Willard R. Cray papers, 1853-1904.

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Willard R. Cray papers, 1853-1904.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313840888

Mainly legal briefs, summaries of testimony and court proceedings, notes, and other documents of Minneapolis lawyers Cray and John M. Shaw regarding the Washburn Crosby Company, the C. C. Washburn Flouring Mills Company, the Minnesota Sandstone Company, John D. Rockefeller, the Merritt brothers, and Laura A. Day's investments in iron and timberlands. There is also information on strikes, lockouts, injunctions, railroads, the Bachelors' Club, and the Minneapolis Bar Association. Among Cray's correspondents were Frank B. Kellogg, Edmund J. Phelps, and John Washburn.

1.75 cu. ft. (3 boxes, incl. 3 v.).

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Merritt, Andrus R., 1853-1939.

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Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937

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Lawyer and politician Frank Billings Kellogg was born in New York, and raised in Minnesota. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began a long career in public service as city attorney of Rochester, Minnesota. He served as president of the American Bar Association, and as United States Senator from Minnesota and Ambassador to Great Britain. While serving as Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, he co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris, outlawing war an...

Washburn-Crosby Co.

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Abbott, Amos Wilson, 1844-1927.

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Gérard, Joseph 1831-1914

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Washburn, John, 1858-1919.

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Cray, Willard Rush, 1853-1938.

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Minnesota Sandstone Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Minneapolis Bar Association. Library.

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Gilbert, E.J. (Edouard Jean), 1888-

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Shaw, John E., 1968-

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Loring, Charles M. (Charles Morgridge), 1832-1922

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Shaw, John Melvil, 1833-1897.

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Murphy, Edward, 1823-1871.

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Bachelors' Club (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Phelps, Edmund Joseph, 1845-1923.

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Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937

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John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) was born in Richford, New York to William Avery Rockefeller and Eliza Davison. In 1853, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio where he studied bookkeeping. With partner Maurice B. Clark, Rockefeller built an oil refinery in 1863 and bought out his partner two years later. In 1864, he married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman, with whom he had four children. Two years later, Rockefeller joined his brother William to establish Rockefeller, Andrews, & Flagler, wh...

Day, Laura A.

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