Scope and content

Correspondence, bills, receipts, prices, and account books of a coal and produce business of Benjamin Clapp and his associates, variously known as Wilson & Clapp, Clapp & Beattie, Clapp & McMurray, and B. Clapp & Son. The businesses were located in Salem, Washington County, N.Y.

Scope and content John L. Dillon papers include account books, receipts, bills, and correspondence of a coal business and a produce business variously known as Dillon & Larmon and Dillon & Associates. Also, accounts of the coal, flour, feed, fertilizer, and seed business operated by Dillon and his son, E. Gordon Dillon (d. 1960), and correspondence, receipts, inventories, and other papers pertaining to the family business and to their investments in securities, much of the latter with August Belmont...