Stevenson family papers, 1902-1909.
Collection Number: 356
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Stevenson family papers, 1902-1909.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
356
Abstract:
Correspondence and business and legal documents concerning the management of 1700
acres of Vermillion and Newton County, Indiana farms owned by W. O. Davis and Helen
D. Stevenson, managed by Lewis G. Stevenson and others.
Creator:
Stevenson family.
Quanitities:
.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Lewis G. Stevenson was the son of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, vice-president of the United
States during Cleveland's second administration; Helen Davis, wife of Lewis G. Stevenson,
was the daughter of W. O. Davis, proprietor of the Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois.
Tax receipts, correspondence, rental agreements, receipted bills, financial statements,
and an account book concerning the management of 1700 acres of Vermillion and Newton
County, Indiana farms owned by W. O. Davis and Helen D. Stevenson, managed by Lewis
G. Stevenson and others. Correspondence includes letters from tenants both to landlord
and agent showing the problems of the tenant-landlord relationship; letters from Chicago
commission merchants containing data on railroad rates, prices of grain and hogs on
the Chicago market; letter and pamphlet from the Northern Iowa Land Co., including
a list of farms for rent and rental rates; letter concerning assessment for construction
of Lawler Ditch, and blueprint for its construction, in Newton County, Indiana.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Stevenson family papers, #356. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Stevenson, Lewis G.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914.
Stevenson, Helen D.
Davis, W. O.
Northern Iowa Land Co
Lawler Ditch
Places:
Indiana -- Economic conditions.
Subjects:
Farm produce.
Agricultural prices -- Indiana.
Finance -- Indiana.
Real property -- Indiana.
Farm management -- Indiana.
Agricultural markets -- Indiana.
Landlord and tenant -- Indiana.
Agriculture -- Indiana -- Newton County.
Agriculture -- Indiana -- Vermillion County.
Agriculture -- Accounting -- Indiana.
Rent charges.
Form and Genre Terms:
Blueprints.
Account books.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence
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Letters addressed to L.G. Stevenson and to Adlai E. Stevenson I (all letters addressed
to L.G.S. except where indicated)
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1907-1909 | ||
| Box 1 | July 29, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Sept. 21, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Sept. 23, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Nov. 6, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Nov. 12, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Nov. 26, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 15, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 20, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 21, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 23, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 26, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Feb. 14, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 9, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 20, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 20, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Apr. 28, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Apr. 30, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | May 18, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | June 1, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | June 20, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | June 30, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Nov. 16, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Jan. 20, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Feb. 10, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 12, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 14, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 20, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 20, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | May 17, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | May 18, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | July 29, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Sept. 22, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Nov. 4, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Apr. 21, 1909 (Addressed to Adlai E. Stevenson I) | ||
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Business letters (rough drafts, carbon copies, or outgoing mail returned with endorsement
of receipt) from Lewis or from Lewis and his family jointly
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1907-1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 20, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Dec. 26, 1907 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 6, 1908 | ||
| Box 1 | Feb. 27, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Mar. 29, 1909? | ||
| Box 1 | Apr. 6, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 | Apr. 10, 1909 | ||
| Box 1 |
Undated letter on McLean County Coal Company letterhead
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| Box 1 |
Draft of a farming agreement
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Jan. 1908 | |