Records 1818-1947.

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Records 1818-1947.

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This is a merged collection from a smaller group of records in the RCHS and a larger accession added from the New York State Library in 2000. The merged collection has a very sketchy organization currently. The records consist primarily of accounting and financial records of the firm. Specific forms include cash books, day books, ledgers, sales books, cost books, wage and payroll books, furnace record books, puddlers production record books, blast furnace registers, horseshoe sales books, letterbooks, lettercopy books and scrapbooks. There are also records of Trustees meetings, 1881-1947 and Executive Committee, 1910-1936. There are few records from the later years of the firm. $b Discharge Book, 1881-1920, includes the names of those fired from the firm with the reasons for firing. The history of iron manufacturing as well as the laborers who worked in the industry in Troy is heavily documented in this collection.

35 boxes (ca. 225 cubic ft.) 175 packages.

Capital District Library Council, CDLC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7560212

Capital District Library Council, CDLC

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Burden, Henry, 1791-1871

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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 Iron Company

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Burden family.

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