Duncan Farrar Kenner papers, 1836-1905 (bulk 1838-1894).

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Duncan Farrar Kenner papers, 1836-1905 (bulk 1838-1894).

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Legal, financial, and personal papers pertain to Kenner's career as a planter and to his business activities and land holdings in Louisiana. Correspondence includes a letter from Duncan Kenner to relative William J. Minor concerning sugar production (1838), letters concerning the management of the New Basin Canal (1867-1870) with letters of Richard Taylor and James McCloskey, letters regarding investments in New Orleans stocks, bonds, property, and horse racing in New Orleans. Other letters pertain to the settlement of estates, including that of Richard Taylor (1880), investments in plantation and agricultural properties. A typescript of lists (1854, 1858) records Kenner's property, slaves he owned, and clothing issued to them at Ashland Plantation. Financial papers include items related to sugar production in New Orleans, the building of a rice flume near Hollywood Plantation (1887), tax assessments and receipts, mercantile receipts, papers related to the sales and purchases of land, and weekly cash reports (Jan.-May 1888) of proceeds from Kenner's plantations. Political papers include items related to the victory of Isaac Johnson in the Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1842 and the defeat of Whig congressional candidates throughout the state and a tax receipt of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1868. Legal documents include estate documents (with some account books) of Duncan F. Kenner, John Minor, Richard Taylor, Michel Doradou Bringier, and Mr. Aglae Bringier. A patent and other documents record the invention of a decortication machine by Duncan Kenner and Leonard Sewell (1880s). Maps show Kenner land holdings in New Orleans (1870s). Printed materials include a broadside listing passengers on the steamship "America" (1865), items related to the Tehuantepec Railway Company (1882?), and newspaper clippings.

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