COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPT DOCUI1ENTS

NAMS OF COLLECTION: Tower, Charlemagne - Papers , .

SOURCE: Permanent loan - by ?rr. Lawrence Phelps Tower - 1948

SUBJECT: Correspondence and papers of Charlemagne Tower and the Tower family of Pennsylvania

DATES COVERED: 1830-1889 NUMBER OF ITEMSs

STATUSJ (check appropriate daecription) Cataloged: X Listed: X Arranged: Not organized: C orre sp.: 55boxe s CONDITION: (give number of vols,, boxes, or shelves) Bound:Boxed: p6 boxesStored:

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The collection consists of the correspondence and letter-books (1845- 1889) of Charlemagne Tower, as well as legal and business papers related to real estate transactions, coal and iron lands in Pennsylvania and the fariily affairs of the Tower fariily. •^fee--c-o.ll&ot4o.B=r--aa?r-«yag«&,

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I : >' LIST OF THE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER PAPERS

Major Correspondents

Bicknell, Quincy Ellsbury, George H. Ely, George So Ely, Samuel P. Jeffers, Erastus Lee, Deborah Tower (Mrs. Richard) Lee, Richard Morcom, Elisha Munson, Alfred Munson, Samuel A. Nettleton, A« B. Page, Henrietta Tower (Mrs. Putnam) Prince, Franklin Putnam, Grace Tower (Mrs. Earl B.) Page, Putnam Snyder, Emma Tower (Mrs. 3, C.) Stone, George C. Stringham, Joseph Sumner, Charles Tenney, Luman H* Terry, Edmund Thompson, H* F. Tower, Amelia Malvina Bartle (Mrs. Charlemagne, 1809-1889) Tower, Charlemagne (1809-3 889) [ •>.,•*, , f Tower, Charlemagne (1848-1923) Tower, Deborah Penrce (Mrs. Reuben, 1829- ) Tower, Delia Page (Mrs. Julius) Tower, Julius (1811- ) Tower, Reuben (1787-1832) Tower, Reuben (1829- ) Tower, Sarah Louisa Williams, Helen E. M» (Mrs. James Watson)

I. Cataloged Correspondence .•• 55 boxes. (See autograph letter file)

II. Uncataloged Correspondence (Individuals: sorted by surname; Corporations: i.e., firms, banks, etc,, arranged alphabetically by name of company)

Box 1 A B B (1830-1839) B (1640-1849) Ba (c£0 1850-1870) Be (1650-1B70) Bellas, Hugh (ca. 1850-1870) Bennett, Daniel R. (ca. 1.850-1870) Bi - Bo {ca, 1850-1870) Br (cao 1850-1870) C Tower - 2

Box 1 cont. C (1830-1839) C (1840-1849) D D (1830-1839) D (1840-1849) E E (1830-1839) E (1840-1849) Ely, George H. & Samuel P. F F (1840-1849) 0 G (1830-1839) G (1840-1849) Graham, John L (1835)

Box 2 H H (1830-1839) H (1840-1849) Karris, Jonas P. (1840-1845) Hart, Martin (Executor of Alfred Munson's estate; includes statements of accounts) Hawley, Martin (1839-1843) Heuritz, James (1840-1845) Hopkins, William Ho (Jano - June 1869; Honeybrook Coal Company) (July - Dec 1869) (Jan - June 1870) (July - Dec 1870) I - J J (1830-1839) J (1840-1849) Jenkins, J. Whipple (1840-1845) Jenkins, Timothy (1840-1845) Jones, Benjamin P. (1835; 1840-1845) K K (1840-1849) Kirkland and Bacon (1840-1849) Loeser, C. (1863-1864)

Box 3 M M (1830-1839) M (1840-1849) Morand, Henri N Nicolls, G. A, N - 0 (1840-1845) 0 P P - Q (1830-1839) P - Q (1840-1849) R Tower • 3

Box 4 S (4 folders) S (1840-1849) Stone, George Co (2 folders) T Tenney, Luman H. Terry, Orrin

Charlemagne, 1809-1899, (Miscellaneous) (Copies of letters, 1850-1853) (Re: Montana silver mining; 1871) (Incoming correspondence re: charitable and educa- tional contributions) Tov/er, Charlemagne, 1848-1923. (Miscellaneous) Tower, Julius Tower family Tower family (Incoming correspondence; miscellaneous social letters) U United State Government Updegrave, H. K. Utley, Mary S. V W (2 folders) W (July - Nov 1881) W (1882) W (1883) W (1884) Williams, E. T. (ca. 1883) Williams, William E. Wilson, Thomas (ca. 1885-1886) Wright, Charles B. (1883-1884) Y - Z Miscellaneous (initialed or unsigned letters) (illegible surnames) (replies to an ad for a room)

Box 6 Re: Davis Pearson Estate (1874 - Jan - June 1875) (July - Dec 1875) (Jan - June 1876) (July - Dec 1876) (Jan - June 1877) (July - Dec 1877) (Jan - June 1878) (July - Dec 1878) (Final adjudication records)

Box 7 (Corporation correspondence fully identified) American Exchange Bank (Duluth) American Express Company . American Institute of Mining Engineers American Manufacturer and Iron World :^ Ann Arbor, First National Bank .\ \ : Tower - 4

Box 7 conto Browne and Wagar Brush Electric Company Butler and Blake Canadian Pacific Railway Company Carnegie Brothers & Company Cass County, Dakota Territory Chicago Forge and Bold Company Cleveland Rolling Mill Company Col ton (F. W. & C. T.) and Company Daniels and Torkelson Detroit, Bank of Detroit Car Wheel Company Dodson, (Charles M) and Company Drexel and Company Dunlap and Gillespie East End Improvement Association (Duluth) Eddy and Smith Ensign and Cash Fairman and Newton Fargo, First National Bank Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Company Garrett and Company Glenwood Manufacturing Company Gosline and Barbour Graff, Barnett and Company Halverson, (H«, K) and Company Harris (N, W.) and Company Heiser (Henry A«) and Sons Hempstead (0# G.) and Son Heyl, Gibson and Company Innes (Thomas B.) and Company Jacksonville South Eastern Railway Company Jansen, McClurg and Company Joliet Steel Company Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Company Lake Eire Iron Company Lake Park, Minnesota, Bank of Little and Cummings Livingston and Wileox Matteson and Doolittle Munson and Hart# OwenOneil and Company Seymour and Root Spearman Iron Company Southworth and Roberts Tower City, D, T* Bank luesley and Rothpletz Twomey and Francis Wadena, Minnesota. Bank of Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific Railway Company Tower - 5

Box 8 (Corporations) Beaver Brook Coal Company «and Estates 1870 - 1875 1871 - 1874 1876 - 1879 1880 - 1889 Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (White, George H.) 1883 - 1887 (to Charlemagne Tower, 1848-1923) Minnesota Iron Company 1882 - 1886 1887 - 1888 Newbold»s, W.H. & Son ca. 1885 - 1886 North Western Manufacturing & Car Company ca. 1883 - 1884 Pennsylvania Steel Company 1873 - 1880 1881 - 1884 1885 - 1889

Box 9 (Corporations) Pinkerton Detective Agency (Hie Incendiary Fire Operation) Dec 1885 - Sep 1886 Rubberoid Company Rumley Minning Company Thomas and Shoemaker 1875 - 1878 May - Sep 1879 Oct - Nov 1879 1880 1881 - 1889 Tod, Stambaugh and Company 1885 Western Railroad Company of Minnesota 1880 - 1882 Miscellaneous

Box 10 (Corporations) Northern Pacific Railroad ca. 1870 - 1889 (2 folders) 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 Jan - June 1879 July - Dec 1879 1880 1886 1S87 1888 (mostly C« B, Wright correspondence)

IIIo Telegrams (Arranged chronologically)

Box 11 1856; 1858; I86I5 1868 1860 - 1862 (Amelia M Tower) 1865 - 1871 (Charlemagne Tower, 1848-1923) ca, 1865 - 1885 (Tower family, miscellaneous) 1870 (Reuben Tower, 1829- ) Tower - 6

Box 11 cont» 1872 - 1875 1873 - 1874; 1880 (C Tower, 1809-1889) 1876 - 1878 1876 (C, Tower, 1848-1923) 1876 - 1879 (R. Tower, 1829- ) 1879 1880 1880 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) 1800- 1881 (Reuben Tower, 1829- ) 1881 - 1882 1881 - 1884 (A. M. Tower) 1881 - 1882 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) 1882 (R. Tower, 1829- ) 1882 - 1883 (C. Tower, 1809-1889) 1883 1883 - 1884 (Ely, G. H. & S. P.) 1883 - 1884 (Richard H. Lee) 1883 (George C. Stone) 1883 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) 1883 (R. Tower, 1829- ) 1884 1884 (G. C. Stone) 1884 (C. Tower, 1809-1889) 1884 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) Box 12 1885 1885 (Ely, G. H. & S. P.) 1885 (R. H. Lee) 1885 (G. C. Stone) 1885 - 1886 (A. M. Tower) 1885 (C. Tower, 1809-1889) 1885 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) 1885; 1887 (R. Tower, 1829- ) 1886 1886 (Ely, G. H. & S. P.) 1886 - 1889 (R. H. Lee) 1886 (G. C. Stone) 1886 (C# Tower, 1809-1889) 1886 fC. Tower, 1848-1923) 1887 1887 (Ely, G. H. & S. P.) 1887 (G. C. Stone) 1887 (C. Tower, 1809-1889) 1887 (C, Tower, 1848-1923) 1888 - 1889 1888 (G. C. Stone) 1888 (C. Tower, 1848-1923) Tower - 7

IV. Letterbooks (Arranged chronologically)

Box 13 1. "Sale of unseated lands for taxes in Schuylkill County, Pennal1 (12 June 1820 - 7 Jan 1857 ) 2. 23 Feb 1837 - 8 Aug 1845 3. 11 Aug 1845 - 26 April 1850

Box 14 TI 35 Nov 1850 - 18 Sept. 1852 2. 2 Sept 1852 - 2 June 1854

Box 15 1. 3 June 1854 - 20 June 1856 2. "Munson & Williams Letterbook" - 2 June 1854 - 3 Nov 1875

Box 16 TI 25 June 1856 - 15 Dec 1857 2. 15 Dec 1857 - 11 Jan 1859 3. 11 Jan 1859 - 4 Dec 1860

Box 17 T. 30 Dec 1865 - 4 Dec 1867 2. 22 July 1869 - 12 June 1871

Box 18 1. 12 June 1871 - 17 June 1873 2. 23 June 1873 - 15 April 1875

Box 19 1. 15 April 1875 - 16 Nov 1876 2. 18 Nov 1876 - 22 Oct 1878 3. 21 Oct 1878 - 7 April 1880

Box 20 1. 8 April 1880 - 1 June 1881 2. 26 July 1882 - 17 Sept 1883

Box 21 Tl Minnesota Iron Company letters - 2 Jan 1883 - 12 Oct. 1887 2. 14 Oct. 1884 - 28 Dec 1885

Box 22 1. 28 Dec 1885 - 3 Jan 1887 2. 29 Sept 1888 - 29 July 1889

V. Manuscript Books (Random arrangement)

Box 23 Tl "Register, C. Tower, 1844", Court cases: 29 Feb 1844 - 29 Mar 1869 2. "Daybook and Journal 2, Estate of R. Tower 184611, 8 Apr 1846 - 1 May 1865 3. "Ledger, C. Tower, 1853", 8 Jan 1853 - 14 Mar 1861 Tower - 8

Box 24 1. Tax book, 1811 - 1836 2. Casebook, Dec Sessions 1853 - Mar Sessions 1857 3. "Tower City Property", Daybook, 17 Aug 1869 - 22 July 1873 4. "Tower City Property", Ledger, 8 Feb 1870 - 4 May 1874 5. "Daybook, A* Bickel & Yohe", Tower City Saw Mill, 9 July 1869 - 27 Apr 1870 6. "Daybook, B: Bickel & Yohe", 29 Apr 1870 - 31 Dec 1870 7. "Daybook, C: Mattis & Yohe',1 Tower City, 2 Jan 1871 - 29 July 1872 8. "Minnesota Iron Company, Transfer Book", 5 Feb 1883 - 13 Oct 1887 Box 25 (Estate of Reuben Tower, 1787-1832) 1. Trustee book, 1 Sep 1831 - 1 May 1865 2. Daybook and Journal, 1 Dec 1836 - 8 Apr 1846 3. Ledger, 1 May 1838 - 1 May 1865 Box 26 H "Misc. accounts, C. Tower, 1880", 20 Dec 1877 - 13 Apr 1888 2. Plate (negative) and photos of Sarah Louisa Tower, n. d. 3. "Journal cdiary,", 18 Nov 1829 - 14 July 1834 4. "Scrapbook, 1880 - 1890", newspaper clippings 5O "Ledger, Estate of Amelia M. Tower Dec'd", 30 Apr 1896 - 18 Jan 1897 6O "Collections on the Page & Seabury Acts", 10 May 1843 - 8 Apr 1848 7O "Bear Valley Coal Company", 20 May 1839. 8. "Tower City Tenement Accounts", 26 June 1876 - 14 Jan 1681 Box 27 T. Tower, C.,(1809-1889) 4 account and bank books 2. Tower, C,(1809-1889) "Iron Analysis Record, 1880" 3. Tower, C.,(1809-1889) 2 diaries kept while at Harvard:Jan 1827 - 8 Nov 1829 4. Tower, C,(1809-1889) diary, 11 - Oct 1830 5. Tower, C, (1848-1923) Loan record, 1890 6. Tower, Julius, Bankruptcy records, ca. 1840 7. Tower City, Pa., Account book, 1868-1869

Manuscripts — Tower Family Box 28 (Tower family manuscripts) Tower, C. (1809-1889) - Prose - Journal of my voyage to Charleston 1832 Tower, C. (1809-1889) - Prose Tower family - Prose Tower family - Poetry Tower family - Fragments Misc manuscripts manuscripts - Fragments

Box 29 (C. Tower, 1809-1889, at Harvard) Correspondence - Letters written from Harvard Manuscripts- Poetry r Tower - 9

Box 29 cont. Manuscripts - Prose - Forensic papers 1828 - 1830 - Themes & exercises 1825 - 1827 1826 - 1830 (2 folders) Harvard catalogs 1825 - 1832 Receipts from ..• Harvard ••. 1826 - Sep 1844

VIIO Documents — Tower Family

Box 30 (C. Tower, 1809-1889, Re: Law practice) Disbarment 1856 Licenses to practice New York - Waterville practice Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Indictments 1854 - 1855 - List of cases settled 1855 - Summonses 1854 - 1855 - Trial lists 1855 - 1870 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill & Northumberland Counties - Laura Viel, Minors & misc. ca* 1854 Miscellaneous notes

Box 31 (C. Tower, 1809-1889, Re: his estate) James Oatis Case (Kansas) Miscellaneous items (4 folders)

Box 32 C. Tower, 1809-1889, Personal expense accounts Box 33 (Tower Family) Lee, Richard H. - Harvard diplomas Tower, C, (1809-1889) - Philadelphia residence (1525 Spruce Street) - Military records 1832 - 1839 (3 folders) 1864 - 1865 - Raising a company at Potts- ville 1861 - Provost Marshall Papers 1864 - UoS. Internal Revenue income tax returns 1860 - 1869 Tower, C., (1848-1923) - College accounts 1865 - 1872 1869 - 1871 Tower, Emma - College accounts 1870 Tower, Reuben (1787-1832) - Articles of partnership - Estate - Bankruptcy papers (John Ellis) - Miscellaneous ca. 1835 - 1846 - Miscellaneous papers 1812 - 1825 (Includes: Sangerfield School District; personal acc!ts; business notes; a few letters; some law suits) Tower family genealogy Tower family - Miscellaneous Tower - 10

VIII. Documents — Dated (Fully identified; arranged chronologically;

includes deeds, indentures, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc.)

Box 34 1785 - 1793

Box 35 1794

Box 36 1796 - 1816

Box 37 1817 - 1830

Box 38 1831 - 1840

Box 39 1841 - 1845

Box 40 1846 - 1847

Box 41 1848 - 1850

Box 42 1851

Box 43 1852 - 1855

Box 44 1856 - 1860

Box 45 1861 - 1865

Box 46 1866 - 1870

Box 47 1871 - 1887

II, Documents — Miscellaneous (Arranged alphabetically)

Box 48 Bonds in cases of bastardry Civil War - C, Loeser vs. F. W. Francis (Southern sympathizer & candidate for the U. S. Senate) 1864 Kerahner, Daniel 1812 Miller, Preston Nettleton, A» B. - Corresp. and mss. re: Nettle ton ca. 1878 - 1886 - Court records 1886 - Pinkerton reports on his activities Oct 1879 Nov 1879 Dec 1879 - Jan 1880 New York - Oneida County - Waterville & Sangerfield Twsps, ca. 1830 - 1840 - Oneida County ca. 1870 - 1889 North Dakota - Tower City Library 1883

Box 49 tankrUptCy records FagTInd Seabury - Notes 1842 ^ ' Charlemagne and Julius Pennsylvania - Northumberland County - Miscellaneous - Philadelphia - Water bil^e 1910 - 1928 - Schuylkill County - Court Sessions 1854 - 1856 - Miscellaneous (2 folders) Tower - U

Box 49 cont. Pennsylvania - Tower City - Statements, vouchers, bills, etc. 1868 - 1872 1872 - 1875 1876 - 1877 - William Yohe's accounts 1868 - 1872 Washington (State) - Bills and receipts 1888 Miscellaneous 1871 - Claims, mortgages, banks

Box 50 Miscellaneous (12 folders)

X* Documents — Corporations (Arr^jjged alphabetically)

Box 51 Bear Mountain Railroad Company 1840 - 1849 Chicago Gas Syndicate 1883 - 1887 Despard Coal Company (Virginia coupons) ca# 1869 Duluth and Iron Range Railroad n.d. 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 Good Spring Creek Coal Company (2 folders) Honey Brook Coal Mine ca. 1869 - 1888 - Inspectors reports 1860 - 1866 Jay Cooke and Company - C. Tower (1809-1889) accounts Land and River Improvement Company 1855 - 1886

Box 52 J. B« McCreary and Company - Inspector's reports 1857 - 1860 Minnesota Iron Company 1880 - 1881 1881 - 1882 (Vouchers) 1882 1882 (G. Stone's payments for supplies, etc.) 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 - 1888 North Western Company 1874 - 1875 1876 1877 1878 - 1879 1880 - 1889 - Speckled Trout Silver Mine 1875 - 1879

Box 53 Northern Pacific Railroad Company n.d. 1867 - 1869 1871 Tower - 12

Box 53 cont. Northern Pacific Railroad Company 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1879 1880 - 1882 1885 - 1886 1888 Northhampton & Luzerne Coal Company ca. 1850 - 1859 (Frenchmen's Lands) ca* 1850 - 1859 (Henry C. Carey) ca« 1850 - 1859 (James Taggart) Peach Mountain Colliery 1370 - 1871 Pennsylvania Mines and Mining 1866 - 1881 (Honey Brook Mtg,; Tyson Mining Opinion; Tax searches, etc) Rubberoid Company 1878 - 1879 Rumley Mining Company 1876 - 1877 Western Railroad Company of Minnesota ca, 1875 - 1885 Miscellaneous

XI. Documents — Real Estate (Arranged geographicall:/; deeds, indentures, mortgages, receipts, drafts of land, abstracts of title, ocassional correspondence and other related items pertaining to real estate)

Box 54 Minnesota - Becker County - Tax receipts 1879 - 1889 - Misc. tracts - Decker & Ottertail Counties - Misc, tracts - Clay County - Tax receipts 1878 - 1890 - Misc, tracts - Nettleton Trust ca. 1875 - 1890 - Norman County - Tax receipts ca, 1870 - 1879 - Northern Pacific Railroad contracts - Ottertail County - Tax receipts ca. 1870 - 1889 - Misc. tracts - L» H. Tenney contract nos: 1-6 ca. 1870 - 1885 7 (Duluth) ca. 1876 - 1885 7 (Glyndoi) ca, 1870 - 1885 8-14 ca. 1870 - 1885 - L. H. Tenney - Miscellaneous ca. 1870 - 1895 - Vermilion iron n.d. 1876; 1879; 1880 1881 1882 - Wadena County - Misc. tracts - Tax receipts ca. 1880 - 1889 - Miscellaneous ca, 1870 - 1889 Tower - 13

Box 55 Minnesota -St. Louis County - Duluth tracts - Endion subdivision - Lakeside Land Co. - Contracts for deeds ca. 1915 (A - B) (C - E) (F - H) (I- K) - Misc. ca. 1890 - 1905 (2 folders) - Tax receipts Box 56 New York - Cox, Daniel - Patent papers - Tower, Reuben - Deeds - Oneida County - Me Kown, William J. - Osgood house - Expenditures 1846 - Waterville - Tower tracts - Rocherster - Prince Street property - Misc. papers - Receipts, etc. - Taxes & assessments Box 57 New York - New York City - Thompson, James J. - Weber, Philip - Estate 1835 - 1836 (6 folders) Box 58 North Dakota - Contracts: no. 18 - 19 ca. 1870 - 1885 - Miscellaneous ca« 1870 - 1890 Washington - Tacoma Land Company - Tax receipts - Miscellaneous Western lands (3 folders of misc. items relating to real estate in the Middle West, Plains States and the Far West) Box 59 Pennsylvania - Beaver Brook Estate - Brown, John H. - Deeds - Carey, Henry C. - De Roux tracts - Fishing Creek lands - German lands; L. & W-B Coal Co.; Honey Brook - Brief title with sundry deeds (2 folders Box 60 Pennsylvania— Kunckel tracts 1788 - 1850 1860 - 1864 1865 (9 June) 1865 (10 June) 1866 - 1873 - Miscellaneous (2 folders) - Lauderbach, Spangler & Company - Leaner, John - Tract Tower - 14

Box 61 Pennsylvania - Rommel, John - Tracts - Stimpler land books - 1847 - Tax receipts ca. 1900 - 1930 (2 folders) - Tax receipts & related documents for Carbon, Luzerne and Northumberland Counties - Tryon vs. Campbell - Wheeler surveys - Miscellaneous Box 62 Pennsylvania - Green Mountain Lands - Abstract of title - Brandon vs. Fritz - Court records - Maps - Papers(2 folders) - Doc. #21-26 (Schuylkill County) - Doc. #1-19 (Berks County) - re: Klinger, John Tract - Karchei*» letters - John Brown & Company - Geological surveys - Geological surveys - Bills 1872 Box 63 Pennsylvania - Green Mountain Lands - Smith, James - Tract (2 folders) - Taggart, James - Deeds, etc. (2 folders ) - Miscellaneous - Taggart, James - Abstract of title (Bound volume) Box 64 Pennsylvania - Green Mo^intain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Beatty & Rope tracts - Corresp. & reports - Indentures (printed) - Shepp/Coxe ejectment- Papers (2 folders) - Title papers re: Paul Beattjr - Miscellaneous Box 65 Pennsylvania - Berks County - Fisher, Paniel(i.e., Leesport & Fleetwood Iron Ore beds) - Rockland Ore Land - Tax receipts 1880 - 1889 - Wilson patents - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders) Tower - 15

Box 65 cont. Pennsylvania - Carbon County - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders) - Luzerne County - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders) - Northhampton County - Shafer deeds - Miscellaneous tracts - Northumberland County - Girard Estate lands (?) - Hazelton Coal Basins ca.1793-1884 - Heiser - Helfenstein, William L. - Tracts 1852 - Heller & Zimmerman tracts Box 66 Pennsylvania - Northumberland County - Mahoney & Shamokin Improvement Co. - Abstract of title - Meyers, John - Russell, Beebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris - Abstract of title (2 folders) - Deed - Northumberland Coal Co. - ca. 1850 - 1859 - Misc. tracts (2 folders) - Russell, William - Tract Box 67 Pennsylvania - Northumberland County - Trevorton Coal & Railroad Go. - Zerbes & Shamokin Improvement Co. - Abstract of title - Miscellaneous tracts (10 folders) Box 68 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Adams, Robert - Tract - Applications for property (misc.) 1871 (Stauffer family ) 1871 - Eeidler - Bonswi^z, Benjamin - Eitler tracts - Capp & Kauffman tracts (5 folders) - Coal lease mortgages Box 69 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Dim, Christopher - Tract (2 folders) - Earp, Robert - Abstract of title & deeds - Eighteen Hundred Acre tract - Fisher, Samuel B - Tract .- Kain, Samuel - Tract - Hechler, William 1874 - Henniger, George - Tract - Helper farm ca* 1847 - Kowell tracts - tfuber, John - Tract - Kauffman, Jonas - Tracts - Kendall tracts Tower - 16

Box 70 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Ley tracts ca. 1825 - 1849 1847 1850 - Lindner tracts - Livergood & Hubley tracts - McCool, J. Wallace - Tract - McCreary, John B. 1850 - 1859 - P & R Coal & Iron Co. lands - Reeves tract - Shearer, Richard - Tract - Shomo, John - Tract Box 71 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Silvis, Benjamin - Tract - State road construction ca. 1873-1879 - Tracts - Applications ca. 1815 - 1830 - Patents - Straub, Christian 1854 - 1859 - Strong, Henry K. - Tarr, Elihu - Tracts - Tower and Shaefer tracts - Tower City properties (W111 Yohe, Agt.) 1869-1885 - Tower City properties - Misc. - Tower tracts - Traut, Jacob - Title papers - Treasurers bills 1866 - 1872 - Warrants 1815 - 1864 - Whitman Tracts - Zantzinger tract - Zimmerman tract Box 72 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County - Dated folders 18-- 1800 - 1810 1810 - 1819 1820 - 1829 1840 - 1849 1850 - 1859 1860 - 1869 1870 - 1879 1880 - 1889 - Misc. Tracts (Folder #1 - 7) Box 73 PennsylvaniPennsy a - Schuylkill County - Misc. Tracts (Folder #8 - 19)

BoDUX,x 7/4n Munson & Williamsf Land - Blythe, Barrett, Bayard, Seely - Elythe tract (5 folders) - Eoyer tract ; - Dietrich^ John (2 folders) Tower - 17

Box 74 cont. Munson & Williams1 Land - Frenchmen's lands - Graham, E. A. - Deeds - Graeff, William (2 folders) Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Hand, John - Huber, John (2 folders) - Kuntselman family (2 folders) - Minick, Peter - Warrants, etc.(Waff el Iron tract) - Penna. - Berks County - Misc. (3 folders)

Box 76 Munson & Williams1 Land - Penna. - Mt. Carmel - Misc. - Northumberland County - Misc. - SchuylkLll County - Misc. (Folder #1-9)

Box 77 Munson & Williams1 Land - Penna. - Schuylkill County - Misc. (Folder #10-14) - Taxes & receipts 1850-1859 - Taxes & receipts 1871-1872 - Philadelphia & Reading Coal & iron Company

Box 78 Munson & Williams1 Land - Seelyj Hand; Williams, E.; etc. - Deeds - Misc. (3 folders', - Seltzer - Spatzer, Francis - Williams, Emion & Daniel - Zerbee, John Adam

Box 79 Munson & Williams1 Land - Land patents - Miscellaneous deeds (5 folders) - Miscellaneous

Box 80 Munson & Williams1 Land - Partial abstracts (7 folders)

Box 81 Munson & Williams1 Land - Court records (4 folders) - Will

Box 32 Miscellaneous (7 folders)

Box 83 Miscellaneous (7 folders)

Box 84 • - ': J Miscellaneous (6 folders) Tower - 18

Box 85 Miscellaneous (11 folders) Box 86 Miscellaneous (17 folders)

Box 87 Miscellaneous (11 folders)

Box 88 Miscellaneous - Dated n.d. 1889 - 1901 1890 - 1898 1902 - 1903 1904 - 1925

XIX. Documents — Receipts, bills, etc. (Arranged chronologically)

Box 89 Receipts, etc. ca. 1850 - 1855 (A - Q) ca. 1850 - 1855 (H - M) ca. 1850 - 1855 (N - S) ca, 1850 - 1855 (Misc.) 1S61 - 1862 ca. 1865 - 1875 ca. 1870 - 1879 ca. 1870 - 1880 ca. 1880 - 1889 1881 - 1882

Box 90 Receipts, etc. 1883 - 1885 ca. 1885 ~ 1889 - Miscellaneous (7 folders)

XIII. Documents — Maps (Arranged geographically)

Box 91 Maps - Minnesota - Pennsylvania (2 folders) - Western Lands - World and Miscellaneous

XIVo Printed Matter (Arranged geographically and by corporation)

Box 92 Printed Matter - New York - Utica - North Dakota - North Dakota - Tower City - Pacific Northwest - Northern Pacific Railroad Tower - 19

Box 92 conto Printed Matter - Miscellaneous - Corporations - Miscellaneous (5 folders)

Box 93 Printed Matter - Miscellaneous (Single issues of Pennsylvania newspapers; loose sheets; broadsides, advertisements etc)

XV. Memorabilia (Circulars, invitations and other ephemera of a social and cultural nature)

Box 94 Memorabilia - Friday Night Club Apr 30, 1875 (Regrets) (Acceptances) - Invitations - New York - Pennsylvania - Rosicrucians 1887-1389 - Tower, C. (1809-1889) - Obituaries - Twer, C. (1809-1889) - Testimonial - Tower family - Art work - Miscellaneous (5 folders)

Box 95 Memor. abilia - Miscellaneous (Photographs, calling cards, raise, objects) - Tower City History, 1879-1979 Centennial Edition (Tower City, N.

Miscellaneous

Box 96: Empty envelopes

Bound volumes and other containers "Exhibits of taxes on unseated lands in Schuylkill County, 1851; 1856" * 2 vols,

"New Century Atlas; Oneida County, New York"

"Atlas of properties along the Pennsylvania Railroad"

Package of portraits

Box of portraits and miscellaneous land draughts