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[email protected] URL: http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc/default.html © 2013 Claremont University Consortium. All rights reserved. Guide to the William McPherson H.Mss.0524 1 Papers Descriptive Summary Title: William McPherson Papers Date (inclusive): 1664/65-1970 Date (bulk): 1884-1945 Collection number: H.Mss.0524 Creator: McPherson, William, 1885-1964 Extent: 22.5 linear feet (53 boxes + 1 map case drawer). Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont, CA 91711 Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, photographs, account books and journals, land and tax records, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, transcripts, reports, newspapers, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera, relating to the family, life, career, and intellectual pursuits of Orange County, California, avocado rancher and historian William McPherson (1885-1964). Family papers document the McPhersons' settlement in Orange County in the 1870s, and their involvement in local agriculture, first in the raisin grape industry, and then in the avocado industry. Half the collection consists of original Spanish- and English-language correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed materials, and ephemera collected by McPherson in the pursuit of his