CLEAR OF THE WORLD
I sometimes think he never can or will never accoumulate a thousand dollars clear of the world, No matter how favorabley he may be situated.
PERSPECTIVE
Friday, January 13, 2017,
The letters are concerned with the continued purchasing of the roughly 180 sq. miles surrounding Point Conception on the California Coast.
The area, already rich in history, inhabited by the Chumash for nine or ten thousand years, claimed by the Mission System in the very late 18th century, and then secularized by the Mexican and Mexican/Californian governments into land grants of private property.
The Gold Rush and the annexation of California into the United States ignited the spirits of capital and entrepreneurship within the economic caldren of San Francisco, reinventing, among other things, land use and agriculture throughout the state. These letters and the actions animating them are windows into a transition of mind.
THE PARTNERS
THOMAS B. DIBBLEE
PARTNER
Born in Pine Plains in Duchess County, New York in 1823. Thomas did undergraduate work at Columbia College and then studied Law at the office of Hamilton Fish where in 1844 he was a admitted as Attorney at Law to the Supreme Court of the State of New York and also Solictor in Chancery .
In 1859 His brother Albert convinced him to sail to California and take over management of Santa Anita Ranch which Albert had purchased in a partnership with Wm Corbitt a few miles from Los Angeles. The drought of 1863 forced Albert and Thomas, along with Cooper and Hubberd Hollister and W.W. Hollister to bring sheep to the Lompoc Valley in Santa Barbara county
ALBERT DIBBLEE
PARTNER
TK
I . Suppose
W W HOLLISTER
PARTNER
Born in Ohio, William Welde Hollister briefly attended Kenyon College. In 1841, the age of 26 Hollister drove 30,000 from St Louis to California. TK
Rancho la Espada
