Guide to the Isaias W. Hellman Papers, MS No online items

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1 No online items Finding aid prepared by California Historical Society staff; revised by Mary Morganti California Historical Society 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA, , 2009 MS

2 Collection Summary Collection Title: Isaias W. Hellman papers Dates: Collection Number: MS 0981 Creator: Hellman, Isaias William, Physical Description: Extent: 49 boxes [includes 52 v. in Boxes and 49] (20.75 Linear feet) Repository: California Historical Society 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA, URL: Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite. Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English. Abstract: Business papers, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to Hellman's activities in banking, electric and cable railway transportation, and real estate investment, particularly in southern California and San Francisco. Correspondence is with and about the banks and financial institutions with which Hellman was affiliated, and reflects his interests in southern Calif. electric railroad lines, Market Street Railway in San Francisco, Union Oil and Associated Oil Companies, the Redondo Improvement Company, the Los Alamitos Land Company, the San Gabriel and other wineries, and other agricultural concerns. Includes papers of Hellman's son, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., in his capacities as president of Union Trust Company and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, vice president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, chairman of Columbus Savings and Loan Society, and a member of the Relief Committee of 50 that assumed control of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also reflects his activities with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the California Historical Society. All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Isaias W. Hellman Papers, MS 981. California Historical Society. Related Collection Isaiah W. Hellman Papers: Additions, , MS 981 A Separated Materials Printed materials have been transferred to the book and ephemera collections. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Columbus Savings and Loan Society. Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles. Hellman, Isaias W. (Isaias William), Archives. Hellman, Isaias W., Archives. Market Street Railway. Nevada National Bank. MS

3 Union Trust Company of San Francisco. Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank Bankers--California-San Francisco Banks and banking--california. Letter books. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Real estate investment--california. Street-railroads--California, Southern. List of Correspondents Following is a partial list of correspondents in the collection, and the number of letters written to or by them: Ainsworth, John V. (7 letters) Alvord, William (1 letter) Banning, William (2 letters) Bard, Thomas R. (2 letters) Bicknell, John Dustin (14 letters) Bixby, Fred Hathaway (13 letters) Bixby, George H. (33 letters) Bixby, John W. (1 letter) Burr, Ephraim Willard (3 letters) Chandler, Harry (3 letters) Childs, Ozro W. (3 letters) Borel, Antoine (11 letters) Crocker, George (1 letter) Crocker, William H. (2 letters) De Guigne, Christian (12 letters) Denis, George J. (6 letters) Doheny, Edward L. (6 letters) Downey, John G. (16 letters) Duque, Thomas L. (16 letters) Faymonville, Bernard (2 letters) Fleishman, Henry J. (49 letters) Flint, George C. (30 letters) Flood, James Leary (1 letter) Gage, Henry T. (3 letters) Gerstle, Lewis (1 letter) Gird, Richard (3 letters) Grant, Adam (1 letter) Garvey, Richard (18 letters) Graves, Jackson Alpheus (338 letters) Griffin, John Strother (2 letters) Guasti, Secondo (1 letter) Hanna, Mark (1 letter) Harriman, Edward H. (5 letters) Hearst, Phoebe Apperson (2 letters) Hearst, William Randolph (1 letter) Heller, Emanuel H. (24 letters) Hellman, Herman W. (257 letters) Hellman, Maurice S. (9 letters) MS

4 Herrin, William F. (4 letters) Hill, Andrew P. (1 letter) Hopkins, Timothy (1 letter) Huntington, Collis P. (4 letters) Huntington, Henry Edwards (81 letters) Irwin, William G. (2 letters) Jones, E. E. (19 letters) Jordan, David Starr (1 letter) Kahn, Julius (2 letters) Kearney, M. Theodore (2 letters) Keith, William (1 letter) Keller, Matthew (19 letters) Kerckhoff, William G. (61 letters) Kinney, Abbot (1 letter) Kohn, Kaspare (2 letters) Lankershim, J. B. (2 letters) Le Breton, Edward J. (1 letter) Lubin, David (1 letter) McAdoo, William Gibbs (2 letters) MacKay, John William (16 letters) Markham, Henry H. (4 letters) Marye, George, T. (1 letter) Meyer, Eugene (1 letter) Milner, John M. (86 letters) Mulholland, William (7 letters) Newmark, Maurice (1 letter) Nuttall, J. R. K. (5 letters) O'Melveny, Henry W. (15 letters) Otis, Harrison Gray (43 letters) Patton, George (51 letters) Pardee, George C. (4 letters) Perkins, George C. (5 letters) Plater, John E. (8 letters) Reese, Michael (1 letter) Rindage, Frederick H. (3 letters) Robinson, Alfred (1 letter) Rose, Leonard J. (2 letters) Ross, Erskine Mayo (7 letters) Ryland, Cassius T. (1 letter) Sanderson, George W. (1 letter) Sartori, Joseph Francis (34 letters) Schiff, Jacob H. (2 letters) Schwab, Charles M. (1 letter) Shankland, J. J. (1 letter) Shorb, James de Barth (6 letters) Shortridge, Charles M. (1 letter) Shortridge, Samuel W. (2 letters) Sloss, Louis (1 letter) MS

5 Spreckels, Adolph B. (1 letter) Spreckels, Claus (2 letters) Spreckels, Rudolph (2 letters) Stanford, Jane Lathrop (11 letters) Stewart, Lyman (14 letters) Strauss, Levi (2 letters) Tevis, Lloyd (1 letter) Truman, Ben C. (2 letters) Valle, Reginaldo F. del (2 letters) Van Nuys, Isaac N. (2 letters) Wangenheim, Julius (6 letters) Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (13 letters) White, Lovell (6 letters) White, Stephen Mallory (35 letters) Widney, Richard MaClay (1 letter) Wilson, Mrs. Benjamin D. (1 letter) Workman, William H. (13 letters) Acquisition Information The Isaias W. Hellman Papers were given to the California Historical Society by I. W. Hellman III in Processing Information Processed by California Historical Society staff. System of Arrangement Organized into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence, [these are further divided into two sub-series: San Francisco Office and Los Angeles Office]; Series 2: Financial Records, ; Series 3: Real Estate Title Abstracts and Deeds, ; Series IV: Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books, ; Series V: Bank Statements of Assets and Liabilities, Scope and Contents Business papers, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to Hellman's activities in banking, electric and cable railway transportation, and real estate investment, particularly in southern California and San Francisco. Correspondence is with and about the banks and financial institutions with which Hellman was affiliated, and reflects his interests in southern Calif. electric railroad lines, Market Street Railway in San Francisco, Union Oil and Associated Oil Companies, the Redondo Improvement Company, the Los Alamitos Land Company, the San Gabriel and other wineries, and other agricultural concerns. Correspondents include Harry Chandler, John G. Downey, Henry J. Fleishman, Jackson A. Graves, Herman W. Hellman, Henry E. Huntington, William Mulholland, Harrison G. Otis, George Patton, George C. Perkins, Claus Spreckles, Benjamin I. Wheeler, Stephen M. White, and others. Includes some personal correspondence with family members. Other papers include financial records for Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, Union Trust Company, Columbus Savings and Loan Society, Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, United States National Bank of Los Angeles, and other banks. Interfiled with these are papers of Hellman's son, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., in his capacities as president of Union Trust Company and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, vice president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, chairman of Columbus Savings and Loan Society, and a member of the Relief Committee of 50 that assumed control of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also reflects his activities with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of Biographical Information I. W. Hellman was a banker and prominent financial figure of California and Oregon. He served as president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, Nevada National Bank, and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank. He also served as chairman of the board of directors of Union Trust Company of San Francisco, and director of the United States National Bank of Portland and the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles. MS

6 Series 1Correspondence San Francisco Office Series 1 Correspondence Physical Description: Boxes 1-20 Arrangement Arranged in two sub-series: Boxes 1-15, San Francisco Office; Boxes 16-20, Los Angeles Office San Francisco Office Box 1, Folder May Box 2, Folder June-1891 Box 3, August Folder Box 4, 1893 September-1894 Folder Box 5, Folder Box 6, July Folder Box 7, 1898 August-1899 Folder Box 8, April Folder Box 9, 1901 May-1902 Folder Box 10, 1903 Folder Box 11, April Folder Box 12, 1906 May-1908 Folder Box 13, April Folder Box 14, Folder Box 14, Folder 87 Tax forms Box 14, Folder January-June Box 15, 1914 July-1920, undated Folder Los Angeles Office Box 16, Folder Box 17, Folder Box 18, Folder Box 19, Folder Box 20, Folder , undated May-1902 September November Series 2 Financial Records Physical Description: Boxes 21-24; Box 49, volume 52 MS

7 Series 2Financial Records Box 21, Folder Box 22, Folder Box 23, Folder Box 24, Folder Box 24, Folder 169 Box 24, Folder 170 Box 49, Volume 52 Taxes Taxes Taxes Receipts Property sales cards Checkbook, Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank 1920 Scrapbook of Tax Receipts,1907/ /1910 [for] County of Los Angeles and City of Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino County, City and County of San Francisco, El Dorado County, Placer County, and City of Azusa Series 3 Real Estate Title Abstracts and Deeds Physical Description: Boxes Folder 171 Folder 172 Folder 173 Folder 174 Folder 175 Box 26, Folder 176 Box 26, Folder 177 Box 26, Folder 178 Main Street Lots, Beach and Water Lot, No , Beach and Water Lots Nos. 604 & 605, and Rules of Procedure covering accounting system for Dunham Carrigan & Hayden Co. 1894, 1904 Beale Street Lot No Main Street Lots 1909 Party wall agreements Beale Street 1883 Party wall, Beale and Main Streets 1929 Beale and Main Streets, Northside Main Street 1910, 1917 Series 4 Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books Physical Description: Boxes Scope and Content Note Unless otherwise noted, letters are from IWH. Box 27, Volume 1-4 Box 28, Volume 5-6 Box 29, Volume 7-9 Box 30, Volume Box 31, Volume Box 32, Folder Box 33, Volume Box 34, Volume Box 35, Volume June February October October May-1890 July August December January February February May March April April November November December 27 MS

8 Series 4Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books Box 36, 1897 December April 25 Volume Box 37, 1899 April December 31 Volume Box 38, 1901 January 2-October 21 Volume 27 Box 38, Letters from Henry Fleischman to IWH 1889 April August 22 Volume 28 Box 39, 1901 April January Volume 29 Box 39, 1905 October November 28 Volume 30 Box 39, Folder August November 2 Box 40, Letters regarding Spring Valley Water Co. 4% Bond Syndicate 1906 August Volume 32 January 8 Box 40, 1906 November December 28 Volume 33 Box 40, 1907 November December 9 Volume 34 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 41, Volume Box 42, Volume Box 43, Volume Box 44, Volume 46 Box 44, Volume December October October March March June July October December September 25 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 44, Volume 48 Box 45, Volume October February October-1919 October 10 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 45, Volume 50 Box 46, Volume February March March April 6 Series 5 Bank Statements of Assets and Liabilities Physical Description: Boxes Box 47, Folder Box 47, Folder Box 48, Folder Box 48, Folder 193 Box 48, Folder Box 48, Folder Union Trust Company of San Francisco 1915 June March 20 United States National Bank, Los Angeles 1915 September December 4 United States National Bank, Los Angeles 1918 January August 5 Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank 1918 May 14 Farmers & Merchants National Bank 1917 February July 10 Columbus Savings & Loan Society 1915 August June 19 MS