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- catalog abstract "Collection consists of the financial and legal papers and records of Charles Stillman's companies [Charles Stillman & Bro. and other Stillman companies] including: letter books of outgoing letters and some incoming transcripts, 1852-1860; letters and telegrams to Charles and James Stillman, 1850-1877; financial records from 1854-1877 comprised of orders and drafts, bills and receipts, account sales, invoices, bills of lading, and statements and accounts; legal documents, 1847-1879; and other miscellaneous papers. The papers relate to the distribution of hides, lead, copper, and cotton from Brownsville, Texas and New York City, and other legal and financial matters concerning Stillman and his various businesses. Some letters include content relating to the Stillman family. The later papers are principally those of James Stillman (1850-1918), Charles Stillman's son.".
- catalog contributor b752997.
- catalog contributor b752998.
- catalog contributor b752999.
- catalog contributor b753000.
- catalog coverage "Brownsville (Tex.) Commerce.".
- catalog coverage "Mexico Commerce.".
- catalog coverage "Texas Commerce.".
- catalog date "1847".
- catalog description "Charles Stillman (1810-1875) was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, the son of Capt. Francis Stillman and Harriet Robbins Stillman. In February 1828 he traveled to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico and developed a network of enterprises (Charles Stillman & Bro.) . including cotton brokerage and real estate firms, silver mines, merchandise outlets, a shipping company carrying passengers and goods, and an off-loading, warehousing, and transportation company. Stillman was most notable for founding Brownsville, Texas in 1849 and for establishing a successful river boat company on the Rio Grande River (King, Kenedy and Co.) with partners Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy. He married Elizabeth Pamela Goodrich of Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1849. In 1851 Stillman helped bankroll the attempted invasion of Mexico by José Maria Carbajal to set up the Republic of the Sierra Madre. Between 1862 and 1865 his company moved Confederate cotton to Matamoros under contract for payment in gold, sending some of the cotton to his textile complex at Monterrey, and much sold in New York through his mercantile firm, Smith and Dunning. By the end of the Civil War, Stillman was one of the richest men in the United States. After the Civil War, Stillman lived in Brownsville and New York City, but moved to New York permanently in 1866, and died in New York in 1875. Source: John Mason Hart, "STILLMAN, CHARLES," Handbook of Texas Online. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.".
- catalog description "Charles Stillman Business Papers, 1847-1884 (MS Am 800.27). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Charles Stillman's son, James Jewett Stillman (1850-1918) was an American businessman who invested in land, banking, and railroads in New York, Texas, and Mexico. He ran his father's business interests beginning in the early 1870s and expanded them to control 16 Texas banks and significant land holdings in the Rio Grande Valley and other areas of Texas. He was chairman of the board of directors of the First National City Bank and when he died in 1918, he was considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans. James' daughters, Sarah Elizabeth and Isabel Goodrich, married two of William Rockefeller's sons, William Goodsell and Percy Avery Rockefeller.".
- catalog description "Collection consists of the financial and legal papers and records of Charles Stillman's companies [Charles Stillman & Bro. and other Stillman companies] including: letter books of outgoing letters and some incoming transcripts, 1852-1860; letters and telegrams to Charles and James Stillman, 1850-1877; financial records from 1854-1877 comprised of orders and drafts, bills and receipts, account sales, invoices, bills of lading, and statements and accounts; legal documents, 1847-1879; and other miscellaneous papers. The papers relate to the distribution of hides, lead, copper, and cotton from Brownsville, Texas and New York City, and other legal and financial matters concerning Stillman and his various businesses. Some letters include content relating to the Stillman family. The later papers are principally those of James Stillman (1850-1918), Charles Stillman's son.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02358".
- catalog description "Letterbook, 1867-1871, of James Stillman is in Manuscripts and Archives Division of Baker Library, Harvard Business School.".
- catalog extent "4 linear feet (4 boxes)".
- catalog hasFormat "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog issued "1847".
- catalog language "In English; some in Spanish.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog spatial "Brownsville (Tex.) Commerce.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Commerce.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Brownsville.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Commerce.".
- catalog subject "Charles Stillman & Bro.".
- catalog subject "Cotton trade.".
- catalog subject "Hides and skins.".
- catalog subject "King, Kenedy and Co.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers Texas Brownsville.".
- catalog subject "Stillman family.".
- catalog subject "Stillman, Charles, 1810-1875.".
- catalog subject "Stillman, James, 1850-1918.".
- catalog title "Charles Stillman business papers, 1847-1884".
- catalog type "Accounts United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Bills of lading 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Financial records United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Invoices United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Legal documents United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Letter books United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Receipts. aat".
- catalog type "Telegrams. aat".
- catalog type "collection".