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Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company (Louisville, Ky.). Ohio River Valley business collection, 1788-1961.

Title: Ohio River Valley business collection, 1788-1961.

Collection contains information regarding trusts held by the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company for local and regional businesses and individuals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Documents include leases, deeds, land surveys, estate records, and financial and business records for realty companies, railroads, manufacturers, farms, and individuals. The collection also contains eleven company minute books (1889-1944). A detailed folder inventory is available.

ArchivalResource: 20 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60933891 View

Louisville Gas and Electric Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

Title: [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

ArchivalResource: v. 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701741590 View

Todd, George Davidson, 1856-1929. Papers, 1868-1898.

Title: Papers, 1868-1898.

Correspondence dated 1874-1898 in which the primary subject is politics. It focuses on Todd's work with the Republican Party, and other political organizations like the American Protective Tariff League, the McKinley Club, and the Garfield Club. Political issues described inlcude the 1894 Congressional Election, the 1892 Presidential Election, protective tariffs, the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, the Kentucky legislature, Bloody Monday, and the proposed Nicaragua Canal. Other topics of interest are the Todd family, North Carolina, baseball, the Kentucky Penitentiary, the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (Western State Hospital), and the use of convict labor in coal mines in Pulaski County. Persons of note discussed inlcude Joseph C.S. Blackburn, William C.P. Breckinridge, John S. Williams, and Bennett H. Young. Among the correspondents are Thomas A. Speed, Andrew Cowan, E. Polk Johnson, Augustus E. Willson, John G. Carlisle, Charles T. Ballard, and Thomas Speed (1841-1905. Other items contained in the collection are anti-Catholic voting information, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite materials, bills, promissory notes, and a legal summons.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324953 View

Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Investment analysis files ("I-M"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

Title: Investment analysis files ("I-M"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Dept., but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122457632 View

McTighe, John W. (John William) 1949-2005. John W. McTighe papers, 1845-2005.

Title: John W. McTighe papers, 1845-2005.

John W. McTighe gathered the materials in this collection while completing his dissertation, Economic Development and Social Diversity: The Origin and Composition of a Systematic Growth Regime in Louisville, Kentucky, 1897-1933. This collection contains copies of newspaper, journal, and magazine articles along with excerpts from theses and dissertations related to Louisville history and economic concerns. The papers also include copies of city directories, membership registers for Louisville clubs, and McTighe's own list of Louisville elites. In addition, a manuscript copy of McTighe's thesis for the University of Louisville Department of Sociology and his miscellaneous research notes are contained in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122267040 View