Papers, 1867-1930.

Hamilton Barksdale (1861-1918) was born in Richmond, Va. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1882 with a degree in civil engineering. Barksdale joined the engineering corps of the B&O railroad in 1885. In 1890 he went to work at the Repauno Chemical Company. When Repauno became part of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in 1895, Barksdale was named head of the Du Pont Company's Explosives Department. In 1911 he was named general manager and the next year he was appointed to the fi...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company was incorporated on May 19, 1903. It was organized as an operating company to consolidate approximately 100 explosives manufacturers controlled by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. These firms represented 95 percent of the powder business in the United States. In 1907, the United States government brought a suit to dissolve the company as an illegal combination under the antitrust law. In 1911 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government, which accept...

Oneida Traction Company.

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Valley Coal and Stone Company.

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Moxham Land and Improvement Company.

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Du Pont, William K. (William Kemble), 1875-1907

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Real Estate Dept.

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Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

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In 1902 the control of the hundred year old Du Pont Company passed into the hands of three younger du Pont cousins, T. Coleman, Pierre S., and Alfred I.T. Coleman du Pont, who became president after the 1902 incorporation, had spent the previous two decades involved in the coal, iron, and street railway industries of Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. His major investment was in The Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., and Lorain, Ohio, to which he introduced modern engineering principles and mana...

McLain, D. R.

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Lorain Steel Company.

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Wheatley, William B.

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Central Coal and Iron Company.

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Kentucky Fuel Company.

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Cauffiel family.

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Delaware-Mexican Aztec Oil Company.

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Huntsville Railway, Light and Power Co.

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Cauffiel, S. H. (Samuel Hammer)

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Lake-Ports, Atlantic, Coal & Coke Company.

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Sunnyside Coal Company.

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Spruance, William C. (William Corbit), 1873-1935

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William C. Spruance, Jr., was an electrical engineer, an executive with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and a civic leader in Wilmington, Del. With the rank of colonel, he was chief of the Explosives and Loading Division of the Ordnance Department during World War I. Spruance amassed a collection of papers dealing with the history of his own family and that of his wife, Alice Moore Lea. The Lea family were among the largest flour mill operators at the Brandywine F...

Cauffiel, Daniel, 1867-1930.

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Merchant, real estate developer and entrepreneur of Johnstown, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. Daniel Cauffiel, one of three sons of Daniel and Mary Hammer Cauffiel, was born on June 23, 1867, probably in Johnstown, Pa. He married Elizabeth E. Leventry, with whom he had seven children. His early life was spent in Johnstown, where he and his brothers Joseph and Samuel Hammer Canffiel operated a coal and stone brokerage business started by their father. From this they expanded i...

Papers, 1867-1930.

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