Miscellaneous papers of Lammot du Pont, 1857-1884 [photostats].

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Miscellaneous papers of Lammot du Pont, 1857-1884 [photostats].

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Item : Patent No. 17,321 for improvement in gunpowder, May 19, 1857. Item : Patent No. 50,104 for improvement in plates for pressing gunpowder, Sept. 26, 1865. Item : Patent No. 50, 568 for improvement in presses for gunpowder. Item : Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores issued to Capt. Lammot du Pont, June 26, 1863. Item : Abstract of materials used by Company B, Fifth Regiment of Delaware Voluntary Infantry, signed by Capt. Lammot du Pont. Item : Abstract of stores work and lost by Company B, Fifth Regiment of Delaware Voluntary Infantry during the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1863. Item : Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores issued to Capt. Lammot du Pont, Feb. 11, 1863. Item : Letter of H. S. McComb, Colonel of the Fifth Regiment, to Lammot du Pont, Nov. 4, 1862. Item : Commission as Captain and transmittal letter to Lammot du Pont, signed by Edwin M. Stanton, Oct. 31, 1862. Item : Marriage certificate of Lammot du Pont and Mary Belin, Oct. 3, 1865, signed by Leighton Coleman. Items : Letters of April 1 & 7, 1884 from Francis Gurney du Pont to Alexis I. du Pont regarding the accident at the Repauno Works in which Lammot du Pont lost his life.

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Eastern Dynamite Company. Repauno Works.

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United States. Army. Delaware Infantry Regiment, 5th (1862-1865).

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Du Pont, Mary Belin, 1839-1913.

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Mary Belin du Pont was the daughter of Henry H. Belin and Isabella d'Andelot Belin. Her father was a bookkeeper for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. She married Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) in 1865; they had eleven children. From the description of Grandmother's receipts. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 654479652 Mary Belin du Pont was the daughter of Henry H. Belin and Isabella d'Andelot Belin. Her father was a bookkeeper for E.I. du Pont de Nemours ?...

Du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1843-1904

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McComb, Henry S., 1825-1881

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Leather merchant and railroad promoter. Henry S. McComb was born in Wilmington, Del. on July 28, 1825. His father died when he was still a young boy, and Henry was forced to go to work to help support the family. Until age eighteen he was apprenticed to a currier, Wilmington being a center of the leather industry. McComb excelled at business and was able to buy out his employer. By age twenty-five he was one of the leading citizens of Wilmington, and by thirty he was a l...

Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904

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Chemist and member of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. From the description of Record of rifle scores, 1880. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 123466546 Francis Gurney du Pont, son of Alexis Irénée and Joanna Maria (Smith) du Pont, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1870. In 1871 he began his career with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. as an operator of graining mills. In 1874 he became a junior partner of the firm and later serve...

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

Du Pont, Lammot, 1831-1884

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Lammot du Pont was born at Nemours, Delaware, on April 13, 1831. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in engineering, he began work for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. By 1859 he was supervising construction of blasting powder mills at Wapwallopen Mills, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, the first Du Pont mills outside the state of Delaware. By 1865 he was in charge of all du Pont Company manufacturing units outside the state of Delaware. Lammot ...