Register of the Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, 1880-1960
Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by
Don Walker
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
Fax: (209) 946-2810
URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
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University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Register of the Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, 1880-1960
Collection number: Mss258
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library
University of the Pacific
Contact Information
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- Fax: (209) 946-2810
- URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
- Processed by:
- Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- November 1998
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
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
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, Mss258, Holt-Atherton Department
of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
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
corporate name
Yosemite Logging Company (Calif.)
Westside Logging Company (Calif.)
Pratt Institute -History
University of California, Berkeley -History
subject
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
Biography
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."
Scope and Content
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).
Container List
BOX 1: FAHEY-SLOAN BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
1.1-Elizabeth Haskell Sloan biography
1.3-Elizabeth Haskell Sloan reminiscence & memorabilia
1.4-Sloan Ranch, Irvington photos
1.6-Fahey Family/Oakdale High School memorabilia
1.7-Portrait photos [unident.]
1.12-Washington trip, 1909
1.13-"Oakdale" from published history of Stanislaus County
BOX 2: ELIZABETH SLOAN PHOTOBOOKS; YOSEMITE LOGGING CO. PHOTOS
2.6-Yosemite Logging Company photos
BOX 3: BOB FAHEY LOGGING INDUSTRY PHOTO ALBUMS
3.1-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 1-15
3.2-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 16-30
3.3-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11: pp. 31-51
3.4-Bob Fahey Photo Album #11 photocopy
3.5-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 1-15
3.6-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp.16-30
3.7-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 31-40
3.8-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 41-50
3.9-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 51-65
3.10-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7: pp. 66-78
3.11-Bob Fahey Photo Album #7 photocopy
BOX 4: FAMILY FILMS; BOB FAHEY WWII SCRAPBOOK; "BRONCO BOYS" PHOTOS
4.1-FILM: "New Mexico trip, Aug 1952" [1 of 2]
4.2-FILM: "New Mexico trip, Aug 1952" [2 of 2]
4.3-FILM: "75826; 1 of 10"
4.4-FILM: "75826; 2 of 10"
4.5-FILM: "75826 - Three"
4.8-FILM: one loose white reel
4.9-Bob Fahey WW II Scrapbook ["Album #8"]
4.10-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #10
BOX 5: "BRONCO BOYS" PHOTOS, 1930s
5.1-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 1-37
5.2-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 38-60
5.3-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 61-80
5.4-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, pp. 81-101
5.5-"Bronco Boys" Photo Album #9, photocopy
BOX 6: PHOTO NEGATIVES [contains 53 env. of negs. + box negs.]
BOX 7: PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION ALBUM; MISC. PHOTOS
7.1-Panama Pacific Exposition Album
