Co., 1891-1898; Amador and Sacramento Counties, 1882-1936; EI Dorado and Placer Counties,
1863-1910; Sacramento Co., 1863; mining property, 1900-1931; fire insurance policies for store of H. Little at Hangtown Crossing,
Calif., 1887-1888, etc.
Accounts, 1863-1894
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
(arranged chronologically)
Ranch stock accounts, 1871-1885
Tax records (poll taxes, road taxes and property taxes)
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Including letters from Frances Jane (McCulloh) Bartlett, 1886-1912, and Carleton T. Bartlett, 1893-1896, both of whom were
elementary school teachers in California; and miscellaneous letters to the Bartlett family.
Bartlett family genealogy
Misc. papers of Frances Jane (McCulloh) Bartlett, including primary county teacher's certificate.
Misc. personalia, including 2 pairs of spectacles.
Box 4
Clippings
Scope and Content Note
Roughly sorted by subject: Californiana, Civil War, crime and criminals, floods, medicine, Mormons, Nevada, obituaries, poetry,
etc.
Misc. calling cards, invitations to social events, poetry, etc.
