Manuscripts

Oliver Ames business papers

Description: Miscellaneous business correspondence and papers of Oliver Ames. The letters, chiefly addressed to Ames, deal with the sale of stock, railroad mergers, etc. Included are items relating to the Union Pacific Railroad; Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific Railway Company; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad Company; and a brokerage firm Pickering & Mosely. The papers also deal with the estate of Oliver Ames and his father Oakes Ames. There is also correspondence by American financier Samuel Carr.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1872-1901
Call number: mssHM 49276-49346
Creator: Ames, Oliver (1831-1895)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Western Hemisphere, May 1978.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Carr, Samuel, (1848-1922.)
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Ames-Mercantile

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous business correspondence and papers of Oliver Ames. The letters, chiefly addressed to Ames, deal with the sale of stock, railroad mergers, etc. Included are items relating to the Union Pacific Railroad; Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific Railway Company; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad Company; and a brokerage firm Pickering & Mosely. The papers also deal with the estate of Oliver Ames and his father Oakes Ames. There is also correspondence by American financier Samuel Carr.

mssHM 49276-49346

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Business correspondence, Ames-Hitchcock

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Thomas Lord Kimball, primarily focused on his activities with the Union Pacific Railroad. The personal correspondence includes over 330 letters sent by Kimball to his wife Mary Porter Rogers Kimball between 1859 and 1893, a letter from Kimball to his daughter Frances (1870), and a letter to Mary Kimball from her brother I.S. Hodsdon (correspondence between Hodsdon and Thomas Kimball is included in the business correspondence). The personal papers also include diaries kept by Kimball between 1860 and 1899, diaries kept by Mary Kimball between 1890 and 1898, and a biographical sketch of Kimball. The railroad papers include business correspondence from a variety of correspondents including Frederick L. Ames, Sidney Dillon, I.S. Hodsdon, W.H. Holmes, Jay Gould, and E.P. Vining, as well as a few pieces of outgoing correspondence by Kimball. The financial and operation papers include Kimball's Union Pacific pocket notebooks dated 1891-1899, a small group of Jay Gould manuscripts (1877-1880), correspondence on the W.C. Thompson scandal (1872-1873), a letter appointing Kimball as travelling agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1860), correspondence on the sale of a Unitarian Church in Omaha (1877-1880), production summaries for the Union Depot in Omaha (1879-1896), and miscellaneous railroad agreements, circulars, passes, receipts, promissory notes, financial statements, and stocks and bonds. The political papers consist of incoming correspondence, an agreement for Charles H. Brown to back the Union Pacific in pending legislation before Congress (1877), an agreement between Kimball and the National Union Publishing Co. (1877), a congressional voting record (1878), and a payroll. The mining papers include items related to the Newcastle Mining & Improvement Co. in Wyoming (1891-1894) and the Ella Mine in Idaho (1879-1880), as well as an analysis of coal on the Union Pacific Railroad line and a report on the coal business in Wyoming (1888). Also included is a box of newspaper clippings regarding Kimball's railroad activities from 1888-1889 (approx. 470 items).

mssKimball

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Peramus Green Ames letter to Sarah Ann Ames

Manuscripts

In this letter to his wife, Peramus Green Ames regerts not being able to return home sooner. He promises to send money to keep her and their children comfortable, and promises to write twice a month. Dated December 12-28, 1852. Also included on the letter's final page is a note to Mrs. Ames from her sister, dated 1852, April 18.

mssHM 16549

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Business papers of Hosmer B. Parsons; Photographs (copies only); Ephemera; Printed Items

Manuscripts

The collection consists mainly of letters to and from Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), who joined Wells, Fargo & Company in 1867 and successively held the positions of cashier, assistant secretary, vice-president, and president of the company bank in New York. The papers deal chiefly with the express business: relationships with competing express companies such as American Express, Pacific Express, Northern Pacific Express, Texas Express, etc.; with railroad companies including Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and others; as well as matters of shipments, rates, and routes. There are also papers that relate to the personal business affairs of Hosmer B. Parsons.

mssWF

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Peramus Green Ames speech to the Masonic Lodge

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a transcript of a speech given by Peramus Green Ames as part of his application to join the Masonic Lodge, wherein he tells of his religious beliefs. Includes one-page affidavit proclaiming membership in the Lodge for Peramus Green Ames, dated 1850, April 2, and signed by J. Cadman and A.S. Mitchell.

mssHM 49911

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Samuel Benedict Reed letters

Manuscripts

This typescript of letters written by Samuel B. Reed to his wife covers six years of Reed's work for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. In the letters, he details his group's work surveying parts of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming while searching for a practical route for the railroad, as well as the construction of the railroad tracks. He discusses the people involved including Frank Case, James A. Evans, Grenville Dodge, Oliver Ames, Thomas Clark Durant, and Sidney Dillon. Reed spent much time in Salt Lake City and became friends with Brigham Young and in his letters, he talks a lot about his many conversations with Young. Reed also discusses his group's interactions and experiences with the Ute and Shoshoni Indians. The typescript also includes copies of reports written by Reed.

mssHM 66497

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