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Chipman-Dwinelle papers
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Volumes and legal papers
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 435 items covering the years 1845 to 1943, which consists of letters, documents, and maps. The material is related to the defense of titles in the Encinal San Antonio-Alameda City land transactions; the law practice of John Dwinelle; the lawsuits regarding the will of Josephine A. Phelps; the papers of Fanny J. Chipman, daughter of William Worthington Chipman; and a few mining papers from the years 1862 to 1867. There are also materials in the collection by William F. Chipman, son of William W. Chipman and nephew of Josephine A. Phelps.
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Volumes - Abstracts of title, Alameda, California
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 435 items covering the years 1845 to 1943, which consists of letters, documents, and maps. The material is related to the defense of titles in the Encinal San Antonio-Alameda City land transactions; the law practice of John Dwinelle; the lawsuits regarding the will of Josephine A. Phelps; the papers of Fanny J. Chipman, daughter of William Worthington Chipman; and a few mining papers from the years 1862 to 1867. There are also materials in the collection by William F. Chipman, son of William W. Chipman and nephew of Josephine A. Phelps.
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Business correspondence and papers, court records
Manuscripts
The box contains business correspondence (1855-1943), and business papers (1845-1935) pertaining to William W. Chipman, Caroline E. Chipman, William F. Chipman, Fanny J. Chipman, and John W. Dwinelle; also court records related to Encinal San Antonio.
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Josephine Phelps, land, legal, and mining papers
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The box contains material related to the estate of Josephine A. Phelps (1916-1934); also land papers, legal papers, mining papers, maps, and miscellaneous papers (1859-1916).
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William Walter Phelps papers
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A collection of political, business, diplomatic, social, and family correspondence of William Walter Phelps, chiefly letters addressed to him. The collection numbers 199 items, including items related to American politics and the Republican party, Phelps' diplomatic service, his family, social life and literary interests. Correspondents include, among others, Herbert Nikolaus von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, Benjamin Harrison, Eugene Field, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Joseph Pulitzer. Also included is the correspondence of John Jay Phelps, a poem by Eugene Field dedicated to Phelps, an 1882 letter containing an eye-witness account of the battle of Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico (1847), ephemera, photographs, and newspapers clippings. The collection also contains papers related to John Chester Eno's embezzlement from the Second Bank of New York (of which Phelps was a director) and Phelps' negotiations with Eno's father, Amos Richard Phelps, to make good the loss (1884). Materials created by US presidents in this collection include: Rutherford B. Hayes autograph letters signed to William Walter Phelps, 1879 July and December (HM 27382-27383); James A. Garfield and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Austria Hungary, 1881 March 5 (HM 27376); Theodore Roosevelt autograph letter signed to William Walter Phelps, approximately 1888 April 10 (HM 27406); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as commissioner to Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs, 1889 March 19 (HM 27450); Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine signed appointment of William Walter Phelps as minister to Germany, 1889 June and December (includes passport and letter of credit, HM 27484-27485); Benjamin Harrison letters to William Walter Phelps, 1888-1892 (HM 27480-27483); William H. Taft letter signed to Marian von Rottenburg Phelps, 1910 and 1911 (HM 27413-27414).
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Chipman, W. S. 1 letter to Stephen L. Chipman. 1 item
Manuscripts
This collection consists of 91 items which are related to the establishment of the Intermountain Title Guaranty & Trust Company. There are two types of sources: correspondence and ephemera. The correspondence is in chronological order. The majority (77 items) of the collection is correspondence regarding the assignments of the posts in the new organization and the feasibility of the new business in Utah. Major posts are held by those who had been already connected to real estate business and were from a higher stratum of the society, such as successful proprietors, bankers, accountants, and lawyers. As noted above, the Presidency was taken by Stephen L. Chipman; Vice-Presidency, L. W. Smeltzer, a member of the executive committee of the Utah League of Building and Loan Association; Treasurer, R. L. Conely, Secretary and Treasurer of Intermountain Lloyds, and so on. Almost all letters mention that the new title guaranty company would contribute to the people in the state as well as be profitable to the investors. For example, I. E. Brockbank contends in his letter to Chipman that title insurance is more reliable than the abstract title system which Utah had at that time. Ephemera are composed of reprints of transaction records, articles, and pamphlets of the title guaranty companies in other states. These materials are supposed to be used when the Intermountain Title Guaranty & Trust Company called for the investment.
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