COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Tax receipts, correspondence, rental agreements, receipted bills, financial statements, and an account book concerning the management of 1700 acres of Vermillion and Newton County, Indiana farms owned by W. O. Davis and Helen D. Stevenson, managed by Lewis G. Stevenson and others. Correspondence includes letters from tenants both to landlord and agent showing the problems of the tenant-landlord relationship; letters from Chicago commission merchants containing data on railroad rates, prices of grain and hogs on the Chicago market; letter and pamphlet from the Northern Iowa Land Co., including a list of farms for rent and rental rates; letter concerning assessment for construction of Lawler Ditch, and blueprint for its construction, in Newton County, Indiana.
Dates
- 1902-1909.
Creator
- Stevenson family. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Lewis G. Stevenson was the son of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, vice-president of the United States during Cleveland's second administration; Helen Davis, wife of Lewis G. Stevenson, was the daughter of W. O. Davis, proprietor of the Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois.
Extent
.1 cubic feet. (.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence and business and legal documents concerning the management of 1700 acres of Vermillion and Newton County, Indiana farms owned by W. O. Davis and Helen D. Stevenson, managed by Lewis G. Stevenson and others.
Physical Description
Tax receipts, correspondence, rental agreements, receipted bills, financial statements, account book.
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:
- May 1967
- EAD encoding:
- J.M. Nicholas, May 2003
- Account books.
- Agricultural markets -- Indiana.
- Agricultural prices -- Indiana.
- Agriculture -- Accounting -- Indiana.
- Agriculture -- Indiana -- Newton County.
- Agriculture -- Indiana -- Vermillion County.
- Blueprints.
- Davis, W. O.
- Farm management -- Indiana.
- Farm produce.
- Finance -- Indiana.
- Indiana -- Economic conditions.
- Landlord and tenant -- Indiana.
- Lawler Ditch
- Northern Iowa Land Co
- Real property -- Indiana.
- Rent charges.
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914.
- Stevenson, Helen D.
- Stevenson, Lewis G.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by N. Dean
- Date
- May 2003
- 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