Manuscripts

New York (State). Surrogate Court (Erie County). Legal document certifying the addition of $31.00 of interest to the estate of the deceased George Stoneman, the transfer of those funds to Henry Chace, Esq., and John T. Stoneman's request to be discharged as administrator of the estate

Stoneman, John T. Final report of the administrator in the matter of the estate of George Stoneman, deceased, and filed in the Surrogate's Court of the County of Erie, New York as well as in Clayton County, Iowa

Manuscripts

The documents reveal the range of legal, financial, and estate-related transactions initiated by or concerning the Stoneman family and their associates. Included in this series are legal agreements, banking statements, inventories of the Stoneman's estate, and general financial records. The correspondence includes personal and business letters to and by the Stoneman family members and their associates. Two letters dated January 1889 were written by General George Stoneman while he was still living in Los Angeles. Most of the letters were penned after the generals' death in September 1894, and directed to John T. Stoneman, administrator of his brother's estate. The ephemera includes newspaper clippings (obituaries of George Stoneman from Buffalo, NY newspapers) and several miscellaneous items. Notable participants include William B. Allison, Thomas Updegraff and the United States Army.

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