Abstract

These are the personal papers of Henry B. Sparks, a long-time Ventura County resident and columnist at the Ventura County Star-Free Press. His papers include a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, letters, diaries, and photographs.

Abstract This collection combines material from the Teague, Reddick, and Brewster families by way of Ruth Reddick and Robert Dana Teague. Ruth and Dana married in 1943, uniting their two families, both of which have long histories in Ventura County. Ruth, an Oxnard native, was the daughter of Ruth Dresslar and Harry E. Reddick, a Santa Paula city engineer, regional director for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and a citrus and avocado rancher. Dana, born in Ventura, was the son of Dana Lyndon...