California Historical Society Quarterly/Volume 30/Number 1/News of the Society
News of the Society
Gifts Received by the Society
November 1, 1950, to February 28, 1951
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
From MRS. ALICE CATT ARMSTRONG- Who's Who in Los Angeles County, 1950-1951. Alice Catt Armstrong, ed. Los Angeles, Who's Who Historical Society [1951].
From MR. LUBIANO G. BIANCALANA- Vigilante Publications. Pay Dirt. San Francisco, Vigilante Publications, C1949.
From BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE-Footlines & History; Famous Footlines Which Have Appeared on Blake, Moffitt & Toivne's Calendars, Together With a Brief History of . . . the Oldest Paper House in the West. [San Francisco, 1950] From MR. THOMAS P. BROWN-His: U.S.S. San Francisco Memorial. [San Francisco, 1950]
From MRS. LINA FERGUSSON BROWNE, in memory of SPENCER C. BROWNE— Muleback to the Convention; Letters of J. Ross Browne, Reporter to the Constitutional Convention, Monterey, September-October, 1849. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1950.
From THE CALIFORNIA HISTORY FOUND ATION-Hunt, Rockwell D. His- tory of the College of the Pacific, 1851-1951. Stockton, The College of the Pacific, 1951.
From MONSIGNOR JAMES CULLETON-His: Indians and Pioneers of Old Mon- terey. Fresno, Academy of California Church History, 1950.
From MRS. EDWARD L. DOHENY -Addresses at a Meeting of the Zamorano Club. May 6, 1950. Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California. [Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie, 1950]
From MR. EDWARD EBERSTADT-Brown, David L. Three Years in the Rocky Mountains. Printed from the Cincinnati Atlas, 1845. [New York, 1950]
From MRS. F. D. EL WELL— Tucker, J. C. The Veteran's Dream; a Military Drama . . . Oakland, Tribune Publishing Co., 1882.
From THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO-Its: One Hundred Years of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco. [San Francisco, Grab- horn Press, 1950]
From THE FRENCH CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE, SAN FRANCISCO-Its: The French in California; One Hundred Years of Achievement, 1850-1950 . . . San Fran- cisco, Delo Publishing Co., 1950.
From MR. FRED C. HUTCHINSON-His: The History of Mary C. Norton and Her Kinfolk . . . [Berkeley, 1946?] Mimeographed.
From MR. ERNEST INGOLD-His: The House in Mallorca. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1950.
From MR. GERALD J. P. KANE-His: History of Old Jacobsville, Nevada. [Placer- ville, 1950]
From MRS. DAVID LAVENDER- T/:>e Thacher School. Catalogue. Ojai [ 1950] ; The Thacher School. Scrapbook. Ojai [ 1950] ; Views [of] Thacher School and Round About Ojai Valley, 1890-1912. [Ojai, 1912]; Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament: Fiftieth Anni- versary ... [Ojai, 1949I
From MR. JOHN A. LAWLOR— Program, 50th Anniversary Celebration, 1900-1950, Brotherhood of Teamsters and Auto Truck Drivers, Local Union Number 8$. [San Francisco, Wobbers, 1950]
From THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-Library of Congress. Division of Maps. United States Atlases; a List of National, State, County, City, and Regional Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington, The Library of Congress, 1950.
From MISS IVY M. LOEBER-Napa County Historical Society. Second Annual Report, Feb. 1951. St. Helena [1951].
From MR. HOBART M. LOVETT-Lick Observatory Director. A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory . . . 7th ed. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1927; Vest Pocket Guide of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, J. King James, 1902.
From MRS. GEORGE D. LYMAN, in memory of GEORGE D. LYMAN, M.D.- Broadsides: Farnham, Eliza. California Association of American Women. [New York, 1849]; Columbia Mining Laws . . . Oct. 1, 1853. [Columbia, 1853]; Menu, Ward House, San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1849. [San Francisco] Monson & Valentine [1849].
From MRS. ELAINE MELLOR-Commercial Soap Co., San Francisco. Price List. [San Francisco, n.d.l; Hibcrnia Savings & Loan Society, San Francisco. By-laws. San Francisco, Mullin, Mahon & Co., 1869. From MRS. R. A. NEWPORT-Hodge, Ernest Havilah. Centennial Vignettes, [n.p.] 1950.
From THE NORWEGIAN- AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION-Its: Norwegian-American Studies and Records, v. XVI. Northfield, Minn., 1950.
From THE SAN DIEGO TRUST & SAVINGS BANK-Tfo Country of Joyous Aspect. San Diego; a Brief History, 1542-1888. [Comp. by Edward Davidson and Eddy Orcutt. San Diego, San Diego Trust & Savings Bank, 1939]
From ALBERT SHUMATE, M.D. -Griff enhagen, George. The Story of California Pharmacy. Madison, Wis., American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1950.
From STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS-Fowler, Harlan D. A Chapter in Western Transportation; Camels to California. Stanford, Stanford University Press [1950].
Issler, Anne Roller. Our Mountain Heritage; Silverado and Robert Louis Stevenson. Stanford, Stanford University Press [1950]; Brooks, Juanita. The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Stanford, Stanford University Press [1950]; Wecter, Dixon. Literary Lode- stone; One Hundred Years of California Writing. Stanford, Stanford University Press [1951].
From THE STRAWBERRY VALLEY PRESS-Its: Town Crier Almanac; Fact & Fancy, Lore & Legend, Wit & Wisdom of the San Jacinto Mountains and Its Hillfolks, Collected by Bmax and Emax. Idyllwild, Strawberry Valley Press, 1950.
From MR. JOSEPH A. SULLIVAN-GifTen, Guy J. California Expedition: Steven- son's Regiment of First New York Volunteers. With a Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Oakland, Biobooks, 195 1. Autographed copy; Levi Strauss & Company. Everyone Knows His First Name. [San Francisco, C1942]
From MR. GENE M. TANSEY-His: The Nth Crusade. San Francisco, 1951.
From MR. HENRY R. WAGNER— Brigham, Clarence S. Journals and Journeymen; a Contribution to the History of Early American Newspapers. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950; Clapp, Margaret, ed. The Modern University. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1950; Hanna, Phil Townsend. The Wheel and the Bell; the Story of the First Fifty Years of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Los Angeles, Pacific Press, 1950; Robinson, W. W. Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County. Los Angeles, Title Insurance and Trust Company [1950]; Zamorano Club. Addresses At a Meeting . . . May 6, 1950. Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, St. John's Seminary. Camarillo [1950]; Bancroft, Griffing. The Interlopers. New York, The Bancroft Com- pany, 191 7; Hittell, John S. A Brief Outline of Culture. New York, Appleton, 1875; Howay, Frederick W., ed. Voyages of the Columbia to the Northwest Coast, 1-187-1790 and 1790-1793. Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, v. 79. Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1941; Black, Jeanette D., ed. A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolu- tion. Providence, Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949; [Taylor, Alexander S. Biografia Calif ornica] Typescript copy of the original which appeared in the Sacra- mento Daily Union, June 25, 1863; U. S. Work Projects Administration. Inventory of American Imprints, No. 25. Check list of New Mexico Imprints and Publications, 1784- 1876. Michigan Historical Records Survey, 1942; U. S. Works Projects Administration. Calendar of the Montana Papers in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles). Los Angeles, Southern California Historical Rec- ords Survey Project, 1942; U. S. Works Projects Administration. American Imprints Inventory, No. 31. Check List of California Non-Documentary Imprints, 1833-185$. San Francisco, Works Projects Administration, 1942; Sauer, Carl. Road to Cibola. Berkeley, 1932. (Ibero-Americana: 3); Hammond, George P., ed. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hi- dalgo, February second, 1848. Berkeley, Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1949. 2 v.; De Golyer, E. The Antiquity of the Oil Industry. Godley, Texas, 1947; Smith, Charles W. A Union List of Manuscripts in Libraries of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1931; Jessup, Philip C. The International Problem of Governing Mankind. Claremont, Friends of the Colleges, 1947; Bibliographical Society of America. Dakota Imprints, 1858-1889, ed. by A. H. Allen. New York, R. R. Bowker, 1947; Bibliographical Society of America. Arkansas Imprints, 1821-1876, ed. by A. H. Allen. New York, R. R. Bowker, 1947; Clary, William W. Shall We Elect a President or a Commander-in-Chief? Los Angeles, 1944; Bond, Floyd A., and John A. Vieg. Voluntary Action; Mainstay of a Free Society. The Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Institute of Public Affairs at Pomona College. Claremont, Pomona College, 1950; Smith, T. V. Atomic Power and Moral Faith. Claremont, Friends of the Colleges, 1946; Hammond, George P. Primeria Alta After Kino's Time. Reprinted from the New Mexico Historical Review, 1929; Allen, Edward Weber. Jean Frangois Galaup de Laperouse; a Check List. Reprinted from the California Historical Society Quarterly, 1941; Rickard, T. A. Drift Iron; a Fortuitous Factor in Primitive Culture. Reprinted from The Geo- graphical Review. New York, 1934; Heartman, Charles F. George D. Smith, G.D.S., 1810-1920; a Memorial Tribute . . . Beauvoir, 1945; Heawood, E. The Use of Water- marks in Dating Old Maps and Documents. Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, 1924; Green, Otis H., and Irving A. Leonard. On the Mexican Booktrade in 1600: a Chap- ter in Cultural History. Reprinted from the Hispanic Review, 1941; Lyon, E. Wilson. Confident in Their Liberties. (Pomona College Bulletin, September, 1949) Claremont, 1949; Palmer, T. S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Washington, D. C, 1948; Western Exploration: From the Americana Collection of Herschel V. Jones. Offered for sale by The Rosenbach Company . . . Philadelphia, [n.p., n.d.]; The American Conquest of California; Being the Private and Public Papers of Archibald Hamilton Gillespie ... A magnificent collection . . . offered for sale by Jake Zeitlin, Inc., Los Angeles. Typewritten copy; The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library. [Separate reports of the first and third annual meetings n.p., n.d.] ; Hanna, Phil Townsend. Western Bombast: a Case History. A Paper Read Before the Sunset Club, Los Angeles, September 27, 1950. [Los Angeles, Automobile Club of Southern California Press, 1950]; The Grolier Club. One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Be- fore 1900. New York, The Grolier Club, 1947; Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc. 85 Rarities on the Far West. [Boston, Goodspeed's, n.d.] Mimeographed; Dentzel, Carl Schaefer. Cinco de Mayo; an Appraisal. Northridge, 1949; The Rounce & Coffin Club. Exhibition of Western Books . . . Los Angeles, The Club, 1946; Wheat, Carl I. The Pioneer Press of California. Oakland, Biobooks, 1948; Hammond, George P., and Agapito Rey. Nar- ratives of the Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publica- tions, 1 540-1940, v. 2. Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Press, 1940; Eber- stadt, Edward. The William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana. New Haven, 1948. Privately printed from The Yale University Library Gazette, October, 1948; Schulz, Herbert C. America in Maps, 1503-1600. Notes on an Exhibition for The Friends of the Huntington Library . . . Jime 3, 1946. [n.p., 1946] ; Friends of the Hunting- ton Library. Membership List, December 5/, 1946. San Marino [1946]; Hanna, Phil Townsend. Libros Calif ornianos; or Five Feet of California Books. Los Angeles, Jake Zeitlin, 193 1; Archer, H. Richard. Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Clark Me- morial Library, [n.p., 1951] Reprinted from The Autograph Collector's Journal, Jan., 195 1 ; [Dunham, Arthur L.] The Pioneer Period of European Railroads; a Tribute to Mr. Thomas W. Streeter. Boston, Harvard University [C1946]; [Wheat, Carl I.] Poker As It Was Played in Deadwood in the Fifties. Palo Alto, 1928; Dane, Yvonne I larley. Deborah Dane, a Biography . . . San Francisco, Lawton R. Kennedy, 1936; 1 listorical Society of New Mexico. Catalogue of Books in English in the Library of the Society Relating to New Mexico and the Southwest. Santa Fe, New Mexican Printing Co., 1910; and twelve additional pamphlets and reprints pertaining to Western Americana. 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During the course of the meeting, Col. Waddell F. Smith, great-grandson of W. B. Waddell, presented the Society with a large, handsomely executed plaque, commemorating the services of the Pony Express, of which his ancestor was one of the organizers. (See this Quarterly, March 1950, pp. 73–75).
Note: Word received from Gen. David Prescott Barrows, now on a Mediterranean cruise in the hope of recovery from a recent severe illness, conveys to us the good news that he will make his luncheon address of September 14, 1950, "California in Retrospect," into an article for the Quarterly, instead of the informal transcript announced on page 375 of the December 1950 issue.
Maloney
In Memoriam
Alice Bay Maloney
I first met Mrs. Maloney in the early 1930's, after the death of her husband, Michael Maloney, publisher of the Coos Bay Times, with whom she had been associated in the paper's management. The training she had acquired as a journalist, her familiarity with the area served by the Times (she, herself, was a native of Marshfield, Oregon), could, she felt, be put to good use in research into the less well-known phases of northwest history and its extension into California. I therefore assigned her a table in the Bancroft Library, and we consulted frequently—to my pleasure, for she had a delightful humor. How correct she had been in planning to use her time in research is shown by the titles of the papers she published in the Quarterly of the California Historical Society between 1937 and 1945: "John Gantt, 'Borderer,'" and later three of his letters, for which she wrote the introduction and notes; "Peter Skene Ogden's Trapping Expedition to the Gulf of California, 1829-30"; "Some Oatman Documents" (introduction by Mrs. Maloney); "The Distressingly Virtuous Isaac—Biographical Notes on Isaac Cox, Author of the Annals of Trinity County; "Fur Brigade to the Bonaventura—John Work's California Expedition, 1832–33, for the Hudson's Bay Company" (issued subsequently as one of the Society's special publications and sold out in a short time); and "A Botanist on the Road to Yerba Buena— Journal of William Dunlap Brackenridge, October 1-28, 1841" (this included an account and list of the plants, mentioned in the journal, by Alice Eastwood). For the John Work publication I wrote a foreword, in which I paid tribute to Mrs. Maloney's indefatigable care in assembling materials bearing on the subject, and I stated that the result was a highly significant contribution, which had a continental as well as a local bearing—a remark which could have applied, I think, to Mrs. Maloney's scholarly approach to any matter she happened to have in hand, namely, that its bearing was unpredictable and therefore its examination should be exhaustive.
Mrs. Maloney's death occurred on December 10, 1950, in Berkeley, following a long illness. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alice M. Hendershot of Modesto, and a son, Joseph M. Maloney, M.D., of San Carlos; also by a brother, Fred B. AicCormac of Berkeley, and a sister, Mrs. Grace McCormac French of Dayton, Oregon; and by an aunt, Mrs. Willis S. Duniway of Portland, Oregon. There are five grandchildren.
Mrs. Maloney was a competent worker and charming person.
Charles Francis Griffin, M.D.
Dr. Griffin, an active member of this Society over a period of many years and compiler of its Index to the Annals of San Francisco, published in 1935, passed away at Sebastopol on December 23, 1950. He had left San Francisco, by stage, on the morning of his death, to spend the holidays with his only sister, Mrs. Clara L. Watson, at Guerneville. A few miles before reaching his destination, the bus swerved from the highway into a redwood tree, which fell, crushing the doctor so severely that he expired soon after reaching the hospital.
Charles Francis Griffin was born in Lassen County, California, on April 26, 1869, the son of Francis Marion Griffin, an early pioneer of Benicia and native of Searsport, Maine, and Margaret Malloy Griffin of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended school in Vallejo and, following his graduation from Vallejo High School, registered at Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, now the medical department of Stanford University, receiving his M.D. degree with the class of 1891. He at once engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, in the city of his choice—San Francisco. When World War I became a reality, the doctor volunteered and saw active service with the Spruce Division in France, where he was badly injured.
Genealogy and civic affairs became Dr. Griffin's particular hobbies. He was the author of innumerable articles along these lines, was past-president of the California Genealogical Society, and for years an officer of the Society of Mayflower Descendants. It will be recalled, also, that on September 7, 1941, a bronze tablet was erected by Dr. Griffin in the San Francisco Civic Center, marking the site of the Old Yerba Buena cemetery (1850-1870), which occupied the triangle formed by Market, Larkin, and McAllister streets. In addition, he collected and preserved for posterity the names of some 5000 persons here interred.
Before her marriage, the doctor's mother had become the owner of a parcel of land, extending from present-day Lincoln Way to Judah Street, between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth avenues, San Francisco, and here, since 19 10, amid his books, he had resided. It is generally agreed that the Duboce Tunnel and Judah Street car line were fruits of his agitation for the betterment of that district.
The oldest post of the American Legion in California, San Francisco Post, claimed him as a member, and these comrades-in-arms conducted his funeral services. The mortal remains of Charles Francis Griffin now rest in Holy Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County.
A. T. Leonard, Jr., M.D.
Book of Remembrance
In the December 1948 Quarterly appeared, for the first time, a list of twelve names, in whose memory gifts had been made to the Society's Library Fund. Since that time the number of names, now inscribed in the "Book of Remembrance," has increased to sixty-six. They are arranged below, alphabetically, according to the year of contribution.
William Cavalier
Edna Rodden Martin
Albert Leslie Oliver
Mrs. H. Spens Black
Edwin T. Blake
Helen Kinsell
William C. Latham
M. Hall McAllister
Ruby McCormick
F. J. Morin
Frank M. Ogden
Mrs.E.O.C.Ord
George A. Pope
Mrs. George A. Pope
Edward T. Sheppard
Mrs. Leslie Symmes
Louise A. Wormley
Oscar Thomas Barber
Edward Washington Bender
Lilian Hoogs Blaisdell
Hope Bliss
Philip Read Bradley
Eldridge Ayer Burbank
John R. Burns
Rumsey Campbell
Randolph Clement
Edward B. Field
Morton R. Gibbons, M.D.
Abraham P. Hankes
Thomas Norman Harvey
Virginia Utz Jobe
Arthur C. Kennedy
George Dunlap Lyman,
La Verne Scott Moss
Whitney Palache
Robert J. Parker
Mabel Gray Potter
William C. Sharpsteen
John Joaquin Smith
L. Deming Tilton
Harry C. Warren, M.D.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, M.D.
Harvey Wetmore Beard
Katharine Esther Bennitt
George Mackey Cornwall
William M. Gilliland
Eliza Jane Gilman
Olive Martha Gould
Emily West Knowlaml
Ethel A. Krook
Abbie Hyde Lewis
James L'Hommcdieu
Helen Flint Lyman