Papers, 1880-1954.

Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958

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Louise Evelina du Pont (1877-1958) was the daughter of Henry A. du Pont (1838-1926) and Pauline Foster du Pont (1849-1902). She was born, raised, and educated at the family estate, Winterthur, north of Wilmington, Delaware. A debutante whose coming-out party was held in New York in 1896, she socialized with members of the city's most exclusive families. During the late 1890s, she spent the winter months in the city, enjoying shopping and social life during the heyday of high society. Louise du ...

Laflin and Rand Powder Company.

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Wilmington Institute Free Library (Del.).

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Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

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Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Giant Powder Company

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Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993

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Crawford H. Greenewalt was an executive with the Du Pont Company and president of the firm from 1948 to 1962. He joined the company in 1922 and served as a supervisor on the nylon project in the 1930s and during the war as technical liason on the Manhattan Project. He was an accomplished amateur photographer and ornithologist and author of a study of hummingbirds (1960). After his retirement from Du Pont, Greenewalt served on a number of corporate boards, business, political, scientific, civic a...

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834

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Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, was born in Paris on June 24, 1771. In 1787, he was accepted as a student in the Regis des Poudres, a government agency for the manufacture of gunpowder which was directed by Antoine Lavoisier. In 1800 Eleuthère Irénée du Pont emigrated to the United States and began investigating sites for a black powder manufactory. After consulting with Thomas Jefferson he established E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. on the bank of ...

Business Advisory and Planning Council for the Dept. of Commerce (U.S.)

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Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950

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John Raskob was born in Lockport, N.Y. on March 19, 1879. He was educated in the area's public schools and after holding a number of positions as a stenographer and secretary went to work for The Johnson Company of Lorain, Ohio, in August 1900. The Johnson Company had been recently purchased by Pierre S. du Pont. Two years later he became Pierre S. du Pont's private secretary, and when du Pont became treasurer of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. on March 4, 1904, Raskob became his ...

Du Pont, Alice Belin, 1872-1944

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Knudsen, William S., 1879-1948

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William Signius Knudsen (1879-1948) was born in Denmark on March 25, 1879. He apprenticed as a bicycle mechanic then held a variety of positions in the United States with Ford Motor Company and Chevrolet Motor Company. He served as vice president, then president of General Motors from 1933 to 1942. He received his appointment as lieutenant general on January 28, 1942, as director of production in the Office of the Under Secretary of war. He was director of Army Air Forces Materiel and Services f...

Wilmington and Kennett Turnpike Company.

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Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935

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Alfred I. du Pont was the eldest son of E. I. du Pont (1829-1877). He joined the family gunpowder firm in 1884, after attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1902 reorganization, he became co-owner and general manager. As a result of a family quarrel, he left the firm in 1916 and eventually built his own banking and real estate empire in Florida. Du Pont was active in Delaware Republican Party politics from 1916 to 1920. From the description of TLS : to Edward A. ...

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

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Donaldson, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 32709 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x0000bf Epithet: of Add MS 32921 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x0000c0 Epithet: of Temple Bar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x0000c1 ...

William Penn Charter School

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The William Penn Charter School, an independent college preparatory school, had its beginnings in the Public Grammar School founded in 1689 as a result of instructions from William Penn to the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania. Thomas Lloyd, president of the Council, requested Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to take charge of the matter. In 1708 Penn signed a charter removing the responsibility for the school from the Meeting and giving it to an appointed Board of Quaker Overseers. Fro...

Belin, Henry, 1843-1917

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Consumers League of Delaware.

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Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware

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The Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware was incorporated on February 4, 1807. After the liquidation of the Bank of Delaware in 1930, it was the oldest surviving bank in the state. The State of Delaware held the majority of the stock, but the bank was privately managed. The Farmers Bank encountered financial difficulties in the mid-1970s and was sold to the Girard Bank of Philadelphia. The chartering of the bank was designed to provide banking and credit facilities to t...

Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation.

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National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Founded in 1904 under the leadership of Edgar G. Murphy, Felix Adler, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Owen Lovejoy, and A.J. McKelway. Its aims were legislation, investigation, and publicity to promote the interests of children. From the description of Records, 1914-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421727 The National Child Labor Committee was formed after a conference held in New York between Edgar Gardner Murphy's Alabama Child Labor Commi...

Chester County Hospital (West Chester, Pa.).

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Atlas Powder Company

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The mines of Michigan's Copper Country were generally self-reliant; however, there were at least three things they could not find along the Keweenaw Peninsula - coal, iron and explosives. These items were transported, often at great expense, to Michigan from elsewhere. In an attempt to lower these costs, the controlling interests of the Tamarack and Osceola Mines, and later Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company invested in the area's first explosives plant at Woodside in 1884. When thi...

Wistar Association

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National industrial conference board

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The National Industrial Conference Board was established in 1916 by eleven of the United States' major trade associations. The employer representatives attending the NICB's founding convention were seeking to formulate a collective response to the industrial unrest of the World War I era. In its original statement of purpose the NICB claimed that it intended to work to maintain "harmonious relationships between employer and employees and between both labor and government." Even thou...

National city bank of New York

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Lehigh Valley Traction Company.

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Young, Robert R., 1897-1958

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Robert Ralph Young was born on February 14, 1897 in Canadian, Texas, the son of David John Young and Mary Moody. He graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1914 and attended the University of Virginia. After leaving the University in his second year, he married Anita O'Keeffe, the sister of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. They had one child, Eleanor Jane Young. Young began his career with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company and subsequently worked for the Allied Chemical Corporation (1916-1920) an...

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954

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P. S. du Pont was president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940. He was also president of General Motors (1920-1923) and chairman (1920-1929), as well as a member of many other major corporate boards. He was also an avid collector of documents on the early history of the Du Pont family and company. From the description of The P. S. du Pont Office Collection, 1749-1939. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 16...

Delaware. Liquor Commission.

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Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966

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Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

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The Chamber of Commerce of the United States traces its origins to an April 22, 1912, conference of commercial and trade organizations called by President William Howard Taft. The idea was to create an organization that could represent the interests of the business community in Washington. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America held its first annual meeting on January 21, 1913. During the First World War the Chamber organized more than 400 War Service Co...

Lorain Gas Company.

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National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

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Epithet: President of Columbia University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000180 Butler was a philosopher, diplomat, and educator; president of Columbia University from 1901-1942. From the description of Nicholas Murray Butler letter, 1942 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777002021 President of Columbia University. From the description of Letters to F.W. Wile and...

Bellanca Aircraft Corporation

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Ahuja, Elias, b. 1908.

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Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927

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Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and explosives expert. He worked as a consultant for the Du Pont Company from 1897 to 1927 and wrote books on explosives and literary and political matters. From the guide to the Hudson Maxim papers, 1883-1927, 1890s-1927, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville Maine on February 3, 1853, to a poor but mechanically-gifted family. Hi...

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 ...

National Civic Federation

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1 - National Civic Federation Records. Civic Federation of Chicago, boxes 155-168. 2 - Regulation of Industrial Corporations Department, box 241, folders 5 and 6; box 242, folders 1-6; and box 246, folders 5-10. 3 - . Trade Agreements Department, box 255, folder 4, enclosures to form letter dated May 11, 1906, from [Jeremiah Jenks]. Jenks was a political economist, a student of the combinations movement (he was the chairman of the NCF sub-committee that drafted a bill to amend the S...

Delaware College

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Christiana Securities Company

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The Christiana Securities Company was a private, closed-end investment company established by A. Felix, Pierre S., Irénée and Lammot du Pont and their associates. Its primary function was to retain control of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in that branch of the family through the ownership of a large block of stock. The Christiana Securities Company was incorporated on March 2, 1915, as the Du Pont Securities Company for the purpose of purchasing the shares of E...

Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction Company.

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Klots Throwing Company.

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Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926

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Henry Algernon du Pont (1838-1927) was born at Eleutherian Mills near Wilmington, Delaware, the eldest child of Henry and Louisa du Pont and the grandson of E.I. du Pont. In 1856 he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated five years later and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. During the Civil War he was promoted to the rank of Captain and served in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. He retired from the Army in...

Cayadutta Chemical Company.

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Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1876-1958

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Inventor, scientist, and humanitarian, best known for his invention of the automobile self-starter and his co-founding of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; founder of DELCO; official of General Motors; b. near Loudonville, Ohio; resident of Dayton, Ohio. From the description of Charles Kettering collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958264 Charles F. Kettering was born August 28, 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio to Jacob and Martha K...

Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain)

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Du Pont, B. G. (Bessie Gardner), 1864-1949

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Hercules Powder Company

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Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

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In 1902 the control of the hundred year old Du Pont Company passed into the hands of three younger du Pont cousins, T. Coleman, Pierre S., and Alfred I.T. Coleman du Pont, who became president after the 1902 incorporation, had spent the previous two decades involved in the coal, iron, and street railway industries of Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. His major investment was in The Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., and Lorain, Ohio, to which he introduced modern engineering principles and mana...

Submarine Boat Corporation.

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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...

General Silk Corporation.

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Eastman, Joseph B. (Joseph Bartlett), 1882-1944

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Born at Katonah, N.Y., on June 26, 1882, Joseph Bartlett Eastman was the son of a Presbyterian minister, Rev. John Huse Eastman, and Lucy (King) Eastman. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1904 and was then accepted as a fellow at the South End House in Boston, position that would launch him on a lifelong career as a public servant. In 1905, Eastman was appointed by later U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis the secretary of the Public Franchise League. While in that...

Standard Arms Manufacturing Company.

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Carpenter, R. R. M. (Robert Ruliph Morgan), 1877-1949

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General Reduction Corporation.

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Ripley, William Zebina, 1867-1941

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Ripley taught economics and political economy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Z. Ripley, 1895-1940 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973162 ...

Carnegie Steel Company.

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The Carnegie Steel Company was the final conglomeration of several steelworks, bridge companies and coke works under Andrew Carnegie. Beginning with the firm of Carnegie, Kloman and Company, Andrew Carnegie created several more steelworks and other companies eventually becoming the largest producer of steel in the world, while also becoming the richest man in the world. In 1901, Carnegie sold his interests in his company to financier J.P. Morgan, leading to the development of the United States S...

Regional Planning Federation of the Philadelphia Tri-State District

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The Regional Planning Federation of the Philadelphia Tri-State District had its beginning in the meeting of a group of municipal reformers at the City Club in early 1924. Their goal was the development of a comprehensive regional planning program for the Philadelphia Tri-State district and in May 1928 the Regional Planning Federation was incorporated. The major accomplishment of the Federation was the publication of the Regional Plan for the Philadelphia Tri-State District in 1932 and the variou...

Belin, Charles A., 1877-1931.

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American Taxpayers League.

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Bankers Trust Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Longwood Foundation

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Empire State Club (New York, N.Y.).

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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The family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 and during the 19th century it became one of the United States' most important manufacturers of black powder. In 1902 three younger du Pont cousins: T. Coleman, Alfred I., and Pierre S. took over the company and within three years succeeded in bringing 75% of the American explosives industry (which at that time included black powder, dynamite, and smokeless powder) under their control. During the first decade of the...

American Church Institute for Negroes

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Chamber of Commerce (Wilmington, Del.).

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Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Company.

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Wilmington Trust Company

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Prosser, Seward, 1871-1942

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Brooklyn Ferry Company.

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