Le Van Merchant Burt family papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters and documents relating to the service of Burt's father, Captain Franklin Burt (1841-1924) in the 89th Regiment, New York Volunteers, including letters from family and friends in Corbettsville, New York, from other officers, and from pension authorities after the Civil War; also, diaries for 1861-63; and later letters regarding Burt's search for information on a brother killed in the war. There are letters from old comrades, war reminiscences, and photographs including survivors of the 89th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reunion - 1914. Other papers relate to Burt's ownership of Calvert Tannery at Mannington, West Virginia; the Burt Oil Company of West Virginia and Kentucky; and the Burt Mines and Milling Company of Colorado, and include business letters, tanning contracts, stockholders' lists, scrapbooks, and photographs of mining operations. Other materials document his post of Masonic Grand Master of West Virginia, and his candidacy for governor on the Prohibition ticket in 1892, including manuscript temperance speeches. There is also a microfilm copy of Franklin Burt's autobiography.
Dates
- [ca. 1860-1924]
Creator
- Burt, Le Van Merchant, 1875-1971 (Compiler, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Letters and documents relating to the Civil War, various business ventures, and political activities.
Physical Description
Letters, diaries, papers, contracts, scrapbooks, photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- N. Dean
- Date completed:
- July 1964
- EAD encoding:
- Ann Hubert, March 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, March 2016
- Burt Mines and Milling Company
- Burt Oil Company
- Burt, Franklin, 1841-1924.
- Businessmen.
- Calvert Tannery
- Diaries.
- Freemasonry.
- Mineral industries.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Mining engineering.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Photographs.
- Politics and government -- West Virginia.
- Prohibition Party
- Reminiscences.
- Scrapbooks.
- Tanning.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 89th (1861-1865)
- West Virginia.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by N. Dean
- Date
- March 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu