Cornelius C. Beekman papers, 1851-1919.

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Cornelius C. Beekman papers, 1851-1919.

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Cornelius C. Beekman (1828-1915) was a gold freighter, Wells Fargo agent for 42 years, and banker. Beekman founded the second bank in the Pacific Northwest, Beekman Bank in Jacksonville, Oregon. This collection includes banking and insurance records, correspondence, diaries, estate papers, financial records, and land transaction records of Cornelius Compton Beekman. Also included are records kept by Beekman of persons holding Modoc Indian War scrip and bonds, mostly in Jackson County. Separated material includes two oversize containers of Beekman's appointment as regent, University of Oregon, for a term of 12 years, February 16, 1893; his appointment to the Committee of Citizens for the Mexican Exposition of 1896; and his appointment as delegate to the St. Louis National Convention, October 20, 1869.

40 : cubic feet (11 archives boxes, 20 records cartons, 23 v., 2 reels microfilm)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Beekman, Cornelius C. (Cornelius Compton), 1828-1915

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Gold freighter, Wells Fargo agent, and banker, of Jacksonville, Or. From the description of Cornelius C. Beekman correspondence, 1859-1900. (Library of Congress / Nucmc). WorldCat record id: 779967579 Cornelius C. Beekman was the founder and owner of Beekman Bank in Jacksonville, Oregon. His son, Benjamin became a lawyer in Portland and was a faculty member of the University of Oregon law school from 1907-1915, when the law school was based in Portland. Carrie Beekman, daugh...

Beekman Bank.

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Wells, Fargo & Co.

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