Records, 1818-1935.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Records, 1818-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155401987

The collection is largely unprocessed, but is generally organized by series. The records consist primarily of accounting records of the firm. Specific account books include cash books, day books, ledgers, sales books and discharge book. These records include information arranged in both a chronologial and by account order. The collection also contains information on "Easy Horse Shoe" sales, photographs, correspondence, private accounting records of Henry Burden, and furnace records.

155 packages.33 boxes.

American Periodical Series I

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6865209

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Burden, Henry, 1791-1871

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j96qbb (person)

Henry Burden was born in Dunblane, Scotland, on April 22, 1791, and a talent for inventing led him to the University of Edinburgh, where he studied drawing; though he did not receive a degree, he later became quite successful. In 1819, he emigrated to the United States, and worked with the agricultural manufacturer Townsend & Corning in Albany, New York, until 1822, when he and his wife, Helen McOuat, moved to Troy, New York. In Troy, he joined the Troy Iron and Nail Factory, and quickly ros...

Burden family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fz69pg (family)

Burden Iron Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j14qdq (corporateBody)

Large iron manufacturing firm in Troy, N.Y. From the description of Records, 1818-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155401987 In 1819, Henry Burden, born in Scotland, came to the United States and in 1822 he became Superintendent of the Troy Iron and Nail Factory. Burden in addition to being a businessman was an inventor of many important manufacturing tools, including a wrought iron nail and spike machine, a horseshoe nail machine, a rotary concentric machine for compres...