Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Derby (Howard ) Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1845-1955
Collection number: Mss265
Creator:
Vera Derby Miller
Extent: 2 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
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], Derby (Howard ) Collection, Mss265, Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Derby, Howard (1894-1966)
personal name
Owen, Isaac (1809-1866)
personal name
Taylor, William (1821-1902)
personal name
Roberts, William (1812-1888)
corporate name
United Methodist Church -California -History
subject
California -Politics and government -1850-1950
subject
California -Church history
subject
Oregon -Church history
subject
United States. Army -World War, 1914-1918 -History -Anecdotes
subject
Pan Americanism
subject
Geography -California
Biography
Howard W. Derby (1894-1966) was the son of California Methodist minister, George Derby
(1863-1922). A member of the California National Guard, he served in Mexico and in France
from 1916 through 1918. In 1933, he married Vera Mae Reaume and settled in San Francisco,
where he was employed as an insect and rodent exterminator. Derby occasionally penned
local history articles---notably on the Arcata area where he spent a part of his
childhood. An active Methodist layman and member of the Parkside Church, Derby worked as
research assistant to Northern California-Nevada Conference Historian, Leon L.
Loofbourow, author of In Search of God's Gold (1950), a history of the Methodist Church
in California, and Cross in the Sunset (1956), a history of the Northern
California-Nevada Conference.
Scope and Content
The Derby Collection consists principally of notes and transcriptions of materials on
early Pacific Coast Methodism (1845-1875) compiled by Derby for historian Leon Loofbourow
from nineteenth century Methodist publications. Other materials include clippings files
on California government, politics and geography (1936-1956), Inter-American Relations
and papers relating to Derby's National Guard unit (1916-18).
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