Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States records, (inclusive), (bulk). 1870-1919 1869-1906

McIntyre, William H.

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Jekyl Island Club.

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Cuyler, Thomas Dewitt, 1854-1922

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Wilson, George T.

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Mormon in Arizona. From the guide to the George T. Wilson correspondence, 1884-1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Epithet: of Leyton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000412.0x000218 ...

Price, Waterhouse & Co.

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Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad Company.

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Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...

Hyde, Henry Baldwin, 1834-1899

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Businessman. From the description of Papers of Henry Baldwin Hyde, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451109 ...

Security Safe Deposit Company (Boston, Mass.)

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Mercantile Safe Deposit Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Haskins & Sells

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Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (ELAS) was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde’s death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. From the g...

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860

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Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) wrote a popular and widely imitated series of educational works for children under the pen name of Peter Parley. His intent was to provide an alternative to the British biases of 19th-century schoolroom texts and the questionable morals of nursery rhymes. He also created two children's magazines, Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine, as well as an annual gift book, The Token. Goodrich served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1837 and held the post of U.S. c...

Tarbell, Gage E., 1856-1936.

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Mercantile Trust Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Hyde, James H. (James Hazen), 1876-1959

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James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a businessman, francophile, and expatriate. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. In 1899 he was left in charge of his father's (Henry Baldwin Hyde, 1834-1899) life insurance company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. In 1905 Hyde lost control of the company in a publicity scandal that resulted in an investigation of the insurance industry by the New York State. In late December 1905 Hyde sailed for Paris, where he lived until the Nazi occup...

Alexander, James W. (James Waddel), 1839-1915

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James W. Alexander, member of the Princeton class of 1860, was a prominent New York City insurance official and financier, an active alumnus, and a member of the Princeton Board of Trustees. From the description of James W. Alexander scrapbooks on Princeton University, 1893-1905. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 692625891 American insurance executive. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York, to Messrs. Schell and Davis o...

New Jersey Electric Railway Company.

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Missouri Safe Deposit Company.

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Borrowe, Samuel, d. 1896.

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Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919

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Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a prominent industrialist and art collector, commissioned architect Thomas Hastings of the firm Carrère & Hastings to design and build his New York residence in 1912. Located at One East 70th Street, the three-story Beaux-Arts mansion featured a 100-foot gallery for his art collection. Charles Allom of White, Allom & Co. and Elsie de Wolfe were selected to furnish the rooms. Frick, along with his wife and daughter, took up residence in the house in November...