Abstract

The Benjamin Clapp papers document business affairs in the coal, grocery, lumber, and produce industries in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., largely from 1863 to 1871. The collection contains business correspondence, financial records, and price lists. Also included are business cards, clippings, and 46 volumes of account books.

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...