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Title: Fahey-Sloan Family Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1880-1960
Collection number: Mss258
Creator:
Robert & Al Fahey
Extent: 4 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, Mss258, Holt-Atherton Department
of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Fahey, Dennis (1831-1914)
Fahey, William (1871-1957)
Fahey, John (1866-1950)
Fahey, Lilly Sloan
Sloan, William Albert
Sloan, Elizabeth Haskell (b. 1870)
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (1854-1927)
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson (1842-1919)
Rowell, Joseph Cummings
Fahey family
Sloan family
Yosemite Logging Company (Calif.)
Westside Logging Company (Calif.)
Pratt Institute -History
University of California, Berkeley -History
Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915: San Francisco)
Columbian International Exposition (1893: Chicago)
Women librarians
Lumber camps -California -Tuolumne County
Libraries -California -History
Oakdale (Calif.) -Social life and customs
Women photographers -California
Berkeley (Calif.) -Description and travel
New York (N.Y.) -Description and travel
Tuolumne County (Calif.) -Description and travel
Elizabeth Haskell Sloan (b. 1870) came to California (c1895) after working as a
stenographer for the Chicago Exposition, the Armour Institute and other businesses in the
Chicago area during the mid-1890s. Although she had come initially to help her invalid
sister, Clara, with the latter's three daughters, the sister soon died and Elizabeth
Haskell helped place the daughters in foster homes. She then worked as University
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler's secretary while attending the University of California
(1900-1904). Sloan subsequently graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School (1906)
and returned as a librarian to the University of California (1907-1914). She married her
dead sister's husband, William Haskell Sloan, and moved with him to the Yosemite region
where he was Superintendent of the Yosemite Logging Company (1914-1917). When Sloan
became ill due to over work, they moved to Irvington, Alameda County, where they became
prune farmers. After Sloan's death Elizabeth worked for the Pacific Rural Press and as
associate editor for a local newspaper. One of William Sloan's daughters, Lilly, married
a member of the Fahey Family (c1913).
Irish immigrant, Dennis Fahey (1831-1914) was a pioneer stockman in Tuolumne County
(1853). Three of his six children: John, William and Joseph established the Westside
Market which supplied lumber camps and developed a strong retail trade in the Stanislaus
and Tuolumne County region. The Faheys jointly owned 5,000 acres and more than 1,000 head
of cattle. The brothers split their holdings in 1921. John Fahey's son, William, married
Lily Sloan. Their oldest son, Robert (1914-1994), was a long time resident of Oakdale, a
Stanislaus County Supervisor, developer and cattle rancher. He was an active member of a
local social organization that called itself the "Bronco Boys."
The Fahey-Sloan Collection includes family history materials and photographs. Several
photo albums created by Elizabeth Haskell Sloan document the activities of the Yosemite
Logging Company (1914-1917). Other albums created by Robert Fahey depict the activities
of the Oakdale "Bronco Boys" club (1930s-1950s), his World War II career and his research
on the logging industry in the southern Sierra. There is also an album of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition (1915).