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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: James D. Hague papers addenda
Creator:
Hague, James D. (James
Duncan), 1836-1908
Identifier/Call Number: mssHague1
Physical Description:
58 Linear Feet
(67 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1836-1941
Abstract: A collection of material related to the
American mining engineer James Duncan Hague; an addenda to the James D. Hague
papers.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. James D. Hague papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts of James Hague, 1970-1977.
James Duncan Hague (1836-1909) was an American mining engineer. He was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, and graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard in 1855 and did
graduate work in chemistry and minerology in Göttingen and Freiberg, Germany. After
returning to the United States in 1859, Hague was selected to explore several equatorial
coral islands in the Pacific Ocean in search of phosphate deposits. He was associated with
Edwin J. Hulbert in the discovery and early development of the Calumet and Hecla copper
mines in Michigan; in 1867, he was made first assistant to Clarence King on the United
States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. He later became a consulting mining
engineer in San Francisco and developed many mining enterprises, including the North Star
Mine in Grass Valley, California. In April 1872, Hague married Mary Ward Foote (1846–1898),
sister-in-law of Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938); the couple had three children: Marian Hague
(1873–1971), Eleanor Hague (1875–1954), and William Hague (1882–1918). Hague died August 3,
1908, at his summer home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, estate material, diaries, account
books, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material related to the work and family of James
D. Hague. Other Hague family members represented in the addenda include Marian Hague, his
son William Hague, and Mary Hallock Foote. Subjects included in the collection: Clarence
King, mining, engineering, Guano Island, South Seas (Oceania), Japan, and the Lick
Observatory. Also found in the addenda is a small group of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San
Francisco, a friend of Clarence King; and a small group of papers of Edward Singleton
Holden, who was an astronomer and Hague family friend. Holden was director of the Lick
Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point. The
addenda also contains unprocessed folders and boxes of ephemera and realia including a
chemical set, ore specimens, and printed material; photographs in Boxes 57-63 were
transferred to the Photo Archive.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1980. In 2022, Gayle Richardson created the
finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.
Arranged by subject and format.
Former call number: mssHague papers addenda.
The James D. Hague papers (mssHague) and the Clarence King papers (mssKingcr).
Boxes 57-63 housing photographs were transferred to the Photo Archive: James D. Hague
photograph collection (photCL 358).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mines and mineral resources -- California, Northern
Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico
Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
Mining engineers -- United States
California -- Description and travel
Japan -- Description and travel
Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
Diaries -- United States
Family papers -- United States
Letters (correspondence) -- United States
Notebooks -- United States
Photographs -- United States
Professional papers -- United States
Scrapbooks -- United States
Cutter, Horace F.
Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938
Hague, Marian, 1873-1971
Hague, William, 1882-1918
Holden, Edward S. (Edward
Singleton), 1846-1914
King, Clarence,
1842-1901