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30-1285: Haggin may refer to: Surname B. H. Haggin (1900–1987), American music critic James Ben Ali Haggin (1822–1914), American attorney, rancher, investor, racehorse owner & breeder Ben Ali Haggin (1882–1951), American portrait painter and stage designer John Haggin (1753–1825), early settler of Kentucky, William Haggin Perry (1910–1993), owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses Other Haggin Museum , an art museum and local history museum in Stockton, California Haggin Stakes , American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California See also [ edit ] Hagin Hanggin (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Haggin All pages with titles containing Haggin Topics referred to by

60-433: A $ 2.5 million renovation of its galleries, which included permanent gallery space for displaying a large portion of the museum's extensive collection of the work of J. C. Leyendecker. The museum's three-story building now contains more than 34,000 square feet of exhibition space. The Pioneer Room, the principal history gallery during the museum's early years, displayed artifacts and archival material collected since 1868 by

90-733: A 15,500 square foot addition along the western edge of the existing structure. Principal funding came from the estates of Robert McKee and of rancher Jennie Hunter, and a significant gift from Irving Martin Sr., owner of the Stockton Record . The new exhibit areas, including the California Room, the Jennie Hunter Rooms, the West Gallery, and the lower level Arms Gallery and Vehicle Gallery, opened in 1949. In 1976,

120-402: A broad sampling of artists. Certain artists were collected in depth, however, including Jean Béraud , Albert Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur , Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edward Lamson Henry , Barend Cornelis Koekkoek , Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven and Jehan Georges Vibert . Approximately one-third of the collection is composed of works by American artists and the remaining two-thirds by European painters. Of

150-483: A major gift from William Knox Holt funded construction of a wing named for his father, the Benjamin Holt Wing, with a gallery showcasing Holt's contributions to the mechanization of agriculture, including a restored Holt 75 Caterpillar tractor. The Holt gift also funded construction of environmentally controlled storage facilities, offices, and the museum's library and archive. In 2017 the museum completed

180-618: A one-room schoolhouse and a Chinese herb shop. Also among the thousands of historical items permanently on display are a World War II jeep and the trunk used by murderess Emma LeDoux in the infamous "trunk murder of 1906." Eila Haggin McKee's grandfather, the Gold Rush tycoon James Ben Ali Haggin, collected art to decorate the walls of his 61-room Nob Hill mansion. However, it was her father, Louis Terah Haggin, and her mother, San Francisco socialite Blanche Butterworth Haggin, who assembled

210-673: Is an almost uncanny peek into the past. Other exhibits focus on Native Americans, the Gold Rush , agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley , historic firefighting equipment, a recreated local flour mill, as well as shipbuilding and other Stockton industries. The displays known as the Storefronts are recreations of businesses and rooms typical of establishments in San Joaquin County between 1890 and 1915, including

240-555: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Ben Ali Haggin James Ben Ali Haggin (December 9, 1822 – September 12, 1914) was an American attorney , rancher , investor , art collector , and a major owner and breeder in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing . Haggin made a fortune in the aftermath of the California Gold Rush and

270-561: The 1893 and 1903 Belmont Stakes respectively. Haggin was the eldest of eight children of Terah Temple and Adeline (Ben Ali) Haggin, the daughter of Ibrahim Ben Ali , a Turkish army officer. On December 28, 1846, Haggin married Eliza Jane Sanders of Natchez, Mississippi with whom he had five children. She died in 1893. On December 30, 1897, the seventy-five-year-old Haggin married twenty-eight-year-old Margaret Voorhies at her stepfather's residence in Versailles, Kentucky . Miss Voorhies

300-818: The Betty H. Schroebel Stockton Historic Center, houses materials that relate specifically to the city's past. The Agricultural & Industrial Archives were established in 1984 with a grant from the William Knox Holt Foundation. The history of Holt Manufacturing Company , the local industry that developed the side-hill combine harvester and the Caterpillar track-type tractor, is documented in photographs, drawings, business records, operators' manuals, and advertising. The Archives also include records and drawings of Stephens Bros. Boat Builders , designers of commercial and pleasure watercraft; material from

330-710: The European art, French works are the most numerous. Initially, Mrs. McKee gave the San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society 180 paintings, most of them part of the $ 10 million estate she inherited following the death of her father in March 1929. Both Eila and her husband Robert arranged for additional paintings to be bequeathed to the museum upon their deaths. Today the Haggin Collection totals nearly 240 works, of which approximately 75 are on view in

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360-429: The San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society listed several objectives in its Articles of Incorporation: to develop educational facilities for the study of history, to collect documents and articles of historical interest, and to establish and maintain a museum where such items could be stored and displayed. Stockton native Robert McKee and his wife, Eila Haggin McKee, offered the group $ 30,000, with two stipulations: that

390-635: The San Joaquin Society of California Pioneers. The Victorian furnishings of the Jennie Hunter Rooms evoke life in the Central Valley during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The contents were bequeathed to the museum by Miss Jennie Hunter, a local rancher, alumna of Mills College , and Daughter of San Joaquin County Pioneers, with the proviso that they be displayed just as they had been arranged in her home. The result

420-723: The Stockton Iron Works, which built dredges that helped construct the San Joaquin River Delta levees; the Tillie Lewis collection, which preserves the history of Stockton's preeminent "Tomato Queen" agri-businesswoman; and material from Sperry Flour Company. The Haggin's library also includes a large collection of work by Ralph O. Yardley , editorial cartoonist for the Stockton Record from 1922 to 1952. During this long tenure he produced

450-487: The United States of its era. Haggin owned the colt Tyrant which in 1885 he sent to compete as a three-year-old on the U.S. East Coast where he won the prestigious Withers and Belmont Stakes , the latter becoming the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. The following year his colt Ben Ali won the 1886 Kentucky Derby . At Rancho Del Paso Haggin bred Comanche and Africander , colts which won

480-668: The core of the family art collection that would eventually be housed in the Haggin Museum (named for his son Louis Terah Haggin) in Stockton , California. Haggin and Tevis married sisters, daughters of Colonel Lewis Sanders, a Kentuckian who had emigrated to California . Haggin and Tevis acquired the Rancho Del Paso land grant near Sacramento. The two invested in the mining business with George Hearst as one of their partners. Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. became one of

510-703: The core of the museum's art collection is derived from gifts from the Haggin and McKee families, it has been significantly augmented through gifts and purchases, including works by American and European artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that complement the original Haggin gifts. Notable is Rodin's The Athlete (c. 1901–1904). The museum has also assembled collections of Japanese woodblock prints, illuminated manuscripts , paintings by American illustrators such as J. C. Leyendecker and Maxfield Parrish , and both Western and Asian decorative arts . The Haggin Museum's Library/Archives began with material donated to

540-473: The country's most important horse breeding and Thoroughbred racing operations whose horses competed from coast-to-coast. In 1905, Haggin stopped using Rancho De Paso as a horse breeding farm and concentrated his breeding efforts at his Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky . Haggin had acquired Elmendorf in 1897 and until his death in 1914 worked to develop it into the largest horse breeding operation in

570-594: The institution $ 500,000. Further, to honor her memory, Robert McKee donated funds for the building's first addition, which included storage space on the ground floor and a vestibule and large gallery on the second. When it opened in December 1939, the room now known as the McKee Gallery contained paintings, furniture, and decorative art from the couple's New York residence, and overlooked the rose garden. In 1948, Stockton architect Howard G. Bissel drew up plans for

600-1008: The largest mining companies in the United States; its operations included the Ontario silver mine in Park City, Utah , the Homestake Mine in South Dakota , and with Marcus Daly , the Anaconda Copper Company in Montana . The James Ben Ali Haggin Papers, 1887-1914 , are kept at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Haggin purchased the Rancho Del Paso horse farm near Sacramento, California in 1859. He made it one of

630-494: The latter part of the 19th century. It is characterized by Louis and Blanche's penchant for landscapes, genre, and animal paintings. They avoided religious or historical paintings. They eschewed the nude, Nymphaeum by William-Adolphe Bouguereau being a notable exception to this rule. And like their contemporaries, the Haggins assembled a collection that was encyclopedic and international in nature, featuring one or two works from

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660-608: The majority of the Haggin Collection. Louis and Blanche both spoke fluent French and maintained a residence in Paris, where they entertained artists, writers, and European nobility. Their growing collection came to fill their homes in San Francisco, Paris, and New York City. Typical of art collections assembled after the Civil War by wealthy Americans, the Haggin Collection reflects the work of conservative Realism painters of

690-549: The museum be named in honor of her late father, Louis Terah Haggin (the son of James Ben Ali Haggin ), and that it include galleries to house her parents' art collection. The Louis Terah Haggin Memorial Galleries and San Joaquin Pioneer Historical Museum opened its doors to the public on 14 June 1931, Flag Day. Upon her death in 1936, though she never visited in person, Eila Haggin McKee left

720-488: The museum in 1931 by the San Joaquin Society of California Pioneers, comprising a wide-ranging collection of historical artifacts, photographs, ledgers, journals, correspondence, and other ephemera . Today there are some 10,000 volumes in the library. Approximately two-thirds are history related, and one-third deal with art and art history. The latter make up the Earl Rowland Art Library, named in honor of

750-601: The museum's art galleries at any one time. A catalog of the paintings, The Haggin Collection , compiled and written by Dr. Patricia Sanders, was published in 1991. A hall between the two European art galleries displays Haggin and McKee family memorabilia, including portraits, photographs, and personal items including one of Eila's evening gowns and the World War I American Red Cross uniform she wore in France. Although

780-516: The museum's longest-serving director. The majority of the history volumes are part of the Almeda Mae Petzinger Library, named after the benefactor who bestowed a generous endowment to help maintain the library in perpetuity. There are more than 600 archival boxes and some 100 flat files filled with photographs, maps, business records, greeting cards, advertising, and other items in the library stack room. A separate facility,

810-476: The practice of law. In October 1850, he joined a Kentucky acquaintance, Lloyd Tevis , in opening a law office in Sacramento. They moved to San Francisco in 1853. He built a large and impressive Nob Hill mansion on the east side of Taylor Street between Clay and Washington streets, which stood until the earthquake and fire of 1906. It was to decorate the walls of the 61 rooms of this mansion that Haggin began

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870-571: Was a multi-millionaire by 1880. Those who recounted James Ben Ali Haggin's appearance often noted his short stature and "slightly Oriental appearance handed down from his Turkish ancestors". Haggin was born in Harrodsburg , Mercer County , Kentucky , a descendant of one of the state's pioneer families who had settled there in 1775 and a descendant of Ibrahim Ben Ali , who was an early American settler of Turkish origin. He graduated from Centre College at Danville, Kentucky , then entered

900-945: Was a niece of his first wife. Haggin died September 12, 1914, at his Newport, Rhode Island , residence and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York . His grandson, James Ben Ali Haggin III , was a portrait painter and stage designer. His grandson, Richard Lounsbery , was a businessman and amateur painter who established the Richard Lounsbery Foundation . His descendants in Thoroughbred racing include Louis Lee Haggin II and William Haggin Perry . Haggin Museum Upon formation in 1928,

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