The Hihn Younger Archive Summary Report

1992 - 2001
January 2002
by Stanley D. Stevens
Librarian Emeritus

Compilations and Transcriptions:

1992: Louis Edwin Hihn, From Childhood to My Last Hurrah: My Memorable Experiences. An Autobiography.

1996- Correspondence of Charles B. Younger Sr. and Charles B. Younger Jr., Santa Cruz, California, Attorneys 1998: and Counsellors at Law. [4,167 letters in 13 vols, plus cumulative index, of an estimated 70 vols]

1997: Inventory of Gift to The Hihn Archive, University Library, University of California at Santa Cruz, from The Estate of Teresa Agnes Hihn Moore

1997: Hearing on petition of Charles B. Younger Jr., Esq., for allowance of attorney’s fees, In the Matter of the Estate of F. A. Hihn, sometimes called Frederick A. Hihn, Deceased.

1997: A Researcher’s Digest on F. A. Hihn and his Santa Cruz Rail Road Company, and related subjects with biographical information on persons associated in this enterprise.

1998: A Researcher’s Digest on F. A. Hihn and his Santa Cruz County Pioneers.

1999: Letters of F. A. Hihn & F. A. Hihn Company, November 25, 1901 — March 14, 1902. [Book 46]

2000: Letters of F. A. Hihn & F. A. Hihn Company, December 26, 1902 — May 26, 1903. {Book 50][3,959 Letters of F. A. Hihn and the F. A. Hihn Company] [the remaining Books: 57, 60, 73.]

2001: Description and Inventory of The Noel Patterson Collection.

2001: A Researcher’s Digest on F. A. Hihn and the Founding of California Polytechnic School - San Luis Obispo.

Goals for 2002 and Beyond:

• Transcribe and publish the: Letters of Coleman Younger and C. B. Younger Sr. (209 Letters, dated 1844 thru 1879)
• Transcribe and publish the twenty-five volumes of the Agreements and Deeds of F. A. Hihn and the Hihn Co.
• Catalog and Index more than 1,000 maps of the F. A. Hihn Co. (names of land owners)
• Compile & Publish A Researcher’s Digest on F. A. Hihn and the first Official Map of Santa Cruz County (the 1889 map by Andrew Jackson Hatch)
• Transcribe and publish an Indexed Edition of James Miller Guinn’s History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties. ... Also Containing Biographies of Well-Known Citizens of the Past and Present. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1903. [contains biographies of both F. A. Hihn and C. B. Younger Sr.]