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Tye River and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company (Va.). Records, 1829-1843.

Title: Records, 1829-1843.

Treasurer's book kept by William Massie of Rockbridge County, Virginia, for the Tye River and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company, including lists of subscribers for construction of the road; and letters to Massie, 1842, from both Robert McCormick II and his son, Cyrus Hall McCormick, making arrangements for their payments to the company.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 folder including 1 volume)

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McCormick, William Steele, 1804-1883. Papers, 1833-1897.

Title: Papers, 1833-1897.

Papers of a cousin of Cyrus Hall McCormick who moved from Virginia to Missouri in 1840. Correspondence consists of early letters from relatives in Augusta and Montgomery counties in Virginia making frequent references to residents there, especially the family of his wife who had been Rebecca Crow, and mentioning the sale of their Virginia iron furnace and reapers by Robert McCormick II and by Cyrus Hall McCormick; and later letters relating to William Steele McCormick's agency for the sale of McCormick reapers in Missouri.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

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Harrison, George Moffett, 1847-1923,. Papers of the McChesney family of Staunton, Virginia, 1835-1920.

Title: Papers of the McChesney family of Staunton, Virginia, 1835-1920.

The collection consists of personal correspondence, legal correspondence and business papers of Zachariah J. McChesney and his sons Adam McChesney and William J.B. McChesney. Personal correspondence conveys news of family and friends and includes letters from emigrants to Illinois and Georgia. Letters of interest include one from Leander J. McCormick discussing Robert McCormick and one from S.L. McKellar of California discussing dressmaking and fashions. Financial and legal correspondence includes discussions of cattle sales, the North River Navigation Company, guardianship accounts, and legal opinions. George M. Harrison is a correspondent. Business papers contain accounts to the McChesneys from various local merchants. Many are from T.H. Antrim and Company of Waynesboro, Virginia. Of interest is a letter, 1920, from Black Rock Radium Springs Hotel concerning the puchase of radium water. Business papers also contain cloth and accessory purchases of Ann M. Cochran, (a dressmaker?) An 1857 bill for a coffin and hearse is included. Legal papers include an 1844 indenture for Augusta County land, a memorandum of agreement establishing the firm of John T. Huff, and an undated survey of Spring Hill.

ArchivalResource: 104 items.

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Jones, Henry B. Papers, 1831-1882.

Title: Papers, 1831-1882.

Papers of Jones, a farmer and merchant of Rockbridge County, Virginia, containing some correspondence with Robert and Cyrus Hall McCormick, but consisting chiefly of scattered receipts; one ledger for his Lexington store; and two account books, in which he recorded carpentering and hauling for others, his own farm and family expenses, and yields from an apple orchard and his selection of trees. Included are typewritten notes taken from a diary kept by Jones, 1842-1847, relating to members of the McCormick family.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder including 2 volumes)

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Title: Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in both the domestic and foreign fields, and dealing with McCormick's many other interests, particularly the Presbyterian Church and several charities; his activities as a member of the state and national Democratic party; and his investments, chiefly in Chicago real estate, railroads, and mines. Also included are deeds, contracts, investment proposals, and other documents. Some of the letters are to or from McCormick's wife Nettie Fowler, their son Cyrus, Jr., and others associated with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. The earliest dated items were written or received by Cyrus' father, Robert McCormick, and by other family members.

ArchivalResource: 84.6 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 50 card boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788280 View