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Scott papers,f1831-1930.  a4.5 cubic ft.,b5 v.  3Selected items, ca.1852-67aalso available on negative and positivemicrofilm.2 3Microfilm of selected items, ca.1852-67aheld by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  aDuring the decade preceding the Civil War, Matthew T. Scott, Jr., son of a prominent Lexington, Kentucky banker, became the principle figure in a series of investments made by the Scott family and their partners in Illinois and Iowa land by purchases from the federal government, private individuals, and the Illinois Central Railroad. Scott established himself in the midst of the holdings in McLean County, Illinois as a frontier landlord. In 1856 he laid out the town of Chenoa at the intersection of the Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis Railroad with the Toledo, Peoria, and Warsaw. He founded the McLean County Coal Company at Bloomington, Illinois in conjunction with Adlai Ewing Stevenson and others and established the BLOOMINGTON BULLETIN, a democratic daily. Upon Scott's death in 1891, Mrs. Julia Green Scott inherited the lands, and took an active part in management of the holdings. She also became prominent in her work for the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as president general of the organization from 1909-13. Upon her death in 1923, the original holdings, diminished to some 8,650 acres, became the property of her daughters, Mrs. Carl S. Vrooman and Mrs. Charles S. Bromwell.  aA collection of business diaries, letters, rental agreements, deeds, abstracts of title, contracts, promissory notes, tax receipts relating to the establishement and development of a 55,000 acre frontier estate in McLean, Livingston, Ford, Piatt, Coles, Champaign, Iroquois, Vermilion, Woodford, LaSalle, and Macon Counties, Illinois, and a 5,000 acre estatein Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Calhoun, and Cass Counties, Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, acting in conjunction with various members of the Scott family and James Robbins, Stephen Swift, George W. Brand, William H. Latham, Richard and Joel Higgins, James Suydam, Courtney Pickett, and Samuel P. Humphreys. Earliest papers dated 1831 include two letters written by Rev. Lewis W. Green as a student at Yale and at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, to Willis Green of Danville, Kentucky. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe in detail entries of land from the Federal Government, purchases from private individuals, purchase and sale of land warrants, development of tenant farms in McLean County, costs of breaking prairie, construction of houses, fences, well digging, planting of fruit trees, purchase of farm equipment, seed, stock, hiring of farm hands, and records of crop yields. Also, information on development of Chenao, the partnerships between Scott and others, financial agreements, tax difficulties, land sales, and rental agreements.  bThe collection includes three long series of letters from agents who managed the land for Mrs. Scott after her husband's death, showing problems of farm development, management, and tenant-landlord-agent relationships. Corporate papers, bylaws, charters, deeds, leases, statements of dividends, contracts and agreements with local labor unions and the Standard Oil Company, relate to the business of the McLean County Coal Company, Bloomington, Illinois, 1866-1928. Also, letters concerning the work of Mrs. Scott with the D.A.R., 1909-1913.0 aBox list.0 aDescribed in REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND ARCHIVIST, 1945-46.  aMatthew T. Scott papers, #330.  Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.10aBrand, George W.10aGreen, Lewis W.10aGreen, Willis.10aHiggins, Joel.10aHiggins, Richard.10aHumphreys, Samuel P.10aLatham, William H.10aPickett, Courtney.10aRobbins, James.10aVrooman, Julia Scott.10aStevenson, Adlai E.q(Adlai Ewing),d1900-1965.10aSuydam, James.10aSwift, Stephen.30aScott family.20aDaughters of the American Revolution.20aMcLean County Coal Company.20aStandard Oil Company.00aBloomington bulletin. 0aAgriculturexIllinois. 0aCoal. 0aCrop yields. 0aFarm management. 0aFarm rents. 0aFarm tenancy. 0aFrontier and pioneer life. 0aLabor contract. 0aLand settlement. 0aLand tenure. 0aLandlord and tenant. 0aPetroleum industry and trade. 0aReal property, Exchange of. 0aWomen in agriculture. 0aWomenxSocieties and clubs. 7aContracts.2aat 7aDeeds.2aat 7aDiaries.2aat 7aLeases.2aat  a20000112120000.0  s9554