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Papers of
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Part 2:
Business Investments
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
PAPERS OF
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR
Part 2:
Business Investments
Correspondence
Editor
Glenn Porter
Associate Editor and guide compiled by
Martin Schipper
A Microfilm Project of
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Papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. [microform] / editor, Glenn Porter.
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"Microfilmed from the holdings of the Rockefeller Archive Center.
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Includes indexes
Contents: Pt. 1. Business correspondence - pt. 2. Business
Investments correspondence.
ISBN 1-55655-394-3 (microfilm : pt. 1)
ISBN 1-55655-395-1 (microfilm : pt. 2)
1. Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937~Correspondence.
2. Industrialists-United States-Correspondence.
3. Philanthropists-United States-Correspondence. 4. Standard Oil
Company-History. 5. Rockefeller Archive Center.
I. Rockefeller,
John D. (John Davison). 1839-1937. II. Porter, Glenn.
III. Schipper, Martin Paul. IV. Rockefeller Archive Center.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
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Note on Sources
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Editorial Note
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Reel Index
Reell
Register to JDR Business Investments Correspondence
Box 72•Abbott-Butterworth
Box 73•Caldwell-Cohen
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Box 73 cont.•Colb-Colgate
Box 74•Collins-Cowles
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Box 74 cont.•Crandall-Dominick & Dickerman
Box 75•Donald-Evans
Box 76•Fahnestock-Flagler
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Box 76 cont.•Fleming-Fuller
Box 77•Ga Nun-Howard
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Box 77 cont. •Hoyt, Colgate
Box 78•Hoyt, Colgate cont.-Jesup & Lamont
Box 79•Jesup & Lamont cont
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Box 79 cont.•Jesup & Lamont cont
Box 80•Jocelyn-Lysle
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Box 80 cont.•MacArthur-Marston
Box 81•Masterton-Rock
Box 82•Rockefeller, Frank
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Box 82 cont.•Rockefeller, Frank cont.-Rogers
Box 83•Rogers
Box 84•Rogers cont
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Box 84 cont.•Rogers, cont.-Severance
Box 85•Severance-Squire
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Box 85 cont.•Stafford-Tuttle
Box 86•"U-Wright & Sons
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Subject Index
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Bibliography
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IV
INTRODUCTION
"From the beginning, I was trained to work, to save, and to give."1 With this recollection of his early
life, John Davison Rockefeller highlighted the three central facets of his career that are reflected in
the remarkable documents in this microfilm edition of his papers. So successfully did he work, save,
and give that he made the Rockefeller family and its manifold interests a central force in twentiethcentury life. His work did much to revolutionize the business system. His vast savings and the need
to invest them well placed him in the forefront of innovative money management. His giving occurred
on a scale and in a manner that long afterwards kept the name of Rockefeller at the center of
philanthropy. Together, they made him one of the most influential figures in modern America. His
wealth and power and the controversies over how he acquired them meant that he "was to spend most
of his active years in grim fighting," as Allan Nevins wrote. "He was to be more widely hated, attacked,
and reviled than any other man of his generation."2
The papers now made available through University Publications of America (UPA) off er a window
through which we can observe the many ways in which power was gained and used in industrial
society. And, despite the fact that these documents are now a century or more old, they depict a world
that much resembles our own. At the same time, they remind us how and why such dizzying
concentrations of wealth and influence called forth an accompanying hatred and envy. The story of
John D. Rockefeller excites in Americans that curious mix of admiration and fear we have long felt
about big business.
These papers show America's pioneering giant industrial combination at work, but they do much
more than that. They afford a remarkable view of the nation's social history and of the beginnings of
modern philanthropy. Most of all, they reveal the sometimes hidden and convoluted ways of what later
was called "the establishment"; Rockefeller simply called them "our people." Here those with influence
formed and re-formed alliances, proposed and closed deals, exchanged favors, arranged the world.
Seldom can we see so clearly as we can here into many of those private places where power worked
its quiet ways.
It was the business achievement that led to all the other things the world now associates with the
Rockefeller name, so it is important to understand briefly that fundamental part of the story. John D.
Rockefeller stood at the center of the large and talented group of executives and managers who
created the Standard Oil Company. Standard was the first American manufacturer to dominate a
global market through the techniques of mass production and mass distribution. The railroads had
pioneered in the creation of modern big business, but Rockefeller's Standard Oil was in the forefront
as the western world's manufacturing sector also came to be dominated by giant enterprises.
Standard was one of the nation's first great manufacturing businesses, and it became a leader in what
has been one of the most lucrative industries in the history of the world. The money and power
attached to oil have done much to shape the world for more than a century, and they continue to do
so today.
Rockefeller got in on the ground floor. The world's first oil well was drilled in Titusville, in western
Pennsylvania, in 1859. John D. Rockefeller had just turned twenty. Within a few years, however, the
young Cleveland produce and commission merchant became an important figure in the infant oil
trade. The industry was chaotic and risky, but its expansion was spectacular. In the year of the first
well at Titusville, only two thousand barrels of crude oil were produced. In ten years, the volume of
crude had shot up to almost five million barrels. The big product was not gasoline: the internal
combustion engine and the automobile industry were still decades away. Instead, the industry's main
1
2
Nevins, Allan. John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise (New York, 1940), p. 43.
Ibid., p. 49.
product was illuminating oil (kerosene), and the world had a great need for a relatively cheap, reliable
source of light. (Electric lighting, too, still lay in the future.) And for almost a quarter of a century, the
United States was virtually the only important source of petroleum in the world. This meant that
Americans had the opportunity to develop a substantial export business, building one of the first
comprehensive global distribution networks and earning great rewards as a result. Within a couple
of decades of its beginnings as an industry, refined petroleum had become one of the nation's leading
exports.
When young Rockefeller entered the business he was a novice, only a face in a crowded cast of
small entrepreneurs. He had begun in the business world in 1859 as a junior partner in a Cleveland
wholesale grocery business with Maurice B. Clark. In 1863 he and Clark accepted the invitation of
John Andrews to enter the new oil business as a sideline to their grocery trade, forming the firm of
Andrews, Clark and Company. Within two years Rockefeller bought out Clark and gave his full
attention to the thriving refining business, trading in refined petroleum as a partner in the firm of
Rockefeller and Andrews. From that point on, more than any other person, he would shape the
evolution of one of the industrial world's major lines of commerce.
The early oil industry was made up of many small-scale competitors. The individuals, partnerships, and companies that elbowed each other for position found themselves on a competitive roller
coaster. It was not a terribly expensive proposition to enter the trade, which meant that profits were
continually at risk and overproduction was a constant threat, since almost any number could play the
game of oil. New oil fields were discovered periodically, and there was always a rush to produce as
much crude oil from a field as possible. Prices fluctuated wildly; in 1864, for example, the price of a
barrel of crude varied from four dollars to twelve dollars. The refineries, like the drilling rigs, were not
very complicated or costly, so entry there was also easy. As in so many other industries involving the
processing of plentiful natural raw materials, there were cycles of great boom and great bust. Since
the final products sold for so much more than the raw material, it was an industry in which great riches
could be earned, if only the problem of overproduction could be solved. It was in that arena that John
D. Rockefeller had a special genius.
Almost from the beginning, the abilities and strategies that would give Rockefeller his great
success were evident. He had a knack for inspiring confidence on the part of investors and lenders,
and he had a flair for choosing exceptionally able associates. He had a belief in hard work and in the
value of objective data for making business decisions that was almost as strong as his Baptist religious
piety. In addition, from the first he believed in having the best, most efficient production facilities. And
he had a sober ruthlessness rooted in an unwavering conviction in the Tightness of what he was doing.
It was in Cleveland that he first demonstrated his talent for turning oil into gold by turning chaos into
order.
Perhaps the key to the success of Rockefeller's strategy was his realization that he and his
partners could exploit the weakness of another industry, the railroads. Because the railroads that
served Cleveland were caught in a particularly strong version of the cutthroat competition that plagued
the entire rail sector, Rockefeller saw that he could whipsaw them. He played one against another,
bargaining for transportation rates that were cheaper than his competitors'. As the highest-volume
shipper in the Cleveland oil trade, Rockefeller could negotiate rates that gave his company cost
advantages over others. Combined with his enlistment of large investors to keep his production
facilities the largest and most efficient in the region, the results of the shipping advantages kept the
Rockefeller firm on top in Cleveland. Soon he was able to persuade his hard-pressed regional
competitors to merge with his company or to sell out to him, which made his business even more
dominant in the area. In turn, this strengthened his power to influence production levels and prices.
It seemed that a runaway industry might indeed be brought under more rational control. The
Rockefeller strategy worked, and his various enterprises in Cleveland were combined in the late
1860s into the Standard Oil Company, which was then incorporated in 1870. By 1872 Standard had
become virtually the only important firm in the region, thus completing what came to be called the
"Conquest of Cleveland."
Like so many apparent solutions to competitive problems in the history of business, however,
Rockefeller's triumph soon was clouded by the unwelcome reappearance of competition in the
national market. Despite Standard's acquisition of the largest refinery in New York City, its
subsequent closing of the older and less efficient Cleveland refineries, and the company's strong
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position in the overseas trade, the industry's old problems soon reasserted themselves. Overproduction, price wars, and falling profit margins quickly reappeared. As early as 1869 refiners and producers
of crude had tried to negotiate peace and prosperity through agreements to be overseen by a variety
of trade associations. These were loose alliances in which the independent members promised to
behave themselves and maintain prices and output levels. Time and again, however, the agreements
so solemnly negotiated were ignored and violated by one or another of the firms in the association.
Because American common law was not sympathetic to such price-fixing and market-dividing
schemes, the agreements did not have the force of contracts. The associations and their agreements
were not yet illegal, but the courts would not offer any help in making the parties abide by their own
plans and promises. Secret price cuts and rebates, as well as violations of set production levels,
caused the familiar problem of severe competition to break out again and again. After repeated
failures with the association approach, Rockefeller concluded that the associations were "ropes of
sand." He then set out to forge something more reliable.
Standard expanded its share of the nation's refining capacity, continued to concentrate production in a few large refineries, and integrated into more and more aspects of the business, particularly
into the new form of transporting oil, pipelines. Repeating the old Cleveland tactic of using his leverage
to secure favorable railroad rates, Rockefeller aggressively pursued the consolidation of the industry
into the Standard Oil Company. Through sharp competition and selective price wars against the
uncooperative elements in the industry, Standard became by far the dominant oil firm in the country.
From the late 1870s, Rockefeller's company had about nine-tenths of the refining capacity in the
United States. To shore up its legal control over what had come to be a messy patchwork of allied firms
and partially owned subsidiaries, Standard in 1882 became the first large American business to adopt
the trust form of organization, in which a handful of individuals held the shares of all the allied and
subsidiary firms "in trust" for all their owners. Further administrative consolidation followed.
It is at approximately this point in the story that the documents included in this microfilmed portion
of John D. Rockefeller's papers begin. The earliest ones in quantity are from 1877, and the latest from
1894. The great bulk of these manuscripts, however, cover the 1880s, a period when Standard Oil
was at the height of its worldwide dominance of the oil industry. It was also a time when the great
wealth produced by Rockefeller's work had reached dimensions that required much attention to its
investment and to its careful stewardship through philanthropy. Though there is a scattering of
outgoing correspondence and telegrams in this UPA project, almost all the material is incoming. Three
subseries within series C ("C" for correspondence) of the John D. Rockefeller Papers are reproduced
in their entirety to preserve the documentary integrity of these portions of the papers. Included is
correspondence relating to business, to business investments, and to office matters (Parts 1-3,
respectively, of Papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.). In fact, all three subseries contain a potpourri of
personal, business, and philanthropic concerns. This intermixing within the files is itself a testimony
to the complex ways in which all those realms amplified and reinforced each other in John D.
Rockefeller's life. Although the Rockefeller Archive Center holds substantial additional papers of the
founder of the Rockefeller enterprises, including voluminous letterbooks of outgoing correspondence
and telegrams, the editorial decision was made to begin with the present portions in order to make
available a manageable and meaningful segment of these important records.
Business Correspondence
The business correspondence contains an avalanche of information about the far-flung activities
of the Rockefeller empire. From all over the country and from around the world there flowed data,
information, and rumor. Reports to the Executive Committee of Standard Oil showed how the firm
dealt with the first really effective challenges to its international hegemony in the 1880s, the result of
the discovery and exploitation of vast fields in Russia, developed by the Nobel interests. The task of
keeping order in the industry was never-ending, as can be seen, for example, in the files from
Standard executive John Archbold. The company's hold on the domestic transport of oil was
threatened by a succession of competitors and opponents from time to time. For example, Archbold
wrote to Rockefeller in 1886: "We learn today to our great surprise and disgust that Penna. RR is
furnishing Tankcars to the Holdship pipe Line forshipment of crude oil East. Have telegraphed protest
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strongly."3 Similarly, the international struggle required constant vigilance: "We are considering the
question of sending somebody to the Far East ...the Russians are making very aggressive efforts in
these mkts."4 By contrast, at moments when all was well within Standard's empire, Archbold could
report what Rockefeller longed to hear: "pressing sales of refined in all directions as vigorously as
possible. Everything moving along quietly and well."5
Equally important were the continuous summaries of quantitative data, the informational lifeblood
of a modem business enterprise. Reports on stocks of crude oil, kerosene, and lubricants came
constantly from New Jersey, from Marseilles, from the Far East, and from all over the world. Data on
productivity and profitability were especially prevalent, such as reports on the monthly yields of
various products per hundred gallons of crude in Standard's different refineries around the country,
including conclusions about the total value of the product, the cost of refining, and the net value of
goods produced at each site. No detail seemed to be too small to require at least a summary for the
firm's head, including data on the monthly amounts paid to Western Union in Cleveland for telegrams.
Information on insurance, news of competitors' new or rumored refineries or transportation facilities,
measures of performance by individual managers or refineries, real estate deals, and political and
legal intelligence were generated in staggering volume. Important moments in history are here, such
as the telegram from Standard's lawyer and lobbyist in Washington that brought John D. Rockefeller
word of Senate passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act. "Senate has just passed the Judiciary
Committee trust bill all amendments being voted down," J. H. Flagg wired Rockefeller at his residence
at 4 W. 54th Street in Manhattan in April of 1890. 'There was but little debate and only one Senator
Blodgett of New Jersey voted against the bill."6 A little more than twenty years later, that act would
be used to break up Standard Oil in the landmark Supreme Court case of 1911.
In these voluminous business files we see also the communications to their leader from many of
the able lieutenants and associates in Standard, such as John Archbold, Henry Flagler, and Henry
Folger. Here, in short, we can see the details of how the great Standard OH Trust did its work.
Office Correspondence
The business was the heart of John D. Rockefeller's achievement and importance, but the office
correspondence issued and included in this microfilm publication is even more extensive and more
fascinating than the business material. By the latter part of the 1870s Rockefeller was a widely known
figure, and the number and variety of persons who wrote to him is remarkable. They wrote for almost
every imaginable reason. Mostly they cajoled, begged, and curried favor. Here we hear America
singing, though hardly the songs Walt Whitman heard. Alpha the Astrologer, for example, wrote from
New York City: "Successfully answers all questions pertaining to buying and selling of stocks, bonds,
grain, cotton, real estate, journeys & etc. Two dollars ...Highest references if required."7 Requests
for loans were common, often bearing some assurance like that in a letter from Benjamin Albertson,
contractor and builder of Asbury Park, New Jersey: "I am not a speculator or crank of any kind."
Albertson, like many of the correspondents, did not actually know Rockefeller but felt no compunction
about making the most outrageous demands of him. "I will call at your Residence No 4 W 54th st on
Thursday Evening the 18th inst at 8.30 P.M.," Albertson peremptorily announced, "to see if you will
save me from ruin. It will not take a large amount of money, and I have Real Estate security that I can
give you."8
Sometimes those in public life felt that Mr. Rockefeller was in their debt, and they were not shy
about asking for what they felt was coming to them. Paul Babcock, Jr., one of Rockefeller's business
associates, wrote in 1880, for example, to find out how the Standard Oil Company wished to respond
3
Archbold to Rockefeller, October 5,1886. Rockefeller Family archives, hereafter Archives. RG 1. Series C.
Subseries B. Box 52. Folder 383. Rockefeller Archive Center.
4
Archbold to Rockefeller, February 4, 1892. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries B. Box 52. Folder 383.
5
Archbold to Rockefeller, July 18,1892. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries B. Box 52. Folder 383.
6
Flagg to Rockefeller, April 8,1890. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries B. Box 56. Folder 413.
7
Alpha the Astrologer to John D. Rockefeller, n.d. Family Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 1.
Folder 2.
8
Albertson to John D. Rockefeller, December 17,1890. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 1.
Folder 2.
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to a request from an influential Democrat in the New Jersey state legislature: "I have received a
message from the Hon. Thos. H. O'Connor of Newark that he would be glad to receive his expenses
incurred in the recent session... in introducing & urging his Bill against Pipe Lines in the State of New
Jersey...My own judgment was & feto refuse to pay one dollar!"9
Appeals came from the mighty as well as from the less well known. The rich were already
practicing the habit of soliciting each other in support of their personal good causes. Many of those
in society and in the business world contacted Mr. Rockefeller seeking donations. Andrew Carnegie,
for example, wrote in 1889 seeking a gift for what would shortly emerge as Carnegie Hall: "Perhaps
the effort to give New York what the Post recently said was its most pressing need may commend itself
to you," the steel king opened. "Our numerous musical organizations would naturally be gratified to
have your name among their supporters." And, lest the oil magnate think this some otherworldly
scheme, Carnegie assured him that "the Hall will be managed...upon business principles to pay
interest like any other Real Estate investment."10
Requests for testimonials and endorsements of products were among the many demands made
of Mr. Rockefeller. Fred Adee & Co., purveyors of plumbers' supplies and sole agents for Zane's
patent water closet ('The Sanitary"), asked whether he would oblige with an opinion of the merits of
their product, recently installed in his residence. "We are about to issue a new catalogue and desire
to include in it a testimonial from you," they explained.11 Many people also wrote seeking jobs or help
for their sick and dying relatives.
Few good causes went forward without offering him the opportunity to take part. Solicitations from
museums, hospitals, temperance groups, welfare organizations of every stripe and hue, and
educational institutions were particularly evident. Most received standard polite but negative replies
from his staff, though a great many succeeded in winning his help. Among these were some of the
nation's major universities, particularly Brown and the new University of Chicago, to which Rockefeller
gave millions. He exercised his influence on behalf of his favored institutions in manifold ways, as a
letter from his trusted lieutenant Frederick T. Gates shows. From the Standard headquarters at 26
Broadway, Gates wrote in 1893 to Rockefeller in Cleveland:
President E. Benjamin Andrews of Brown University called upon me yesterday explaining that his call
was simply friendly without business. I knew, however, he must have some object. In the course of the
conversation seeing that he was not going to unfold his errand but expected me to open up, I waited
until he was ready to go, and in fact had started. I then called him back and ventured to hope that he
had not given up the idea of going to Chicago with Dr. [William Rainey] Harper. He then opened up the
real business for which he came. He said he was not sure whether Mr. Rockefeller personally would
like to have him go or not. I told him...that Mr. Rockefeller would be distinctly gratified if he could find
it in the line of his duty to go to Chicago and take hold with Dr. Harper. He seemed to have a burden
lifted by the announcement. I have written very briefly to Dr. Harper and I think it now very probable that
Andrews can be had.12
By far the greatest volume of letters related to requests from those pursuing religious or moral
goals, above all for Baptist causes. J. B. Cranfill, Superintendent of Missions for the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, wrote repeatedly, though apparently unsuccessfully. Texas, he noted, "is a vast
foreign and home mission field and the work for the Master here has paid. Our people use your
'Standard Oil' for they can't get any other kind, and I feel that you ought to give me some mission
money to keep these people from getting into the oil tank of the future world. I will be satisfied with
$500 and will not boycott your oil if you don't give a cent. With cordial good wishes and trusting the
Lord will help you in all things, I am, Yours Fraternally, J. B. Cranfill."13
9Babcockto Rockefeller, April 4,1880. Archives. RG 1.2. Series C. Subseries B. Box 52. Folder 387.
10
Carnegie to Rockefeller, April 20,1889. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 6. Folder 49.
Rockefeller declined, saying "I am pleased that you are moving forward in the effort to secure the
additional musical advantages for New York, in the construction of a proposed new building &c and
regret that I am deprived from joining you, on account of having so many other undertakings on hand.'
Rockefeller to Carnegie, April 24, 1889. Archives. RG 1. Letterbooks. Book 019, p. 373.
11
Adee & Co., to Rockefeller, March 9, 1885. Archives. RG 1.2. Series C. Subseries O. Box 1. Folder 2.
12
Gates to Rockefeller, October 3,1893. Archives. RG1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 16. Folder 124.
13
Cranfill to Rockefeller, March 12,1890. Archives. RG 1.2. Series C. Subseries O. Box 10. Folder 74.
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The pleas for contributions often received the same thorough, rational, careful evaluation that
Rockefeller's staff gave to his investments. Frederick T. Gates handled much of this work, and it is
interesting to compare his reports on proposed for-prof it investments with his quite similar judgments
about the soundness, stability, and long-run prospects of charitable supplicants. For example, Gates,
in his capacity as the corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Education Society, investigated
and then reported adversely on the request for a sanitarium for Baptist missionaries. He listed
numerous reasons, such as the fact that "the $1,200 endows a bed not a room, which would take
$15,000 it appears including treatment." In addition, 'the fund goes to the sanitarium co. not as your
correspondent supposes to the Missionary Union," and furthermore, "the sanitarium affords insufficient guaranties of permanency."14 Similarly, in responding to an inquiry from Rockefeller's secretary,
George D. Rogers, Gates urged that a loan not be given to a milling company whose owner did
business with a barge firm in which Rockefeller had an interest, ticking off a long list of reasons ranging
from the fact that the collateral was not valuable to considerations that the business was "a very
fluctuating one," "profits are uncertain," and "why should he [Rockefeller] be saddled with every
enterprise which can possibly contribute to the Barge profits."15 All inquiries, whether seeking
contributions, loans, or favors, took on added complexity when they came from someone with a
business connection to Rockefeller. Gates, for example, proceeded cautiously in a matter involving
a request for a Baptist charity when "the fact this gentleman is probably connected with your
business...leads me to await your instructions before undertaking a thorough investigation."16 The
same subtlety and care were called for on the part of others associated with Rockefeller. The secretary
of the University of Chicago, for example, made an exception to his usual policy of refusing to "address
you on business" by commending to Rockefeller a gentleman seeking investors in "the new process
of making aluminum." The reason was that the person in question, "a man of very rare intelligence
& beautiful spirit," had made a $20,000 contribution to the seminary endowment at the university and
"I cannot therefore say no! to him."17 The tangled web of connections shaped not only the personal
and philanthropic correspondence, but also the materials relating to business investments.
Business Investments Correspondence
As John D. Rockefeller's fortune grew, it became a monumental task to keep the funds well
invested. By the time the microfilmed papers begin, it was already a challenge that kept a large
network of people busy. Good investment strikes a balance between risk and reward, and reliable
information on the prospects for both elements in the equation was always difficult to acquire. As in
all other walks of life, Rockefeller relied on networks of associates to see that his money went into
promising investments. He retained strong ties to Cleveland long after Standard Oil moved to New
York City, and his papers contain many communications from his home city about good opportunities
there. G. M. Stafford of the Woodland Ave. Savings and Loan Co. in Cleveland was a frequent source
of such reliable data. One of his letters is worth quoting in full to give a sense of the research that lay
behind a good investment:
We can off er you some of the best paper we have ever had @ 7% and secured by the best of Real Estate.
One loan of $25,000 in two notes@$17,500, &$7500due in oneyear and secured by Property on Euclid
Ave, cor Dorchester, next to Dunham Ave 92 X 710, with good Brick House & Barn (the old Marsh
property). The property is owned by John W. Fox, who lives there•He lately married Mrs. Dunham. The
property is worth fully $50,000. The 7,500 note is secured on property just purchased by Mr. Fox•
consisting of 50 acres next adjoining N. O. Stone in Euclid Township, fronting on Euclid Ave• He paid
$17,500 cash for it.
The other is a loan of $50,000 in two notes of $25,000 each and secured by $70,000 of the Grasselli
Chem. Co stock at par. The stock is worth $150 per share. It is owned by Thos. A. Ireland a brother in
law of Mr. Grasselli. These people are among our best customers. The loans would be made direct to
14
Gates to Rockefeller, November 6,1891. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 16. Folder 123.
Gates to Rogers, December 30,1892. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 16. Folder 124.
16
Gates to Rockefeller, May 18,1892. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries O. Box 16. Folder 123.
17
T.W. Goodspeed to Rockefeller, October 6,1890. Family Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries I. Box 72.
Folder 535.
15
us and we will give our certificates for the money and give you the above as collateral•one year @ 7%.
They wish the money and we are arranging to furnish it. We get no commissions or profits from it save
their regular business.18
Opportunities to buy into good situations came regularly. Rockefeller took advantage, for
example, of achance in 1885 to buy 3,000 shares in anotherof the early trusts, American CottonOil.19
There were many occasions when Rockefeller and his associates learned of promising stock market
situations. These papers in fact give a revealing look at the process by which stocks and bonds were
placed in the hands of those with funds to invest. They document the very era during which industrial
stocks were beginning to be more widely traded, a critical development in the creation of more and
more giant enterprises in manufacturing. In addition, they show in a dramatic fashion the fast and
loose ways of Wall Street in the era before securities regulation. What we characterize today as insider
trading was commonplace. Confidential word came to Rockefeller from the board meetings of many
railroads, manufacturing corporations, utilities, and the like, reports of opportunities to take part in or
to cause run-ups or declines in the prices of a wide variety of stocks. One Rockefeller associate who
reported on such chances was J. F. Alexander, who sometimes dictated bulletins such as this one
in April of 1888: "There will probably be a very sharp rise in Terminal Stock this afternoon....The
chance has not come since the great contest forthe stock a year ago last November. [Insiders on the
Board] have all bought and the probability is it will go very high. These are the actual facts of the case.
The street do[es] not know about it."20 With the advantages of the latest communications technology,
his location in the heart of New York's financial district, substantial liquid funds to invest, and an
unparalleled network of business connections, associates, and staff, John D. Rockefeller was as well
placed an any to turn such information to advantage. Through such paths wealth and influence led
to further wealth and influence.
From all the instances in which Rockefeller was offered chances to invest, of course, the trick was
to choose the right ones. Certainly there was no shortage of opportunities to take part in everything
from the young Spalding athletic goods company to "the greatest Real-estate scheme ever
undertaken on this continent" to "the copper monopoly of the century," to be headed by former civil
war general George B. McClellan.21 In this microfilm edition of the Rockefeller Papers, the reader can
see virtually the whole sweep of investment vehicles, options, schemes, risks, and rewards churned
up by the booming American economy of the Gilded Age.
Here, then, are documents that show in high relief so many sides of life in the United States in
the late nineteenth century. John D. Rockefeller and his associates stood at the center of so many
of the great events of the era•in business, in social history, in philanthropy, in politics, in religion, in
education, and in the investment world. To read the papers issued in this edition is to see the workings
of some of the richest and most powerful figures in an era when the United States was emerging as
the leading industrial nation on the globe. We see ourselves and our modern world on these pages,
and it is not always a pretty sight. But if we care to understand how institutions and influence work in
America, there is hardly a better place to begin than in these documents.
Glenn Porter
Director
Hagley Museum and Library
18
Stafford to Rockefeller, May 14, 1891. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries I. Box 85. Folder 633.
Mitchell J. Asch to Rockefeller, December 14[?], 1885. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries I. Box 72.
Folder 535.
20
Alexander to Rockefeller, April 5,1888. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries I. Box 72. Folder 534.
21
See J. W. Spalding to Rockefeller, December 29,1891, Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries I. Box 85.
Folder 631. For the real estate scheme, see Simmons Bros, to Rockefeller, Ibid. For the copper
opportunity, see J.F. Alexander to Rockefeller, February 19,1884. Archives. RG 1. Series C. Subseries
I. Box 72. Folder 534.
19
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NOTE ON SOURCES
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Papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Part 2: Business Investments Correspondence is reproduced
from the Rockefeller Family Archives, RG 1, John D. Rockefeller Papers. CorrespondenceBusiness, Subseries CB, is part of Series C, Correspondence.
The archivists suggest that researchers cite materials using the following information: title or
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EDITORIAL NOTE
The Reel Index, which comprises the bulk of this user's guide, is adapted from the Register to
the John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Business Correspondence, which is included at the beginning of Reel
1 of this edition. The four-digit number to the left of each entry indicates the frame number at which a
particular folder begins. Each folder consists of alphabetical or chronological groupings of
correspondence. Two-letter abbreviations are used for state names unless some confusion might
result, in which case they are spelled out. Rockefeller's name is abbreviated JDR.
The Subject Index, which is keyed to the information provided in the Reel Index, follows the
Reel Index. Entries direct the researcher to the folder within which materials relating to a particular
subject or company appear. Following the Subject Index is a brief bibliography.
All files included in this edition are reproduced on the microfilm in their entirety. Researchers
should note that additional correspondence from individuals in UPA's Papers of John D. Rockefeller,
Sr., Part 2: Business Investments Correspondence may be found in UPA's Papers of John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., Part 1: Business Correspondence and Part 3: Office Correspondence. The
presence of outgoing correspondence can be checked in Part 4: Index to the John D. Rockefeller
Letterbooks at the Rockefeller Archive Center.
Additional materials among the Rockefeller Family Archives, RG 1, John D. Rockefeller Papers
open to researchers at the Rockefeller Archive Center include: Series B, Business Related Material,
1871-1917; Series F, Financial Material, 1855-1937; Series I, William O. Inglis, 1917-1926; Series
L, Letterbooks, 1877-1918; Series M, Scrapbooks, 1904-1937; Series N, Philanthropy Related
Material•American Baptist Education Society, 1889-1905; Series S, Spelman Family, 1854-1942;
and Series Z, Miscellany.
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REEL INDEX
For the convenience of the user, information about the correspondence in a folder includes the
author, the date, the place it came from and the subject(s). References to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. are
abbreviated JDR.
ReeM
Frame No.
Introductory Materials
0001
Register to the John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Business Investments Correspondence.
53pp.
0054
Folder 534, Abbot-Alexander, J. F. 123pp.
Abbot, Edwin, 1885. Boston, MA and Milwaukee, Wl. Wisconsin Central
Railroad Co.; negotiations with Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Co. and Chicago & Great Western Railroad Terminal.
Abbot, Frederick, 8/1885-6/1887. Milwaukee, Wl. Chicago & Great Western
Railroad securities.
Abbot, W.F., 9/21/1893. Pittsburgh, PA. National Tube Works Co.; offers
investment in phosphate fertilizer industry and threshing machine.
Ackerman, C.L., 3/1/1886. Waterloo, NY. Offers investment in New York Dairy
& Beef Co.
Adams, W. E., 3/1/1892. Cleveland, OH. Loan for Cedar Grove Coal Co.
Armstrong, A. C, 4/18/1889. Unidentified location. Offers investment advice.
Alexander, J. F., 1882-1893. New York, NY. Broker; offers JDR investment and
partnership in Richmond & Danville Railroad Co. and Richmond & West
Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co. venture•JDR & William
Rockefeller entered pool; detailed description of that stock's movements;
Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk Railroad Co.; Mann Boudoir Car Co.; Gray
National Telautograph Co.; other investment opportunities.
Folder 535, Alexander, L. E.-Ayer. 46pp.
Alexander, L. E., 2/14/1888. St. Louis, MO. Kansas City & Salina Pass Railroad
opportunities; Henry Clews & Co.
Allen, Henry W., 10/27/1892. New York, NY. Investment in securities; New York
Building Loan Banking Co.
Alley, Dowd & Co., 10/11/1889. New York, NY. Offers investment opportunities.
Altman, Henry, 1890 or 1891. New York, NY. Offers real estate.
American Telegraph & Cable Co., 5/1/1891. New York, NY. Proxy; notice of
annual meeting.
Anderson, Elbridge R., 8/18/1887. Boston, MA. Northwestern Trust &
Investment Co.; son of Galusha Anderson.
Anderson, Marion, 1/17/1891. Washington, D.C. Offers mines in Colorado.
Anstey, H. Lee, 3/2/1892. New York, NY. Building investment on Wall Street.
Archbold, John D., 1889-1891. New York, NY. Real estate; stock holdingsStandard Oil Trust and Natural Gas Trust.
Armitage, Thomas, 1888-1891. New York, NY. Paying JDR money for his loan
account.
Armstrong, A. C, 4/18/1889 (see Folder 534 above).
Box 72
0177
Frame No.
0223
Arnold, Richard, 4/15/1883. Unidentified location. Interest rate on JDR's loan to
him for purchase of Standard Oil Trust shares.
Arter, Frank, 1/1891-7/1893. Cleveland, OH. Interest rate on JDR's loan offer
on shares of Standard Oil Trust.
Asch, Mitchell, 10/1885. New York, NY. Broker; offers of American Cotton Oil
Trust certificates.
Aspell, D. J., 8/1888-1/1890. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. office employee;
office procedures.
Atkins, E. C, 10/8/1890. Indianapolis, IN. Opportunity in aluminum; T. W.
Goodspeed's letter of introduction; University of Chicago.
Atkinson, F. F., 7/15/1890. New York, NY. Seeking capital for Alpha Glass &
Metal Co.
Atkinson, William G., 8/15/1887. New York, NY. Opportunity in coal, iron, and
timberlands investments.
Atlantic Trust Co., 5/3/1889. New York, NY. W. H. Wale, president; payment on
stock subscription of Washington Trust Co. of the City of New York
Ayer, Harry C, 12/13/1888. Philadelphia, PA. Wants capital for machine shop.
Folder 536, Babcock-Bell. 145pp.
Babcock, Paul Jr., 11/14/1888. Sone & Fleming Manufacturing Co.; introducing
Mr. W. L. Bull of Edward Sweet & Co.
Bailey, G. C, 1/24/1891. Cleveland, OH. Union Investment Co.; offers Florence
Land, Mining & Manufacturing Co. bonds.
Bailey, W. W., 7/1890. Alachua County, FL. Offers railroad and phosphate
investments in Florida.
Baird, S. H., 9/19/1890. Nashville, TN. Offers iron ore lands in South.
Baker, George, 1886-1887. New York, NY. First National Bank; issue of
Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co. trust notes.
Baker, John, 4/18/1888. Detroit, Ml. Offers interest in copper mines.
Baker, Z. T., 1882-1893. New York, NY. Securities transactions by James B.
Colgate & Co. for JDR accounts; railroad stocks; interest on margin
accounts.
Balet, J. W., 5/20/1891. New York, NY. Inventor of compound electric generator
needs capital.
Bank of America, 1883-1884. New York, NY. Loan to JDR.
Bank of New York, 12/27/1883-1893. New York, NY. Regarding loan and
securities being held for JDR.
Barbour, William D., 3/4/1890-10/31/1891. New York, NY. Gold, Barbour&
Corning; offers Dobbs Ferry, NY, real estate.
Barker, Wharton, 10/18/1893. Philadelphia, PA. Seeks American partners to
help finance European-American Corp.
Barnes, H. E., 10/19/1887. New York, NY. Offers iron and coal lands.
Barnes, W. A., 5/29/1891. New York, NY. Offers real estate.
Barrett, Mrs. S. M., 7/4/1891. North Waterford, ME. Spelman Seminary faculty
on leave; seeks advice on her land in Nebraska on line of Union Pacific
Railroad.
Barrows, Samuel H., 2/27/1892. New York, NY. Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel Co.
stock for sale.
Barry, H. M., 5/29/1891. New York, NY. Cyrus J. Lawrence & Sons; offers
Brooklyn harbor real estate.
Bates, F. G., 2/1/1893. Philadelphia, PA. Bates Steel Co.; seeks interview on
investment opportunity.
Bates, John L, 5/29/1891. New York, NY. Offers New York & New England
Railroad Co. securities.
Baxter, T. M. & Co., 1/25/1888. Chicago, IL. Grain & stock brokers; seeks
JDR's business.
Beach, Charles Jr., 8/16/1893. New York, NY. Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway Co.; wants to reenter (with promotion) the railway's law department.
Beardsley, W. H., 1884-1889. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust; JDR stock
purchases for the Spelmans; sales of stock.
Frame No.
0368
0477
Beaumont, Edgar, 3/27/1891. Mayfield, KY. Newspaper publisher; offers
railroad investment.
Beck, Bertha, 1891. New York, NY. Office handled Standard Oil Trust stock for
her.
Bedford, E. T., 12/8/1886. New York, NY. Thompson & Bedford Co.; introduces
Samuel Janney of Chrystie & Janney, bankers.
Beer, Frank B., 1/28/1888. New York, NY. Broker; offers railroad stocks and
municipal bonds.
Bell, J. R. & Co., 6/20/1892. New York, NY. Mineral and gold mine investments
in Missouri, Indian Territory, and New Mexico.
Folder 537, Belmont-Blshop, H. R. 109pp.
Belmont, August & Co., 1887-1893. New York, NY. JDR's participation in
Northern Pacific 3rd Mortgage Bond Syndicate; bond deliveries; profits.
Belt, Dr. A. M., 2/18/1890. Baltimore, MD. Offers Maryland land.
Bennett, William W., 8/2/1887. New York, NY. Offers investment in paper made
from waste tobacco
Bensinger, John, 1890-1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust transfer clerk;
transactions in Standard Oil Trust, Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co., and
Natural Gas Trust stock.
Benwell, G. A., 10/10/1888. New York, NY. Wants to bid for NY and NJ
municipal bonds; broker.
Berry, S. T., 3/8/1887. New York, NY. Needs capital to develop Kentucky
timberlands.
Bessemer Iron Mining & Manufacturing Co., 1/25/1892. Pittsburg, TX. Iron
mining and smelter investment offer.
Beusel, F. O., 3/25/1892. New York, NY. Loan request.
Beveridge, Alven, 9/10/1891. New York, NY. Broker; offers Philadelphia Co.
bonds.
Bigelow, H. H., 2/5/1887. Worcester, MA. Worcester & Shrewsbury Railroad
Co.; offers investment in Worcester building.
Biggar, Dr. H. F., 1885-1890. Cleveland, OH. Borrowed from JDR on his
Standard Oil Trust shares.
Billings, Sheldon & Co., 9/22/1886. Chicago, IL. Offers interest in Michigan iron
mines.
Bishop, H. R., 1881-1888. Minnesota Mining & Railroad Syndicate; chairman of
syndicate involving JDR and other Standard Oil Co. men; JDR's stock
purchases; Du luth & Iron Range Railroad Co.
Folder 538, Bishop, J. P-Bradford. 116pp.
Bishop, J. P., 12/11/1879. New York, NY. Attorney; accepts retainer for
Standard Oil Co. not to represent railroads in freight rate discrimination
cases.
Bishop, L. J. P., 1888-1893. Cleveland, OH. Idlewild Fruit Co.; lawyer; handled
JDR's Florida orange grove investments; crop difficulties; he and uncle, P. P.
Bishop, borrowed from JDR; FL phosphate lands.
Blair & Co., 1890. New York, NY. Bankers and brokers; municipal bond
offerings.
Blake Brothers & Co., 1882-1885. New York, NY. Brokers; JDR's accounts, .
loans, and sales of stock through firm.
Bliss, Charles. G., 5/9/1891. New York, NY. Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Co.; investment offer.
Blodget, C. W., 4/23/1886. Brooklyn, NY. Proxy Williamsburgh Gas Light Co.
Bloomingdale Brothers, 3/14/1892. New York, NY. Loan request.
Board of Trade, Cleveland, Ohio, undated. Offers investment in wood lathe
company; Committee on Manufactures and Promotion of Trade.
Bogue, Virgil G., 12/15/1893. Chicago, IL. Civil engineer; seeks employment
with Standard Oil Co.
Bomm, C. P., 2/9/1892. Cleveland, OH. Coal lands on line of Northern Pacific
Railroad Co.
Bokum, R. D., 9/17/1888. Cleveland, OH. New York Life Insurance Co.; offers
investment bonds.
Frame No.
0593
Bole, J. K., 1/1889-5/1889. Cleveland, OH. Otis Iron & Steel Co.; notices to
JDR, as stockholder.
Bond, Frank S., 1887. New York, NY. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Co.; land grant bonds; Southwestern Coal & Improvement Co. bonds.
Bostwick, J. A., 1883. New York, NY. Sold National Transit Co. bonds to JDR;
donation to Chicago Theological Union.
Bostwick, Silas B., 3/1890. New York, NY. Stock broker; seeking JDR's
business.
Boudinot, Frank, 9/18/1890. Tahlequah, Indian Territory. Cherokee Indian
offers investment in Cherokee Nation.
Bowen, A. Z., 8/28/1890. New York, NY. Offers industrial Investment.
Bowman & Lampman, 4/19/1888. Toledo, OH. Real estate.
Boykin, T. J., 7/1890-11/1891. Baltimore, MD. Boykin, Carmer& Co.,
druggists; offers stock in Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Co.; Florida fruit
industry.
Boynton, E. M., 1890. New York, NY. Boynton Bicycle Railway Co.; wants JDR
to invest in his company.
Boynton & Walker, 5/1890. New York, NY. Brokerage firm, bond offerings.
Blackwell, Mrs. George, 2/6/1885. Bradford, Pennsylvania. Gratitude to JDR for
not firing her husband, who had speculated with Standard Oil Co. funds.
Folder 539, Breen-Burt. 137pp.
Breen, Thomas, 10/1890. Washington, D.C., and New York, NY. Virginia,
Missouri & Western Railroad investment opportunity.
Brewer, A. T., 9/14/1886. Cleveland, OH. Attorney; Pennsylvania coal lands.
Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook, 8/1/1888. Boston, MA. Wisconsin Central
Railroad Co. pool agreement; JDR loss on transaction.
Brewster, Benjamin, 7/1884-10/1885. New York, NY. National Transit Co.;
writing for William Rockefeller regarding call money; offers for Union Steel
Co. stock; manufacturing plant opportunity in Troy, NY (JDR's interest in
this); real estate opportunities.
Briggs, Florence, 10/16/1886. Rye, NY. JDR held her Standard Oil Trust stock;
payment of dividends to her.
Briggs, P. D., 1884-1888. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. employee;
borrowed from JDR; purchase of Britton Iron & Steel Co. stock; National
Safe & Lock Co.
Brinkerhoff & Oliver, 7/1/1891. Springfield, IL. Mortgage loans; opportunities in
Sangamon Co., IL, bonds.
Britton, J.W., 1886-1888. Cleveland, OH. Britton Iron & Steel Co.; W.C. Rouse;
P. D. Briggs' appeal for JDR loan in order to buy into company•declined,
possibly changed mind; JDR and others in office invested, their dividends;
request to JDR to buy bonds in West Chicago Street Railroad cable line for
company to get their steel order.
Broadin, J. H., 2/3/1891. New York, NY. Series of biblical quotations;
apparently letter of thanks.
Broadus, S. S., 12/15/1890. New York, NY. Florence Furnace in South.
Bronson, A. H., 1889-1891. New York, NY. Associated with JDR in South
Improvement Co., seeks capital loan, offers stock in Opateca Silver Mines
Co.; discussion of South Improvement Co.'s failure and relations with oil
producers.
Brown, H. C, 1/20/1892. Salamanca, NY. Loan request; Clarion oil field.
Brown, M. Bayard, 1/6/1882-1/3/1883. Richmond & West Point Terminal
Railway & Warehouse Co. securities.
Brown, W. L., 6/1.889. Chicago, IL. Minnesota Exploration Co.; Chicago &
Minnesota Ore Co.; JDR's subscription.
Brown, M. H., 7/4/1890. Philadelphia, PA. Attorney; Tennessee iron lands
opportunity.
Brown Brothers & Co., 4/3/1890. New York, NY. Oregon Railway & Navigation
Co. bonds; other bonds offered.
Browning, King & Co., 10/13/1891. New York, NY. Wants to lease store if JDR
builds one on Euclid Avenue property.
Frame No.
0730
Bruder, John, 7/12/1890. South Baltimore, MD. Offers stock in Electric Storage
Battery Co. as collateral for loan to buy shares of Baltimore Sugar Refinery
Co.
Bryan, W. A., 7/24/1889. Old Orchard, ME. Offers investment in New Jersey
zinc mines.
Bryant, John E., 2/8/1890. New York, NY. Offers land outside Cleveland, OH.
Buck, Thomas C, 1891-1893. New York, NY. H.K. Enos & Co., bankers &
brokers; Universal Electric Co.; information on conduit railway system;
Kissam, Whitney & Co., bankers & brokers, seek JDR's business.
Buckeye Pipe Line Co., 3/15/1893. Cleveland, OH. Notice of dividend payment.
Buford, A. S., 3/15/1882. New York, NY. Richmond & Danville Railroad;
financial information.
Bull, William L, 5/23/1888. New York, NY. New York Stock Exchange
president; regulations on National Transit Co. certificates and pipe line
certificates.
Burgin, F. F., 3/15/1891. New York, NY. The Press, editor; Puget Sound real
estate investment.
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Co., 5/26/1884. New York, NY.
Installment payment due on bonds.
Burr, Edwin, 1887-1890. New York, NY. Grenville Perrin & Co., grain
department; wheat futures; Columbia Slate Co.; wants JDR investment in
slate industry; S. H. Burr & Co.; West Superior Smelter Co. investment
Burr, S. H. & Co., 1/6/1892. New York, NY. Bond investment.
Burt, H.E., 3/6/1893. West Superior, Wl. Iron investment; proposed Zenith Iron
Co.; York Iron Co.
Folder 540, Burton-Butterworth. 101pp.
Burton. Geo. B., 1884-1890. Providence, Rl. Standard Oil Co. agent; payments
on his debts to JDR; purchase of Standard Oil Trust shares.
Bushneil, C. J., 12/19/1892. New York, NY. Railroad investment in Alabama.
Bushnell, John, 1888-1893. New York, NY. Natural Gas Trust; Northern Pipe
Line Co.; Southern Pipe Line Co.; New York Transit Co.; payment of
dividends to JDR; proxies; purchases of additional stock in Natural Gas
Trust; holding of shares for others.
Bushnell, Joseph, 5/16/?. New York, NY. Introducing Horace B. Fry.
Butler, George A., 1891. New York, NY. Leavening powder; wants JDR to
invest in Dr. Arvine's French Tartar.
Butterworth, A. E., 11/22/1890. New York, NY, and Washington, D.C. Carter
Ore Separator Mining Co.; trying to interest JDR in his ore separator;
recommend-ation from Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster.
Box 73
0831
Folder 541, Caldwell-Clarendon. 114pp.
Caldwell, E. S., 6/25/1888. New York, NY. Awaiting JDR's return to city.
Calkins, Charles C, 4/15/1889. Cleveland, OH. Calkins Lime Co.; seeks capital
for his business.
Callahan, C. H., 2/6/1890. Louisville, KY. Callahan & Sons; grain merchants;
Union Investment Co. of Kansas City; offers land development investment in
Denison, TX.
Campbell, John D., 10/4/1893. Cleveland, OH. Seeks mortgage loan for Isaac
E. Blake of Denver, CO.
Canada Southern Railway Co., 1887-1889. New York, NY. Dividend and proxy
notices.
Carleton, H. F., 1887-1889. Cleveland, OH. Britton Iron & Steel Co.; notices of
meetings; dividends.
Carley, F. D., 1882-1890. Louisville, KY. Kentucky Union Railway Co.;
Kentucky Union Land Co.; planning; Louisville & Nashville Railroad stock
purchases; seeks JDR's participation in investments; loans; financial
difficulties; development of coal and iron lands.
Carney, James S., 1/26/1887. New York, NY. Broker; New York Produce
Exchange.
Frame No.
0945
Carter, T. C, 1/6/1891. Meridian, MS. Broker; land agent; offers land in South.
Case, A., 1885-1886. Boston, MA, and Washington, D.C. Associate of JDR;
telegrams regarding campaign to get unidentified bill through U.S. Congress.
Caskey, E. G., 4/4/1891. Cleveland, OH. Woodland Avenue Savings & Loan
Co.; United Brass Co. note.
Cedar Rapids Lands Co., 11/22/1884. Unidentified location. JDR's account with
H. H. Hollister, treasurer.
Central Ohio Railroad Co., 8/11/1890. New York, NY. Offer of bonds.
Central Car Co., 1891. Boston, MA, and Hartford, CT. Dividends; annual
meeting.
Chancellor, J. C. & Sons, 1891-1893. Vincennes, IN. Offers coal and farm
lands investment.
Chandler & Rudd, 1888-1893. Cleveland, OH. Grocers, related to JDR;
payment of interest and principal on JDR loans.
Chapin Mining Co., 2/2/1891. Milwaukee, Wl. Election of Marcus A. Hanna as
president.
Chesebro, G., 5/8/1890. New York, NY. Natural Gas Trust; stock certificates for
George D. Rogers and Martha M. Tuttle.
Chase, Harry, 1890. Cleveland, OH. Benton, Myers & Co., wholesale druggists;
payment of loan JDR made to him for house construction.
Chesley, W. S., 3/4/1892. New York, NY. Stock company; electrical engineer
and contractor.
Chicago & Minnesota Ore Co., 1890-1891. Chicago, IL. Notices of meetings.
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co., 1888. New York, NY. Printed defense by
W. H. Woods of his attack on company finances; accounting procedures;
dividend policies.
Chicago/Burlington & Qüincy Railroad Co., 1881. Boston, MA. Stock
subscriptions; merger with Republican Valley Railroad Co.
Chicago, Evanston & Lake Superior, 1887. Unidentified location. Stocks and
bonds.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co., 1887-1889. New York, NY.
Subscription notices; comparative earnings.
Childester, J. H., 3/20/1891. New York, NY. Seeks loan for West Virginia timber
development project.
Childs, E. D., 9/23/1887. Cleveland, OH. Offers sale of engine company.
Childs, Louisa, 7/14/1893. Philadelphia, PA. Sought financial advice on
Northern Pacific Railroad Co. stock.
Christy, Edwin W., 10/8/1892. Cleveland, OH. Shaker Society mortgage bonds.
"Clarendon," 2/1886. Washington, D.C. Seeking passage of bill through U.S.
Congress for JDR; seeks financial advice on stock market; cipher code.
Folder 542, Clark-Cohen. 74pp.
Clark, Robert K., 5/18/1891. Newark, NJ. William Clark Thread Co.; offers stock
in company.
Clark, Thomas F., 1892-1893. American Telegraph & Cable Co.; annual
meetings.
Clarke, L.D., 1888-1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. (of the State of
Kentucky); Standard Oil Trust; Huntington stock purchase, real value of
Standard Oil Co. stock bought by JDR, dividends, meetings.
Clarke, W. E. and Caroline, 1886-1893. Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA,
Buffalo, NY, Providence, Rl, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. employee;
Atlas Refining Co., Acme Oil Co.; JDR's office handled Mrs. Clarke's
Standard Oil Trust stock; release of certificates; use of dividends to reduce
loan from JDR; marriage of daughter, illness of Mrs. Clarke; her opinion on
her husband's finances.
Clemson, H. G., undated. West Chester, PA. Interview request.
Cleveland Arcade Co., 9/9/1887. Cleveland, OH. Memorandum on
development of building project.
Clinch, Edward S., 1889-1892. New York, NY. Lawyer; sends bond and
mortgage assignment from E. F. and E. D. Garnsey to L. A. Crandall.
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Cochrane, Thomas M., 3/19/1892. Springfield, IL. Mining investment; Central
Coal Co.
Coffin, T. A., 9/18/1893. Ballard, WA. Complains of treatment by Puget Sound
& Alaska Steamship Co. in which JDR was supposed to be stockholder.
Coffin, W. H., 5/26/1890. Boston, MA. Elmira Woolen Mill; New England
building office opportunities.
Cohen, Alexander, 7/8/1887. Milwaukee, Wl. Broker of mining stocks and real
estate; offers mining properties.
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Folder 543, Colby. 112pp.
Colby, Charles L, 1884-1893. New York, NY, and Milwaukee, Wl. Colby, Hoyt
& Co.; Colby, Abbot & Hoyt; Minnesota, St. Croix & Wisconsin Terminal Co.;
Wisconsin Central Associated Lines; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad Co.; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; connected with JDR's
Minnesota railroad interests; difficulties with St. Paul Co.; regular brokerage
correspondence from Colby's brokerage firms.
Colby, John L., 1887. New York, NY. Interview request.
Colby, Joseph L., 1891-1893. Cleveland, OH. JDR declined to join him in
unidentified venture; Aurora Iron Mining Co.; Penokee & Gogebic
Consolidated Mines.
Folder 544, Colgate, James B. & Co., 1882-July 1885.130pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; instructions from JDR; notices of debits and credits of
JDR's accounts' changing interest rates; lists of securities JDR kept at
company; lobbying efforts for railroad bills; material on "Oregon
Transportation Contest" involving Charles F. Adams, B. Ivés, E. Smith, and
the Union Pacific, etc.; the rate war between the western railroads.
Folder 545, Colgate, James B. & Co., August 1885-October 1886.104pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; instructions from JDR; notices of debits and credits of
JDR's accounts' changing interest rates; lists of securities JDR kept at
company; lobbying efforts for railroad bills; material on "Oregon
Transportation Contest" involving Charles F. Adams, B. Ivés, E. Smith, and
the Union Pacific, etc.; the rate war between the western railroads.
Folder 546, Colgate, James B. & Co., November 1886-Aprll 1889.117pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; instructions from JDR; notices of debits and credits of
JDR's accounts' changing interest rates; lists of securities JDR kept at
company; lobbying efforts for railroad bills; material on "Oregon
Transportation Contest" involving Charles F. Adams, B. Ivés, E. Smith, and
the Union Pacific, etc.; the rate war between the western railroads.
Folder 547, Colgate, James B. & Co., May 1889-1893.102pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; instructions from JDR; notices of debits and credits of
JDR's accounts' changing interest rates; lists of securities JDR kept at
company; lobbying efforts for railroad bills; material on "Oregon
Transportation Contest" involving Charles F. Adams, B. Ivés, E. Smith, and
the Union Pacific, etc.; the rate war between the western railroads.
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Folder 548, Colllns-Corrigan. 49pp.
Collins, R. E., 2/8/1892. New York, NY. Rail investment; inventions.
Collins, H. D. & Co., 12/10/1890. Mount Vemon, NY. Wholesale lumber; offered
lands.
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., 7/14/1893. New York, NY. William Rockefeller and
JDR memorandum on stock and dividends.
Colton, George, 1888-1892. New York, NY. Natural Gas Trust; dividend
notices.
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Combs, A. H. & Co., 2/28/1893. New York, NY. Broker; sought JDR's business.
Comstock, Theodore, 10/20/1890. Austin, TX. Trying to form syndicate to buy
and sell Texas land; Geological Survey of Texas.
Conant, L. H., 11/28-30/1891. New York, NY. Offering Chicago & Erie bonds;
broker.
Condit, H. C, 3/1/1887. Newark, NJ. Gas machine investment.
Continental Trust Co., undated. New York, NY. Seeking deposits.
Cook, E. M., 5/4/1889. New York, NY. Cartaret Chemical Co.; offering Brooklyn
real estate.
Cook, Samuel G. B., 4/20/1889. Baltimore, MD. Has patents for fiber
manufacturing process; needs capital.
Cooke, W. J., 9/30/1887. Chicago, IL. Sending JDR a lease.
Cooksey, George, 8/1/1887. New York, NY. George B. Cooksey & Co.
successor to David Dows, Jr., & Co.; formation of grain, flour and provision
commission business.
Coolidge, Henry, 7/7/1883. New York, NY. Truman & Coolidge, bankers and
brokers; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. Northern Pacific
Railroad Co. bonds.
Corbett, Edward, 11/8/1890. Washington, D.C. Mechanical Engineer; offers
stock in flour mill manufacturing company.
Corbin, Austin, 3/20-26/1890. Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY.
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Howard Potter of Brown Brothers &
Co. letter on problems of railroads; investor relations.
Corrigan, James, 1888-1889. Cleveland, OH. Franklin Iron Mine; Aurora Iron
Mining Co.; Standard Oil Co.; payments on JDR's loan to him; steamship
owner.
Folder 549, Cowles, D. S., 1881-1883.73pp.
New York, NY. Worked for William Rockefeller's office; stock market
speculation; subscription for Union Pacific Railroad stock; relations with R. P.
Flower & Co., Jesup & Lamont, J. B. Colgate & Co., and other brokers JDR
did business with; information on various stocks and bonds and the state of
JDR's accounts; recommendations re stock offers, the state of the market,
advising JDR to "whoop" up slow market; much material on 1886 slump and
proposed remedies; Republic of Honduras timberlands venture; Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. stock; purchase and sale of Standard Oil
Trust stock; Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railroad purchase.
Folder 550, Cowles, D. S., 1884-1885.132pp.
New York, NY. Worked for William Rockefeller's office; stock market
speculation; subscription for Union Pacific Railroad stock; relations with R. P.
Flower & Co., Jesup & Lamont, J. B. Colgate & Co., and other brokers JDR
did business with; information on various stocks and bonds and the state of
JDR's accounts; recommendations re stock offers, the state of the market,
advising JDR to "whoop" up slow market; much material on 1886 slump and
proposed remedies; Republic of Honduras timberlands venture; Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. stock; purchase and sale of Standard Oil
Trust stock; Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railroad purchase.
Folder 551, Cowles, D. S., 1886-1887.92pp.
New York, NY. Worked for William Rockefeller's office; stock market
speculation; subscription for Union Pacific Railroad stock; relations with R. P.
Flower & Co., Jessup & Lamont, J. B. Colgate & Co., and other brokers JDR
did business with; information on various stocks and bonds and the state of
JDR's accounts; recommendations re stock offers, the state of the market,
advising JDR to "whoop" up slow market; much material on 1886 slump and
proposed remedies; Republic of Honduras timberlands venture; Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. stock; purchase and sale of Standard Oil
Trust stock; Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railroad purchase.
Folder 552, Cowles, J. G. W., 1886-1893.79pp.
Cleveland, OH. Real estate and loan broker; Gallup allotment; Edwin Jackson
deed; loan opportunities for JDR; JDR's purchases of Cleveland properties;
N. K. Foster mortgage and release.
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Folder 553, Crandall-Curtlss. 36pp.
Crandall, L. A., 1889-1891. Cleveland, OH. Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
pastor; payments on JDR's loan to him.
Crane, C. R., 6/4/1890. Detroit, Ml. National Tag Co.; seeks JDR capital.
Crane, J. S., 5/20/1882. New York, NY. Seeking JDR's business on stock
exchange.
Crane, Theron I., 1/2/1891. Philadelphia, PA. Crane & Schuyler, commission
merchants; notice of formation of partnership.
Crawford, W., 8/9/1889. New York, NY. Natural Gas Trust certificate of JDR.
Cromwell, William N., 1/5/1891. New York, NY. Decker, Howell & Co. assignee;
company's resumption of business.
Crooker, Mr., 12/15/1893. New York, NY. Memorandum on arrangements with
lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Cross, H. C, 5/10/?. Unidentified location. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Co. receiver; H. K. Enos memorandum on him.
Crotón Co. Ltd., 1884. New York, NY. Subscription agreement.
Cruikshank, E. A. & Co., 10/21/1884. New York, NY. Offering Fifth Avenue
property.
Cullen & Newman, 1/12/1891. Knoxville, TN. Importers, wholesalers of china
and silver; Coal Creek Mining & Manufacturing Co. opportunity.
Winthrop Cunningham & Sons, 1/25/1890. Philadelphia, PA. Santo Domingo
sugar business proposal.
Curtiss, W. H., 1891. New York, NY. JDR loans to and from Jesup & Lamont;
Standard Oil Co. employee; accounting methods.
Folder 554, Da Costa-Dodge. 92pp.
Da Costa, A. M., 10/1886-1889. New York, NY, and Kansas City, MO. Wants
JDR's participation in building railroad depot in Kansas City; JDR declined.
Damon, H. G., 6/10/1890. Corsicana, TX. Land development investment offer.
Daniel, E. B., 8/10/1889. Chanute, KS. Flax fibre factory investment offer.
Daniel & Armat, 1892. Washington, D.C. Real estate in Newport News, VA.
Darrow, F. V., 2/12/1890. Minneapolis, MN. Fruit farm investment offer in
California.
Date, John J., 1891-1892. Cleveland, OH. Broker; offers bank and iron
company shares.
Davis, John H. & Co., 3/1889-7/1893. New York, NY. Broker, investment
offers; report on 1893 panic; railroad stocks; American Meat Co.; St. Paul
City Railway Co.
Day, H. S., 5/13/1890. New York, NY. Coal mines investment offer in PA.
de Cordova, Aaron, 1889-1893. New York, NY. Introduced by Alfredo de
Cordova, banker & broker; asked help in 1893 with financial problems.
DeForrest Land & Improvement Co., 7/19/1890. Chicago, IL. Real estate offer.
"Delaware," 8/16/1882. New York, NY. Coded message on loan rates.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co., 1888-1889. New York, NY.
Annual earnings statements.
DeLong, M. B., 6/7/1890. Utica, NY. Plan for control of window glass industry.
Deming, C. C, 2/1/1889. New York, NY. Sending bond coupons of Florida
Construction Co.
Deming, H. C, 2/27/1890. Cleveland, OH. Broker; offer to buy bank stocks.
Denny, H. St. C, 9/1890-1/1893. Buffalo, NY. Offer of Buffalo General Electric
bonds; D. O'Day affiliate.
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway Co., 1/8/1886. New York, NY. Call for
outstanding bonds.
De Selding Brothers, 3/16/1891. New York, NY. Request for loan for hotel
project by real estate brokers.
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Des Marets, E. A., 11/1888. New York, NY. San Miquel Gold Placers Co., of
Colorado, gold mine investment offer.
Dick Brothers & Co., 1/22/1892. Philadelphia, PA. Brokers; Metropolitan
Traction Co. stock offer.
Dillon, Sidney, 7/22/1881. New York, NY. Offer of stock in Oregon Short Line
Railway Co. to holders of stock in Union Pacific Railway Co.
Dodd, S. C. T., 10/25/1887. New York, NY. Coded telegram concerning
unidentified testimony.
Dodge, H., 9/1892. New York, NY. Land development offer near Seattle, WA;
wants to start commission business there.
Folder 555, Dominick & Dickerman, 1882-1893.121pp.
New York, NY. Bankers & brokers; cipher codes; JDR attempts to purchase
seat on New York Stock Exchange; market conditions; interest rates;
account balances; railroad stocks; Southern Chemical Co.
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Folder 556, Donald-Dyer. 133pp.
Donald, James W., 1892. New York, NY. Dividend payments; Hanover National
Bank.
"Dorcas," 11/19/1888. New York, NY. Code name; message on unidentified
company stock.
Dougan, D. H., 7/13/1889. Leadville, CO. Offers of Distillers & Cattle Feeders
Trust stock.
Douglass, A. E., 4/2/1889. Kansas City, MO. Offer of mortgage loans in Kansas
City.
Douglass, J. L., 1/25/1890. New York, NY. Offer of real estate next to Standard
Oil Co. office.
Dow, Myron C, 11/10/1888. Cleveland, OH. Mill investment opportunity.
Dowling, G. DeWitt, 3/25/1892. Hightstown, NJ. Request for money on account
from ministry student being helped by JDR.
Dowling, G.T., 7/1888-10/1891. Cleveland, OH, and Albany, NY. Statement of
account on deposit with JDR; pastor of Euclid Avenue Baptist Church.
Downs, J. L, 3/12/1891. New York, NY. Describes South Dakota "wind cave"
[Wind Cave National Park].
Dows, David & Co., 12/1886-1/1887. New York, NY. JDR wheat speculation on
Duluth, MN, market.
Drake, A. A., 6/10/1889. New York, NY. Offers services as broker.
Drayton, J. C, 3/4/1891. New York, NY. Rapid transit offer.
Drexel Harjes & Co., 9/28/1889. Paris, France. Repeats cable from George D.
Rogers while JDR in Rome, Italy.
Duff, Samuel, 7/26-8/9/1889. Steubenville, OH. Coal and oil lands investment
offer in Pennsylvania.
Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Co., 3/26/1888. New York, NY. Interest payment
on bonds.
Duncan, Rev. S. W., 1882. Cincinnati, OH. JDR handled securities transactions
for him.
Duncan & Tarbox, 8/26/1891. Areola, IL. Farm investment offers.
Dunn, B. L., 12/26/1889. New York, NY. Inventor of device for running
locomotives on gas.
Durgin, G. W., 3/3/1886. Philadelphia, PA. Lead mine investment offer in
Missouri.
Duval, H. C, 1887-1894. New York, NY. Personal loan by JDR; New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. employee; Joliet Steel Co.
shareholder; interest in employee of Lombard Ayres Tide Water Pipe Line.
Dyer, H. B. & Co., 4/22/1887. New York, NY. Business & financial broker; offers
staple manufacturing business in Maryland.
Folder 557, Earl-Emerson & Turnbull. 74pp.
Earl, W. M., 11/23/1888. New York, NY. Offering brokerage service.
East End Savings Bank Co., 10/7/1889. Cleveland, OH. Statement.
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East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co., 1889. New York, NY. Bond
offering; Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co.
Ebert, R., 8/30/1889. Fon du Lac, Wl. Offers timberlands for sale.
Eddy, J. W., 5/28/1891. Helena, MT. Wants aid for proposed college in Helena.
Edison General Electric Co., undated. Unidentified location. Newspaper report.
Edmundson, D. G., 8/1889-5/1891. Des Moines, IA. William Rockefeller
investment in Security Loan & Trust Co.
Edwards, J. S., 3/17/1891. Seattle, WA. Offers land near Seattle.
Edwards, W., 4/15/1889-4/1891. Cleveland, OH. Held JDR proxy in Cleveland
Driving Park Co.
Eells, D. P., 6/1888-1/1893. Cleveland, OH. Banker and friend; investment
offers; Otis Iron & Steel Co.
Ellery, G. B., 9/26/1889. New York, NY. Stock purchase offer.
Elliott, D., 2/1893-8/1893. Cleveland, OH. Payments on note.
Ellis, E., 12/1889-5/1890. New York, NY. Oregon & Transcontinental Co.
treasurer; cashed JDR's coupons.
Ellis, H., 9/16/1893. New York, NY. Offered zinc and iron mines investment in
New Jersey.
Emerson, R. H., 3/18/1887. New York, NY. Investment opportunity.
Emerson & Turnbull, 5/1/1890. New York, NY. Moving notice; bankers and
brokers.
Folder 558, Enos, H. K., 1885-October 1886.153pp.
New York, NY. Brokerage firm; handled JDR investment in Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Co., Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co. and other
railroad stocks; market conditions; cipher codes.
Folder 559, Enos, H. K., November 1886-1887.133pp.
New York, NY. Brokerage firm; handled JDR investment in Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Co., Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co. and other
railroad stocks; market conditions; cipher codes.
Folder 560, Enos, H. K., 1888-July 1889.127pp.
New York, NY. Brokerage firm; handled JDR investment in Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Co., Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co. and other
railroad stocks; market conditions; cipher codes.
Folder 561, Enos, H. K., November 1889-1891.55pp.
New York, NY. Brokerage firm; handled JDR investment in Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Co., Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co. and other
railroad stocks; market conditions; cipher codes.
Folder 562, Epply-Evans. 26pp.
Epply, John P., 1888. Cincinnati, OH. Mining stock; Milton, West Virginia, Coal
& Mining Co.
Ertz, Charles E., 1892. New York, NY. Railroad bonds in California.
Euclid Avenue National Bank, 1886-1888. Cleveland, OH. Bank stock.
Evans, O., 2/1891-3/1891. Oakland, AL Oil lands offer.
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Folder 563, Fahnestock-Flagler. 112pp.
Fahnestock, H.C., 2/1886-12/29/1889. New York, NY. Asking JDR to join in
Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co. financing;
investment offers in railroads; First National Bank.
Fahnestock & Co., 4/1890; New York, NY. Broker; offer of railroad bonds.
Farmer, E. J., 8/1890-2/1893. Cleveland, OH. Investment offer in Colorado
silver mines.
Fasig, W. B., 10/1887-10/1890. Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Driving Park Co.;
dividends.
Farson, Leach & Co., 10/1889. New York, NY. Bonds for sale.
Faurot, B. C, 5/25/1889. New York, NY. Railroad investment offer in
northwestern Ohio.
Fay, C. N., 12/22/1888. Chicago, IL. Offering Minnesota Iron Co. stock.
Fenn, C. A., 1/1890-6/1890. New York, NY. Offering United States Land &
Investment Co. securities.
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Ferris, R. B., 1/27/1893. New York, NY. Scheme for controlling Ohio oil traffic;
Wheeling Bridge & Terminal Railway Co.
Field, A. A., 10/6/1893. Ashtabula, OH. Is JDR in Ashtabula Steel & Land Co.?
Field, C. W., 12/20/1886. New York, NY. Sends information on elevated
railroads.
Fifth Avenue Transportation Co., 1886-1890. New York, NY. Meetings; stock
ownership.
Finney, T. J., 4/22/1890. New York, NY. New York Life Insurance Co.
salesman.
Fischer, F., 8/12/1891. New York, NY. Offer of lumber securities in Mississippi.
First National Bank, 12/16/1886. New York, NY. Loan account balance.
Fisher, F., 8/17/1887-9/15/1887. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust dividend
signing procedures.
Fisher, J. W., 7/31/1889. Newark, NJ. Offer of timberlands in Tennessee.
Flagg, J. H., 6/1886-12/1889. Washington, D.C., and New York, NY. Lawyer;
St. Paul, MN, real estate offers; reports on legislation.
Plagier, H. M., 1882-1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust stock transfers
and dissolution; investments and loans; railroad stocks.
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Folder 564, Fleming-R. P. Flower & Co. 116pp.
Fleming, W. L., 11/1889-10/1890. Unidentified location. Loan of $1,000 to
Fleming by JDR.
Fleming, C, 1890. Pittsburgh, PA. Brochure on Allegheny County lands.
Freeman, J. F. [misfile], 1889. New York, NY. Treasurer, Standard Oil Co. of
New York; JDR loans and investments [see also Folder 569 below].
Fletcher, D., 3/1890. Denver, CO. Offer of Denver land.
R. P. Flower & Co., 1882-1893. New York, NY. Brokerage firm; JDR accounts;
market.conditions; railroad stocks.
Folder 565, Foote-Freeman, A. A. 83pp.
Foote, R., 1885-1890. New York, NY. Investment offers; banker and broker.
Foote, U. S., 7/9/1892. Unidentified location. Offer to sell California mines to
JDR.
Ford, F. L, 9/15/1890. Cleveland, OH. Loan opportunities; mortgage offerings.
Foster, C, 7/7/1888. Fostoria, OH. Request for loan.
Fowler, W. A., 10/10/1890. New York, NY. Building offer in city.
Fox, J. W., 4/25/1887. New York, NY. Coal and timberlands in Virginia and
Kentucky.
Fox, S. J., 8/6/1891. New York, NY. Road construction project in Florida.
Francis, G. W., 10/4/1889. Buffalo, NY. Proposes trust of axe manufacturers.
Frazer & Co., undated. New York, NY. Bankers and brokers; offer services.
Freeh, T. W., 1/31/1890. New York, NY. Offers property in city.
Frederick, P. A., 6/26/1893. Kansas City, MO. Real estate offer.
Freeman, A. A., 1888-1891. New York, NY, and La Crosse, Wl. Investment
offers in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; flour mills.
Folder 566, Freemen, J. F., October 1881-July 1884.120pp.
New York, NY. Treasurer, Standard Oil Co. of New York; JDR loans and
investments.
Folder 567, Freemen, J. F., August 1884-July 1885.67pp.
New York, NY. Treasurer, Standard Oil Co. of New York; JDR loans and
investments.
Folder 568, Freemen, J. F., August 1885-September 1886.97pp.
New York, NY. Treasurer, Standard Oil Co. of New York; JDR loans and
investments.
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Folder 569, Freemen, J. F., October 1886-December 1890.90pp.
New York, NY. Treasurer, Standard Oil Co. of New York; JDR loans and
investments, [see also 1890 misfile in Folder 564 above].
Folder 570, Fuller, H. A.-Fuller, R. J. 21 pp.
Fuller, H. A.,1890-1891. New York, NY. Investment offers; broker and banker;
North East Street Railway Co. bonds of Kansas City, MO; Ocean Steamship
Co. of Savannah, G A.
Fuller, R. J., 3/2/1887. Cleveland, OH. Insurance investment offer; Ohio Fidelity
& Accident Co.
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Folder 571, Ga Nun-Giovannlni. 111 pp.
Ga Nun, S. M., 6/24/1893. New York, NY. Request for loan.
Gallaudet, P. W., 1886-1891. New York, NY. Investment offers; bankers and
brokers.
Gandil, F. V., 2/9/1888. New York, NY. Broker seeks JDR business.
Gardner, H. B., 1887. New York, NY. Real estate offers in city.
Gates, W. N. Cleveland, OH. Purchases unidentified securities.
Gay, C. B., 4/18/1890. New York, NY. Ohio railroad investment offer.
Geer, E. F., 1882. Buffalo, NY. Rail car for shipping horse; Rochester Driving
Association.
Geary D., 7/21/1891. Kansas City, MO. Real estate offer.
George, Nesbitt & Co., 1881. New York, NY. Office supplies; printing of cipher
books.
George, James, 6/1893. Newark, NJ. Copper plating.
German Land & Cattle Co., 1/1/1889. San Francisco, CA. Statement of assets;
prospectus.
Gerstmann, S., 4/20/1888. New York, NY. Investment offer.
Gickow, S. W., 3/1/1891. St. Augustine, FL. Hotel forwarded letters to H. M.
Flagler.
Giffing, J. F., 7/18/1891. New York, NY. Real estate offer in city.
Gilbough, J. W., 1890-1893. New York, NY. Broker; investment offers;
municipal bonds.
Gilder, Farr & Co., 1888-1890. New York, NY. Brokers; investment offers.
Gill, John, 5/10/1892-12/1892. Baltimore, MD. Potomac Valley Railroad Co.
bonds.
Gilman & Co., 2/7/1888. St. Paul, MN. Wholesale house; investment offer.
Gilsey, A. F., 2/20/1891. New York, NY. Real estate offer in city.
Giovannini, Madame, 6/20/1890. New York, NY. Regarding money and bonds
she placed with JDR.
Folder 572, Gleason-Gruenther. 79pp.
Gleason, C. W., 2/16/1893. New York, NY. Request for loan; broker of iron
mines.
Gleichner, L, 10/18/1891. Pomona, CA. Offer of gold and silver mining lands in
Arizona.
Goble, L. S., 9/16/1890. New York, NY. Insurance premium for W. E. Clarke.
Goldman, Leon, 3/21/1892. New York, NY. Seeks interview.
Gorham, J. M., 5/5-8/1890. Cleveland, OH. Washboard trust plan.
Gostling, C. P., 2/3/1893. Bellaire, OH. Cement industry investment offer.
Gould, George J., 1892. New York, NY. Wabash St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
Co. proxy; conflict with O. D. Ashley.
Gould, Jay, 1889. Unidentified location. Article on plans for Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Co. and Richmond West Point Terminal Railway &
Warehouse Co.; H. K. Enos.
Gracie, A., 4/1892. New York, NY. Investment in irrigation project in Texas.
Grady, C. P., 9/1886-9/1890. Baltimore, MD, and Duluth, Minnesota. Real
estate broker; offers coal and timberlands in West Virginia and iron ore lands
in Minnesota and Canada.
Graham, E. S., 5/16/1891. Graham, TX. Railroad investment offer; extension of
Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Co.
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Granger, S. O., 12/22/1891. Cartersville, GA. Iron mine offer in Georgia;
Etowah Iron Co.
Grant Brothers, 1/31/1891. New York, NY. Investment offer.
Gray, C. L, 1/28/1892. New York, NY. New York Bank Note Co.; wants to bid
on New York Transit Co. bond engraving and printing.
Gray, J. D., 5/14/1890. Astoria, OR. Real estate offer for shipbuilding plant.
Greenwood, A. G., 7/24/1893. Chicago, IL. Offers gold mine investment in
South Dakota.
Gregory, G. F., 2/10/1888. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co., domestic trade
department; railroad scheme of Dalrymple brothers.
Grey, W., 9/1890. London, England. Railroad investment offer in England;
Midland Tramways Co.
Griffin, A., 3/6/1893. Washington, D.C. Automatic car coupler invention.
Grover, W. G., 12/24/1886. Hamer, NC. Mineral investment offer in North
Carolina.
Grovesteen, W., 8/25/1891. New York, NY. Investment offer.
Griscom, C. A., 1889-1892. Philadelphia, PA. Borrowed $220,000 for purchase
of Standard Oil Trust shares; International Navigation Co.; Northern Pacific
Railroad Co. construction of whaleback steamers.
Griswold, C, 6/19/1885. New York, NY. Steel mill investment offer; Albany &
Rensselaer Iron & Steel Co.
Gruaz, T., 1889-1890. East St. Louis, IL. Coal, salt, and farm lands investment
offers in Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri.
Guenther, E. G., 10/7/1881. Cleveland, OH. Bookbinding receipt.
Folder 573, Hagan-Hatch. 137pp.
Hagan, C. L., 1892. Charleston, WV. Coal lands in West Virginia.
Haine, L. J., undated. Unidentified location. Request for loan on Standard Oil
Co. stock.
Hall, A. S., 11/25/1889. Baltimore, NY. Offers orange grove investment in
Florida.
Hall, J., 8/29/1893. New York, NY. Manufacturing investment offer.
Hall, W. B., 10/26/1886. Cleveland, OH. Receipt for sale of shares of Britton
Iron & Steel Co. to H. C. Rouse.
Halls, W., 7/2-9/1886. New York, NY. Receipts for payment on call loans;
Hanover National Bank.
Hamilton, A., 1/21/1890. Etna, Ga. Offers ore lands in Georgia.
Hamilton, E. P., 2/14/1890. New York, NY. Offers real estate near Cleveland,
OH.
Hamilton, J. L., 6/9/1890. Hopeston, IL. Bond offer for Georgia railroad.
Hammond, C. A., 7/25/1891. Boston, MA. Investment offer in Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn Railroad; competition with Boston & Maine Railroad.
Hammond W. I., 3/11/1891. New York, NY. Sends information on W.P. Rand
Co. of Chicago, IL.
Hanna, Marcus A. and H. M., 3/1887-8/1893. Cleveland, OH. Loans from JDR;
purchased iron ore from JDR mines.
Hannahs, J. M., 4/1886-5/1893. New York, NY. Broadway elevated railway
scheme; Chicago, IL, elevated railway scheme.
Hanover National Bank, 1886-1893. New York, NY. Dividend checks; interest
rates on loans.
Harkness, C. W., 11/11/1893; Cleveland, OH. Appointment with JDR.
Harkness, D. M., 1884. Unidentified location. JDR loan on Standard Oil Trust
shares.
Harkness, S. V., 4/4/1886-2/8/1888. Cleveland, OH. Proposes pipeline for
Cincinnati, OH, water supply; accepts investment share in steamship
company.
Harper, W. R., 3/3/1888. New Haven, CT. Sends stock in Hebrew Society;
Correspondence School of Hebrew.
Harraman & Tuttle, 2/17-27/1891. New York, NY. Quigley, Harraman & Tuttle,
bankers and brokers; offer bonds.
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Harris, Robert, 1882-1891. New York, NY. Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,
president; proxies; relations with other railroads; applies for job as president,
Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Co.
Harrison, D. F., 6/14/1890-7/14/1890. Ringgold, PA. Offers coal lands in PA.
Harrison, James, 6/29/1886-7/20/1886. Atlanta, GA. Marble quarry business
opportunity in GA; brochure of Seattle, WA, Board of Trade.
Hassall, W. S., 11/1889-2/1890. Philadelphia, PA. Iron lands development in
Pennsylvania; brother-in-law of T. Tolman.
Hatch & Foote, 1893. New York, NY. Investment offers; bankers.
Hatch, J. L, 9/7/1893. Rochester, NY. Offers coal .lands in West Virginia.
Folder 574, Hay-Houghton. 144pp.
Hay, W. G., 8/13/1889. Uniontown, PA. Electric power plant offer.
Hayen, G. A., 1/3/1888. New York, NY. Offers municipal bonds in Kansas for
extension of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.
Hayes, J. O., 1892. Ironwood, Ml. Loan renewal and collateral; Ashland Iron
Mining Co.
Hayes, S. C, 10/28/1890. Philadelphia, PA. Offers lands in New Jersey.
Hayes, W.J. & Sons, 4/12/1888-10/10/1892. Cleveland, OH. Offers Ohio state
bonds; Superior, Wl, Rapid Transit Railway Co. bonds.
Hays, J. S., 7/1890-1/1893. Cleveland, OH. Offers mineral lands in Colorado;
owes JDR money.
Hedenberg, J. W., 3/15/1890. Washington, D.C. Offers syndicate participation;
legislation.
Hedges, E. C, 2/6/1890. Denver, CO. Offers investments in Denver real estate.
Hedrick, H. R., 12/4/1890. Tacoma, WA. Offers farm mortgages in Washington.
Height, H. B., 2/15/1890. Troy, NY. Offers farmland and tannery.
Henderson, J., 2/1887-3/1887. New York, NY. Has Bessemer process patents.
Herbert, W. P., 5/18/1887. New York, NY. Has patents for producing gas from
wood.
Herrick, H. H., 4/7/1891. New York, NY. Offers mortgages in city.
Heyward, W. N., 1/25/1890. Hardeeville, SC. Has fiber plant that surpasses
jute.
Hilands, W. J., 1890-1893. Cleveland, OH. Investment offers in Virginia, Ohio,
and Colorado real estate and mortgages; stocks.
Hill, E. A., 5/2/1891. Cincinnati, OH. Ground rent offer in Cleveland, OH;
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.
Hill, J. H., 10/1889. Sioux City, I A. Offers coal and gas lands in Iowa and
Wyoming; Sioux City & Wyoming Coal & Oil Land Co.
Hillam, J. H., 1892-1893. New York, NY. Offers business investments.
Hillyer, M. P., 1893. Topeka, KS. Offers investment in railroad in Tenessee and
Alabama.
Hitchcock, P. M., 4/1886-6/1888. Cleveland, OH. Offers coal lands in Virginia
and real estate in California H. M. Flagler acquaintance.
Hitchings, H. M., 10/28/1889. New York, NY. Essick Printing Telegraph stock
offer.
Hobson, A. A., 3/13/1891. Bristol, TN. Offers coal land in Kentucky.
Holbrooks, F. W., 5/1888-6/1888. New York, NY. Offers land investment;
pneumatic tube device.
Hoiroun, J. L, 5/30/1890. Charleston, SC. Offers cottonseed oil mill investment
at Florence, SC.
Holden, L. S., 2/21/1890. St. Louis, MO. Offers land in Forest Park.
Holgate, G., 11/8-14/1893. Philadelphia, PA. New process for manufacturing
white lead; Association of American Inventors.
Holland, J., 2/12/1889. Baltimore, MD. Offers gas system investment in
Baltimore.
Hollins & Co., 1890. New York, NY. Investment offers; railroad bonds.
Hollister & Babcock, 1891. New York, NY. Investment offers; St. Paul &
Northern Pacific Railway Co. bonds.
Hollister, U. S., 1/19/1891. New York, NY. Mortgage offers.
Holt, J. W., 8/21/1889. Moshannon, PA. Offers coal lands in Pennsylania.
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Hopper, G. H., 2/20/1891. New York, NY. Railroad investment offer; Standard
Oil Co. employee.
Horton, E. F., 8/21/1891. Cleveland, OH. Offers coal lands in Alabama; Gulf
Coke & Coal Co.
Hotchkiss, C. A , 1/1891-11/1891. Bridgeport, CT, and Baltimore, MD.
Investment offer for Baltimore nut and bolt factory.
Houghton, H. C, 1893. New York, NY. Payments on mortgages.
Howard, C, 6/9/1893. Chicago, IL. Looking for a position with a railroad.
Howard, D. B., 9/28/1888. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. payments to
Western Union Telegraph Co. for August.
Howard, D. C, 3/3/1890-10/14/1892. Cleveland, OH. Offers Western rock salt
mine; offers real estate development bonds in Washington.
Reels
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Folder 575, Hoyt, Colgate, July 1882-September 1886.94pp.
New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; brokers; Union Pacific Railroad Co.;
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co.; railroad stocks; loan margin account; political
activities; iron mining properties in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Folder 576, Hoyt, Colgate, October 1886-1887.87pp.
New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; brokers; Union Pacific Railroad Co.;
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co.; railroad stocks; loan margin account; political
activities; iron mining properties in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Folder 577, Hoyt, Colgate, 1888-February 1889.83pp.
New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; brokers; Union Pacific Railroad Co.;
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co.; railroad stocks; loan margin account; political
activities; iron mining properties in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Folder 578, Hoyt, Colgate, April 1889-April 1890.90pp.
New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; brokers; Union Pacific Railroad Co.;
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co.; railroad stocks; loan margin account; political
activities; iron mining properties in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Folder 579, Hoyt, Colgate, May 1890-1893.77pp.
New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; brokers; Union Pacific Railroad Co.;
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.; Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co.; railroad stocks; loan margin account; political
activities; iron mining properties in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Folder 580, Hoyt, E.-Hymer. 81 pp.
Hoyt, Elton, 1888-1892. Cleveland, OH. Cashing coupons from Florida
investment; brokers.
Hoyt, George, 4/13/1888. Cleveland, OH. Offers investment in new Cleveland
trust company.
Hoyt, J. H., 1892. Cleveland, OH. Offers Western Reserve National Bank Co.
stock conditioned on business brought to bank; illness of Colgate Hoyt;
consolidation of Ml and Wl iron mines.
Hubby, F. W., 7/28/1891. Cleveland, OH. Offers investment in California; Bear
Valley Irrigation Co.
Huck, W. W., 6/26/1893. New Orleans, LA. South American steamship line
offer.
Hudson, W. T., 1888. New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. and
JDR office information.
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Huffman, G. P., 5/12/1891. Dayton, OH. Sewing machine company bonds;
Davis Sewing Machine Co.
Hughes, J. H., 4/5/1891. Philadelphia, PA. Offers timberlands in Pennsylvania.
Hull, F. A., 12/6/1886. Danbury, CT. Offers timberlands in Kentucky and
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Huntington, É., 10/21/1890-11/6/1893. New York, NY. Sending $1,000 on
deposit with JDR.
Hutchins, H. A., 12/1885-1/1893. Cleveland, OH. Investment possibilities;
loans to Hutchins; Standard Oil Co. treasurer.
Hutchinson, G., 6/1889-6/1890. New York, NY. Smelting investment offer;
steam engine patent.
Hyman, T. J., 4/4/1888. Milwaukee, Wl. Wisconsin Central Associated Lines
earnings.
Hymer, I. B., 4/23/1886. New York, NY. Investment opportunity.
Folder 581, "I." 93pp.
Idlewild Fruit Co., 1890. Citra, FL. Articles of Incorporation and annual report.
Illinois Steel Co., 1889. Chicago, IL. Consolidation with Union Steel Co.
Importers & Traders National Bank, 3/7/1884. New York, NY. JDR loan
cancelled note.
Indiana Pipe Line Co., 3/15/1893. New York, NY. Notice of dividend declared.
Inman & International Steamship Co., 1887-1890. Liverpool, England. JDR
stock purchases.
International & Mortgage Bank of Mexico, 1886. New York, NY. Prospectus for
stock offering.
Inslee, D. K., 4/4/1891. Fairhaven, WA. Offers real estate investments.
Irish, W. E., 10/1/1890. Brooklyn Village, OH. Offers investment in inventions
and patents; United Electric Co.
Ivés, B., 3/25/1886. New York, NY. Statement of Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,
1885-1886; brokers.
Ives, W. I., 11/30/1892. New York, NY. Forwards prospectus for unidentified
metal import business firm.
Folder 582, Jackson-Jennings Trust Co. 57pp.
Jackson, J. R., 8/1890-9/1890. Chicago, IL. Real estate broker; offers feeder
cattle investment in Montana and Texas.
B. F. Jacobs & Co., 1892. Chicago, IL. Canal and rail facilities for sale; real
ßstatö brokGr
James, C. T., 10/17/1891. New York, NY. Real estate broker.
James, F. W., 8/27/1885. Baird, TX. Offers bank stock.
James, J.G., 1885. Wichita Falls, TX. Offers bank stock.
Jaques, C. W., 10/7/1893. Ashtabula, OH. Requests information on steel plant
investment.
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Co., 1888-1889. New York, NY. Broker; offers
securities.
Jefferys, W., 7/1888-9/1890. New York, NY. Railroad bridge companycrossing Hudson at Peekskill; Hudson Suspension Bridge & New England
Railway Co.
Jenkins, J. A., 10/4/1893. New York, NY. Accounting of vouchers for JDR
investments.
Jennings Trust Co., 11/4/1892. Chicago, IL. Check enclosed for railway bond.
Folder 583, Jesup & Lamont, 1882-1885.84pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 584, Jesup & Lamont, 1886-1887.96pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
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Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 585, Jesup & Lamont, 1888-1889.83pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
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Folder 586, Jesup & Lamont, January-July 1890.102pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
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Folder 587, Jesup & Lamont, August-December 1890.72pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul. Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 588, Jesup & Lamont, 1891.102pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 589, Jesup & Lamont, 1892 (Grouped by Security). 61 pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 590, Jesup & Lamont, 1892 (General). 73pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 591, Jesup & Lamont, 1893 (Grouped by Security). 109pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
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Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
Folder 592, Jesup & Lamont, 1893 (General). 85pp.
New York, NY. Brokers; account balances; railroad stocks; market conditions;
cipher codes; margin accounts; Standard Oil Trust; Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway Co.; Richmond & West Point Terminal; Richmond &
Danville Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad;
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern bonds; Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway bonds.
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Folder 593, Jocelyn-Jones & Pratt. 113pp.
Jocelyn, A. H., 2/3/1891. New York, NY. Railroad and land scheme of Ogden
Pell.
Johnsen, C. G., 1/1890-11/1891. New Orleans, LA. Sugarcane processing
scheme.
Johnson, F. R., 12/1888-5/1889. New York, NY. Offers securities; broker.
Johnson, G. B., 5/1888-1/1894. New York, NY. Loans by JDR on Standard Oil
Trust and Natural Gas Trust collateral; Standard Oil Co. employee.
Joliet Steel Co., 1889-1890. Chicago, IL. Stockholder notices.
Jones, C. W., 10/3/1887. New York, NY. Payment on Frank Rockefeller loan.
Jones, E. D., 4/1883-1/1886. New York, NY. Offers securities; broker.
Jones, S. M., 7/31/1889. Baird, TX. Railroad enterprise in Texas.
Jones & Pratt, 12/11/1886. Atlanta, GA. Cottonseed oil mill; brokers.
Folder 594, Jordan-Judson. 50pp.
Jordan, W. T., 3/1890-7/1893. Denver, CO. Investigates real estate mortgage
opportunities in Denver; Continental Oil Co. employee.
Joseph, I., 8/22/1890. New York, NY. Offers real estate on Wall Street.
Joslyn, O. W., 1/1886-10/1890. New York, NY. Offers securities.
Judson, E., 3/18/1893. New York, NY. Acknowledges statement of account;
Memorial Baptist Church pastor.
Folder 595, "K." 58pp.
Kasson, C. V., 3/18/1889. Chicago, IL. Asks JDR to endorse Otis elevators in
Cleveland.
Keeler, H. R., 1890-1891. Cleveland, OH. Used insurance policies as collateral
for JDR loan.
Keith, B., 1888. New York, NY. Irrigation scheme in Arizona.
Keith, Walter L., 6/17/1892. Cleveland, OH. Offers investment in product from
oil refuse.
Kemp, W., 2/24/1888. Troy, NY. Troy Steel & Iron Co.; sending interest
payment.
Francis B. Kemp & Co., 5/1/1890. Roanoke, VA. Real estate agents.
Kent, G. H., 5/1/1885. New York, NY. Announcement of move; South
Pennsylvania Railroad Syndicate.
Kimball, G. H., 11/1889. Cleveland, OH. Pensacola & Memphis Railroad
investment offer; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. chief
engineer.
King, E. W., 2/8/1892. Great Falls, MT. Great Falls Water Co. investment offer.
King, H. R., 4/19/1889. New York, NY. Offers real estate in city.
King, John H., 10/13/1891. Washington, D.C. Offers investment in cement plant
in South Dakota.
King, John S., 11/22/1890. Chicago, IL. Offers real estate in Chicago.
Kingston, P., 4/1/1891. Princeton, NJ. Offers investment in rapid transit system.
Kinsman, F. E., 3/11/1891. New York, NY. Railroad signal system inventor and
patentee.
Kintner, C. J., 11/13/1893. New York, NY. Telephone exchange invention.
Kissle, A., 5/13/1886.New York, NY. Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway
& Warehouse Co.; banker.
Kline, A., 12/22/1892. New York, NY. Grain business.
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Kountze Brothers, 6/16/1885. New York, NY. Offer Omaha, NE, and other
municipal bonds; bankers.
Knox, A., 10/31/1893. Seattle, WA. Iron ore lands in Washington.
W. C. Knox & Co., 9/8/1888. Topeka, KS. Offers real estate in Kansas.
Kraetzer, J. M., 12/25/1893. West Acton, MA. Requests information on oil
côrtif ÍCat6S
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Kraft, W. D., 6/28/1893. New York, NY. Offers Brooklyn City Railroad stock;
Standard Oil Co. employee.
Folder 596, H. L.-Lathrop, Smith & Oliphant. 40pp.
H[enry?] L[ewis?], 11/29/1886. Unidentified location. Reports on oil find and oil
prices.
Labb, Mrs. L. D., 1/6/1891. Cleveland, OH. Asks for check.
Lamb, H., 8/10/1889. Augusta, GA. Seeks loan for wholesale grocery business.
Lamotte, T. A., 8/9/1893. Philadelphia, PA. Skating equipment manufacturing
investment.
Lamprecht Brothers & Co., 1/18/1893. New York, NY. Offer securities; New
Haven & West Haven Horse Railroad Co.; municipal bonds; bankers.
Landell, W. I., 3/24/1891. Tacoma, WA. Home furnishings dealer investment
offer.
Langl, E., 3/31/1890. New York, NY. Printing company consolidation
investment offer.
Lanyon, J. B., 9/19/1890. Englewood, IL. Western mineral lands offer.
H. Lapsley & Co., 1/24/1888. New York, NY. Railroad bonds; brokers.
Lattenberger, C. C, 10/19/1889. Nashville, TN. Nashville Pottery Co.
investment offer.
Larremore, W., 4/11/1888. New York, NY. Attorney; regarding Dr. [Thomas?]
Armitage's account.
Lawrence, W. A., 1887-1891. New York, NY. Investment offers; Natural Gas
Trust; broker.
Lawson, L. M., 1889-1890. New York, NY. Banker; Kansas City, MO water
works investment; Pillsbury flour mills consolidation.
Lathrop, Smith, & Oliphant, 1888. New York, NY. Investment offer; railroad
bonds.
Folder 597, Leather Manufacturers' National Bank, 1883-1890.56pp.
New York, NY. Deposit slips; Edwin Butler letters informing JDR his account is
overdrawn.0820
Folder 598, Leatherbee-Lockhart. 41 pp.
Leatherbee, W. A., 11/16/1891. Boston, MA. Lumber company investment in
West Virginia.
Le Cronier, G., 8/9-13/1890. New York, NY. Proposes purchase of Union Ferry
Co. of Brooklyn.
Lee, M. G., 7/29/1893-8/15/1893. Terre Haute, IN. Oil lands in Wyoming.
Leech, M. F., 7/11/1889-9/1/1889. Boulder, CO. Mining property in Idaho.
Leonard, Georgia F., 8/21/1888. Cambridgeport, MA. Requests donation for
Clinton College, Clinton, KY.
Leslie, D. E., 1883-1889. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. accountant and
auditor; JDR accounts with Standard Oil Co.
Leverich, C. D., 7/1/1889. New York, NY. Offers brokerage service.
Lewis, Henry, 1887-1888. New York, NY. Reports on oil market activity and oil
prices.
Lewis, Mrs. J. B., 5/3/1886. New York, NY. Requests interview.
Leypoldt, F., 3/7/1887. Milwaukee, Wl. Offers Metropolitan Iron & Land Co.
stock.
Libbey, W., 2/16/1893. New York, NY. Requests letter of introduction for his
son in Cuba.
Lincoln, G. H., 1890-1893. New York, NY. Offers Standard Oil Trust stock;
market conditions.
Lindburgh, W., 5/5/1890. Jersey City, NJ. Offers investment in antimony mines
in Arizona
Little, S., 7/8/1889. New York, NY. Cement source investment proposal.
Lockhart, C, 7/6/1885. Pittsburgh, PA. Coded message.
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Folder 599, Logan, T. M., 1883-1888.117pp.
New York, NY. Richmond & Danville Railroad Co.; Richmond & West Point
Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co.; JDR investment; negotiations over
stock subscriptions; trading on inside information; earnings data; market
manipulation; dissident shareholders committee.
Folder 600, Lombard-Lysle. 29pp.
Lombard, W. A., 7/5/1893. New York, NY. Banker; offers stock in banks in
Washington and Texas.
Long, E. C, 8/29/1893. St. Paul, MN. Financial assistance request; railway and
building contractors.
Long, J. S ., 12/2/1889. Louisville, KY. Long Island, NY, real estate offer.
Lothridge, A. L., 12/1886-2/1889. New York, NY. Setting appointment; thanks
for Standard Oil Trust stock distribution to employees.
Lounsbery & Co., 1/19/1888. New York, NY. Offers stock in Utah mining
companies; broker; Daly Mining Co.
Benjamin E. Lower & Co., 3/24/1890. Denver, CO. Offers investments in real
estate mortgages and mining stocks; Magnolia Gold & Silver Mining Co.
Lunty, D., 4/28/1891. Cleveland, OH. Rental of safe deposit box; Savings &
Trust Co.
Lysle, R., 5/29/1889. Tiffin, OH. Offers real estate; board of trade secretary.
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Folder 601, MacArthur-Marston. 138pp.
MacArthur, R. S., 2/9/1891. New York, NY. Calvary Baptist Church minister
introduces M. A. Shaw regarding Southern real estate.
McClave, E. A., 7/14/1885. Long Island, NY. Yellow pine mills in Georgia and
Florida.
McCook, J. J., 7/8/1889. New York, NY. Railroad stockholder proposes railroad
trust.
McCreedy, W. H., undated. Cleveland, OH. Requests influence with railroad.
McCreery, J. H., 3/2/1886. Pittsburgh, PA. Offers soft coal lands in
Pennsylvania
McCutcheon, C. L, 10/21/1890. Pittsburgh, PA. Urges investment in natural
gas company; broker.
McDonald, A., 11/22/1890. Cincinnati, OH. Urges Charles Schiff be given
position on railroad; Consolidated Tank Line Co. president.
McDonald, Ella J., 9/16/1884. Brooklyn, NY. JDR contribution to Free
Dispensary in New York, NY.
McDonald, S. A., 1891-1893. Cleveland, OH. Loan from JDR to buy Standard
Oil Trust and Natural Gas Trust certificates; Standard Oil Co. employee.
McDonnell, W. B., 2/8/1892. New York, NY. Gas well and potash salt deposits.
McGregor, A. M., 3/18/1886. New York, NY. Regarding new refining process;
Standard Oil Co. manufacturing committee.
McGregor, A. M., 8/20/1890. New York, NY. Mikado Fruit & Raisin Co.
prospectus from Fresno, CA.
McGuire, P. F., 1885-1887. Cleveland, OH. Payment on loan from JDR.
Macintosh & Co., 11/25/1892. Boston, MA. Oranges wanted from grove in
Citra, FL.
Mclntosh, H. P., 1887-1891. Cleveland, OH. Investment offer in Canadian
Copper Co.
McKay, T. H., 3/27/1891. New York, NY. Offers real estate in Tennessee.
McKey, M. A., 6/15/1892. New York, NY, and Mendota, IL. Introduces G. H.
Locey; offers bonds for coal mine in Illinois.
McKinley, A., 11/14/1892. Canton, OH. Letter of introduction from W. McKinley.
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McLean, A., 1885-1887. New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Sent cash;
received Standard Oil Trust shares.
MacLean, S., 1/1890-2/1891. New York, NY. Broker; offers railroad and bank
stocks.
MacNair, J. S., 3/19/1891. Battle Creek, Ml. Railroad project in West Virginia
coal fields.
MacNutt, H., 5/17/1892. New York, NY. Atlantic Coast Canal Co. contractor; H.
M. Plagier interested in firm.
MacPherson, J. W., 5/1887. Unidentified location. Dividend to cover margin
account; broker.
MacRae, C, 2/8/1881. New York, NY. Receipt for purchase money on property
in city.
Mack, W. P., 2/15-27/1890. Boston, MA. Elevated railroad charter proposer
wants letter of support.
Madden, W. J., 9/1887-11/1888. New York, NY. Insurance investment offer;
Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mahony & Martin, 6/30/1891. Columbus, OH. Offers real estate in Columbus;
real estate agents.
Malcom, G. I., 1/5/1894. New York, NY. Offers stocks; broker.
Mansfield, I. H., 10/13/1888. Cleveland, OH. Linseed oil and cottonseed oil
processing invention; Standard Oil Co. employee.
Marple, H. M., 11/10/1890. Syracuse, NY. North American Phosphate Co.
investment offer.
Marston, E. L, 5/1889-12/1892. Fort Worth, TX, Kansas City, MO, and New
York, NY. Member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church; Texas & Pacific Coal Co.;
natural gas properties; Fidelity Trust Co.; bond offerings; Blair & Co.,
Bankers; municipal bonds; University of Chicago endowment; railroad
bonds.
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Masterton, R. S., 6/15/1893. New York, NY. Anthracite coal offer on line of
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.
Matthews, J. S., 11/21/1890. New York, NY. Offers real estate in city.
Mattison, W. R., 9/1887-11/1889. New York, NY. Insurance agent; Mutual Life
Assurance Co. of New York.
Mayer, Charles F., 2/27/1892. Baltimore, MD. Valley Railway Co. of Ohio
investment; interest of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
Mayfield, Mrs., 7/19/1893. New York, NY. Seeks information on Western
railroads associated with Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
Maynard, G. C, 8/4-14/1891. Washington, D.C. Sending checks for account of
J. D. Reid, U.S. Consul, Dunfermline, Scotland.
Mellen, W. S., 6/24/1893. Asks about John Chesholm; job applicant to Northern
Pacific Railroad Co. endorsed by JDR.
Meredith, W. T., 11/9/1889. New York, NY. Offers real estate in NJ.
Merrell, H., 7/7/1889 [1899]. Chicago, IL. Building plans for hotels near
Asheville, NC.
Merrill, J. W., 11/1890-12/1890. Wilmington, IL. Offers coal lands.
Metcalf, C, 5/23/1882. Unidentified location. Dividend statement.
Metropolitan Real Estate Co., 6/5/1888. New York, NY. Offer to buy mortgages.
Michigan Central Railroad, undated, ca. 1890. New York, NY. Circular
containing bond offering.
Miles, G. E., 1/7/1891. New York, NY. Requests interview for C. P. Huntington.
Miller, C. W., 8/1885-9/1890. Franklin, PA. Plans for railroad in Kentucky;
Hammond Beef Packing Co.; Galena Oil Works.
Miller, G. C, 3/15/1892. Newark, NJ. Offers investment in Central America.
Miller, J. B., 11/1890-6/1892. New York, NY. Offers railroad bonds; Scottish
Land & Colonization Co. of Missouri.
Miller, R., 4/4/1888. Unidentified location. Railroad strike settled in West.
Mulhouse, J. H., 2/20/1891. Philadelphia, PA. Asks loan of $1,000,000.
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Mills, H. O., 8/15/1893. New York, NY. Business investment offer.
Minister, R. H., 6/12/1893. Cincinnati, OH. Land scheme in California.
Minnesota Iron Co., 10/26/1887-July 1,1891. New York, NY. JDR proxy;
earnings statements.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co., 1890. Unidentified location. Earnings
projections; bond coupons.
Mohr, F., 11/25/1890. New York, NY. Amount of note owed by W. Smith.
Monroe, J., 10/11/1886. New York, NY. Asks $600,000 loan.
Moore, C. S., 1887-1893. Cleveland, OH. JDR helped her buy Standard Oil
Trust and Natural Gas Trust stock.
Moore, E. W., 12/4/1890. Cleveland, OH. Offerte buy Cleveland Driving Park
stock.
Morehead & Ogden, 4/1/1890. New York, NY. Meeting request.
Morehouse, H. L, 5/10/1891. New York, NY. Collateral for loan by JDR;
American Baptist Home Mission Society.
Morgan, Smith & Co., 4/11/1892. Pittsburgh, PA. Offers coal lands.
Morris, H. J., 9/9/1886. Cleveland, OH. Payment on note.
Morris, W. M., 10/1893. New York, NY. Wants loan on hotel.
Morrison, D. M., 1/12/1893. New York, NY. Asks for proxy; Washington Trust
Co.
Morley, J. H., 1/17/1891. Cleveland, OH. Offers railroad stock; Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad Co.
Morse, Mitchell & Williamson, 2/10/1891. Chicago, IL. Asks for loan for jewelry
business.
Morton, F. T., 10/9/1889. Boston, MA. Marble for sale; investment offer.
Moss, Charles H., 12/31/1892. Minneapolis, MN. Real estate investment offer.
Mount Desert & Eastern Shore Land Co., 6/15/1888. New York, NY.
Prospectus.
Müller, A. H. & Son, 5/1890. New York, NY. Auction announcement.
Mundy, J. S., 1/17/1887. Binghamton, NY. Offers pine lands in Wl and MN.
Murphy, B., 6/26/1885. Cleveland, OH. Feed bill for horses.
Murray, L., undated. New York, NY. Crown Copper Mining Co. of NH.
Musgrove, L. B., 2/9/1891. Jasper, AL. Offers pine and coal lands in AL.
Myers, E., 1887. New York, NY. Broker; purchase and sale of stock shares.
Folder 603, "N." 96pp.
National City Bank of New York, 10/3/1893. New York, NY. Statement of
condition of bank.
Natural Gas Trust, 1890-1891. New York, NY. Dividend notices; secret stock
purchases.
Neisweinger, J. E., 4/9/1887. Chicago, IL. Offers iron mines in Ml.
Neummann [sp?] S, A. F., 9/7/1892 Sandusky, OH. Washable paper invention.
New England Phonograph Co., 11/16/1888. Unidentified location. Prospectus;
American Graphophone Co.
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co., 12/23/1887. New York, NY.
Proxy.
New York Central Sleeping Car Co., 12/1886. New York, NY. Stockholders
meeting.
New York Guaranty & Indemnity Co., undated. New York, NY. Announcement
of move.
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co., 12/18/1890. New York, NY.
Executive order no. 23.
New York Security & Trust Co., 6/30/1893. New York, NY. Statement of
condition.
New York Stock Exchange, 1885-1893. New York, NY. Notices; rule changes.
Newton, J. L., 3/30/1889. Cleveland, OH. Crude oil use for locomotives.
Niles, L. H., 12/30/1887. New York, NY. London stock exchange open for
transactions
Noble, H. E., 7/15/1890. Lincoln, NE. Offers farm lands in NE.
Northern Pacific Railroad, 1884-1891. New York, NY. JDR participation in
Belmont syndicate; Henry Villard; earnings; statements.
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Northwest Equipment Co. of Minnesota, 1892-1893. New York, NY. Dividends.
Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co., 4/11/1891. Fostoria, OH. Dividend notices.
Nott, G. H., 7/18-26/1887. Chicago, IL. Plans for Chicago sewer system.
Noyes, W. C, 2/14/1888. New York, NY. Broker; offers to buy Fifth Avenue
Transportation Co. stock.
Folder 604, "O." 94pp.
Oakwam, W. G., 12/30/1884. New York, NY. Sending Richmond & West Point
Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co. trust loan subscription.
O'Day, Daniel, 1885-1890. New York, NY. National Transit Co.; purchase of
Standard Oil Trust certificates for employees; gas business; real estate
investment offer in Toledo, OH; executive committee.
Odell, A. S. & E., 12/10/1879. New York, NY. Purchase of horse.
Ohio Oil Co., 5/2/1893. Oil City, PA. Stockholders' meeting.
Olcott, F. P., 3/1/1892. New York, NY. Syndicate agreement for Richmond &
West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co.
Olds, E. W., 7/23/1879. Pittsburgh, PA. Offers timber, coal, and oil lands in
West Virginia.
Oliphant, W. L, 1/15/1891. New York, NY. Union Investment Co. of New
Jersey; meeting announcement.
Oliver, H. W., 4/1890-4/1891. Pittsburgh, PA. Loan from JDR; Oliver Iron &
Steel Co.
Olleman, E. A., 1/5/1887. Waverly, IN. Horse breeding farm investment offer.
Olmsted, M. S., 9/24/1885. Harrisburg, PA. Attorney; case in court of common
pleas; railroad stocks.
Olney, C, 10/19/1893. New York, NY. Bank of New York loan to JDR.
Olson, C, 4/13/1891. New York, NY. Receipt for Standard Oil Trust certificates.
Opoteca Silver Mines Co., ca. 1889. Republic of Honduras. Prospectus.
Oregon & Transcontinental Co., 9/19/1885. New York, NY. JDR loans to
company; Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., 6/25/1889. Portland, OR. Proxy fight;
income statements.
Oregon Short Line, 6/15/1885. Cleveland, OH. Summary of JDR investments in
bonds of company through various brokers.
Orr, A. E., 3/21/1891. New York, NY. Asks value of American Steel Barge Co.
stock.
Orvis Brothers & Co., 1/28/1886. New York, NY. Stock sale of Standard Oil
Trust.
Osborn, E. W., 1886-1888. Cleveland, OH. Britton Iron & Steel Co.; loans from
JDR.
Ostrander, F. A., 10/14-16/1889. Troy, NY. Offers Troy Steel & Iron Co. stock.
Otis, C. A., 6/22/1889. Cleveland, OH. Proposed sale of Otis Iron & Steel Co.
property to English investors.
Otto, John & Son, 4/16/1887. Buffalo, NY. Offers municipal bonds.
Owen, A. K., 11/7/1889. New York, NY. Mexican railroad scheme.
Folder 605, C. P.-Peck. 105pp.
C. P., 1891. Cleveland, OH. Coal lands purchase proposal of P. M. Hitchcock.
Page, E. S., 11/4/1890. Cleveland, OH. Plans for typesetting machine;
investment offer; Cleveland Rolling Mill Co.
Page, F. S., 1891-1894. New York, NY. Proxies and statement of condition
from Washington Trust Co.
Paine, A. G., 3/4/1887-April 26,1887. New York, NY. Investment offer in sugar
refining process.
Paine, S. H., 12/1888-12/1893. New York, NY. Bought Standard Oil Trust stock
with loan from JDR; Standard Oil Co. lubricating oil western sales
department; Vacuum Oil Co.; inter-trust competition.
Pallock, S., 4/23/1887. Washington, D.C. Offers stock in anti-foreign, antiCatholic paper The American Flag.
Palmer, E. H., 5/15/1889. Boston, MA. Asks return of letter.
Paret, J., 2/7/1887. New York, NY. Investment offer.
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Parsons, J. B., 2/27/1889. Cleveland, OH. Offers stock in Lake Erie Tobacco
Co.
Parke, William A., 1891. New York, NY. Organizer of Yellow Pine Co.; seeks
investors.
Pate, W., 3/15/1887. Cleveland, OH. Insurance company stock offer.
Patterson, A. S., 1890. New York, NY. Investment offers; former employee of
Standard Oil Co. auditing department; accountancy standards.
Patterson, Richard C, 4/1/1890. Omaha, NE. Banker & broker; offers stocks
and bonds.
Paxson, E. J., 2/3-10/1893. Philadelphia, PA. Request for loan.
Payne O. H., 11/27/1883. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. officer; sends stock
for transfer.
Pearson, R., 5/19-20/1890. New York, NY. Real estate mortgage and hotel
proposal near Asheville, NC.
Pearson, W. H., 1888-1893. New York, NY. Offers stock in New York Produce
Exchange Safe Deposit & Storage Co.; storage of JDR securities in this
bank.
Pechin, E. C, 1/15/1889. Cleveland, OH. Railroad offer in Ohio.
Peck, M., 3/12/1891. New York, NY. Nicaragua Canal notes.
Folder 606, Pedrick-Poor & Greenough. 119pp.
Pedrick, W. E., 1892. New York, NY. Offers Maxwell Land Grant in Colorado
and New Mexico.
Penney, F. D., 5/1/1891. Auburn, NY. Requests aid for young church worker.
Pennock, G. B., undated. Chicago, IL. Prospectus of Pennock Electric Light Co.
Pennsylvania Tube Works, undated. Unidentified location. Description of
company; manufacture of pipe for pipelines.
Perego, A. W., 1/20/?. New York, NY. Real estate offer.
Perkins, D., 12/17/1889. Cleveland, OH. Investment offer in metáis firm; Avery
Stamping Co.
Perkins, J., undated. Joint note; Perkins & Bradley.
Peters, R. G., 10/27/1890. Manistee, Ml. Offers timberlands near Lake
Superior.
Reiffer & Pronick, 3/24/1892. New York, NY. Securities for sale; Railway &
Realty Security Co.
Phelps, E. J., 1890. Minneapolis, MN. Real estate mortgage investment
possibilities in MN; Minnesota Loan & Trust Co.
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., 1886. Philadelphia, PA. Report to junior
bondholder and shareholders on proposed reorganization.
Philharmonic Society, 11/3/1882. Unidentified location. Purchase of tickets.
Phillips, H. G., 1893. Unidentified location. Will send memos to shareholders of
Inman & International Steamship Co.
Pickering, J., 12/28/87. New York, NY. Timberlands investment proposal.
Pickands, Mather & Co., 188&-1887. Cleveland, OH. JDR interest in LaPointe
Iron Co.; iron ore land explorations.
Pierce, H. C, 1890-1893. St. Louis, MO. Loan from JDR; Waters Pierce Oil
Co. stock as collateral.
Pierce, M. F., 5/5/1891. Boston, MA. Offers Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
Railroad stock.
Pinkham, A. C. & Co., 1890-1891. Chicago, IL. Real estate offer in Illinois.
Place, C. B., 12/30/1891. New York, NY. Broker; offers securities.
Platt, W. H., 2/12/1891. New York, NY. Wagon company investment offer.
Plummer, J., 12/22/1890. New York, NY. Real estate investment in New
Jersey.
Pooler, F. W., 6/23/1891. New York, NY. Westchester County real estate
syndicate.
Poor & Greenough, 3/7/1891. New York, NY. Brokers; Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago Railroad; Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Co. reorganization.
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Pope, C. H., 4/20/1889. St. Louis, MO. Offers gold and silver mine in Colorado.
Pope, O. C, 7/31/1890-August 6,1890. New York, NY. Offers to buy stock In
North Alabama Furnace, Foundry & Land Co.; American Baptist Home
Mission Society.
Porter, D. M., 8/24/1893. New York, NY. Attorney; offers legal services.
Porter, H. H., 1883-1889. Chicago, IL. Reorganization of Union Iron & Steel
Co. of Chicago; iron lands in Minnesota; Minnesota Exploration Co.
Post, G. A., 1/6/1893. New York, NY. Banker and broker; asks for brokerage
business.
Positivist, 11/30/1889. New York, NY. New invention for electricity.
Potter & Bro., 9/18/1890. New York, NY. Offers real estate in city.
Potts, W., 5/18/1891. New York, NY. Banker; Continental Trust Co.
Powell, W. C. & Co., 2/13/1888. Wake Forest, NC. Cotton factory investment
offer in North Carolina.
Prather, Anna, 11/25/1885. Cleveland, OH. President of local Women's
Christian Temperance Union; appeals for funding of meetings.
Pratt, C. M., 1882. New York, NY. Bought Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railway Co. bonds from JDR.
Pratt, C, 1882-1889. New York, NY. Investment offers; Standard Oil Trust
stock ownership.
Pratt, E. H., 1892. Chicago, IL. Offers real estate in La Grange, IL.
Pratt, William T., 1890. New York, NY. Offers Portland National Bank stock.
Pray, G. D., 1890. New York, NY. Requests signature for collateral on notes.
Preble, J. Q., 12/23/1892-2/10/1893. New York, NY. New typewriter invention.
Prentiss, L., 1889. Cleveland, OH. Proposes trust for linseed oil business;
Evans process.
Price, J. E., 9/1893. New York, NY. Gold mine investment offer.
Price, W. J., 11/12/1889. Newark, NJ. Elizabeth & Newark Horse Railroad
bonds offer.
Primes, T. K., 12/13/1890. Dwight, IL. Report on crop outcome in territory of
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Provost, S. W., 1890. New York, NY. Railroad building proposal; New York,
Chicago & Council Bluffs Railroad.
Quest, S. S., 1/31/1890. Wellsburg, WV. Offers coal lands in West Virginia.
Folder 608, Randall-Rock. 61 pp.
Randall, C. W., 1/18-30/1890. San Francisco, CA. Real estate offer in
California
Raphael, N. W., 12/19/1889-7/13/1892. New York, NY. Offers Tennessee
power company bonds; investment possibilities.
Rathbone, A. H. & Co., 12/18/1893. New York, NY. Real estate in city.
Redmond, Kerr & Co., 7/27/1893. New York, NY. Investment securities;
bankers.
Reed, J. C, 1/8/1883. New York, NY. Personal estate tax assessment•Lucy
Spelman.
Reed & Flag, 4/25/1890. New York, NY. Railroad securities offer.
Reeves, D. W., 1/25/1890. Yuma, CO. Deed to land; Northwestern Colorado
Colonization & Townsite Co.
Rent, 1881-1882. New York, NY. 56 West 53rd Street; cost of property.
Reid, J. D., 1886-1891. New York, NY, and Dunfermline, Scotland. Payment
on debts to JDR for Standard Oil Trust shares.
Rew, Henry G., 7/27/1891. Chicago, IL. Soft coal handling proposal.
Reynolds, L. W., 9/7/1891. Boone, IA. Interview request.
Rhinock, J. L., 1/7-10/1893. Cincinnati, OH. Gas power plant in Kentucky for
sale.
Richards, W. B., 5/15/1893. New York, NY. Real estate in Northwest.
Richardson, L. P., 11/26/1890. New York, NY. Requests interview for James J.
Hill; Great Northern Railway Co.
Richardson, R. R., 6/18/1892. Pima County, AZ. Real estate investment in
Mexico; Crittenden Land & Cattle Co.
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Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Co., 1884. New York,
NY. Subscription form for 7% Trust notes.
Ripley, E. H., 3/15/1892. New York, NY. Loan request on Holland House.
Roberts, G. B., 7/5/1887. Philadelphia, PA. Pennsylvania Co. statement on
purchase of South Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
Robinson, G. W., 5/14/1890. New York, NY. Southern pine lands offer.
Robinson Brothers, 3/12/1892. Chicago, IL. Hotel construction bonds.
Rock, J., 2/21/1891. Cleveland, OH. Offers tin and mica mines in South Dakota.
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Folder 609, Rockefeller, Frank, 2/17/1881-May 1888.106pp.
Cleveland, OH. Pioneer Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.; Kansas ranch additions;
Florida Railway & Navigation Co.; Britton Iron & Steel Co.; management;
loans; linseed oil question; Corrigan Brothers; iron mines in Minnesota and
Michigan.
Folder 610, September 1888-April 1891.85pp.
Cleveland, OH. Pioneer Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.; Kansas ranch additions;
Florida Railway & Navigation Co.; Britton Iron & Steel Co.; management;
loans; linseed oil question; Corrigan Brothers; iron mines in Minnesota and
Michigan.
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Folder 611, Rockefeller, Frank, May 1891-1893.50pp.
Cleveland, OH. Pioneer Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.; Kansas ranch additions;
Florida Railway & Navigation Co.; Britton Iron & Steel Co.; management;
loans; linseed oil question; Corrigan Brothers; iron mines in Minnesota and
Michigan.
Folder 612, Rockefeller, John D.•Daily Digest, 1882-June 1888.103pp.
New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Daily diary of income and outgo; records of
stocks, bonds, dividends, loans, real estate, salary, and donations.
Folder 613, Rockefeller, John D.•Daily Digest, July 188&-June 1891.94pp.
New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Daily diary of income and outgo; records of
stocks, bonds, dividends, loans, real estate, salary, and donations.
Folder 614, Rockefeller, John D.•Daily Digest, July 1891-1893.97pp.
New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Daily diary of income and outgo; records of
stocks, bonds, dividends, loans, real estate, salary, and donations.
Folder615, Rockefeller, John D•Miscellaneous-Rockefeller, LauraS., 1882June 1888.21 pp.
Rockefeller, John D., 1891. New York, NY, and Cleveland, OH. Records of
stocks, bonds, and dividends.
Rockefeller, Laura S., 12/1886-2/1889. New York, NY. Suggests loan to friend.
Folder 616, Rockefeller, William-Rogers, A. C. 52pp.
Rockefeller, William, 7/1882-7/1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of New
York; joint investment accounts with JDR.
Roe, L, 4/2/1885. New York, NY. Payment on debt to JDR.
Rockwell, J. E., 12/16/1891. Denver, CO. Offers onyx investment in Colordao.
Rogers, A. C, 1/14/1887. Cleveland, OH. Sample printing; Standard Oil Co.
printing department.
Box 83
Folder 617, Rogers, George D., 1882-March 1888.79pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust^JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
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Folder 618, Rogers, George D., April-October 1888.104pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust•JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
Folder 619, Rogers, George D., 1889^June 1890.98pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust•JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
Folder 620, Rogers, George D., June-December 1890.115pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust•JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
Folder 621, Rogers, George D., January-September 1891.105pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust^JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
Folder 622, Rogers, George D., October 1891-June 1892.102pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust-^JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
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Folder 623, Rogers, George D., July 1892-June 1893.115pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust•>JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
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Folder 624, Rogers, George D., July-December 1893.34pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust•JDR Office; reports on
loans and investments; personal investments; office procedures; market
conditions; account balances.
Folder 625, Rogers, H. H.-Rublno. 73pp.
Rogers, H. H., 8/24/1885-12/21/1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of New
York; Westinghouse-Edison merger proposal; iron and railroad lands in
Minnesota.
Rogers, J. L, 12/12/1885. Boston, MA. Offers cattle ranch in Arizona.
Rogers, W. O., 3/13/1890-9/23/1890. Boston, MA. Banana importing scheme.
Romaine, G. W. & Co., 11/25/1889. New York, NY. Brokers; securities for sale.
Rosenbaum, H., 5/15/1890. New York, NY. Brokers; stock options.
Ross & Jerrell, 7/189/1889. Fort Worth, TX. Offers land in Texas.
Rossiter, W. K., 7/15/1887. Brooklyn, NY. Dividend from Fulton Gas Co.
Rouse, H. C, 10/1886-8/23/1893. Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Britton
Iron & Steel Co. management; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.;
United Brass Co.
Rubino J., 12/20/1889. New York, NY. Railroad bonds for sale, [misfile, frames
0079 and 0094]
Folder 626, Rudd-Russell. 35pp.
Rudd, William C, 11/1888-2/1893. Cleveland, OH. Loan by JDR; Chandler,
Rudd & Co., grocers.
Rumble, G. W., 10/1889. Chicago, IL. Offers silver mine in Arizona, [misfiie,
frames 0120-0121]
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Runyon, L. J., 5/25/1891. New York, NY. Securities for sale, [misfile, frame
0134]
Runyon, Lake & Co., 5/25/1889. San Francisco, CA. Proposes western
timberlands control, [misfile, frame 0135]
Russell, W. M., 9/6/1890-4/14/1893. New York, NY. Plans for building near
Standard Oil Co. [misfile, frames 0124 and 0139]
Folder 627, Sage-Semple. 54pp.
Sage, Charles H., 1888. Denver, CO. Real estate agent; loan broker; offers
investments.
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Co., 10/24/1885. New York, NY. JDR stock
power.
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co., 1881-1887. New York, NY. Bond
issues.
Sanborn, F. W., 2/4/1890. New York, NY. Offers farm land and town land for
development in New Jersey.
Sanders, N., 1/29/1892. Chattanooga, TN. Comment on clipping, not to invest
in Fort Payne, AL, town development scheme of W. P. Rice.
Sault, E. A., 8/5/1889. New York, NY. JDR holding her money for investment.
Savannah & Western Railroad Co., 1889. New York, NY. Bond issue.
Sawyer, C. H., 8/11/1888. Toledo, OH. Contractor wants JDR aid to build OhioIndiana railroad.
Sayce, Henry R., 5/9/.1891. Cleveland, OH. Broker; offers mortgage bonds on
Cleveland Permanent Building & Loan Co.
Scaefer, A. C, 5/11/1891. New York, NY. Offers yellow pine and farm lands in
Georgia.
Schenck, Archibald, 11/22/1890. New York, NY. Wants to bring Northern
Pacific Railroad Co. branch to Astoria, OR.
Schloss, Louis, 10/23/1887. San Jose, CA. Land, loan, & insurance agent
offers undisclosed opportunity.
Schmidt, Bernard, 5/25/1887. Houston, TX. Offers process for refining cottonseed oil.
Schumacher, F., 12/15/1892. Akron, OH. Offers bonds for water power project
in Marseilles, IL.
Schuyler, H. P., 1890. New York, NY. Troy Steel & Iron Co.; production,
finances; JDR note.
Scofield, E., 1885-1886. New York, NY. First National Bank of New York;
interest rates on JDR loans.
Scoville, T. S., 9/12/1889. Delaware Gap, NJ. Proposes toll railroad through
gap.
Scrymser, W. L., 10/16/1890. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of NY; calls JDR
attention to railroad opportunity in Washington.
Seaboard National Bank, 12/1/1890. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust stock
sale.
Sears, R. E., 3/14/1891. Marshalltown, IA. Iowa Barb Steel Wire Co.; offers
investment in coal lands in Iowa.
Second Avenue Railroad Co. of New York City., 1888. New York, NY. Bond
issue.
Seep, Joseph, 1/29/1885. Bradford, PA. Standard Oil Co. oil dealer;
recommends retaining employee, George Blackwell, who speculated with
company funds.
Seevers, Byron V., 1/6/1890. Oskaloosa, IA. Offers coal lands in Iowa.
Semple, R. A., 5/8/1889. Mount Holly, NJ. Offers investment in yarn and thread
manufacturing.
Folder 628, Severance, L. H., 1884-March 1888.88pp.
Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. treasurer; Cleveland Arcade Co. secretary;
JDR's account with Standard Oil Co.; involvement in Inman & International
Steamship Co.; loans to Corrigans; Franklin Rockefeller draft payments;
Standard Oil Co. and JDR Cleveland real estate•insurance on it and on
lake steamers; JDR investment in Cleveland Arcade Co.; Otis Iron & Steel
Co.; Ashland Iron Mining Co.; JDR loans.
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Folder 629, Severance, L. H., April 1888-February 1890.89pp.
Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. treasurer; Cleveland Arcade Co. secretary;
JDR's account with Standard Oil Co.; involvement in Inman & International
Steamship Co.; loans to Corrigans; Franklin Rockefeller draft payments;
Standard Oil Co. and JDR Cleveland real estate•insurance on it and on
lake steamers; JDR investment in Cleveland Arcade Co.; Otis Iron & Steel
Co.; Ashland Iron Mining Co.; JDR loans.
Folder 630, Severance, L. H., March 1890-1893.88pp.
Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. treasurer; Cleveland Arcade Co. secretary;
JDR's account with Standard Oil Co.; involvement in Inman & International
Steamship Co.; loans to Corrigans; Franklin Rockefeller draft payments;
Standard Oil Co. & JDR Cleveland real estate•insurance on it and on lake
steamers; JDR investment in Cleveland Arcade Co.; Otis Iron & Steel Co.;
Ashland Iron Mining Co.; JDR loans.
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Folder 631, Severance, S. L.-Spencer, C. D. 121 pp.
Severance, S. L, 1886-1890. Cleveland, OH. Euclid Avenue National Bank;
JDR account and stock in bank; attempt by bank to get Britton Iron & Steel
Co. account.
Seymour, A. B., 5/26/1891-10/24/1891. New York, NY. Offers railroad property
in New Jersey.
Shaffner, W. M., 6/8/1892. New York, NY. Interview to discuss Belt Line
Railroad of Seattle, WA.
Shank, W. A., 6/17/1890. Union City, IN. Has patent for railroad signal device
for sale.
Shawhan, Deane & Co., 3/10/1890. San Francisco, CA. Brokers; offer
controlling interest in Comstock silver mine lode.
Sheldon, E. P., 1890. New York, NY. Needs capital for pine timber property in
Mexico.
Shepard, Elliot, 1888-1889. New York, NY. Fifth Avenue Transportation Co.,
need for board change; JDR stock ownership.
Sherwin H. A., 10/21/1890. Cleveland, OH. Linseed oil opportunity; Sherwin &
Williams.
Shethar, Samuel, 7/7/1885. New York, NY. New York, Chicago & St. Louis
Railroad Co.; minutes of meeting of creditors.
Short, J. C, 1887-1888. New York, NY. American Finance Co.; investment
proposals; Toledo, Columbus & Southern Railway Co.
Simmons Brothers, 10/1892. Cedar Rapids, IA. Offer real estate in Florida.
Simms, E. M., 9/25/1888. St. Louis, MO. Offers timberlands in Missouri.
Sinclair, H. M., 1893. Cleveland, OH. Payments on JDR note.
Sinker, Alfred, 1887-1890. New York, NY. Offers phosphate lands in Florida;
seamless iron pipe process; coal lands; railroad investment in Indiana.
Sizer, E. R., 6/12/1893. Lancaster County, NE. Lincoln Normal University;
school hurt by depression; needs loan on his land and securities.
Sizer, F. L., 9/15/1892. Helena, MT. Offers silver mine in Montana.
Sloan, W. H., 1890-1891. Cincinnati, OH. Printer & publisher; offers investment
opportunities in Florida.
Small, Edward, 3/1893. Baltimore, MD. Offers investment in can manufacturing
process.
Smith, Benjamin W., 3/18/1890. Providence, Rl. Brother's real estate brokerage
firm in Chattanooga, TN.
Smith, Charles E. W., 1892. New York, NY. Stock company in Philadelphia, PA.
Smith, Charles G., 5/31/1887. New York, NY. Charles Counselman & Co.;
seeks JDR business in Chicago grain trade.
Smith, Elijah and/or Edmund, 1885-1889. New York, NY. Oregon Railway &
Navigation Co.; printed notices to stockholders; controversy with Oregon &
Transcontinental Co.
Smith, Floyd T., 1885-1887. New York, NY. JDR's personal estate tax
assessment.
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Smith, L. H., 6/1890-10/1893. New York, NY. Anchor Oil Co.; loans on his
Standard Oil Trust and Natural Gas Trust securities.
Snider, A. H., 3/30/1889. Columbus, OH. Railroad worker seeks employment.
Solar Refining Co., 3/15/1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of New York
dividend check.
South Pennsylvania Railroad Syndicate, 1883. Unidentified location.
Memorandum on JDR participation.
Southard, G. F., 1892. Cleveland, OH. Loan to B. C. Farant on real estate in
Lima, OH.
"Sparta", 8/21/1885. New York, NY. Coded telegram.
Spalding, J. W., 12/29/1891. New York, NY. Athletic goods company seeks
capital.
Spelman, Mrs. L H., 1890-1893. Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. JDR
holding her Standard Oil Trust and Natural Gas Trust stock.
Spelman, Lucy M., 10/19/1882. New York, NY. JDR dividend check to her and
to his wife.
Spelman, W. D., 1888-1889. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co.; seeks JDR aid
to invest in dredging company.
Spencer, A. H., 11/27/1893. Boston, MA. Seeks job for son-in-law.
Spencer, Rev. C. D., 1/10/1890. Centralia, WA. Offers coal lands in
Washington.
Folder 632, Spencer, H. F.-Squlre, F. B. 103pp.
Spencer, H. F., 1884-1890. Boston, MA. Colby & Finney; Central Car Co. JDR
subscription for Minnesota, St. Croix & Wisconsin Railroad Co. bonds
(Spencer acted as registrar for Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.); notes for
Ashland Iron Mining Co.; dividend notices of Central Car Co.
Spencer, P. M., 10/1890. Cleveland, OH. Cleveland National Bank, cashier;
sent JDR Standard Oil Trust certificates for Alexander McLean.
Spencer, Robert, 1886-1888. Chicago, IL. Minnesota Exploration Co., JDR
participation, payment of their subscription calls.
Splane, W. W., 1885-1886. New York, NY. National Transit Co.; office
telegraph connections with brokers and Cleveland, OH.
Squire, F. B., 1886-1891. Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co. secretary; JDR
loans on Standard Oil Trust and United Salt Co. securities; cost information
on naphtha works; newspaper article on Standard Oil Trust interests in upper
lake regions; Squire investments in Florida phosphate lands and railroad
switching devices.
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Folder 633, Stafford-Stewart. 119pp.
Stafford, O. M., 1890-1893. Cleveland, OH. Broadway Savings & Loan Co.;
Woodland Avenue Savings & Loan Co.; JDR accounts; investment
opportunities in mortgages, Broadway & Newburg Street Railroad Co.,
Cleveland New Market House & Cold Storage Co., Niagara tunnel, etc.;
difficulties maintaining cash reserves in banks during 1893.
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Co., 1/24/1885. New York, NY.
Prospectus of bonds.
Standard Oil Trust, 1885-1893. New York, NY. Dividend and meeting notices;
accounts; National Transit Co.; Ohio Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co. of NY;
Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co.; Solar Refining Co.; Natural Gas Trust;
liquidation of Standard Oil Trust.
Standard Trust & Investment Co. of Tacoma, WA, 2/26/1890. New York, NY.
Prospectus.
Stephen, Henry, 5/19/1890. Philadelphia, PA. Iron and steel agent; offers
investment in Goshen City Rolling Mill Co. of Rockbridge County, VA.
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Stetson, Francis, 1887-1889. New York, NY. Bangs, Stetson, Tracy &
MacVeagh, Attorneys; South Pennsylvania Railroad Syndicate;
Pennsylvania Railroad suit.
Stevens, T. B., 12/29/1892. Cleveland, OH. Vacuum Oil Co. employee; loan
request.
Stevenson, J. L, 12/23/1893. Duluth, MN. Seeks employment at iron works as
consulting engineer.
Stevenson, S. M., 1885-1888. New York, NY. South Pennsylvania Railroad
Co.; notice of meetings.
Stevenson, V. K. & Co., 3/15/1892. New York, NY. Brokers; offers real estate in
city and Boston, MA.
Stewart, John A., 5/21/1884. New York, NY. United States Trust Co. of New
York; interest rate on JDR loan account.
Stewart, John L, 1886-1893. Philadelphia, PA, and San Francisco, CA.
Personal friend of JDR; inventor of incandescent burner; investment
opportunities; recommendation of John D. Chesholm for Northern Pacific
Railroad position.
Stewart, N. C, 3/13/1891. Cleveland, OH. Wants JDR to join in buying
Cleveland property.
Stewart, W. H., 6/19/1893. Cleveland, OH. Forest City Stone Co.; seeks capital
for company.
Folder 634, Stlbbs-Syracuse Consolidated Elevated Railroad Co. 93pp.
Stibbs, H. L, 2/15/1889. Ocotal, Nicaragua. Offers gold mines in Nicaragua.
Stillman, James, 1/21/1891. New York, NY. Union Investment Co. of New
Jersey; JDR dividends.
Stinson, W. H., 6/1890. New York, NY. Consolidated Electric Motor Co.; offers
investment in electric motor invention.
Stirling, W. R., 1886. Chicago, IL. Joliet Steel Co.; investment opportunities in
Gogebic iron range in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Stokes, WalterC. & Co., 11/5/1885. New York, NY. Brokers; announces
opening of branch office.
Stockly, G, W., 1891-1893. Lakewood, NJ. Seeks investment advice; job
applicant.
Stone, A. B., 7/20/1883. Chicago, IL. Union Iron & Steel Co.; offers interest in
company.
Stoy, G., 7/1889. Pittsburgh, PA. Offers coal lands in PA; sends clipping on
Standard Oil Co. plans to participate in consolidation of coal industry in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Strong, H. A., 3/13/1890. Rochester, NY. Eastman Co. president; offers
investment in Traders Bank of Tacoma, WA.
Strong, S. F., 11/9-13/1888. New York, NY. Broker; offers Sault Ste. Marie &
S. W. railroad opportunities.
Student of the Times, A., 10/4/1892. Unidentified location. Standard Oil Trust
should not be in railroads; refers to magazine article, "Gospel of Greed," by
Roger Sherman in response to article by S. C. T. Dodd.
Superior Slate Quarry, 11/17/1886. Bangor, PA. Memorandum regarding its
finances and prospects.
Sutphen, Edson W., 4/7/1891. Brooklyn, NY. Proposes Pan American Co. as
Latin American investment.
Sutton, F. E., 7/1891. New York, NY? Advises JDR to avoid involvement with
Westinghouse Co.; JDR investment in Edison General Electric Co.
Suydam, F. D., 2/5/1891. Toledo, OH. Milburn Wagon Co.; financial data; seeks
JDR investment.
Swayne, J. W., 3/10/1893. Austin, TX. State senator; wants to sell Fort Worth
landholdings.
Sweet, Edward & Co., 1891. New York, NY. Brokers; offers railroad bonds.
Syracuse Consolidated Street Railroad Co., 1890. New York, NY. Bond issue.
Folder 635, Talcott-Tllford, J. B. 113pp.
Talcott, E. N. K., 2/18/1893. New York, NY. Offers southern iron and coal
investment.
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Talcott, G. P., 2/19/1891. Buffalo, NY. Offers real estate.
Tatum, L. W., 10/1/1888. Cleveland, OH. San Ricardo Mining Co.; offers stock
in gold mine in Mexico.
Taylor, H. L, 4/27/1892. Unidentified location. Standard Oil Trust stock sale.
Taylor, James D., 6/5/1888-12/5/1892. New York, NY. Wagner Palace Car Co.;
JDR shares; dividends.
Taylor, John, 10/17/1889. Troy, NY. Taylor's Non-Explosive Water Tube Steam
Boiler; steam boiler invention.
Taylor, V. O., 2/8/1890. Providence, Rl. Winner Investment Co. of Kansas City,
MO; offers Kansas City Bridge & Terminal Railway Co. bonds.
Taylor, W. J., 11/9/1890. Largo, FL. Offers orange grove in Florida.
Tennant, W. P., 1/22/1887. Liverpool, England. Inman & International
Steamship Co.; notice of meeting.
Thacker, W. H., 4/17/1888. Scranton, MS. Pensacola, FL, real estate scheme.
Thelberg, John, 7/10/1888. New York, NY. Offers shares in unidentified furnace
company; Westman's metal reduction process.
Thomas , E., 11/1-15/1888. Cleveland, OH. JDR loan to Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church.
Thomas , E. B., 1888-1891. New York, NY. New York, Lake Erie & Western
Railroad Co.; advice on investments; Consolidated Brake Shoe Co.; Federal
Steel Co.; Otis Iron and Steel Co.
Thomas , L. H., 3/18/1890. New York, NY. Dakota lands offer.
Thomas , P. L, 1887-1890. New York, NY. Broker; offers securities.
Thompson, F., 10/13/1890. New York, NY. Job applicant.
Thompson, Mrs. V. C, 10/31/1890. New York, NY. North Alabama Land &
Improvement Co.; offers mineral and timberlands.
Thompson, W. P., 1885-1889. New York, NY, Parkersburg, WV, and
Cleveland, OH. Standard Oil Co., vice-president; loan from JDR; purchase of
Standard Oil Trust shares; coded message on buy out of plant of unidentified
competitor.
Thomson , A. D., 6/30/1891-2/29/1892. Duluth, MN. Grain broker; renews note
with JDR on American Steel Barge Co. stock.
Thomson , Mrs. E. L, 3/22/1887. New York, NY. Offers soft coal lands in
Pennsylvania.
Thomson, M., 6/26/1889. Santiago, Chile. North & South American
Construction Co.; offers railroad, timber, and mining investments in Chile.
Thomson, W. L., 1885. New York, NY. Offers securities and real estate; Union
Steel Co. of Chicago; East St. Louis Water Works Co.
Thowless, O. M., 12/29/1891. Newark, NJ. Thowless Aluminum Syndicate;
announces demonstration of aluminum and metallic sodium process.
Thrasher, J. S., 1/13/1890. Chattanooga, TN. Offers iron lands, mineral springs,
and hotel in Tennessee with fruit lands in Florida.
Thurber. H. K., 1885-1890. New York, NY. Thurber, Whyland & Co.; United
States & Brazil Mail Steamship Co.; Texas Mineral Railroad; Texas & Pacific
Coal Co.
Tiers, J. R., 5/28/1891. New York, NY. Iron industry stock.
Tiffany, C. L, 1/1890. New York, NY. State Trust Co. solicits deposits.
Tillinghast, J., 12/22/1884. New York, NY. New York Central Sleeping Car Co.
stock purchase by JDR.
Timayenis, T. T., 4/7/1884. Unidentified location. Memorandum on debt to JDR.
Tilford, J. B., 1884-1885. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust, assistant
treasurer; coded messages regarding JDR funds.
Folder 636, Tilford, W. H.-Turnley. 133pp.
Tilford, W. H., 1884-1890. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of NY, official;
advice on stocks and bonds; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Kansas City
Bridge & Terminal Railway Co.; purchase of Standard Oil Trust shares from
JDR; Minnesota Iron Co.; Waters Pierce Oil Co.; Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Co.; unidentified railroad backed by H. M. Flagler in Florida.
Todd, H. H., 6/21/1889. Las Vegas, NM. Offers mine in Mexico.
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Tolman, T., 1889. Philadelphia, PA. Iron lands development in Pennsylvania;
brother-in-law of W. S. Hassall.
Toucey, D. B., 12/5/1893. New York, NY. Attorney; offers land near Duluth, MN.
Towl, T. M., 3/25/1891. Subscription list for Indiana Pipe Line Co. stock.
Town, A. W., 1886-1890. New York, NY. Investment opportunities; onyx mines;
real estate; railroads; JDR shares in Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
Railway Co.
Townsend, J. P., 1886-1890. New York, NY. Knickerbocker Trust Co.;
Townsend & Washburn, bankers and brokers; Hudson River Tunnel Co.
Trainor, P. S., 1885-1886. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of NY; handled
JDR's water bills and real and personal taxes.
Trevor, B., 2/4/1891. Lima, OH. Merchant; requests loan.
Trevor, J. B., 1884-1886. New York, New York. Broker affiliated with Colgate
Hoyt; JDR accounts; market conditions; money markets; Oregon &
Transcontinental Co.; Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. [see also Turn, J.
B.]
Troy Steel & Iron Co., 1886-1889. Troy, NY. Loan; stock certificates; notices of
meetings.
Turn, J. B.(Trevor?), 1886 and undated. New York, NY. Broker; market
conditions; press attacks on Union Pacific Railroad extension bill in U.S.
Congress; Northern Pacific Railroad; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.;
activities of Colgate Hoyt. [see also Trevor, J. B.]
Turner, E. A., 4/22/1892. Philadelphia, PA. Dodge Coal Storage Co.; offers
stock in Holmes Fibre-Graphite Manufacturing Co.
Turnley, J. B., 10/25/1890. Chattanooga, TN. Offers land development in
Tonnsssôô
Folder 637, Tuttle, Martha M., 1887-1893.67pp.
Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust, JDR office telegrapher;
personal investments in Standard Oil Trust and Natural Gas Trust; loans by
JDR; JDR stock market and money market transactions; Jesup & Lamont;
health of JDR.
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Folder 638, "U-V." 93pp.
Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1/4/1892-10/31/1892. Unidentified location. Stock
sale flyers; earnings projections; U.S. Congress bill to aid company.
United States Trust Co. of New York, 1883-1885. New York, NY. Loan to JDR
secured on Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Land Grant & Income bonds.
Union Steel Co., 10/30/1884-2/1/1890. Chicago, IL. Value of plant; notices of
meetings; redemption of bonds.
Urquhart, W., 1888-1893. Cleveland, OH. Broadway Savings & Loan Co., JDR
deposited $50,000 in company to aid it through reporting period; press
relations.
Vail, F., 1882-1890. New York, NY. R.P. Flower & Co., clerk; JDR stock market
and money market transactions.
Van Auken, J. A., 4/13/1889. New York, NY. Offers coal lands; real estate in
city.
Van Campen, H. D., 11/2/1886. Belmont, NY. Inventor of safe explosive.
Vance, W., 8/21/1888. Findlay, OH. Offers natural gas fields opportunity.
Van Horn, B., 2/12/1890. Lockport, NY. Ex-congressman asks for personal loan
or assistance.
Van Ness, V. B., 9/18/1890. Arlington, FL. Offers phosphate lands in Florida.
Vannier, E., 9/11/1893. Detroit, Ml. Offers sen/ices in Minnesota iron business.
Van Sichen, G. W., 12/30/1891. New York, NY. Attorney; offers stock in
Straight Line Engine Co.; steam engine inventions of John E. Sweet.
Venner, C. H. & Co., 1887-1890. New York, NY, and Boston, MA. Brokers;
offer securities; American Water Works Co.; Denver Water Co.; Omaha
Water Works.
Vermillion Range, 12/1888. Tower, MN. Unidentified news clippings regarding
iron mines of Minnesota and Michigan; Minnesota Iron Co.
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Vermilye & Co., 1890. New York, NY. Brokers; offer securities; American
Rolling Stock Co.; Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co.
Vessel Transportation Co., 5/19/1887. Unidentified location. Memorandum on
stock subscriptions and earnings estimates.
Vilas, G. H., 1887-1889. New York, NY. Standard Oil, auditor; dividends and
deposits for JDR.
Vilas, R. C, 5/2/1887. New York, NY. Broker; solicits business.
Villard, H., 1891. New York, NY. Asks to see JDR; mentions Colgate Hoyt;
newspaper interview on Oregon & Transcontinental Co. controversy with
Union Pacific Railroad Co. and Oregon Short Line Railway Co.; market
conditions.
Folder 639, Wabash Railroad Co.-Wetmore. 124pp.
Wabash Railroad Co., 1891-1893. New York, NY. Notice of meetings; proxies.
Wadsworth, J., 1/16/1885. New York, NY. Call on Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway Co. bonds.
Wade Park Banking Co., undated. Cleveland, OH. Announcement of new bank,
with Frank Rockefeller as president.
Wagner Palace Car Co., 1888,1890-1891. New York, NY. Stock split;
dividends.
Walker, J. E., 9/17/1890. Moline, IL. Plan for building and loan association.
Walker Manufacturing Co., 1890. Cleveland, OH. Bonds prospectus.
Waller, J. L. & Co., 1893. Chicago, IL. offer real estate in Wisconsin.
Walsh, T. H., 2/12/1891. Montreal, Canada. Inventor of train coupling device
seeks capital to develop patents.
Walter, G. B., 5/17/1887. New York, NY. Offers timberlands in Tennessee.
Warden, W. G., 12/4/1890. Pittsburgh, PA. Standard Oil Co. official introduces
Governor E. E. Jackson of MD.
Wardwell, W. T., 1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of New York; loans to
JDR handled through Jesup & Lamont; money markets.
Waring, O. T., 1885. New York, NY. Standard Oil Trust official; purchase of
office supplies; arrangement of telegraph lines.
Waring, R. S., 1885-1888. Pittsburgh, PA. Underground cable investment;
Waring Cable Co.; Standard Underground Cable Co.
Warmington, G. H., 1893. Cleveland, OH. People's Gas Light Co. investment
offer.
Warner, I. E., 8/11/1893. Baltimore, MD. Pure Rubber Paint Co.; seeks capital.
Warren, F. T., 10/1/1892. San Francisco, CA. Offers timberland on Pacific
Coast.
Warren, T., 4/3/1891. St. Louis, MO. Banking opportunity in St. Louis.
Washington Trust Co., 1890-1893. New York, NY. Announcements; dividends.
Waterbury, Mrs. M. A.,1888-1890. Chicago, IL. Deposited $1,000 with JDR.
Waterhouse, D., 1/28/1890. Chattanooga, TN. Offers real estate in Tennessee.
Watkins, J. B., 1891. New York, NY. Building railroad into timber country on
Gulf Coast.
Watkins, W. G., 1889. New York, NY. Offers investment opportunity in South
Carolina.
Watkins, William, 10/14/1891. Cazenovia, NY. Seeks investment in Plaza Bank.
Watkins, William H., 4/4/1893. Chicago, IL. Offers real estate in Chicago.
Watriss, Bréese & Cummings, 5/10/1890. Chicago, IL. Bankers and brokers.
Webb, F. J., 3/29/1887. Syracuse, NY. Freeman & Webb; real estate and bond
brokers; offers to investigate local gas company stock.
Welling & Malcom, 1890. New York, NY. Brokers; offers securities.
Wellington, S. B., 3/31/1888. New York, NY. U.S. Cement Co.; plan for control
of cement industry.
Wellman, J. H., 6/5/1888. Boston, MA. Central Car Co.; sends check for excess
interest on JDR remittance.
Wells, E. F., 9/22/1893. San Diego, CA. Offers investment; San Diego &
Phoenix Railroad Co.
Western Exploration Co., 1891-1892. Unidentified location. Memorandum
regarding stock.
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Western Union Telegraph Co. 3/31/1886. New York, NY. Quarterly report.
Wetmore, C. W., 1889-1891. New York, NY. Barlow & Wetmore, attorneys;
James B. Colgate & Co.; American Steel Barge Co., Penokee & Gogebic
Consolidated Mines; Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Co.; Southwestern Coal &
Improvement Co.; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; meeting announcements;
stock subscriptions; loans to E. A. & J. O. Hayes.
Folder 640, Wheeler-Wright & Sons. 98pp.
Wheeler, O. H., 3/17/1890. Williamsport, PA. Land scheme.
White, S. V. & Co., undated. New York, NY. Bankers & brokers; offer bonds.
Whitmore, W. R., 1892. New York, NY. Offers securities; Hall Signal Co.;
attempts to bribe F. T. Gates.
Whitmore, W. W., 2/16/1891. New York, NY. James B. Colgate & Co.; business
scheme.
Wick, H., 7/23/1891. Cleveland, OH. Henry Wick & Co., bankers; announce
reorganization of firm.
Wiener, A., 1888. Cleveland, OH. Offers timber and iron lands in Michigan.
Wilcox, A. P., 7/11/1885. Austin, [MN?]. Report on crops along Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. lines in South Dakota and Minnesota.
Wilder, William H., 1892. Florence, MA. Central Oilgas Stove Co.; consolidation
of oil stove interests.
Wilkison, J. E., 1891-1893. Fostoha, OH. Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas;
dividends.
Willard, C. E., 1893. New York, NY. Interview with F. T. Gates regarding job
offer at iron mines.
Williams, A., 5/12/1892. Louisville, KY. Offers timber, coal, and iron lands in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Williams, J. T., 6/21/1888. Mt. Vernon, NY. Inventor of electrical mail
transmission system.
Willingham, T., 1/12/1890. Atlanta, GA. Securities for sale; North Alabama
Furnace, Foundry & Land Co.
Willis, C. A., 2/29/1892. New York, NY. Interview request.
Wilson, George, 1892. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co., accountant; JDR
accounts.
Wilson, W. G., 5/23/1887. Chicago, IL. Sewing machine monopoly plan.
Wilson & Welles, 1888-1893. New York, NY. Brokers; offer securities;
description of Pocantico Water Works Co.
Winans, H., 1890-1893. New York, NY. Real estate broker; offers loan and
property in city, Portland, OR, and Omaha, NE.
Winthrop, R. & Co., 1890. New York, NY. Brokers; offer bonds; Utica & Black
River Railroad Co.
Wisconsin Central Co., 1889. Boston, MA. Interest on bonds.
Wisebart, B. W., 6/27/1890. Denver, CO. Offers mining lands in Colorado.
Wolcott, O. L, 3/4/1893. Warren, OH. Western Reserve National Bank;
Cleveland real estate mortgage bonds.
Wood, Mrs. E. H., 6/16/1891. Bellevue, OH. Standard Oil Trust stock purchase
request for son.
Wood, R. B., 6/22/1891. Bellevue, OH. Sends check for Standard Oil Trust
certificate.
Wood, T. J., 9/14/1893. Crown Point, IN. Attorney; offers phosphate, timber,
and farm lands in Florida.
Woodward, J. T., 1890-1893. New York, NY. Sends Hanover National Bank
stock; notice of tax assessment on bank stocks; proxy.
Worrall, T. P., 2/29/1892. Philadelphia, PA. Proposed Union Cotton Warehouse
& Compress Co. in Augusta, GA.
Wright, J. H., 1885. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of NY; JDR office supplies.
Wright, Dunbar, 8/17/1893. New York, NY. Standard Oil Co. of New York;
requests advice and loan on stocks.
Wright, Peter & Sons, 1888-1889. Philadelphia, PA. Purchases of Inman &
International Steamship Co. stock; notice of call and payment on
subscription; proxy.
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following is an index to the subjects of correspondence as found in the microfilm. The arabic
number before the colon is the reel number, while the four-digit number after the colon is the frame number
at which the user will find the first page of the folder in which the subject appears.
Accountancy
1: 0831 ; 3: 0001 ; 5: 0606; 6: 0820; 7: 0440;
8: 0051-0248; 9: 0589; 10: 0001, 0536,
0753
Acme Oil Co.
1:0945
Adams, Charles F.
2: 0113-0464; 5: 0001-0355
Albany & Rensselaer Iron & Steel Co.
4: 0706
Alpha Glass & Metal Co.
1:0177
Aluminum
1:0177; 10:0213
American Baptist Home Mission Society
7:0139,0664
American Cotton Oil Trust
1:0177
American Finance Co.
9:0468
The American Flag
7:0440
American Graphophone Co.
7: 0250
American Meat Co.
3:0037
American Rolling Stock Co.
10:0536
American Steel Barge Co.
7:0346;10:0213,0629
American Telegraph & Cable Co.
1:0177,0945
American Water Works Co.
10:0536
Anchor Oil Co.
9: 0468
Annual meetings
1: 0177, 0831, 0945; 3: 0951 ; 6: 0503;
7: 0250, 0346; 10: 0001, 0213, 0629
see also Proxies
Antimony
6: 0820
Armitage, Thomas
1:0177;6:0724
Dr. Arvine's French Tartar
1:0730
Ashland Iron Mining Co.
4: 0922; 9: 0197-0374, 0589
Ashley, O. D.
4: 0706
Ashtabula Steel & Land Co.
3: 0951
Association American Inventors
4: 0922
Atlantic Coast Canal Co.
7: 0001
Atlantic Trust Co.
1:0177
Atlas Refining Co.
1:0945
Attorneys
1: 0477, 0945; 3: 0037, 0951 ; 6: 0724;
7: 0346; 10: 0001, 0120, 0336, 0629,
0753
Auctions
7: 0139
Aurora Iron Mining Co.
2: 0001, 0i566
Avery Stamping Co.
7: 0545
Axe manufacturers
4:0117
37
Baking supplies
1:0730
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
3:0457-0870;7:0139
Baltimore Sugar Refinery Co.
1:0593
Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & MacVeagh
10:0001
Bank of America
1:0223
Bank of New York
1:0223;7:0346
Banks
1: 0177, 0223, 0831 ; 3: 0037, 0250, 0383,
0925; 4: 0785; 5: 0432, 0606; 6: 0764,
0978; 7: 0250, 0346, 0440, 0664;
8:0418-1003; 9: 0001, 0143, 0468,
0589; 10:0001, 0120, 0536, 0629, 0753
Baptist Church
1:0477; 3: 0001, 0250; 6: 0616; 7:0001,
0139,0545,0664:10:0213
Barlow & Wetmore
10:0629
Bates Steel Co.
1:0223
T. M. Baxter & Co.
1:0223
Bear Valley Irrigation Co.
5: 0432
J. R. Bell & Co.
1:0223
August Belmont & Co.
1:0368; 7: 0250
Belt Line Railroad of Seattle, Washington
9: 0468
Benton, Myers & Co.
1:0831
Bessemer Mining & Manufacturing Co.
1:0368
Bessemer process
4:0922
Billings, Sheldon & Co.
1:0368
Blackwell, George
1:0477;9:0143
Blair & Co.
1:0477; 7: 0001
Blake Brothers & Co.
1:0477
Boards of Trade
1:0477; 4: 0785; 6: 0978
Bookbinding
4: 0706
Bloomingdale Brothers
1:0477
Bonds
1: 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593, 0831, 0945;
2: 0113-0464, 0566, 0615-0829;
3: 0037, 0129, 0250, 0383, 0457-0870,
0925, 0951 ; 4: 0001, 0200-0484, 0574,
0595, 0706, 0785, 0922; 5: 0001-0355,
0432, 0606, 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418,
0666, 0724, 0978; 7:0001, 0139, 0250,
0346, 0545, 0664, 0748; 8: 0051-0248,
0345, 0418-1003; 9: 0001, 0035, 0143,
0589; 10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0536, 0629,
0753
see also Securities
Boston & Maine Railroad
4: 0785
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
4:0785
Boykin, Carmer & Co.
1:0477
Boynton Bicycle Railway Co.
1:0477
Bribery
10:0753
Brinkerhoff & Oliver
1:0593
Britton Iron & Steel Co.
1: 0593. 0831 ; 4: 0785; 7: 0346, 0809-0915;
8: 0001 ; 9: 0035, 0468
Broadway & Newburg Street Railroad Co.
10:0001
Broadway Savings & Loan Co.
10:0001,0536
Brokers
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0831, 0945; 2: 0001, 0113-0464, 0566,
0615-0829; 3: 0001, 0037, 0129, 0250,
0383, 0457-0870, 0951 ; 4: 0001, 0117,
0200-0484, 0574, 0595, 0706, 0785,
0922; 5: 0001-0355, 0432, 0519, 0606,
0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0503, 0666,
0724, 0820, 0861, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139,
0250, 0346, 0545, 0664, 0748; 8: 00510248, 0345, 0366, 0418-1003; 9: 0001,
0035, 0143, 0468, 0589; 10: 0001, 0120,
0213, 0336, 0469, 0536, 0629, 0753
Brooklyn City Railroad
6: 0666
38
Brown Brothers & Co.
1: 0593; 2: 0566
Browning, King & Co.
1:0593
Buckeye Pipe Line Co.
1:0593
Buffalo General Electric Co.
3: 0037
Buffalo Natrual Gas Fuel Co.
1:0223
Buildings
1:0177; 3: 0250; 6: 0978; 7: 0139, 0440,
0748; 9: 0108; 10: 0001
Bull, William L.
1:0223
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway
Co.
1: 0593; 5: 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418
S.H. Burr & Co.
1:0593
Butler, Edwin
6: 0764
Calkins Lime Co.
1:0831
Callahan & Sons
1:0831
Calvary Baptist Church
7:0001
Canada Southern Railway Co.
1:0831
Canadian Copper Co.
7: 0001
Canals
5: 0606; 7: 0001
Cans
9: 0468
Cartaret Chemical Co.
2:0566
Carter Ore Separator Mining Co.
1:0730
Cattle
3: 0037, 0250; 4: 0595; 5: 0606; 7: 0139,
0664, 0748; 9: 0035
see also Ranching
Cedar Grove Coal Co.
1:0054
Cedar Rapids Lands Co.
1:0831
Cement
4: 0706; 6: 0666, 0820; 10: 0629
Central Car Co.
1: 0831 ; 9: 0589
Central Coal Co.
1: 0945
Central Ohio Railroad Co.
1:0831
Central Ollgas Stove Co.
10:0753
J. C. Chancellor & Sons
1:0831
Chandler & Rudd
1:0831; 9: 0108
Chapin Mining Co.
1:0831
Chemicals
3:0129
Cherokee Nation
1:0477
Chesholm, John D.
10:0001
Chicago & Erie
2: 0566
Chicago & Great Western Railroad
1:0054
Chicago & Minnesota Ore Co.
1:0593, 0831
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co.
1: 0831 ; 3:0457-0870
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.
9: 0468
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co.
1:0831
Chicago, Evanston & Lake Superior
1:0831
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co.
1: 0054, 0477, 0831 ; 2: 0001, 0566; 3: 04570870; 5: 0001-0355, 0663-0926;
6: 0001-0418; 10: 0536, 0629, 0753
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
4: 0922
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railway Co.
7: 0664
Chicago Theological Union
1:0477
see also University of Chicago
Chrystie & Janney
1:0223
Clarke, W. E.
1:0945:4:0706
39
William Clark Thread Co.
1:0945
Cleveland Arcade Co.
1:0945;9:0197-0374
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
Railway Co.
4: 0922
Cleveland Driving Park Co.
3:0383,0951;7:0139
Cleveland National Bank
9: 0589
Cleveland New Market House & Cold Storage
Co.
10:0001
Cleveland Permanent Building & Loan Co.
9:0143
Cleveland Rolling Mill Co.
7:0440
Henry Clews & Co.
1:0177
Clinton College
6: 0820
Coal
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0477, 0593, 0831,
0945; 3: 0001, 0250, 0925; 4: 0117,
0706, 0785, 0922; 7: 0001, 0139, 0346,
0440, 0664, 0748; 9: 0143, 0468;
10: 0120, 0213, 0336, 0536, 0629, 0753
Coal Creek Mining & Manufacturing Co.
3: 0001
Colby, Abbot & Hoyt
2:0001
Colby & Finney
9: 0589
Colby, Hoyt & Co.
2: 0001
James B. Colgate & Co.
1:0223; 2: 0113-0464, 0615-0829; 5: 00010355; 10: 0629, 0753
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.
2:0566
Columbia Slate Co.
1:0593
Comstock lode
9:0468
Consolidated Brake Shoe Co.
10:0213
Consolidated Electric Motor Co.
10:0120
Consolidated Tank Line Co.
Continental Oil Co.
6:0616
Continental Trust Co.
2: 0566; 7: 0664
George B. Cooksey & Co.
2: 0566
Copper
1: 0223; 4: 0595; 7: 0001, 0139
Corrigan Brothers
2: 0566; 7: 0809-0915; 8: 0001 ;
9:0197-0374
Cottonseed Oil
4: 0922; 6: 0503; 7: 0001; 9: 0143;
Cotton Warehouse
10:0753
Charles Counselman & Co.
9: 0468
Crandall, L. A.
1:0945
Crane & Schuyler
3:0001
Crittenden Land & Cattle Co.
7: 0748
Crops
7:0664;10:0753
Crotón & Co. Ltd.
3: 0001
Crown Copper Mining Co.
7: 0139
E. A. Cruikshank & Co.
3: 0001
Cullen & Newman
3: 0001
Wlnthrop Cunningham & Sons
3: 0001
Dalrymple Brothers
4: 0706
Daly Mining Co.
6: 0978
Davis Sewing Machine Co.
5:0432
Decker, Howell & Co.
3: 0001
DeForrest Land & Improvement Co.
3: 0037
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Co.
3:0037;7:0139
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway Co.
3: 0037
7:0001
40
De Salding Brothers
3:0037
Distillers & Cattle Feeders Trust
3:0250
Dividends
1:0593, 0730, 0831, 0945; 2: 0113-0464,
0566, 0615-0829; 3: 0037, 0250, 0383,
0951; 5: 0001-0355, 0519; 7: 0001,
0139, 0250; 8: 0051-0248, 0345;
9: 0035, 0468, 0589; 10: 0001, 0120,
0213,0536,0629
see also Securities
Dodge Coal Storage Co.
10:0336
Domlnlck & Dickerman
3:0129
David Dows & Co.
2:0566; 3: 0250
Drexel Harjes & Co.
3:0250
Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Co.
1: 0368; 3: 0250
H. B. Dyer & Co.
3:0250
Earnings
1: 0831, 0945; 2: 0113-0464, 0615-0829;
3:0037, 0383; 5: 0001-0355, 0432,
0519, 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0861 ;
7: 0139, 0250, 0346, 0440; 8: 00510248;10:0536
see also Losses; Profits
East End Savings Bank
3: 0383
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway
Co.
3:0383, 0457-0870
Edison General Electric Co. •
3:0383; 9: 0035; 10: 0120
Education
1:0177, 0223; 3:0250, 0383; 4: 0785;
6: 0820; 7: 0001; 9: 0468
Electricity
1:0054, 0223, 0593, 0831 ; 3: 0037, 0383;
4:0922; 6: 0666; 7: 0545, 0664, 0748;
9:0035; 10: 0120, 0629, 0753
Electric Storage Battery Co.
1:0593
Elizabeth & Newark Horse Railroad
7: 0664
Elmira Woolen Mills
1:0945
Emerson & Turnbull
3: 0383
Engineers
1:0477, 0832; 2:0566; 6:0666
Engines
1:0831 ; 3:0250; 5:0432; 10:0536
H. K. Enos & Co.
1:0593; 3:0001, 0457-0870; 4:0706
Equitable Life Assurance Society
7: 0001
Esslck Printing Telegraph
4:0922
Etowah Iron Co.
4:0706
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
3:0001, 0250; 10:0213
Euclid Avenue National Bank
3: 0925; 9: 0468
European-American Corp.
1:0223
Evans process
7: 0664
Explosives
10:0536
Fahnestock & Co.
3: 0951
Farson, Leach & Co.
3:0951
Federal Steel Co.
10:0213
Fibers
1:0945; 2:0566; 3:0037; 4:0922; 7:0664;
9: 0143; 10: 0336
Fidelity Trust Co.
7: 0001
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
7: 0001
Fifth Avenue Transportation Co.
3: 0951; 7:0250; 9: 0468
Financial matters
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0730, 0831, 0945; 2:0001, 0113-0464,
0566, 0615-0829; 3: 0001, 0037, 0129,
0457-0870,0951 ; 4:0001, 0200-0484,
0706, 0785; 5: 0001-0355, 0432, 0519,
0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0764, 0820,
0861, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250, 0346,
0440, 0545, 0748, 0809-0915; 8: 0001,
0051-0248, 0345, 0366, 0418-1003;
9: 0001, 0035, 0143, 0197-0374,
41
0468,0589; 10: 0001, 0120, 0336, 0469,
0536, 0629, 0753
First National Bank of New York
1:0223; 3: 0951; 9: 0143
Florence Furnace
1:0593
Florence Land, Mining & Manufacturing Co.
1:0223
Florida Construction Co.
3:0037
Florida Railway & Navigation Co.
7:0809-0915;8:0001
Flour mills
2: 0566; 3: 0250; 4: 0117; 6: 0724
R. P. Flower & Co.
2: 0615-0829; 4: 0001 ; 10: 0536
Forest City Stone Co.
10:0001
Foster, Charles
1:0730
Foster, N. K.
2:0912
Franklin Iron Mine
2: 0566
Frazer & Co.
4:0117
Free Dispensary
7:0001
Freight rates
1:0477;2: 0113-0464
Fruits
1:0477; 3: 0037; 4: 0785; 7: 0001 ; 9: 0035;
10:0213
Fry, Horace B.
1:0730
Fulton Gas Co.
9: 0035
Galena Oil Works
7:0139
Gallup allotment
2:0912
Gas
1:0177, 0223, 0368, 0730; 2: 0566; 3: 0250;
4:0922; 7: 0001, 0250, 0346, 0748;
9: 0035; 10: 0001, 0536, 0629, 0753
see also Natural Gas Trust
Gates, F. T.
10:0753
Geological Survey of Texas
2:0566
George, Nesbltt & Co.
4: 0595
German Land & Cattle Co.
4: 0595
Gilder, Farr & Co.
4: 0595
Gilman & Co.
4: 0595
Glass
1:0177;3:0037
Gold
1: 0223; 3: 0037; 4: 0706; 6: 0978; 7:0664;
10:0120,0213
Gold, Barbour & Corning
1:0223
Goodspeed, T. W.
1:0177
Goshen City Rolling Mill Co. of Rockbridge
County, Virginia
10:0001
Grains
1: 0223, 0593, 0831 ; 2: 0566; 3: 0250;
6: 0666; 9: 0468; 10: 0213
Grant Brothers
4: 0706
Graphite
10:0336
Gray National Telautograph Co.
1:0054
Great Falls Water Co.
6: 0666
Great Northern Railway Co.
7: 0748
Grenville, Perrin & Co.
1:0593
Grocers
1:0831; 6: 0724; 9: 0108
Gulf Coke & Coal Co.
4: 0922
Hall Signal Co.
10:0753
Hammond Beef Packing Co.
7:0139
Hanna, Marcus A.
1:0831;4:0785
Hanover National Bank
3: 0250; 4: 0785; 10: 0753
Hatch & Foote
4:0785
Hayes, E. A. & J. O.
4:0922; 10:0629
42
W. J Hayas & Sons
4:0922
Hebrew Society
4:0785
Hill, James J.
7:0748
Holland House
7:0748
Holline & Co.
4:0922
Holllster, H. H.
1:0831
Holllster & Babcock
4:0922
Holmes Flbre-Graphlte Manufacturing Co.
10:0336
Home furnishings
6:0724
Horses
3:0383, 0951 ; 4:0595; 7:0139, 0346
see also Ranching
Hotels
3:0037; 4:0595; 7:0139,0440,0748;
10:0213
Hoyt, Colgate
5:0001-0355, 0432; 10:0336
see also James B. Colgate & Co.
Hudson River Tunnel Co.
10:0001,0336
Hudson Suspension Bridge & New England
Railway Co.
5: 0606
Huntington, C. P.
7:0139
Idlewlld Fruit Co.
1:0477;5:0519
Illinois Steel Co.
4:0519
Importers & Traders National Bank
5:0519
Indiana Pipe Line Co.
5:0519; 10: 0336
Inman & International Steamship Co.
5:0519; 7: 0545; 9: 0197-0374; 10: 0213,
0753
8: 0051-0248, 0345, 0366, 0418-1003;
9: 0001, 0143; 10: 0336, 0469, 0536,
0629
see also Bonds; Loans
International & Mortgage Bank of Mexico
5:0519
International Navigation Co.
4: 0706
Inventions
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0477, 0730; 2: 0566;
3:0250; 4:0706, 0922; 5:0519; 6:0666;
7: 0250, 0664; 9: 0468, 0589; 10: 0001,
0120, 0213, 0536, 0629, 0753
Investment advice
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0477, 0593, 0945;
2: 0001, 0113-0464, 0566, 0615-0829,
0912; 3:0001, 0037,0129, 0250, 0383,
0457-0870, 0951 ; 4:0001,0117, 02000484, 0574, 0595, 0706, 0785, 0922;
5:0001-0355, 0432,0519, 0606, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418, 0616, 0666, 0724,
0861; 7: 0001, 0139, 0346, 0440, 0545,
0664, 0748,0809-0915; 8:0001. 04181003; 9: 0001, 0035, 0108, 0143, 01970374, 0468, 0589; 10: 0001, 0120, 0213,
0336, 0469, 0536, 0629, 0753
Iowa Barb Steel Wire Co.
9:0143
Iron
1: 0177, 0223, 0368, 0593, 0730, 0831 ;
2: 0001, 0566; 3: 0037, 0383, 0951 ;
4: 0706, 0785, 0922; 5: 0001-0355,
0432; 6: 0666, 0820; 7: 0139, 0250,
0346, 0545, 0664, 0809-0915; 8: 0001 ;
9: 0035, 0143, 0197-0374, 0468, 0589;
10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0336, 0536, 0629,
0753
Irrigation
4:0706; 5: 0432; 6: 0666
Ives, Brayton
2: 0113-0464; 5: 0519
Jackson, E. E.
10:0629
B. F. Jacobs & Co.
5: 0606
Insurance
Janney, Samuel
1:0477; 3: 0951 ; 4: 0574, 0706; 6:0666;
7: 0001, 0139; 9: 0143, 0197-0374
Interest rates
2:0113-0464, 0615-0829; 3: 0129, 0250;
5: 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0666;
1:0223
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Co.
5: 0606
Jennings Trust Co.
5: 0606
43
Jesup & Lamont
2:0615-0829; 3: 0001 ; 5: 0663-0926;
6: 0001-0418; 10:0469, 0629
Jewelry
7:0139
Job applicants
1: 0223, 0477; 4: 0785, 0922; 9: 0468;
10:0001,0120,0536
Jollet Steel Co.
3: 0250; 6: 0503
Jones & Pratt
6:0503
Kansas City & Salina Pass Railroad
1:0177
Kansas City Bridge & Terminal Railway Co.
10:0213,0336
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad
7:0545
Kentucky Union Land Co.
1:0831
Kentucky Union Railway Co.
1:0831
Klssam, Whitney & Co.
1:0593
Knickerbocker Trust Co.
10:0336
Kountze Brothers
6:0666
Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co.
10:0536
Lake Erie Tobacco Co.
7:0440
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Co.
3:0457-0870; 6:0666; 7:0139
Lamprecht Brothers & Co.
6:0724
LaPointe Iron Co.
7: 0545
Latin America
1: 0593; 2: 0615-0829; 3: 0001 ; 5:0432,
0519; 6: 0820; 7: 0139, 0346, 0440,
0748; 9: 0035, 0468; 10: 0120, 0213,
0336
Cyrus J. Lawrence & Sons
1:0223
Lead
3: 0250; 4: 0922
Leases
1: 0593; 2: 0566; 4: 0922
Leather Manufacturers' National Bank
6:0764
Leavening powders
1:0730
Lime
1:0831
Lincoln Normal University
9: 0468
Linseed oil
7:0001, 0664, 0809-0915; 8:0001 ; 9:0468
Loans
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0730, 0831,0945; 2:0113-0464, 0566,
0615-0829, 0912; 3:0001, 0037. 0250,
0383, 0951 ; 4: 0001, 0117, 0200-0484,
0595, 0706, 0785, 0922; 5: 0519, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418, 0503, 0616, 0666,
0724, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0346, 0440,
0545, 0664, 0748, 0809-0915; 8: 0001,
0051-0248, 0345, 0366, 0418-1003;
9: 0001, 0108, 0143, 0197-0374, 0468,
0589; 10: 0001, 0213, 0336, 0469, 0536,
0629, 0753
see also Margin accounts
Locey, G. H.
7:0001
Lombard Ayres Tide Water Pipe Line
3:0250
London Stock Exchange
7: 0250
Losses
1:0593
se© a/so Earnings; Profits
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
1: 0831 ; 3: 0457-0870; 10: 0336
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad
7: 0545
Machine shops
1:0177
McKinley, W.
7: 0001
Magnolia Gold & Silver Mining Co.
6: 0978
Mann Boudoir Car Co.
1:0054
Marble
4:0785;7:0139
Margin accounts
1: 0223, 0477; 2: 0113-0464, 0615-0829;
3: 0129, 0457-0870; 4: 0001,02000484; 5: 0001-0355, 0663-0926;
6: 0001-0418; 7: 0001 ; 8: 0051-0248,
44
0366, 0418-1003; 9: 0001; 10: 0336,
0629
Maxwell Land Grant
7:0545
Meat
3:0037
Memorial Baptist Church
6:0616
Mergers
1: 0831 ; 4: 0117, 0706; 5: 0432, 0519;
6: 0724; 7: 0001; 9: 0035; 10: 0120,
0213,0753
see also Stock market
Metropolitan Iron & Land Co.
6:0820
Metropolitan Real Estate Co.
7:0139
Metropolitan Traction Co.
3: 0037
Mexican Central Railway Co.
3:0457-0870
Mica
7:0748
Michigan Central Railroad
7:0139
Midland Tramways Co.
4: 0706
Mikado Fruit & Raisin Co.
7:0001
Mllburn Wagon Co.
10:0120
Milton, West Virginia, Coal & Mining Co.
3:0925
Minerals
1: 0223; 4: 0706, 0922; 6: 0724; 10: 0213
Mines
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0593, 0730,
0831, 0945; 2: 0001 ; 3: 0037, 0250,
0383, 0925, 0951 ; 4: 0117, 0706, 0785,
0922; 5: 0001-0355, 0432; 6: 0820,
0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250, 0346, 0545,
0664, 0748, 0809-0915; 8:0001, 00510248; 9: 0035, 0108, 0197-0374, 0468,
0589; 10:0120, 0213, 0336, 0536, 0629,
0753
Minnesota Exploration Co.
1:0593;9:0589
Minnesota Iron Co.
3: 0951; 7: 0139; 10: 0536
Minnesota Loan & Trust Co.
7: 0545
Minnesota Mining & Railroad Syndicate
1:0368
Minnesota, St. Croix & Wisconsin Terminal Co.
2:0001;9:0589
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
1: 0223; 2:0113-0464; 3: 0001, 0457-0870;
4: 0706, 0785; 5: 0001-0355, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418; 7: 0139, 0545;
9:0035; 10:0336
Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
3: 0457-0870; 4: 0706; 5: 0001-0355
Morehead & Ogden
7:0139
Morgan, Smith & Co.
7: 0139
Morse, Mitchell & Williamson
7:0139
Mortgages
1: 0593, 0831, 0945; 2: 0615-0829, 0912;
3: 0037, 0250; 4: 0001, 0117, 02000484, 0922; 5: 0519, 0606; 6: 0616,
0978; 7: 0440; 9: 0468; 10: 0001, 0753
see also Loans; Real estate
Mount Desert & Eastern Shore Land Co.
7:0139
A. H. Müller & Son
7: 0139
Mutual Life Assurance Co. of New York
7:0139
Naptha
9: 0589
Nashville Pottery Co.
6: 0724
National City Bank of New York
7: 0250
National Safe & Lock Co.
1:0593
National Tag Co.
3: 0001
National Transit Co.
1: 0477, 0593; 7: 0346; 9: 0589; 10: 0001
National Tube Works Co.
1:0054
Natural Gas Trust
1: 0177, 0368, 0730, 0831 ; 2:0566; 3: 0001 ;
6: 0503, 0724; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250;
9: 0468; 10:0001, 0469
Negotiations
1: 0054; 6: 0861 ; 9: 0468; 10: 0001
New England Phonograph Co.
7: 0250
45
New Haven & West Haven Horse Railroad Co.
6: 0724
Newspapers
1: 0223, 0593; 3: 0383; 7: 0440; 9:0589;
10:0536
New York Bank Note Co.
4:0706
New York Building Loan Banking Co.
1:0177
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co.
3: 0250; 7: 0250
New York Central Sleeping Car Co.
7:0250; 10:0213
New York, Chicago & Council Bluffs Railroad
7: 0664
New York Dairy & Beef Co.
1:0054
New York Guaranty & Indemnity Co.
7: 0250
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co.
7: 0250; 10: 0213
New York Life Insurance Co.
1:0477; 3: 0951
New York Produce Exchange
1:0831
New York Produce Exchange Safe Deposit &
Storage Co.
7:0440
New York Security & Trust Co.
7: 0250
New York Stock Exchange
1:0593; 3:0129; 7:0250
see also Stock market
New York Transit Co.
1:0730:4:0706
Nicaragua Canal
7: 0440
North Alabama Furnace, Foundry & Land Co.
7: 0664; 10: 0753
North Alabama Land & Improvement Co.
10:0213
North American Phosphate Co.
7: 0001
North & South American Construction Co.
10:0213
North East Street Railway Co.
4:0574
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
1:0368, 0477, 0831 ; 2: 0001, 0113-0464,
0566; 3: 0457-0870; 4: 0706, 0785;
5:0001-0355, 0519, 0663-0926;
6: 0001-0418; 7: 0139, 0250, 0346,
0664; 9: 0143; 10: 0001, 0336, 0629
see also St. Paul & Northern Pacific
Railway Co.
Northern Pipe Line Co.
1:0730
Northwest Equipment Co. of Minnesota
7: 0250
Northwestern Colorado Colonization &
Townsite Co.
7: 0748
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
1:0477
Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co.
1: 0368; 7: 0250; 10: 0001, 0753
Northwestern Trust & Investment Co.
1:0177
Ocean Steamship Co.
4: 0574
Ohio Fidelity & Accident Co.
4: 0574
Ohio Oil Co.
7: 0346; 10: 0001
Oil Industry
1: 0593, 0945; 2: 0615-0829; 3: 0250, 0925,
0951 ; 4: 0001, 0200-0484, 0922;
5: 0519; 6: 0616, 0666, 0724, 0820;
7: 0001, 0250, 0346, 0440, 0545, 08090915; 8: 0001; 9: 0143, 0468, 0589;
10:0001,0213,0336
Oliver Iron & Steel Co.
7:0346
Onyx
8:0366;10:0336
Opateca Silver Mines Co.
1:0593; 7: 0346
Oranges
1: 0477; 4: 0785; 7: 0001
Oregon & Transcontinental Co.
2: 0113-0464; 3: 0383; 4: 0785; 5: 00010355; 7: 0346; 9: 0468; 10: 0336, 0536
Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
1: 0593; 2:0113-0464; 4: 0785; 5:00010355; 7: 0346; 9: 0468; 10: 0336
Oregon Short Line Railway Co.
3: 0037; 7: 0346; 10:0536
Orvis Brothers & Co.
7:0346
Otis Elevator Co.
6: 0666
46
Otis Iron & Steel Co.
1: 0477; 3: 0383; 7: 0346; 9: 0197-0374;
10:0213
Packing companies
3:0037;7:0139
Paints
10:0629
seo also Linseed oil
Pan American Co.
10:0120
Paper making
1:0368; 7: 0250; 10: 0629
Patents
see Inventions
Pell, Ogden
6: 0503
Pennock Electric Light Co.
7:0545
Pennsylvania Co.
7: 0748
Pennsylvania Railroad
10:0001
Pennsylvania Tube Works
7:0545
Penokee & Gogebic Consolidated Mines
2:0001;10:0629
Pensacola & Memphis Railroad
6:0666
People's Gas Light Co.
10:0629
Perkins & Bradley
7:0545
Pfeiffer & Pronlck
7: 0545
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
2: 0566; 3: 0457-0870; 7: 0545
Philadelphia Co.
1:0368
Philharmonic Society
7: 0545
Phonographs
7: 0250
Phosphates
1: 0054, 0223, 0477; 7: 0001 ; 9: 0468, 0589;
10:0536,0753
Plckands, Mather & Co.
7: 0545
Pillsbury
6:0724
Pioneer Oil Co.
7: 0809-0915; 8: 0001; 9: 0468
Pipelines
1: 0593, 0730; 3: 0250; 4: 0785; 5: 0519;
7: 0545; 10:0336
Planning
1: 0831 ; 2: 0001, 0113-0464; 3: 0457-0870,
0951; 4: 0001, 0200-0484, 0706, 0785,
0922; 5: 0001-0355, 0432, 0519, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418, 0861; 7: 0250,
0346, 0440, 0545, 0664, 0809-0915;
8: 0001, 0051-0248, 0418-1003;
9: 0001, 0035, 0197-0374, 0589;
10:0001,0753
Plaza Bank
10:0629
Pneumatic tubes
4: 0922
Pocantico Water Works Co.
10:0753
Political activities
5:0001-0355;10:0629
see also U.S. Congress
Poor & Greenough
7:0545
Portland National Bank
7: 0664
Potash
7: 0001
Potomac Valley Railroad Co.
4: 0595
Potter, Howard
2: 0566
Pottery
6: 0724
Printing
4: 0595, 0706, 0922; 6: 0724; 7: 0440;
8: 0366
Profits
1:0368
see also Earnings; Losses
Proxies
1: 0477; 2: 0113-0464; 3: 0383; 4: 0706,
0785; 5: 0001-0355; 6: 0861 ; 7: 0139,
0250, 0346, 0440; 9:0143; 10: 0629,
0753
see also Annual meetings
Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co.
1:0945
Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Co.
10:0629
Pure Rubber Paint Co.
10:0629
47
Quarries
10:0001,0120
see also Cement; Phosphates
Qulgley, Harraman & Tuttle
4:0785
Railroads
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0730, 0831 ; 2: 0001, 0113-0464, 0566,
0615-0829; 3: 0001, 0037, 0129, 0250,
0383, 0457-0870, 0925, 0951 ; 4: 0001,
0200-0484, 0595, 0706, 0785. 0922;
5:0001-0355, 0432, 0519, 0606, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418, 0503, 0666, 0724,
0861, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250, 0346,
0440, 0545, 0664, 0748, 0809-0915;
8:0001 ; 9: 0035, 0143, 0468, 0589;
10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0336, 0469, 0536,
0629, 0753
Railway & Realty Security Co.
7: 0545
Ranching
7: 0809-0915; 8: 0001 ; 9: 0035; 10: 0753
see also Cattle
W. P. Rand & Co.
4: 0785
A. H. Rathbone & Co.
7:0748
Real estate
1: 0177, 0223, 0368, 0593, 0831, 0945;
2: 0566, 0912; 3: 0001, 0037, 0250,
0383, 0925, 0951 ; 4: 0001,0117, 02000484, 0595, 0706, 0785, 0922; 5: 0432,
0519, 0606; 6: 0503, 0616, 0666, 0724,
0820, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250, 0346,
0440, 0545, 0664, 0748, 0809-0915;
8:0001, 0051-0248, 0366; 9: 0035,
0108, 0143, 0197-0374, 0468, 0589;
10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0336, 0536, 0629,
0753
Redmond, Kerr & Co.
7:0748
Reed & Flagg
7: 0748
Reíd, J. D.
7:0139,0748
Republican Valley Railroad Co.
1:0831
Rice, W. P.
9:0143
Richmond & Danville Railroad Co.
1: 0054; 4: 0785; 5: 0663-0926; 6: 00010418,0861
Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway &
Warehouse Co.
1: 0054, 0223, 0593; 2: 0113-0464, 06150829; 3: 0383, 0951 ; 4: 0706; 5: 06630926; 6: 0001-0418, 0666, 0861 ;
7: 0346, 0748
Robinson Brothers
7: 0748
Rochester Driving Association
4: 0595
Ross & Jerrell
9:0035
Runyon, Lake & Co.
9:0108
Safe deposit boxes
6: 0978; 7: 0440
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Co.
9: 0143
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.
9:0143
St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Co.
4: 0922
see also Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
St. Paul City Railway Co.
3:0037
Salary
8: 0051-0248
Salt
4: 0706, 0922; 9: 0589
San Diego & Phoenix Railroad Co.
10:0629
San Mlquel Gold Placers Co. of Colorado
3: 0037
San Ricardo Mining Co.
10:0213
Sault Ste. Marie & S.W. Railroad Co.
10:0120
Savannah & Western Railroad Co.
9:0143
Savings & Trust Co.
6: 0978
Schiff, Charles
7: 0001
Scottish Land & Colonization Co. of Missouri
7:0139
Seaboard National Bank
9:0143
48
Securities
1: 0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0730, 0831, 0945; 2: 0113-0464, 06150829; 3: 0001, 0129, 0250, 0383, 04570870, 0951 ; 4: 0001, 0200-0484, 0595;
5: 0001-0355; 5: 0001-0355, 0519,
0606, 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0503,
0616, 0666, 0724, 0820, 0861, 0978;
7:0001, 0250, 0346, 0440, 0545, 0748;
9:0035,0108,0589,0753
Security Loan & Trust Co.
3: 0383
Sewers
7:0250
see also Water
Sewing machines
5: 0432; 10: 0753
Shaker Society
1:0831
Shaw, M. A.
7:0001
Shawhan, Deane & Co.
9:0468
Sherman, Roger
10:0120
Sherwln & Williams
9: 0468
see also Linseed oil
Sliver
1: 0593; 3: 0951 ; 4: 0706; 6: 0978; 7: 0664;
9:0108,0468
Simmons Brothers
9: 0468
Sioux City & Wyoming Coal & Oil Land Co.
4: 0922
Slate
10:0120
Smelters
1: 0368, 0593; 5: 0432; 10:0213
see also Iron
Smith, Edmund
9: 0468
Smith, Elijah
2: 0113-0464; 4: 0785; 9: 0468
Smith, W.
7:0139
Solar Refining Co.
9:0468; 10: 0001
Sone & Fleming Manufacturing Co.
1:0223
Southern Chemical Co.
3:0129
Southern Pipe Line Co.
1:0730
South Improvement Co.
1:0593
South Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
5: 0001-0355; 6: 0666; 7: 0748; 9: 0468;
10:0001
Southwestern Coal & Improvement Co.
1:0477;10:0629
Spelman Seminary
1:0223
Sporting goods
6: 0724; 9: 0468
Standard Oil Co.
agents 1:0730
attorneys 1:0477; 10:0120
employees 1:0477, 0945; 2: 0615-0829;
3: 0001 ; 4: 0706, 0922; 6: 0503, 0666,
0820; 7: 0001, 0440; 9: 0143, 0468;
10:0469,0536
executives 1: 0368; 2:0615-0829; 4:0001,
0200-0484, 0785; 7:0440, 0809-0915;
8: 0001, 0366; 9: 0035, 0197-0374,
0589; 10: 0213, 0336, 0629
management 7: 0809-0915; 8: 0001
manufacturing committee 7: 0001
misappropriation of funds 1: 0477; 9: 0143
office procedures 1: 0177; 4: 0595, 0922;
5: 0432, 0606; 6: 0820, 0978; 8: 0366,
0418-1003; 9: 0001, 0197-0374, 0589;
10:0336,0469,0629,0753
stockholders 4: 0785; 9: 0468
real estate 3: 0250; 9: 0108, 0197-0374
value of shares 1:0945
Standard Oil Trust
dissolution 3: 0951 ; 10: 0001
dividends 1: 0593, 0945; 3: 0951 ; 9: 0468;
10:0001,0536
employees 1: 0223; 6:0978; 7: 0346;
10:0536,0629
executives 1: 0177, 0730; 2:0615-0829;
3: 0037, 0951 ; 5: 0663-0926; 6: 00010418, 0724, 0820; 7: 0001, 0346, 0440;
8:0051-0248; 10: 0120, 0213
stockholders 1: 0177, 0223, 0368, 0593,
0730, 0945; 2: 0615-0829; 4: 0706,
0785; 5: 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418,
0503, 0820, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0346,
0440, 0545, 0664, 0748, 0809-0915;
49
8: 0001, 0051-0248, 0345, 0366, 04181003; 9: 0001, 0143, 0468, 0589;
10:0001,0213,0469,0753
subsidiaries 1: 0223, 0477, 0593, 0730;
3:0250; 4: 0706; 6: 0616, 0666, 0724,
0820; 7: 0250, 0346, 0440, 0545, 08090915; 8: 0001; 9: 0468, 0589; 10: 0001,
0336
Standard Trust & Improvement Co. of Tacoma,
Washington
10:0001
Standard Underground Cable Co.
10:0629
Staples
3: 0250
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Co.
10:0001
Steamships
1: 0945; 2: 0566; 4: 0574, 0706, 0785;
5: 0432, 0519; 7: 0545, 0809-0915;
8: 0001; 9: 0197-0374; 10:0213, 0753
Steel manufacturing
1: 0477, 0593; 2: 0566; 3: 0250, 0951 ;
4:0117, 0706, 0922; 5: 0432, 0519,
0606; 6: 0503, 0666, 0724; 7: 0346,
0440, 0545, 0809-0915; 8: 0001 ;
9:0035, 0143, 0197-0374, 0468, 0589;
10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0336, 0536, 0753
see also Iron
V. K. Stevenson & Co.
10:0001
Stock market
1:0054, 0177, 0223, 0368, 0477, 0593,
0831, 0945; 2: 0001, 0001, 0113-0464,
0566, 0615-0829; 3: 0001, 0037, 0129,
0250, 0383, 0457-0870, 0951; 4: 0001,
0117, 0200-0484, 0574, 0595, 0706,
0785, 0922; 5: 0001-0355, 0432, 0519,
0606, 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0666,
0820, 0861, 0978; 7: 0001, 0139, 0250,
0346, 0440, 0545; 0809-0915; 8: 0001,
0051-0248, 0345, 0366. 0418-1003;
9: 0001, 0143, 0197-0374, 0468, 0589;
10: 0001, 0120, 0213, 0336, 0469, 0536,
0629, 0753
Walter C. Stokes & Co.
10:0120
Straight Line Engine Co.
10:0536
Strikes
7:0139
Sugar
1: 0593; 3:0001 ; 6: 0503; 7: 0440
Superior Slate Quarry
10:0120
Superior, Wisconsin, Rapid Transit Railway
Co.
4: 0922
Edward Sweet & Co.
1:0223; 10:0120
Syracuse Consolidated Street Railroad Co.
10:0120
Tanneries
4: 0922
Taxes
7: 0748; 9: 0468; 10:0336, 0753
Telegraphy
1: 0054, 0177, 0831, 0945; 3:0037, 0129,
0250, 0457-0870; 4:0595, 0922;
5: 0663-0926; 6: 0001-0418, 0820;
9: 0468, 0589; 10: 0213, 0469, 0629
Telephone exchange systems
6: 0666
Temperance
7: 0664
Texas & Pacific Coal Co.
7: 0001; 10:0213
Texas Mineral Railroad
10:0213
Thompson & Bedford Co.
1:0223
Thowless Aluminum Syndicate
10:0213
Threshing machines
1:0054
Thurber, Whyland & Co.
10:0213
Tlmberlands
1: 0177, 0368, 0831 ; 2: 0566, 0615-0829;
3: 0383, 0951 ; 4: 0117, 0706; 5: 0432;
7: 0001, 0139, 0346, 0440, 0545;
9: 0108, 0143, 0468; 10: 0213, 0629,
0753
Tin
7: 0748
Tobacco
1:0368;7:0440
Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk Railroad Co.
1:0054
Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway
Co.
10:0336
50
Toledo, Columbus & Southern Railway Co.
9: 0468
Townsend & Washbum
10:0336
Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Co.
1:0477
Troy Steel & Iron Co.
6:0666; 7: 0346; 9: 0143; 10: 0336
Truman & Coolldge
2: 0566
Tunnels
10:0001,0336
Typewriters
7:0664
Union Cotton Warehouse & Compress Co.
10:0753
Union Ferry Co.
6: 0820
Union Investment Co.
1:0223
Union Investment Co. of Kansas City
1:0831
Union Investment Co. of New Jersey
7:0346;10:0120
Union Iron & Steel Co.
10:0120
Union Pacific Railroad Co.
1:0223; 2: 0113-0464, 0615-0829; 3: 04570870; 4: 0785; 5: 0001-0355, 06630926; 6: 0001-0418; 10: 0536
Union Steel Co.
1:0593; 5: 0519; 10:0213,0536
United Brass Co.
1:0831; 9: 0035
United Salt Co.
9: 0589
United States & Brazil Mail Steamship Co.
10:0213
United States Land & Investment Co.
3:0951
United States Trust Co.
10:0001,0536
Universal Electric Co.
1:0593
University of Chicago
1:0177;7:0001
see also Chicago Theological Union
U.S. Congress
1: 0831 ; 2: 0113-0464; 3: 0001, 0457-0870,
0951 ; 4: 0922; 5: 0001-0355; 10: 0536
U.S. State Department
7:0139
U.S. Treasury Department
1:0730
Utica & Black River Railroad Co.
10:0753
Vacuum Oil Co.
7: 0440; 10:0001
Valley Railway Co. of Ohio
7:0139
Villard, Henry
7: 0250; 10: 0536
Virginia, Missouri & Western Railroad
1:0593
Vouchers
5: 0606
Wabash Railroad Co.
10:0629
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Co.
4: 0706
Wagner Palace Car Co.
10:0213,0629
Wagons
7: 0545; 10: 0120
Waring Cable Co.
10:0629
Washboard manufacturers
4: 0706
Washington Trust Co.
1: 0177; 7: 0139, 0440; 10: 0629
Water
4: 0785; 6: 0666, 0724; 9: 0143; 10: 0213,
0536, 0753
see also Irrigation; Sewers
Waters Pierce Oil Co.
7:0545;10:0336
Wattris, Bréese & Cummings
10:0629
Welling & Malcom
10:0629
West Chicago Street Railroad
1:0593
Western Exploration Co.
10:0629
Western Reserve National Bank Co.
5: 0432; 10: 0753
Western Union Telegraph Co.
4:0922;10:0629
Westinghouse Electric Co.
9: 0035; 10: 0120
51
West Superior Smelter Co.
1:0593
Wheeling Bridge & Terminal Railway Co.
3: 0951
Henry Wick & Co.
10:0753
Willlamsburgh Gas Light Co.
1:0477
Wind Cave National Park
3:0250
Winner Investment Co.
10:0213
Wisconsin Central Associated Lines
2: 0001 ; 5: 0432
Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.
1:0054, 0593; 4: 0785; 9: 0589
Women's Christian Temperance Union
7:0664
Wood
1: 0477; 4: 0922; 6: 0820; 7: 0001
see also Timberlands
Woodland Avenue Savings & Loan Co.
1:0831:10:0001,0536
Woods, W. S.
1:0831
Worcester & Shrewsbury Railroad Co.
1:0368
Peter Wright & Sons
10:0753
Yellow Pine Co.
7: 0440
York Iron Co.
1:0593
Xenophobia
7: 0440
Zenith Iron Co.
1:0593
Zinc
1: 0593; 3: 0383
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