Records of Graham & Cook Lumber Company, 1882-1915.

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Records of Graham & Cook Lumber Company, 1882-1915.

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This collection is almost entirely comprised of manuscript and typewritten correspondence, bills, orders, inventories and receipts. The content of the letters revolve around business matters (i.e., the sale and transportation of lumber). The correspondence also reflects dealings with railroad companies and other firms participating in the region's industrial expansion (i.e.. steel, coal, manufacturing, etc ...). The majority of business transactions occurred within central and western Pennsylvania, but correspondents range all the way to Mississippi and the Puget Sound. The bulk of the collection dates from 1893-1900, 1904, and 1913 and is organized in chronological order. Letters are also in chronological order within each folder.

2.25 cubic ft. (5 boxes)

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Graham & Cook Lumber Company.

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George Graham, of Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania, first entered into the lumber business with Judge A. Cook of Cooksburg in 1870. In 1874 they moved Graham, Forcht & Company to East Brady, Armstrong Co., Pa. to increase the scale of their planing mill and lumber sales. The company specialized in the purchase and sale of a wide variety of rough and ready lumber, with most of its business conducted in Western and Central Pennsylvania. In 1902, sometime after renaming the business Graham & Cook...

Graham, George Frederick

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George Graham (1770-1830) served as acting US Secretary of War from 1815-1818, president of the Washington branch of the Bank of America from 1817-1823, and from 1823-1830 as commissioner of the general land office of the United States. In 1818 Graham traveled to Galveston, Texas on a secret mission to obtain information on French exiles in Texas. He also inspected the Texas coast with pirate Jean Lafitte and wrote an account of his mission, the first Anglo-American description of a sea voyage t...

Graham, Newton E.

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