Harrison, Harry (Dempsey, Henry Maxwell (12. Marto 1925 - 15. Au~gusto 2012):New York 1999
- gebunden oder broschiert 1999, ISBN: 9783453161702
Collection of 255 letters, 776 manuscript pp., (164 retained mailing envelopes), dated 1 April 1879 to 19 April 1918; the bulk of correspondence dates from the 1880s and 1890s; mostly han… Mehr…
Collection of 255 letters, 776 manuscript pp., (164 retained mailing envelopes), dated 1 April 1879 to 19 April 1918; the bulk of correspondence dates from the 1880s and 1890s; mostly handwritten, some typed; includes correspondence of Barrett family members of Hartford, Connecticut, to their son, Charles C. Barrett, as well as incoming business letters to Barrett, who worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a traveling passenger agent, and later became a land developer and realtor at Edgar, Wisconsin; the archive also includes 1 diary of 1873-1874 kept by William J. Barrett; 12 small memorandum notebooks, dated 1884-1913; and over 340 pieces of related paper and manuscript ephemeral material. There are several sections, or groups of letters, within the collection. Including a section containing family letters written by Mrs. Jane Barrett to her son Charles C. Barrett, as well as letters to Charles from his sister Grace and, his brother, Cliff; there are letters written to Barrett's wife Clara B. Minshall. Then there is a section consisting of business letters written to Charles C. Barrett from various individuals, and business-related letters written to Charles from his brother Cliff. Overall, the letters and the related ephemera document the life of Charles C. Barrett in the West and Mid-West, who along with his brother speculated in city lots in Kansas City, and later in Edgar, Wisconsin. Charles, and his brother Clifford, also worked for railroads, and Charles was a traveling salesman, helping to sell early gasoline internal combustion engines for farming, mining and other industries.Charles "Charley" Crosby Barrett (1857-1922) Charles Crosby Barrett was prominently identified with the development of Edgar, Wisconsin, having gone there in 1893, after successful business experience in other sections of the country. He was born in Blooming, Grove Township, Dane County, Wisconsin, three miles from Madison, on 25 December 1857. He was the son of James W. Barrett (1817-1863) and his wife Jane Clinton May (1828-1901) who married in 1844 and went west to Wisconsin from Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1847. Besides Charles, James and his wife had three other children: Grace Barrett (1848-1895); James Barrett Jr. (1850-); and Clifford Page Barrett (1859-1948). James W. Barrett served with the 29th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War and died of typhoid fever at Vermillionville, Louisiana, in November 1863. After the death of her husband, James Warner Barrett, Mrs. Barrett moved her family back to Connecticut. This archive includes letters written by siblings Grace, Charles and Clifford P. Barrett, as well as their mother Mrs. Jane Clinton May Barrett. Charles C. Barrett was educated in Wethersfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut. He then became a commercial traveler for a wholesale boot and shoe house of Hartford, Connecticut, and continued in that line for ten years when he moved to Kansas City, Missouri and became connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad as ticket agent and traveling passenger agent, remaining eight years, and for the three following years was manager of the Ada Mining Company stationed at Joplin, Missouri. He then became interested in the mining business, which occupied his attention until November of 1893, when he went to Edgar, Marathon County, Wisconsin. In Edgar Barrett first engaged in logging, but soon embarked in the real estate business, his holdings covered a wide territory. He served three years as Edgar's postmaster and erected the first special post office building erected in Marathon County. He then organized the Edgar Land Company, which laid out forty acres in town lots, the north side of the village, and in three and a half days had a half mile of street with sidewalks graded. He also laid out forty acres about one-half mile distant from the old town of Rib Falls, in connection with the Rib Falls Land Company. He helped organize the Edgar, Cassel & Emmett Telephone Company, he became president of the Edgar Local Telephone Company and operated the first telephone exchange in Marathon County outside of Wausau. Barrett was a Republican and for eighteen years served as Justice of the Peace and was the first police judge elected at Edgar after the incorporation of the village. The collection includes a number of business letters written to Barrett from the 1880s to the mid-1890s. In 1903 Mr. Barrett was married to Mrs. Clara Bertha (Blumer) Minshall (1869-1942), the divorced daughter of Swiss immigrant miller/farmer, Mathias Blumer (18321898) and his wife Anna Weiker (18331907) who was born Luxemburg. The couple settled in LaCrosse Co., Wisconsin. Clara had at least six siblings: Elizabeth Blumer Simonton (1857-1914); Margaret Blumer (1859-1936); John Blumer (1860-1952); Katherine Blumer Mayor (1862-1943); Bertha Blumer Markle (1866-1930); and Christian Blumer who died as an infant in 1870. Mathias Blumer had a flour mill on Mormon Creek in the southern part of LaCrosse County. The 1900 Census states that Clara was divorced from her first husband. She had previously been married to Dr. Albert P. Minshall (1862-1932). The couple married in 1892 and had one child, Cyrus Bertrand Minshall (1894-1988). They were divorced by 1900. Their son Cyrus was a veteran of WWI. There are several letters in this collection written to Cyrus and a number of letters written to Clara. Charles and Clara had three children: Clifford Charles Barrett (1909-1976); Jane Clinton May Barrett (1909-1999); and Charles J. Barrett (1910-1961). The family was Presbyterian in faith. Charles Crosby Barrett died at his home on January 14, 1922. He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Wausau, Wisconsin. Clara Barrett outlived her husband by twenty years, and died in 1942 she was buried with Charles.Collection Inventory:48 letters, 242 pp., written by Mrs. Jane May Barrett to her son Charles C. Barrett, dated 15 April 1884 to 27 June 1894. Mrs. Barrett is located mainly in Hartford, Connecticut, with some letters written from New Haven and Bridgeport, as well as Milwaukee and Vilas, Wisconsin. Charles C. Barrett was living in Kansas City, Missouri in the earlier letters, but later in Blendville (Joplin), Missouri, and Edgar, Wisconsin.31 letters, 92 pp., various correspondents to Mrs. Clara B. (Blumer) Minshall, fiancé, and later wife of Charles C. Barrett, dated 14 August 1894 to 6 December 1903; Minshall was located in various locales, including Edgar, LaCrosse, Mosinee, Viroqua, Wausau, all in Wisconsin; and Carbondale, Illinois; letters are written to Clara mainly by female friends; a couple by Charles C. Barrett. Her friends are writing from locales in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Wisconsin, and in particular Viroqua, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota.6 letters, 28 pp., written by "Addie" to Charles C. Barrett, dated 14 December 1879 to 12 August 1894; Barrett was in Kansas City, Missouri; Edgar, Wisconsin, and 1 letter found him in Chicago, Illinois. "Addie," was either a sister, or more likely, a sister-in-law, wrote to Barrett from Chicago; Mexico City, Mexico (3 letters); and Kansas City, Missouri.26 letters, 57 pp., written by Cliff P. Barrett to his brother Charles C. Barrett (22 letters) in various places including Kansas City, Missouri; Hartford, Connecticut; Chicago; and Edgar, Wisconsin; his wife (2 letters) in Kansas City, and his mother Mrs. Jane Clinton May Barrett (1 letter) presumably at her home in Hartford; dated 13 March 1880 to 29 April 1895; Cliff P. Barrett was located mainly in Kansas City, Missouri (10) and Mexico (11), but he also wrote from Chicago and New York. When he was in Mexico, Cliff P. Barret worked for the Mexican Central Railway.4 letters, 16 pp., written by Grace Barrett, to her brother Charles C. Barrett, dated 18 May 1891 to 24 July 1894. Grace wrote from home in Hartford, Connecticut; her brother was then in Blendville (Joplin), Missouri; Edgar, Wisconsin; and Kansas City, Missouri.9 letters, 57 pp., written by "Hattie" to her friend Charles C. Barrett, 3 August 1884 to 10 May 1891; Hattie wrote to Barrett while he was in Kansas City, Missouri; she was from Hartford, Connecticut.25 letters, 35 pp. (mostly typed), from the Weber Gas Engine Co. to Charles C. Barrett, dated 4 January 1892 to 1 May 1893; Weber was located in Kansas City, Missouri, Barrett in Joplin, Missouri; Weber was one of the earliest manufacturers of gasoline internal combustion engines in the U.S. Weber started operations in the mid-1880s building stationary engines for farm and industrial use, with a decided focus on the latter.84 letters, 195 pp., dated 1 April 1879 to 20 February 1895, (several undated), both handwritten and typed, these are mostly incoming business letters to Charles. C. Barrett. Barrett was in Kansas City; Joplin, and Blendville (Joplin), Missouri; and Edgar, Wisconsin. His correspondents wrote from various places in Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin; many individuals wrote from Kansas City and Joplin, Missouri, as well as Hartford and Bridgeport, Connecticut.3 letters, 6 pp., dated 1 March 1915 to 19 April 1918; written by various individuals to Cyrus Minshall, son of Clara Blumer Minshall Barrett. Cyrus was living in Mosinee, Wisconsin; his correspondents wrote from Chicago, Illinois and La Crosse, Wisconsin.4 incoming letters, 14 pp., to Mrs. Jane C. Barrett, Charles C. Barrett's mother, dated 25 September 1893 to 27 June 1899; one letter was written by her daughter Grace Barrett. Jane was presumably at home in Hartford, Connecticut.16 miscellaneous letters, 36 pp., dated 11 January 1880 to 15 February 1916; written by various correspondents these letters appear to be loosely related to the Barrett family, perhaps some through marriage (Hunt family), others through business (Ada Mining Co.), two letters are by Charles C. Barrett, one is a copy.Journal/Notebooks1 Diary/Journal of William J. Barrett, 60 pp., entries dated 9 December 1873 to 3 January 1874; bound in limp leather binding, measures 3 ½" x 6", the short entries are written in pencil; also includes some memoranda.12 small notebooks, bank books, etc., consisting of a total of 149 manuscript pp., plus blanks, a mix of accounts, memoranda, notes, etc., a couple issued by the railroads, and used to keep notes, or keep track of things; a couple are bank books, a checking account book; a weekly time book for employees; etc., dated 1884-1913.Ephemera3 telegrams; 4 newspaper clippings; 10 manuscript notes; 15 postcards; 19 printed and manuscript documents, includes special tax bills, power of attorney, deed of trust, etc.; 28 printed pieces of ephemera including circulars, small broadsides, brochures, advertisements, pamphlets; 31 used envelopes; 45 receipts, both on printed letterhead, and manuscript receipts; 85 used checks; and 107 greeting cards, invitations, business cards, calling cards, etc., pertaining to Barrett and his career.Sample Quotations: "Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R'Y Co.Kansas City Station, Feb'ry [2], 1883Dear Chas.I enclose you deed of lot here. Gillis St is to be graded in the spring the bill has passed the council the party who owns all the new houses by the school house is having it graded and is going to build houses on Gillis St and a brick block corner Gillis & 5th. The grading will probably cost $2 per front foot. We will then have a street, shall dam the lower part of the hold and catch what comes off from the street. That part of the town is coming upOne more Hartford fellow arrived last week, a fellow named Geo Norton, who has been traveling for W.C. Hunt & Co. He is looing round here and says he is going to stay. All well here, give my love to Ma, have not heard from her since she left K City, except our Christmas presents. When are you going to settle the old account? Yrs, CPB""Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific RailwayKansas City, Mo. Aug 20th, 188[5]Dear Chas.,Arrived here Wednesday morning in good shape. Everything was satisfactory they did not expect me for a week more but I am satisfied to get back to work.Went out to the lot there are 4 wood houses and two brick buildings going up opposite the school house and the big bluff towards Bob Johnston is being graded level with the street so we do not look as far down as we did. Everybody is expecting a big trade this fall they are counting on 35,000,000 bushels of wheat and 200,000,000 bushels of corn in Kansas and everything is favorable to their getting it.The Goodyear Rubber Co have a fine store here they are also agents for New York Belting Co. Will find out more about them and let you know. Have been so busy since I got back that have not had any time to see about buildings. I understand that there is no rubber store in St. Joseph, Mo. about 40,000 inhabitants but still it is not as good a point as Kansas City and none west of here nearer than DenverChas. you better make that settlement before it gets mixed worse. Will pay the note and make a new deed this week. Have a squatter on the lot. She pays $1.00 per month have $2 so far this will pay the taxes. Shall try and get some more cabins on it.Yours, Cliff""Hotel San CarlosMexico26 de March de 1889Dear Mother,After a long and unprofitable wait for Gen'l Harrison to remember and reward the terrible efforts made by brother Chas. to help him take his seat comfortably in Washington by appointing one or both of us, and you also as minister and family to Mexico (salary $12,000 per year), like all office seekers, have become sick of politics and politicians and more especially of living on climate and high altitude and have decided to put on the garb of a working man (this is only a figure of speech for I am the possessor of only one suit) and sign my name in full on the pay roll of the Mexican Central Ry above the name of R.C. Russell General Material Agent who according to the printed note at the bottom of the roll will certify in due time that I have diligently performed the duties of my office.This great change came over me at 8 A.M. yesterday morning. Saturday, I heard there was a vacancy. Saw Mr. R, he said come to work Monday. Your son said if I don't suit or fill the bill, I am ready to take a walk at any time. If I suit, I want something better. Mr. R. said you shall have something better. This was the conversation in full, short and sweet and as the pay car only starts out once a month shall remain that long anyway, but our health is good here. We of course enjoy the change, will see some more of the world, make a living, learn Spanish and of course have better opportunities where there are not so many men to pick from as in the States.Should we do well here you must come down and make us a visit as it will I know please you more than anything or anywhere you have seen or been. All winter and summer if you feel cool, cross the street and warm, up, 0, HEYNE, WILHELM, 09/1999. 1.. hardcover. HIGH 8000, HEYNE, WILHELM, 09/1999, 0<
