Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- William P. Granger Papers,
- Dates:
- 1859-1924
- Creators:
- Granger, William P.
- Abstract:
- William P. Granger (1834-1903) was a civil engineer who worked on many railroad projects in Tennessee, Boston, Maine, and later, with the Southern Pacific Railway. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and clippings concerning the Maclay Rancho in San Fernando, California, the San Fernando Land and Water Company, the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel (Massachusetts), and the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], William P. Granger Papers (Collection 766). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and clippings of civil engineer William P. Granger, concerning the Maclay Rancho in San Fernando, California, the San Fernando Land and Water Company, the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel (Massachusetts), and the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad. Includes letters to Granger from Robert M. Widney and a diary of Isabella Rice Granger Maclay (San Fernando, 1895).
- Biographical / historical:
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Granger was born on September 20, 1834; grew up in Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts; became a civil engineer, and went south as a member of the Engineering Corps of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad in Tennessee; was chief engineer of that road when the Civil War began; returned north to build a railroad on Cape Cod, and surveyed the route for the line at Hoosac Tunnel; also became chief engineer with the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad at the White Mountains; practiced at Worcestor, Massachusetts; built part of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and was chief engineer of the Massachusetts Central Railway; in 1884 he went to Oregon and built the second largest saw mill on the Pacific Coast; became an engineer with the Southern Pacific Railway, then resigned to lay out the San Fernando Valley tract; established his home in San Fernando, California; he died at Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts on September 30, 1903.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Gustave O. Arlt, 1946.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from card-file by rekeying, May 1999 . Front matter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], William P. Granger Papers (Collection 766). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988