Title: Grand ventures : the Banning family and the shaping of Southern California /
Authors: Sitton, Tom, 1949-; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Publisher: Huntington Library,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Banning family.; Banning, Phineas,; California, Southern History.; California, Southern Biography.
Abstract: Documents the role Phineas Banning and his descendants played in the development of Southern California, including his work in the building of the region's mercantile and transportation infrastructure, and the family's shaping of Southern California tourism and social service, reform, and philanthropy networks.
Contents: pt. 1. THE BANNINGS: 1. From the old world to America -- pt. 2. THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PATRIARCH: 2. A young Delawarean in Frontier Southern California -- 3. Phineas Banning & the Alexanders & other partnerships -- 4. Delaware on the Pacific -- 5. Civil war Southern California -- 6. William and Phineas: railroad entrepreneurs -- 7. The postwar years and the death of Phineas Banning -- pt. 3. THE BANNING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: 8. The sons take over -- 9. Santa Catalina Island adventure: the early years -- 10. A family rift and the remaining years at Santa Catalina -- 11. The Bannings in the Progressive era -- pt. 4. THE NEXT GENERATIONS: 12. The second generation emerges-the 1920s -- 13. The Bannings in the Great depression and Second World War -- 14. Another generation and preserving the Banning legacy -- Conclusion: Yesterday and today.