Investment analysis files ("C"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

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Investment analysis files ("C"), 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.

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Coca-Cola Company.

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

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Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company

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Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company

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Citizens Housing Corporation.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Crown Cork & Seal Company

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Chrysler corporation

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On Jan. 4, 1980, the Chrysler Corp. permanently closed its Hamtramck Assembly Plant, commonly called "Dodge Main", marking the end of nearly 70 years of continuous manufacturing operations at the facility. John Frances and Horace Elgin Dodge were pioneers in the automobile industry, beginning with a machine shop to supply auto plants with parts, working with both Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford, and eventually building a new plant on a 30 acre site in Hamtramck in 1910. Wanting to build their own ...

Columbus Venetian Stevens Buildings.

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Cup Machine Service Corporation.

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Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1966

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Cappeau's Inc.

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Cincinnati (Ohio)

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Commonwealth Power Corporation.

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Chicago Daily News, Inc.

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Continental Life Insurance Company.

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Continental Oil Company

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Cumberland Company.

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Celanese Corporation of America

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Chas. Pfizer & Co.

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Columbian Carbon Company

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Clifton Oil & Gas Company.

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Canada Southern Oils, Ltd.

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Continental Foundry & Machine Company.

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Curtiss-Wright Corporation

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C.I.T. Financial Corporation

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Christiana Oil Corporation.

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Compañia Chileana de Tobacos.

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Central Gas & Electric Company.

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California. Toll Bridge Administration

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California Toll Bridge Authority operates five bridges across San Francisco Bay. Revenue Department of Authority raised money for construction and maintenance expenses through sale of bonds (1940-41). Large investors in bonds included : American Trust Company (San Francisco); First Cleveland Corp. (Ohio); National Metropolitan Bank (Washington, D.C.); Chase National Bank (New York); Dean Witter & Company (San Francisco); and Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. (San Francisco). ...

Citizens Savvings Bank (Wilmington, Del.)

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Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway Company.

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Coca-Cola Bottling Plants, Inc.

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Continental Baking Corporation.

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Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corporation.

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Colgate Manufacturing Corporation.

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Childs Company.

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Central Illinois Public Service Company

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Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company

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Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Company

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Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company

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Chemical Bank and Trust Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Cass County Iron Company.

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Citizens Utilities Company.

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Creameries of America, Inc.

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Carnaco Equipment Company.

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Chicago Union Station Company

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The new building known as Union Station (Chicago, Ill.) opened in 1925 at 210 South Canal Street. Its predecessor building, known as the Union Passenger Station (Chicago, Ill.), was at the northeast corner of S. Canal and W. Adams Streets (1881-1923), a site later occupied by the 120 Riverside Plaza building. From the description of Chicago Union Station Company records, 1915-1945. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 709914849 ...

Columbian Enameling & Stamping Company, Inc.

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Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company

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Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company

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Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

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Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company

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Chicago Great Western Railway Company (1940-1968)

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company or the "Milwaukee Road" opened in Montana in August, 1908. The company felt that to be competitive it had to expand its services to the Pacific Coast. Despite the fact that it had to buy most of its right away and avoid established areas, they were able to build 2,300 miles of track in three years. Along with building track from Glenham, South Dakota to Seattle, they absorbed local railways such as the famous Jawbone of Central Montana a...

Continental-Diamond Fibre Company.

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Commercial Chemical Company.

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Carrier Corporation

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

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Cudahy Packing Company

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South Omaha, NE. From the description of Trade catalogs, ca.1910. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122489547 ...

Commercial Credit Company

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Canada

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Chicago Postal Building Corporation.

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Commonwealth & Southern Corporation.

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Columbia Gas System, inc.

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Chicago Railways Company

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Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore

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Chattanooga (Tenn.)

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City National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago.

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Consumers Power Company.

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Cities service company

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City Bowling Alleys, Inc.

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Chicago Corporation

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company

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Canadian National

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Coburn-Hardy Realty Corporation (Norfolk, Va.)

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Community Public Service Company.

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Container corporation of America

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The Container Corporation of America was founded in 1926 when Walter P. Paepcke united 14 small manufacturers of paper boxes and containers. Headquartered in Chicago, the Container Corporation's sales grew from $20 million in 1936 to over $400 million by 1965, when it employed over 20,000 people world wide. In 1968, the company merged with Chicago retailer Montgomery Ward and was renamed Marcor. It has subsequently been taken over by oil company Mobil and then by Jefferson Smurfit. As early as t...

Cluett, Peabody & Co.

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Cincinnati Union Terminal Company

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The Cincinnati Union Terminal Company was created to build a united terminal for Cincinnati to replace the many stations scattered throughout the city. This would be shared by seven railroad companies, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Norfolk and Western Railway, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Southern Railway Company. The site selected for this termin...

Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation.

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Cario Bridge Company.

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Columbia Metal Mines Company.

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Consolidated Natural Gas Company

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Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept.

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The Wilmington Trust Company was incorporated on March 2, 1901, as the Delaware Guarantee & Trust Company. It assumed its current name upon formal organization on March 6, 1903, and opened for business in the first unit of the Du Pont Building on July 8, 1903. The company was organized in the interest of T. Coleman and Pierre S. du Pont, who were the first president and vice president respectively. One of the primary functions of the company was to manage trusts for those branches of the du ...

Catalin Corporation of America

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Canadian Industries Limited

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Compañia Swift Internacional Sociedad Anónima Comercial.

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Caterpillar Tractor Company

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The Caterpillar Tractor Company was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, and Peoria, Illinois, and the C.L. Best Tractor Company of San Leandro, California. In the years before World War I, Benjamin Holt invented the "caterpillar tractor," which moved on heavy, belted-metal tracks rather than wheels. The tracks prevented the vehicle from sinking in the mud. The Caterpillar Tractor Company mounted extensive marketing campaigns during the late 192...

Consolidated Cigar Corporation

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Commonwealth Edison Company

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Predecessor companies to Commonwealth Edison. In 1967 Commonwealth Edison acquired the Central Illinois Electric and Gas Company whose own predecessors date back to 1861 and the Rockford Gas Light and Coke Company. From the description of Collection, 1861-1967. (Northern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 14638840 ...

Campbell soup company

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Originally formed in 1869 as Anderson and Campbell, a partnership canning tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, condiments, and minced meats in Camden, N.J.; 1892, incorporates as Joseph Campbell Preserve Company; renamed Campbell Soup Company in 1922. From the description of Campbell Soup Company photographs and advertisements, 1930-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 311080180 Originally formed in 1869 as Anderson and Campbell, a partnership canning tomatoes, vegetables, jellies...

Consolidation Coal Company

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Consolidation Coal Company (Maryland): The Consolidation Coal Company was incorporated in Maryland on March 8, 1860, for the purpose of effecting a merger of a number of coal operators mining the Georges Creek basin in Allegany County, Maryland. Because of the Civil War, during which Confederate armies frequently blocked the region's only outlet to market, the company was not actually organized until April 19, 1864. Starting life as the dominant operator in this small but significan...

Crown Zellerbach Corporation

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The Crown Zellerbach Corporation was formed in 1928 by the merger of the Zellerbach Paper Company and Crown Willamette Paper Company, both of which had been formed by the mergers of several other companies and their predecessors. In addition, various companies and their subsidiaries were purchased or formed after the 1928 merger, culminating with the acquisition of Crown Zellerbach Corporation by the James River Corporation in 1985. From the description of Crown Zellerbach Corporatio...

Connecticut Light & Power Company.

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Chase National Bank of the City of New York

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The Chase National Bank of New York City, named in honor of Salmon Portland Chase, was organized by John Thompson in 1877. The Chase National Bank merged with the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955 to form the Chase Manhattan Bank. From the description of Records, 1877-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490673 ...

Consolidated Oil Corporation

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Coastal Caribbean Oils, Inc.

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Corn Products Refining Company

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Continental Can Company

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Carolina Power and Light Company

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Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company

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Charles D. Briddel, Inc.

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Canal Bank & Trust Company (New Orleans, La.)

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Combustion Engineering, inc.

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Christiana Securities Company

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The Christiana Securities Company was a private, closed-end investment company established by A. Felix, Pierre S., Irénée and Lammot du Pont and their associates. Its primary function was to retain control of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in that branch of the family through the ownership of a large block of stock. The Christiana Securities Company was incorporated on March 2, 1915, as the Du Pont Securities Company for the purpose of purchasing the shares of E...