Business records, 1822-1880 (bulk).

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Business records, 1822-1880 (bulk).

Chiefly account books and ledgers reflecting the family's varied business interests. Included are records for Simeon Stetson; George Stetson; Brown and Stetson; Emery and Stetson; Emery, Stetson and Company; Stetson and Company. Also included are records of such "outside" interests as Bruce Mills, Kenduskeag Log Driving Company, Central Market House Company, Market Bank. There are records of a few non-family stores, such as Otis Briggs, Jr. and Company, Newport, Maine; John A. Rice and Company, Rufus Davenport, and Market Mutual, all of Bangor. The family accounting series are unusually complete; there are letter books, but few incoming letters. Material after 1880 has gone to the Maine State Museum, Augusta.

18 linear ft. (175 v., 1 box)

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There are 22 Entities related to this resource.

Emery and Stetson.

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Market Mutual Store Company.

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Stetson family.

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The Stetson family of Bangor, Maine, were general merchants, shippers, dealers in lumber, agents for timber land, and bankers. Their timberland properties were sold to the Oxford Paper Company in 1957. From the description of Business records, 1822-1880 (bulk). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 229894247 ...

Market Bank.

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Kenduskeag Log Driving Company.

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Central Market House Company.

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Stetson and Company.

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Stetson, George, 1807-1891.

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Dwinel, Rufus, 1804-1869

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Brown and Stetson.

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Emery, Stetson and Company.

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Webster Mills.

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Stetson, Isaiah, 1812-1880.

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Stetson, Reuben Kidder, 1798-1864.

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Bruce Mills.

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Rice, John A

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Trickey, Thomas.

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Davenport, Rufus

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Briggs, Otis.

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Otis Briggs (d. 1903) moved to Des Moines, Iowa, from Ohio in 1848. He operated a jewelry business and later a general merchandise business. He moved to Nevada, Iowa, in 1857. He continued his general merchandise business until the early 1870s when he and O. B. Dutton established the Farmers Bank, the first bank in Story County. Otis Briggs married Eliza Allen of Des Moines in 1854. They had four children. Following Eliza's sudden death in 1867, her half-sister Jennie came to Nevada to care for ...

Drummond, M. G.

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Stetson, Simeon, 1770-1836.

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Hamlin, E. L.

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