Federal Union Mining Company records, 1853-1886.

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Federal Union Mining Company records, 1853-1886.

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The Federal Union Mining Company Collection is comprised of company records, legal documents and correspondence related to the organization and operation of a short lived mining company in Clear Creek County, Colorado during the territory's first boom era in the 1860s. Correspondents include A.W. Hoyt, Elisha Wells, Erskine McClellan, and Napoleon Bonaparte Buford. The collection provides a good example of the importance of the infusion of eastern capital in mining ventures in the West and shows how risky such ventures could be.

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6823865

Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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McClellan, Erskine.

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Federal Union Mining Company

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Gold mining company organized in 1865 and sold at auction in 1868. From the description of Federal Union Mining Company records, 1853-1886. (Southern Methodist University). WorldCat record id: 14067030 The Federal Union Mining Company (F. U. M. C.) was organized by a group of Eastern investors including A.W. Hoyt, a civil engineer, Elisha Wells, a Massachusetts businessman, and General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, at the end of the Civil War. In 1865, Hoyt sent Bu...

Hoyt, A. W.

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Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807-1883

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Buford was the son of John and Nancy Hickman Buford. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky on his family's plantation, "Rose Hill." At the time of his birth his namesake, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, was at the height of his power. Buford graduated from West Point in 1827 and served for eight years in the artillery and in 1835 resigned from the service to become an engineer. He thereafter engaged in iron manufacturing and banking at Rock Island, Illinois and became president of ...

Wells, Elisha.

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