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Jeffrey, Alexander, 1815-1899. Alexander Jeffrey Papers, 1835-1899.

Title: Alexander Jeffrey Papers, 1835-1899.

Included in the papers is correspondence, 1835-1899, personal and family accounts, 1846-1899, land papers, and tax receipts, including receipts for taxes on land in Kent, Van Buren, and Allen counties, Mich., Talbot County, Md., and Olympia and Tacoma, Wash. The correspondence includes letters from Jeffrey's brother Robert at Toledo, Ohio, 1836-1838; letters to Delia Granger, a student at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and later Jeffrey's wife; letters of recommendation, 1841, from John Grieg, Francis Granger, and others; letters from Jeffrey's brother John, chiefly concerning the business of their firm, John Jeffrey and Co., which planned, built, and managed gasworks in the 1850s in many southern and midwestern cities and in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba; and letters from Clarence George Keats, who was associated with the firm of John Jeffrey and Co. Also includes correspondence, 1851-1867, from Jeffrey's brother William about his agency of the Greig, Hornby, and Colquhoun estates in New York State; letters, 1862, from John B. Paine, Jr., of Lexington, concerning local events; letters about the administration of the estates of William Jeffrey and of his aunt Mrs. Jane Charlotte Ross; letters from Oswald Tilghman regarding the sale of "Hope Farm" in Talbot County, Md.; letters, 1883-1894, from Henry D. Fitch of Louisville, and others, regarding the management of the Vicksburg Gas Light Co. of which Jeffrey was president and manager; and letters, 1890-1894, from T.N. Allen of Olympia, Wash., father-in-law of Alexander Jeffrey, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

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Jeffrey, William, 1812-1867. William Jeffrey : papers, 1852-1876.

Title: William Jeffrey : papers, 1852-1876.

Papers consist of correspondence, 1856-1867, including letters, 1856-1858, from Robert Balmanno of N.Y. about books and literary matters; correspondence with Sir Patrick Colquhoun, Ewing P. Colquhoun, C.H. Hutchinson of Philadelphia, and others about the collection of dividends from Patrick Colquhoun's shares of stock in the North American Land Co.; the collection of rents from land in Steuben and Allegheny counties, N.Y.; the transmission of funds to England; investments in stock of the New York Central Railroad and the Western Railroad Corporation of Massachusetts during the Civil War when the exchange rate between the U.S. and England was very high; the forwarding of bonds to Reverend Robert Cunningham of St. Ranraer, Scotland. Also includes accounts, 1854-1865; powers of attorney, receipts, certificates, etc., 1858-1867, bearing on Jeffrey's agency of the Colquhoun estate; papers, 1867-1876, regarding the administration of the estate of William Jeffrey in which his brothers, Alexander and John Jeffrey, were executors; and a prospectus for The Pen and Pencil by Mary Balmanno.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

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Jeffrey, John, 1817-1881. John Jeffrey Papers, 1836-1879.

Title: John Jeffrey Papers, 1836-1879.

Collection of correspondence, reports, contracts, estimates, specifications, drawings, accounts, and engineering notebooks of Jeffrey. Included are letters to the firm of John Jeffrey & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio), time books, receipt books, and account books of the company, 1852-1859; papers concerning the gasworks built by the company in many southern and midwestern cities and in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, from the plans of John Jeffrey; letters from Clarence George Keats, Jeffrey' stepson, and business associate; letters, 1868, from Alexander Jeffrey concerning the administration of the estate of their brother, William Jeffrey; notes, plans, and specifications of iron gunboats for river service proposed to be built by John Jeffrey at Cincinnati in 1861 and 1862; and contracts concerning the preparation of Ohio River steam rams, 1862. Also includes papers concerning the resumption of operations of the Vicksburg Gas Co. in 1863; and engineering notebooks kept at Utica, N.Y., and Louisville, Ky., 1837-1841, containing measurements of Louisville streets made for the Louisville Gas Co.

ArchivalResource: 3.33 cubic ft.

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