Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 (Personal Name)
Wikipedia, website viewed 7 January 2013 (Hubert Howe Bancroft; b. May 5, 1832, Granville, Ohio; d. March 2, 1918, San Francisco, California; American Historian; Ethnologist; known for early histories of California and the Pacific west coast; moved to San Francisco, California in1852; Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is named in his honor and founded when University of California puchased his book collection in 1905)