Papers, 1833-1894.

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Papers, 1833-1894.

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Family correspondence, 1838-1888, includes letters from Delano and Astor family members; letters from Delano's brothers, Warren, Frederic, and Edward concern financial affairs and mutual shipping ventures; many of the letters from Warren's family were written during their residence in Hong Kong in the 1860s. General correspondence, 1839-1890, consists of letters received and two letter books kept by Delano concerning rental properties in New York City, investments, the New York stock market, shipping ventures in the 1840s, and construction of the Laura Franklin Hospital in New York City. Correspondents include Philip Kissam, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Francis S. Hathaway, and many European friends. Other items include diaries, financial papers mainly relating to shipping in the 1840s, trade circulars, rent rolls, estimates and specifications, legal papers, household accounts of Laura A. Delano, monthly accounts, and a record of rainfall at the family home. Also, records of the Mt. Savage Iron Company, Mt. Savage, Md., 1858-1863, including letters from employees to John Graham describing company operations with some description of Civil War activities in the area, receipted bills, and cancelled checks.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Delano, Edward.

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Delano, Laura Astor.

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Delano, Warren, 1809-1898

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Warren Delano II was the grandfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt and married to Catherine Robbins Lyman. Delano's business interests included shipping, mining, and real estate. He served as Consul for the United States during the Opium War in China. From the description of Papers, 1843-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522477 ...

Hathaway, Francis S., 1803-1869

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Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889

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Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953

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Army officer and railroad officer. From the description of Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982936 Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953), uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in Hong Kong, China. His father, Warren Delano, II, was at that time a partner in the shipping firm of Russell and Company based in that city. A few years later the Delano family returned to Algonac, the family home near Newburgh, New York, and Delano spent muc...

Delano, Franklin Hughes, 1813-1893.

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Delano, an ancestor of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a businessman and financier who served as the Consul for Chile in New York, 1840-1851. Delano married Laura Astor. From the description of Papers, 1833-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522430 ...

Graham, John

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Epithet: of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x00012f Title: 5th Earl of Menteith British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x000196 d. 1991. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84686277 Captain, New Yo...

Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898

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Philanthropist, abolitionist. Contributed to the building of the railroad system in the United States. From the description of John Murray Forbes letter to George William Curtis, [manuscript], 1891 January 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 263078000 Forbes was a Boston businessman who was engaged in the China trade early in his life and later involved in railroad development in the American West. From the description of Letters from various corres...

New York Stock Exchange

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Andrew Mott Cahoone was a Brooklyn resident, stock broker, member of the New York Stock Exchange, and a member of its Governing Committee from 1870 to 1912. From the guide to the The New York Stock Exchange Governing Committee resolutions, 1912, (Brooklyn Historical Society) ...

Mount Savage Iron Company (Mount Savage, Md.)

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Kissam, Philip C.

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Laura Franklin Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

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