http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8k4037j7 No online items Finding aid prepared by California Historical Society staff; revised by Mary Morganti California Historical Society 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA, 94105 415-357-1848 reference@calhist.org 2001, 2009 MS 0981 1
Collection Summary Collection Title: Isaias W. Hellman papers Dates: 1865-1929 Collection Number: MS 0981 Creator: Hellman, Isaias William, 1843-1920 Physical Description: Extent: 49 boxes [includes 52 v. in Boxes 27-46 and 49] (20.75 Linear feet) Repository: California Historical Society 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA, 94105 415-357-1848 reference@calhist.org URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/ 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 1915. 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 94105. 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, 1847-1964, 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), 1842-1920--Archives. Hellman, Isaias W., 1871-1920--Archives. Market Street Railway. Nevada National Bank. MS 0981 2
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 0981 3
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 0981 4
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 1967. Processing Information Processed by California Historical Society staff. System of Arrangement Organized into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence, 1865-1920 [these are further divided into two sub-series: San Francisco Office and Los Angeles Office]; Series 2: Financial Records, 1910-1924; Series 3: Real Estate Title Abstracts and Deeds, 1883-1929; Series IV: Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books, 1879-1920; Series V: Bank Statements of Assets and Liabilities, 1915-1919. 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 1915. 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 0981 5
Series 1Correspondence 1865-1920 San Francisco Office Series 1 Correspondence 1865-1920 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 1-7 1865-1890 May Box 2, Folder 8-13 1890 June-1891 Box 3, 1892-1893 August Folder 14-19 Box 4, 1893 September-1894 Folder 20-25 Box 5, 1895-1896 Folder 26-30 Box 6, 1897-1898 July Folder 31-36 Box 7, 1898 August-1899 Folder 37-43 Box 8, 1900-1901 April Folder 44-50 Box 9, 1901 May-1902 Folder 51-58 Box 10, 1903 Folder 59-63 Box 11, 1904-1906 April Folder 64-70 Box 12, 1906 May-1908 Folder 71-76 Box 13, 1909-1912 April Folder 77-82 Box 14, 1912-1913 Folder 83-86 Box 14, Folder 87 Tax forms 1913-1914 Box 14, Folder 88 1914 January-June Box 15, 1914 July-1920, undated Folder 89-95 Los Angeles Office Box 16, Folder 96-106 Box 17, Folder 107-119 Box 18, Folder 120-129 Box 19, Folder 130-140 Box 20, Folder 141-148 1886-1887, undated 1888 1900 May-1902 September 1903-1904 1905-1907 November Series 2 Financial Records 1910-1924 Physical Description: Boxes 21-24; Box 49, volume 52 MS 0981 6
Series 2Financial Records 1910-1924 Box 21, Folder 149-154 Box 22, Folder 155-159 Box 23, Folder 160-163 Box 24, Folder 164-168 Box 24, Folder 169 Box 24, Folder 170 Box 49, Volume 52 Taxes 1910-1915 Taxes 1915-1917 Taxes 1917-1920 Receipts 1920-1924 Property sales cards 1921-1923 Checkbook, Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank 1920 Scrapbook of Tax Receipts,1907/1908-1909/1910 [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 1907-1910 Series 3 Real Estate Title Abstracts and Deeds 1883-1929 Physical Description: Boxes 25-26 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. 301 1888, 1909-1919 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. 302 1909 Main Street Lots 1909 Party wall agreements 1883-1907 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 1879-1920 Physical Description: Boxes 27-46 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 10-12 Box 31, Volume 13-14 Box 32, Folder 15-16 Box 33, Volume 17-18 Box 34, Volume 19-20 Box 35, Volume 21-22 1879 June 13-1885 February 4 1885 October 13-1887 October 17 1888 May-1890 July 31 1890 August 1-1891 December 1 1891 January 27-1893 February 18 1893 February 20-1894 May 9 1894 March 9-1895 April 26 1895 April 27-1896 November 13 1896 November 14-1897 December 27 MS 0981 7
Series 4Business Correspondence Letterpress Copy Books 1879-1920 Box 36, 1897 December 27-1899 April 25 Volume 23-24 Box 37, 1899 April 22-1900 December 31 Volume 25-26 Box 38, 1901 January 2-October 21 Volume 27 Box 38, Letters from Henry Fleischman to IWH 1889 April 20-1896 August 22 Volume 28 Box 39, 1901 April 22-1902 January Volume 29 Box 39, 1905 October 30-1906 November 28 Volume 30 Box 39, Folder 31 1905 August 2-1907 November 2 Box 40, Letters regarding Spring Valley Water Co. 4% Bond Syndicate 1906 August 1-1908 Volume 32 January 8 Box 40, 1906 November 30-1907 December 28 Volume 33 Box 40, 1907 November 4-1911 December 9 Volume 34 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 41, Volume 35-37 Box 42, Volume 38-41 Box 43, Volume 42-45 Box 44, Volume 46 Box 44, Volume 47 1907 December 30-1910 October 28 1909 October 16-1912 March 5 1912 March 5-1914 June 30 1911 July 11-1915 October 1 1911 December 11-1915 September 25 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 44, Volume 48 Box 45, Volume 49 1915 October 1-1917 February 5 1916 October-1919 October 10 Letters to Farmers & Merchants Bank and officers Box 45, Volume 50 Box 46, Volume 51 1917 February 5-1918 March 7 1918 March 28-1920 April 6 Series 5 Bank Statements of Assets and Liabilities 1915-1919 Physical Description: Boxes 47-48 Box 47, Folder 179-184 Box 47, Folder 185-189 Box 48, Folder 190-192 Box 48, Folder 193 Box 48, Folder 194-196 Box 48, Folder 197-202 Union Trust Company of San Francisco 1915 June 10-1919 March 20 United States National Bank, Los Angeles 1915 September 28-1917 December 4 United States National Bank, Los Angeles 1918 January 23-1919 August 5 Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank 1918 May 14 Farmers & Merchants National Bank 1917 February 6-1919 July 10 Columbus Savings & Loan Society 1915 August 31-1919 June 19 MS 0981 8