J. M. Molina Investment Company

TITLE: J. M. Molina Investment Company

DATE RANGE: 1876-1972

CALL NUMBER: Y-MS 25

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 3.25 linear ft (7 boxes)

PROVENANCE: Donated by Julius Molina, 1988 

COPYRIGHT: Yuma County Library District owns the copyright to this collection.

RESTRICTIONS: This collection is unrestricted.   

CREDIT LINE: J. M. Molina Investment Company, Y-MS 25, Yuma County Library District

PROCESSED BY: Benjamin Findley, March 2014

HISTORICAL NOTE: The J. M. Molina Investment Company was founded in 1924 by Jose Maria Molina. Jose had been a cattle rancher and the president of the Yuma National Bank before his retirement in 1911. In 1917 Jose moved to San Diego, California leaving his sons Gus and Conrad to manage his properties in Yuma. After creating the investment company, Jose transferred the ownership of his properties in Arizona and California to the company. The company remained a family business with Conrad Molina taking over as president of the company until his death in 1963. After Conrad, Dr. Julius Molina became the president of the company. The company declared bankruptcy in 1984, and was finally revoked in 1987. Over the course of its existence, the J. M. Molina Investment Company was heavily involved in the development of a large amount of land in Yuma, including Marsh Field and several blocks of Main Street. 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: This collection contains business records from the J. M. Molina Investment Company. The bulk of the material consists of notes and property leasing agreements. There are also several folders of financial papers including checks, bills, and tax records. 

The collection is organized in four series.

Series I – Personal Financial Records: This series has documents concerning individual’s finances rather than the company’s financial records.

Series II – Property Files: This series contains information about various properties that were owned by the company, including notes about property taken by the city of Yuma for building public works such as highways and levees.

Series III – Client Files: This series contains documents and notes pertaining to individuals associated with the company, including people leasing land from the company as well as realtors, and people that leased their land to the company.

Series IV – Business Records: Includes a wide range of company files such as financial papers, correspondence, meeting minutes, and deeds.

CONTAINER LIST: 

Box Folder Title Dates
1 1 Personal Financial Records:  Molina, Conrad B. 1933 – 1956
  2 Personal Financial Records:  Molina, Gus 1928 – 1941
  3 Personal Financial Records:  Molina, Julia F. 1933 – 1943
  4 Property Files: Central Hotel 1940 – 1966
  5 Property Files: Central Hotel, Refurbishment 1941
  6 Property Files: Del Rio Hotel 1945 – 1957
  7 Property Files: Fire Loss 1953 – 1957, n.d.
  8 Property Files: Highways 1968
  9 Property Files: Levees 1963 – 1973, n.d.
  10 Property Files: Lyric Theatre 1943
  11 Property Files: Mall Improvement 1969, n.d. 
  12 Property Files: Party Wall 1950 – 1957, n.d.
  12a Property Files: Ted’s Truck Center, Inc. 1964 - 1969
  13 Property Files: War Housing 1943 – 1954
  14 Property Files: Water Easement 1956, n.d.
  15 Client Files: Bracker, J. G. 1942
  16 Client Files: Cavaness  (102 East Third Street) 1943 – 1946
  17 Client Files: Cohen, Earl 1957, n.d.
  18 Client Files: Collins, W. C. (215 Main Street) 1939
  19 Client Files: Colyer, J. L. (124 Madison Avenue) 1945 – 1947
  20 Client Files: Contreras, A. R. (285 Main Street) 1942
  21 Client Files: Coston, Howard (283 South Main Street) 1945 – 1956, n.d.
  22 Client Files: Curtiss, Evelyn (281 Main Street) 1970
  23 Client Files: Dahlburg, Julia 1965
  24 Client Files: Davell’s Inc. 1956 – 1969

 

    (316 Main Street)  
  25 Client Files: Davis, Henry M. 1956 – 1962
  26 Client Files: D. P. Folly Inc. (Lot 6, Block 16) 1950
  27 Client Files: El Paso Gas Company 1956 – 1958
2 1 Client Files: Fletcher, L. 1951
  2 Client Files: Fraternal Order of Eagles (Lot 7, Block 13) 1972
  3 Client Files: Gila Valley Oil and Gas Co. 1958, n.d.
  4 Client Files: Giss, Harold C. (215 South Main Street) 1950
  5 Client Files: Holliday, Betty (Lot 1, Block 12) 1969 – 1970, n.d.
  6 Client Files: Hughes, Earl 1962
  7 Client Files: Hunter, Ray  (285 Main Street) 1964
  8 Client Files: Lamb, Lawrence D. and

Patricia

 1958
  9 Client Files: Larson, Lorenzo (318 Main Street) 1954 – 1961
  10 Client Files: Larson – Sant (Lot 5 Block 20) 1954
  11 Client Files: Lee, I. M. 1947
  12 Client Files: Lee, James and Marshall 1947
  13 Client Files: Levy – Gandolfo 1945
  14 Client Files: Lovi, Pauline (143 4th Street) 1945
  15 Client Files: Low, John 1948 – 1952
  16 Client Files: Lutes, R. H. 1962
  17 Client Files: Marsh Aviation 1948 – 1960
  18 Client Files: McDougal – Land 1947
  19 Client Files: Modesti 1952 – 1964, n.d.
  20 Client Files: Molina, Amalia Fernandez 1957 - 1961
  21 Client Files: Motor Supply Co. (297 Main Street) 1942 – 1956, n.d.
  22 Client Files: Que, Leonard C. (102 East Third Street) 1948
  23 Client Files: RFC Mortgage Co. 1938 – 1944, n.d.
  24 Client Files: Rogers, Carl (315 Main Street) 1951
  25 Client Files: Ross, G. F. 1958
  26 Client Files: Sears Roebuck and Co. (240 Gila Street) 1954
  27 Client Files: Singer Sewing Machine Co. (318 Main Street) 1947 – 1951

 

  28 Client Files: Spitzer Co. 1954
  29 Client Files: Stahl, James F. (281 Main Street) 1950 – 1956
  30 Client Files: Topete, Willa Pearl (133 West Jones Street) 1961
  31 Client Files: Town Storks

(324 and 330 South Main Street)

 1950
  32 Client Files: Tucker – Friedman 316 South Main Street) 1947
  33 Client Files: Western Savings and Loans Association 1958
  34 Client Files: Yuma Motors Inc. 1931
  35 Business Records: Account Statements 1936 – 1940
3 1 Business Records: Account Statements 1941 – 1946
  2 Business Records: Agreements 1930 – 1958, n.d.
  3 Business Records: Appraisals and Assessments 1938 – 1971, n.d.
  4 Business Records: Checks 1935 – 1936
  5 Business Records: Checks 1937 – 1939
  6 Business Records: Checks 1940
  7 Business Records: Checks 1941 – 1942
  8 Business Records: Checks 1943
4 1 Business Records: Checks 1943 – 1944
  2 Business Records: Checks 1944
  3 Business Records: Checks 1945
  4 Business Records: Checks 1946
  5 Business Records: Corporate Stock 1924 – 1970
  6 Business Records: Correspondence 1929 – 1972, n.d.
  7 Business Records: Delinquent Checks 1926 – 1932
  8 Business Records: Directors Meetings 1934 – 1965
5 1 Business Records  Dissolution 1938 - 1962
  2 Business Records: Financial Records 1929 – 1942
  3 Business Records: Financial Records 1943 – 1966, n.d.
  4 Business Records: Financial Reports 1924 – 1941, n.d.
  5 Business Records: General 1943 – 1966, n.d.
  6 Business Records: Legal Papers 1930 – 1961, n.d.
  7 Business Records: Loans 1927 – 1942
  8 Business Records: Mortgages 1927 – 1948
  9 Business Records: Notice of Public Sale 1932 – 1942, n.d.
6 1 Business Records: Stockholders Meetings 1948 – 1973, n.d.
  2 Business Records: Tax Records (fragile) 1917 - 1920
  3 Business Records: Tax Records 1924 – 1935
  4 Business Records: Tax Records 1936 – 1941
  5 Business Records: Tax Records 1942 – 1968, n.d.
  6 Business Records: Tax Law Suit 1966
7 1 Business Records: Titles and Deeds 1876 – 1930
  2 Business Records: Titles and Deeds 1940 – 1956, n.d.

 

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