| LC control no. | no 98066679 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Whitney, Joel Parker, 1835-1913 |
| Variant(s) | Whitney, J. Parker (Joel Parker), 1835-1913 |
| Birth date | 1835-06-27 |
| Death date | 1913-01-17 |
| Place of birth | Gardner (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Del Monte Forest (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Gold miners Merchants Ranchers |
| Found in | Whitney, Joel Parker. Reminiscences of a sportsman, 1906: t.p. (J. Parker Whitney) LC database, 19 Feb., 1998 (hdg.: Whitney, Joel Parker, 1835-1913; usage: J.P. Whitney, Joel Parker Whitney) Online Archive of California, November 21, 2019 (Finding aid to Spring Valley Ranch of J.P. Whitney by Runnels & Stateler, San Francisco, circa 1889; Joel Parker Whitney (1835-1913) was born in Gardner, Massachusetts; he was lured to California at the age of 17 by prospects of gold; he briefly joined his brothers' mercantile business in San Francisco before becoming an independent shipper; when his father died in 1873, Whitney inherited the Whitney Ranch (also known as Spring Valley Ranch), near Rocklin, California; he want to Colorado Territory for gold mining in 1865, and eventually moved on to mines in New Mexico; after 1888 Whitney devoted most of his time and resources to Spring Valley Ranch; Whitney had great impact on California and many other states through his investments in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, his sheep business and mining interests, and his countless innovative agricultural and land development projects which changed the face of agriculture; he was the author of Silver Mining Regions of Colorado and Fresh Water Tide Lands of California (1873)) ancestry.com, November 21, 2019 (Joel Parker Whitney; born 27 June 1835 in Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 17 January 1913 in Del Monte Forest, Monterey, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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