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Page, Bacon and Company records
Creator
Title
Page, Bacon and Company records, circa 1820-1910.
Physical Description
0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English
Notes
In English.
Provenance
Acquired by gift and purchase from William P. Wreden on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3 and the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1966.
Organization
Arranged alphabetically by name.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Daniel D. Page was born in York County, Maine in 1790, and moved to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1818. He was a grocery merchant and baker, amassed large real estate holdings, and in 1829 was elected the second mayor of St. Louis. In 1848, he established the banking firm of Page and Bacon with his son-in-law Henry D. Bacon. In 1849, Page established the express office and banking firm of Page, Bacon and Company in San Francisco, with branches in Sacramento and Sonora, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. The partners were Page, his son Francis W. Page, Henry D. Bacon, Henry Haight, and David Chambers. In 1855, following financial losses, (including those relating to the firms' backing of the financially troubled Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), the Saint Louis and San Francisco offices were liquidated. Page died in 1869 in Washington, D.C.
Henry Douglas Bacon was born in East Granville, Massachusetts in 1817. In 1835, he moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, where he worked in the dry goods business and the iron trade. He married Julia Ann Page, daughter of Daniel D. Page, in 1844. Bacon became a partner in the banking firm Page and Bacon in 1848, and in 1849 he became a partner in the San Francisco firm of Page, Bacon and Company. After the firms were liquidated in 1855, Bacon attempted to settle with creditors and to revive the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad venture, and became engaged in mining, ranching, and other business activities. He moved to the San Francisco area from Saint Louis in 1866, and died in 1893.
Summary
The records include manuscript and printed originals and copies of land valuations and deeds, plats, receipts, tax records, stock certificates, cancelled checks, and other material documenting the real estate, banking, mining, and railroad interests of Daniel D. Page and Henry D. Bacon, principals of the banking firms Page and Bacon (Saint Louis, Missouri) and Page, Bacon and Company (San Francisco, California). The majority of real property records relate to the Saint Louis area, with a small number pertaining to California. Represented in the collection are Saint Louis city founders and businessmen Louis Auguste Benoist, Thomas Cohen, Auguste Condé, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, and Pierre de Laclède-Liguest; and San Francisco businessmen William Tell Coleman, Charles Crocker, James Graham Fair, William McKendree Gwin, Henry Haight, John Parrott, William Chapman Ralston, Leland Stanford, and John Augustus Sutter. Box 1 contains files A-N; Box 2 contains files P-W, and one file of miscellaneous documents.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2015
References
Page, Bacon and Company Records. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Page, Bacon and Company Records. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Occupation
Bankers California San Francisco 19th century.
Bankers Missouri Saint Louis 19th century.
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