Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Willy (John) Stockton (Calif.) History Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1862-1929
Collection number: Mss220
Creator:
Bobbin Crabbe
Extent: 1.5 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], Willy (John) Stockton (Calif.) History Collection, Mss220,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Willy, John (1851-1939)
personal name
Ushijima, Seikichi (1864-1925)
corporate name
Stockton (Calif.) -Assessor's Office -Records and correspondence
subject
Real property -California -Stockton
subject
Stockton (Calif.) -History -Sources
subject
Stockton (Calif.) -Social life and customs
subject
Stockton (Calif.) -Pictorial works
subject
Oakland (Calif.) -Pictorial works
Biography
John Willy (1851-1939) was Deputy Assessor of San Joaquin County, Calif. (1879-1934).
Educated at Oakland College, he married Grace Ralph of Stockton and moved there in 1879.
Hired shortly after by his father-in-law, County Assessor Calvin R. Ralph, Willy served
as Deputy Assessor for the rest of his life. Willy kept scrapbooks outlining Stockton
history (1862-1929).
Scope and Content
The Willy Collection consists of eleven scrapbooks of Stockton, Calif. history
(1862-1929); a few photographs of historical sites in Stockton and in Oakland, Calif.; a
Stockton tax assessor's plat book (1858); and, some loose clippings on Stockton history.
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