The Mailliards of California
Subtitle: a family chronicle, 1868-1990
By: William Sommers Mailliard ; interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1991. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; Swig, Charlotte Mailliard.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1993
Subjects: Mailliard family.; Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Organization of American States.; Ranchers -- California, Northern.; Ranches -- California, Northern.; Legislators -- United States -- Interviews.; California -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Intellectual life.
Description: Four generations of the Mailliard family in northern California: Page, Peterson, Somers, Ward, other relations, later descendants; horse, sheep, and timber ranching in Mendocino and Marin counties; Mailliard & Schmeidell food brokers and successors; Republican politics 1940s-1970s: San Francisco election campaigns, Earl Warren as governor, career as U.S.Representative and ambassador to Organization of American States; comments on numerous civic and cultural organizations including S.F. Academy of Science, Cow Palace, Opera, Police Commission, and Symphony. Includes an interview with Charlotte Mailliard Swig.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents
authors: William Somers Mailliard; title: A Note on the Mailliard Family Papers
authors: William Roberts; title: Interview History
pagenum: ii
authors: Gabrielle Morris; label: I
title: Washington, D.C. Recollections
pagenum: 1; title: Reference Materials Available
pagenum: 1; title: Fellow Congressman Philip Burton
pagenum: 2; title: Early District Office
pagenum: 4; label: II
title: Distinguished Family Connections
pagenum: 5; title: Mailliard Brothers, the Wards, and the Bonapartes
pagenum: 5; title: The Page Family; Marriage of Marin and Sonoma Counties
pagenum: 9; title: Roofing Grace Cathedral in the 1960s; Bishop James Pike
pagenum: 11; title: The Pages in Chile
pagenum: 13; title: Ralston Relatives
pagenum: 15; title: The Wards of Newport, Rhode Island
pagenum: 17; label: III
title: From France to America, 1868
pagenum: 19; title: Adolph Mailliard Brings His Family to Vallejo
pagenum: 19; title: With Joseph Bonaparte at Bordentown, New Jersey
pagenum: 22; title: Adolph's Gold Mine and Other Ventures
pagenum: 24; title: Louis Mailliard and Angelique Marguerite Redet
pagenum: 25; title: The First John Ward Mailliard, 1862-1936
pagenum: 27; title: Adolph's San Geronimo Ranch
pagenum: 28; title: Ongoing East Coast Influences
pagenum: 31; label: IV
title: Family Civic and Business Interests
pagenum: 33; title: Federal/Local Transportation Matters in the 1940s and 1990s
pagenum: 33; title: Mailliard and Peterson Homes on Belvedere
pagenum: 34; title: Joseph Mailliard and the Academy of Sciences
pagenum: 35; title: The Mailliard and Schmeidell Company
pagenum: 37; title: Association with McIlhenny's Tabasco
pagenum: 38; label: V
title: J. Ward Mailliard, Jr., 1891-1954
pagenum: 40; title: Lake Tahoe Trips; Belvedere-San Francisco Commute
pagenum: 40; title: The Cow Palace
pagenum: 42; title: At Taft School and Yale University
pagenum: 43; title: Developments in the Family Firm
pagenum: 44; title: Continued Support for the Academy of Sciences
pagenum: 48; title: Seventeen Civic Boards: Chamber of Commerce and the 1934 General Strike
pagenum: 51; title: Harry Bridges
pagenum: 53; title: Police Commission Problems
pagenum: 55; title: Childhood Sweetheart Kate Peterson; Family Fondness for Hunting
pagenum: 58; label: VI
title: Early Days on the Mendocino Ranch
pagenum: 61; title: The Garcia [River] Gun Club
pagenum: 61; title: Building Log Cabins in the Twenties
pagenum: 62; title: Increasing the Property; Preserving Redwoods
pagenum: 64; title: Friends and Relatives Visit
pagenum: 66; title: Building and Rebuilding
pagenum: 67; title: Boyhood Pranks
pagenum: 68; label: VII
title: SOS: Scouring-Pad Success Story
pagenum: 70; label: VIII
title: Kate Peterson Mailliard's Forebears
pagenum: 74; title: Coming from Denmark; From Friis to Peterson
pagenum: 74; title: The Red Salmon Canning Company
pagenum: 75; title: The Somers Family
pagenum: 79; title: Visits with the Elder Generation; Travels with the Wards
pagenum: 82; title: Women of Distinction: Louise Tharp, Julia Ward Howe and Maud Howe Elliott
pagenum: 84; title: South Park Section of San Francisco; 1906 Earthquake Stories
pagenum: 90; title: Family Insurance and Grocery Businesses
pagenum: 92; label: IX
title: Life with Kate and Ward Mailliard
pagenum: 93; title: Youth and Marriage in Belvedere
pagenum: 93; title: Kate's Poetry
pagenum: 96; title: Young Jack, Bill, and Jim; Public and Private Schools
pagenum: 96; title: Brothers at Yale, 1937-1941; Social Life; ROTC
pagenum: 98; title: Sheep Ranching in Mendocino
pagenum: 103; title: Ornbaum Springs and Spa; Kate's Sheepdogs
pagenum: 107; label: X
title: Impact of World War II, 1940-1946
pagenum: 113; title: Letters from Home
pagenum: 113; title: Childhood Illnesses and Games
pagenum: 115; title: Brothers' Reunion in the Philippines, 1944
pagenum: 117; title: North China and Manchuria Skirmishes and Negotiations
pagenum: 120; title: Growing Up Fast in the Service; Visiting the Great Wall of China
pagenum: 125; label: XI
title: Father and Son's Interest in Politics and Government
pagenum: 129; title: Remembering Governor Earl Warren
pagenum: 129; title: California Republicans in the 1940s; Bipartisan Congressional Efforts
pagenum: 131; title: Considering Appointments to Office
pagenum: 133; label: XII
title: Bill Mailliard as Ambassador to the Organization of American States, 1974-1976
pagenum: 140; title: Appointment Strategies
pagenum: 140; title: Foreign Relations Study Committee
pagenum: 142; title: Observations of Richard Nixon
pagenum: 144; title: Politics of Interamerican Relations
pagenum: 145; title: Governmental Structure
pagenum: 148; title: Free Trade, Panama Canal Considerations
pagenum: 150; title: Co-sponsor of the Peace Corps
pagenum: 153; label: XIII
title: Family Stories and Special Events
pagenum: 155; title: Christmases and Weddings
pagenum: 155; title: Life at the Ranch
pagenum: 157; title: Learning to Hunt, Training Piglets, Tall Tales
pagenum: 160; title: Horses, Mules, and County Fairs
pagenum: 164; title: Ranch Camps Expand
pagenum: 167; title: Cowboy Jack; World's Fair Visits
pagenum: 170; title: Jack Mailliard Meets Charlotte Smith; Jack Shelley Runs for Mayor, 1964
pagenum: 173; title: Marion-Leigh [Aunt Bay]'s Scrapbook, 1962
pagenum: 178; title: Mendocino Landscape
pagenum: 180; label: XIV
title: San Francisco Campaigns and Issues
pagenum: 187; title: Ward Mailliard's Love for the City
pagenum: 187; title: Running for Congress in the Fifties; Governor Warren's Health Insurance Proposals
pagenum: 188; title: Republican Finance Committee Then and Now
pagenum: 191; title: Election Nuts and Bolts; Mother's Interest
pagenum: 194; title: More on the 1964 Mayoral Race; Leading Democrats
pagenum: 195; title: Jack Mailliard in Politics; Bill Knowland's Ambitions
pagenum: 197; title: Conservation Concerns; Selective Logging
pagenum: 199; title: Jim Mailliard on the Board of Supervisors
pagenum: 202; label: XV
title: Changing Times
pagenum: 204; title: The Mailliard Foundation
pagenum: 204; title: Republican Leadership in the 1960s
pagenum: 205; title: Opposing Extremism
pagenum: 208; title: Warren's Eightieth Birthday
pagenum: 209; title: Pierre Salinger, George Murphy, and the 1964 Senate Election
pagenum: 210; title: Origins of the Guardsmen
pagenum: 212; title: New Voices in Politics
pagenum: 213; title: Mailliards in the 1990s
pagenum: 214; label: XVI
title: An Interview with Charlotte Mailliard
pagenum: 218; title: Jack Mailliard Continues Family Civic Responsibilities, 1965-1986
pagenum: 218; title: Changes at the Ranch
pagenum: 221; title: Police Commission Issues
pagenum: 222; title: Getting Along with the Burtons
pagenum: 223; title: Trail Rides and Practical Jokes
pagenum: 224; title: Getting to Know Kate Mailliard
pagenum: 226; title: The Next Generations; Future of the Ranch
pagenum: 229; title: Mendocino Neighbors; Family Gatherings
pagenum: 232; title: Creating Gala Civic Benefits; Guarantors and Media Support
pagenum: 234; title: Mailliard & Schmeidell Becomes Bromar
pagenum: 238; title: The Blyth-Zellerbach Committee, the Swigs, Later San Francisco Leadership
pagenum: 239; title: Volunteer Potential; San Francisco General Hospital Board and Chief of Protocol
pagenum: 242; title: Post Script
pagenum: 245; title: Tape Guide
pagenum: 246; title: Appendices
pagenum: 247; label: A
title: "Adolph Mailliard," Dictation Made for Hubert Howe Bancroft, n.d.
pagenum: 248; label: B
title: "Mailliard," by Louise Marguerite Mailliard, n.d.
pagenum: 250; label: C
title: Letter from Meta McAllister to Lizzie Page Mailliard, December 5, 1937.
pagenum: 251; label: D
title: "Family History: The Page Family," Manuela Page Hellman to Elizabeth Skewes-Cox, January 1940.
pagenum: 252; label: E
title: Genealogy of John Ward Mailliard, n.d.
pagenum: 256; label: F
title: John Ward Mailliard-Lizzie Page Family Tree, Prepared by Marion-Leigh Mailliard Baldwin Moore, ca. 1946.
pagenum: 257; label: G
title: "U.S. Woman Sheep-Breeder Here to Meet Merino Men," New Zealand Express, Circa 1960.
pagenum: 258; label: H
title: "Kate Mailliard of Ornbaum Valley," Mendocino Robin, April 1966.
pagenum: 259; label: I
title: "How Tex Rounds Up the Bucks," Blake Green, San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1987.
pagenum: 264; label: J
title: Excerpt from Fairhills, 125 Years of Marin Life, Michel G. Rousselin, F.P.O.A., San Rafael, California, 1990.
pagenum: 266; label: K
title: "Swig Cleaning Up This Dirty Old Town," Jerry Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1992.
pagenum: 271; title: Index
pagenum: 272