Abstract

Account books, correspondence, pamphlets, and newspapers relating to the work of Langellier in the land industry.

Scope and content

Accounts, surveys, and correspondence of Churchill and his brother Seldon Churchill of Utica, New York, pertaining to the costs of warrants, commissions, the locating and surveying of western lands, interest and taxes, breaking sod, ditching, seeding, and wages, all pertaining to military warrants for 11,570 acres of land in Iowa, 1847-1850; some warrants were used for speculation, others were located.

Abstract

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

Scope and content Correspondence pertaining to his legal practice; letters from his brother John P. Cook concerning his venture into politics as a stump candidate, and his activities in the territorial legislature, and in the Whig and Loco-foco factions in Iowa City; references to Iowa lands, tax sales, and related matters. A letter from H. Powers of Lewiston, New York mentions numerous business failures among his acquaintances in Ithaca, New York, and comments on the need for tariff revision to protect wool...

Abstract

Publications, including land valuations, estimates, reports and development studies by Frederick Morrison Babcock. Areas represented in these studies are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Letter concerning back taxes on Iowa land owned by Higgins.