Manuscripts

Sylvester H. Kneeland legal documents

Description: Enclosed in: letter from John E. Parsons to Charles H. Tweed, 1903 April 3. Subjects: Arabella Huntington and Tweed as executors of will of Collis P. Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1903
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.

Charles H. Tweed letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosure: 1903 February 2 letter had letter from Baker, Botts, Baker & Lovett to Tweed, 1903 January 26 and petition of Charles L. Wallis for appointment as administration of estate of Collis P. Huntington in Texas, 1903 January 20; 1904 April 22 had memorandum from Maxwell Evarts to Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington, 1904 April 21; 1904 July 5 letter had copy of letter from J.W. Terry to Tweed, 1904 June 28; 1905 October 30 letter had letter from Tweed to John E. Parsons, 1905 October 30. Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Tweed, 1902 December 27; copy of letter from Tompkins, McIlvaine to Tweed, 1905 July 17; copy of telegram from Huntington to Tweed, 1905 October 18; copy of letter from Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine to Tweed, 1905 October 21; copy of letter from John E. Parsons to Tweed, 1905 October 25; copy of letter from Tweed to Parsons, 1905 October 26. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York property.

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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Charles H. Tweed

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Enclosed: 1901 December 20 letter was enclosed in letter from Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1901 December 20. Also: copy of letter from William Durant, 1902 October 13, and copy of lease of "Post Office lot" in Long Lake, New York, by John McLaughlin to Durant, 1902 September 18; memorandum related to Kentucky Central Trust Fund, and copy of release of Trustees, by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company; appraisals of California properties covered by Charles Huntington, mortgaged 1903 August, September; drafts of deed to Brooklyn property from Walter A. Weber to Arabella D. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington and copies of two letters from Weber related to that property, 1901 July; draft of letter from Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington to Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, 1904 February; letter from Fairfax Harrison to Gates, 1904 April 29, and three internal organizational letters of Southern Railway Co., 1904 March, April; draft of agreement regarding will of Collis P. Huntington, 1907 January 11; copy of letter from J.E. Foulds to Gates, 1907 October 22. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Edward H. Harriman letter to Charles H. Tweed

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Tweed to Huntington, 1902 August 6. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Southern Pacific Company.

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Sylvester H. Kneeland letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: several demand notes for payments; copy of telegram from Bache to Kneeland, 1900 March 9; newspaper clipping re: notice of sale of Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, 1900 March 9; copies of telegrams from Collis P. Huntington to Kneeland, 1900 March 16, 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Charles L. Wallis petition for County Court, Galveston County, Texas

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Charles H. Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 February 2. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Sylvester H. Kneeland letter to Charles Dillingham

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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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