Darby Corporation records. circa 1928 - [1989?]

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Darby Corporation records. circa 1928 - [1989?]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694083947

The Darby collection at the Kansas Historical Society mostly consists of corporation records. These records include administrative files, correspondence, stock and financial information (including payroll records, account books, and other records concerning financial transactions), legal policy, insurance, licensing, leases and property information, contracts and other legal documents, and information on union matters. Also in the collection are engineering records typically consisting of orders, specifications, drawings, materials lists, and other documents relating primarily to water towers and other pressure vessels, as well as records relating to the manufacture of rail cars and equipment. There are also separate engineering work orders and project files for the subsidiary company Leavenworth Steel Company. The collection contains some personal papers and files of Harry Darby, Jr. and records identified by the Darby family or the Darby corporation staff as "archival."

Circa 493 cubic feet.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7995090

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Darby, Harry, 1895-1987

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry Darby : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158243 Harry Darby (1895-1987), senator from Kansas was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended the public schools there and later graduated from the University of Illinois (1917 and 1929). During the World War I, Darby served in the United States Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of captain. He later became an ind...

Darby Corporation (Kansas City, Kan.)

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Harry Darby was born in 1895 in Kansas City, Kansas. While in high school, he trained as a boilermaker and later received a degree in engineering from the University of Illinois. He married Edith Cubbison, also of Kansas City, in 1917 before shipping off to join the Army in World War I, rising to the rank of captain. When he returned stateside, Darby returned to work as a boilermaker. After his father died, he borrowed a large sum of money in order to buy the Missouri Boiler Works Company. The c...