Business
- Scope and content:
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Business records document the early days of the duPont Powder Company at the turn of the century to its breakup in 1915. Included is correspondence between Alfred, his cousin,Frank Cazenove Jones, and his brother, Maurice duPont. The details of the duPont family lawsuit are covered, including the reports of lawyers and private detectives. Banking ventures, the Nemours Trading Co., a variety of business and real estate ventures, and Alfred's 1912 activities in Paris are included.
- Language:
- English
- Names:
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
Okonite Company
Service Citizens of Delaware
Atlas Powder Company
East Texas Oil, Gas, and Mineral Company
Rocky Mountain National Bank
American International Oil Corporation
Cambridge Yacht Club
Edmund Kelly Real Estate
The Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror
Glaze & Fine law firm
New York World
United States. Department of the Treasury
Equitable Guarantee and Trust Co.
Tonkin Du Pont Graphite Co.
Harriman National Bank
Corn Exchange National Bank
Franklin Trust Company (Philadelphia, PA)
Public Service Company of Colorado
Denver Gas and Electric Light Co.
The First National Bank of the City of New York
French American Constructive Corporation
Nemours Trading Corporation
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Brandywine Realty
Delaware Barber Company
Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
Delaware Trust Company
Everett Railway, Light and Water Company
Hotel du Pont
Harding Peeling Machine Company
Liberty Brand Canning Company
Delaware Packing Company
Gorham Manufacturing Company
McLean Contracting Company
Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935
Du Pont, B. G. (Bessie Gardner), 1864-1949
Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954
Horwitz, George Q. (George Quintard), 1868-1916
Beardslee, L. R. (Lisle Rhodes), 1879-1963
Connable, Frank L. (Frank Lee), 1871-1947
Dashiell, J. L. (James "Jimmy" Lambert), 1870-1950
Copeland, Charles, 1867-1944
Lee, Cazenove Gardner, 1882-1945
Du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1869-1921
Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930
Dunham, R. H. (Russell Harry), 1870-1958
Du Pont, Irénée, 1876-1963
Reese, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1862-1940
Darling, Philip G. (Philip Greenville), 1878-1948
Stirling, Thomas J., 1848-1926
Gentieu, Pierre A. (Pierre Auguste), 10215
Cazenove, Louis A. (Louis Albert), 1851-1925
Jones, Frank Cazenove, Jr., 1887-1949
Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950
Du Pont, Francis I. (Francis Irénée), 1873-1942
Scott, William L. (William Levi), 1857-1934
Prickett, C. D. (Clifford Denslow), 1863-1949
Ramsay, William G. (William Gouverneur), 1866-1916
Cauffiel, Daniel, 1867-1930
Gregory, Thomas Watt, 1861-1933
Du Pont, William, 1855-1928
Crosby, H. T. (Howard T.), 1880-1928
Ross, Howard D. (Howard DeHaven), b. 1872
Miller, Robert W., 1890-1943
Ball, A. L. C. (Addison Lombard Carter), 1876-1934
Hassan, A. A. (Addison A.), b. ca.1857- d.1935
Eckersley, J. H. (James H.), b. ca. 1857- d.1921
Allee, J. Frank (James Frank), 1857-1938
Brereton, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1887-1964
Bradford, E. G. (Edward Green), Jr., Representative, 1878-1927
Browne, Hugh C.
Du Pont, Maurice (1866-1941)
Goldsborough, Phillips Lee, 1865-1946
Harrison, D. B. (Duncan B.), Major
Scott, Temple, b. 1864
Du Pont, Mary Alicia Heyward Bradford, 1875-1920
Glasgow, William A. (William Anderson), Jr., 1865-1930
Jones, Frank Cazenove, Sr., 1857-1918
Loos, Henry B. (Henry Beatty), 1892-1918
Rogers, James H. (James Hague), 1848-1919
Thompson, J. Clayton (John Clayton), b. 1874
Bielaski, A. Bruce (Alexander Bruce), 1851-1926
Du Pont Perot, Eleanor Ball, 1875-1934
Cate, Isaac M., 1838-1923
Lewis, Howard Benton, 1867-1946
Penington, Robert, b. 1874
Miles, Joshua W. (Joshua Weldon), 1858-1929
Vale, Ruby Ross, 1874-1961
Harriman, J. W. (Joseph Wright), 1867-1949
Eyre, James K. (James Kline), 1882-1956
Cochran, Thomas, 1871-1936
Archibald, S. G. (Samuel G.), Judge, b. 1875
Harvey, Holstein, 1847-1920
Price, Francis A., 1857-1937
Price, Frederick Somers, b. 1886
Dennison, Ethan Allen, 1881-1954
Davis, Curtis E., 1866-1935
Du Pont, Jessie Ball, 1884-1970
Ball, Edward G. (Edward Gresham), 1888-1981
Phillips, H. R. (Henry Rodney), 1858-1929
Duveen, C. J. (Charles Joel), 1871-1940
Frishmuth, Harriet Whitney, 1880-1980
Novack, David Robert
Stow, Marcellus Henry
Hibbard, Harriet H., 1868-1941
Thomson, Arthur
Campbell, Donald, 1879-1948
Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929
Curtis, Chas. (Charles) M., b. 1860
Oliver, Howard T. (Howard Taylor), 1887-1969
McLean, Colin, 1844-1916
Mathewson, S. Frank (Samuel Francis), 1865-1945
Leonard, James C., 1855-1930
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