Charlemagne Tower papers, 1830-1889

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Series V: Documents


Subseries V.1: Tower Family



Box 30 C. Tower, 1809-1889, Law Practice


Box 30 Disbarment, 1856


Box 30 Licenses to practice


Box 30 New York - Waterville practice


Box 30 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County: Indictments, 1854-1855


Box 30 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County: List of cases settled, 1855


Box 30 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County: Summonses, 1854-1855


Box 30 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County: Trail Lists, 1855-1870


Box 30 Pennsylvania - Schuylkill & Northumberland Counties: Laura Viel, Minors & misc., circa 1854


Box 30 Miscellaneous notes



Box 31 C. Tower, 1809-1889, His Estate


Box 31 James Oatis Case (Kansas)


Box 31 Miscellaneous items (4 folders)



Box 32 C. Tower, 1809-1889, Personal expense accounts



Box 33 Tower Family


Box 33 Lee, Richard H. - Harvard diplomas


Box 33 Tower, C. 1809-1889: Philadelphia residence (1525 Spruce Street)


Box 33 Tower, C. 1809-1889: Military records (3 folders), 1832-1839; 1864-1865


Box 33 Tower, C. 1809-1889: Military records, Raising a company at Pottsville, 1861


Box 33 Tower, C. 1809-1889: Military records, Provost Marshall Papers, 1864


Box 33 Tower, C. 1809-1889: Military records, U.S. Internal Revenue Income tax returns, 1860-1869


Box 33 Tower, C. (1848-1923): College Accounts, 1865-1872; 1869-1871


Box 33 Tower, Reuben (1787-1832): Articles of partnership


Box 33 Tower, Reuben (1787-1832): Estate - bankruptcy papers (John Ellis)


Box 33 Tower, Reuben (1787-1832): Estate - miscellaneous, circa 1835-1846


Box 33 Tower, Reuben (1787-1832): Miscellaneous papers, 1812-1825


Box 33 Tower Family Geneaology


Box 33 Tower Family - miscellaneous


Subseries V.2: Dated

Fully identified; includes deeds, indentures, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc.

Arranged chronologically.



Box 34 1785-1793



Box 35 1794



Box 36 1796-1816



Box 37 1817-1830



Box 38 1831-1840



Box 39 1841-1845



Box 40 1846-1847



Box 41 1848-1850



Box 42 1851



Box 43 1852-1855



Box 44 1856-1860



Box 45 1861-1865



Box 46 1866-1870



Box 47 1871-1887


Subseries V.3: Miscellaneous

Arranged alphabetically.



Box 48 Bonds in case of bastardry


Box 48 Civil War: C. Loeser vs F.W. Francis (Southern sympathizer & candidate for the U.S. Senate), 1864


Box 48 Kershner, Daniel, 1812


Box 48 Miller, Preston


Box 48 Nettleton, A.B.: correspondence and miss. Re: Nettleton, circa 1878-1886


Box 48 Nettleton, A.B.: court records, 1886


Box 48 Nettleton, A.B.: Pinkerton reports on his activities, October 1879, November 1879, December 1879-January 1880


Box 48 New York: Oneida County - Waterville & Sangerfield Twsps, circa 1830-1840


Box 48 New York: Oneida County, circa 1870-1889


Box 48 North Dakota: Tower City Library, 1883



Box 49 Page and Seabury: Notes, bankruptcy records, Charlemagne and Julius Tower, 1842


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County (miscellaneous)


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Philadelphia County - Water bills, 1910-1928


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Court Sessions, 1854-1856


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - miscellaneous (2 folders)


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Tower City - statements, vouchers, bills, etc., 1868-1872, 1872-1875, 1876-1877


Box 49 Pennsylvania: Tower City - William Yohe's accounts, 1868-1872


Box 49 Miscellaneous: claims, mortgages, banks, 1871



Box 50 Miscellaneous, 12 folders


Subseries V.4: Corporations

Arranged alphabetically.



Box 51 Bear Mountain Railroad Company, 1840-1849


Box 51 Chicago Gas Syndicate, 1883-1887


Box 51 Despard Coal Company (Virginia coupons), circa 1869


Box 51 Duluth and Iron Range Railroad (2 folders), undated, 1881-1887


Box 51 Good Spring Creek Coal Company (2 folders)


Box 51 Heney Brook Coal Mine, circa 1869-1888


Box 51 Heney Brook Coal Mine: Inspectors Reports, 1860-1866


Box 51 Jay Cooke and Company - C. Tower (1809-1889) accounts


Box 51 Land and River Improvement Company, 1855-1886



Box 52 J.B. McCreary and Company: inspector's reports, 1857-1860


Box 52 Minnesota Iron Company, 1880-1881, 1881-1882, 1882, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887-1888


Box 52 North Western Company, 1874-1875, 1876, 1877, 1878-1879, 1880-1889


Box 52 Speckled Trout Silver Mine, 1875-1879



Box 53 Northern Pacific Railroad Company, undated, 1867-1869, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1880-1882, 1885-1886, 1888


Box 53 Northhampton & Luzerne Coal Company: Frenchmen's Lands, circa 1850-1859


Box 53 Northhampton & Luzerne Coal Company: Henry C. Carey, circa 1850-1859


Box 53 Northhampton & Luzerne Coal Company: James Taggart, circa 1850-1859


Box 53 Peach Mountain Colliery, 1870-1871


Box 53 Pennsylvania Mines and Mining (Honey Brook Mtg., Tyson Mining Opinions, Tax searches, etc.), 1866-1881


Box 53 Rubberoid Company, 1878-1879


Box 53 Rumley Mining Company, 1876-1877


Box 53 Western Railroad Company of Minnesota, circa 1875-1885


Box 53 Miscellaneous


Subseries V.5: Real Estate

Include deeds, indentures, mortgages, receipts, drafts of lands, abstracts of title, ocassional correspondence and othe related items pertaining to real estate.

Arranged geographically.



Box 54 Minnesota: Becker County - tax receipts, 1879-1889


Box 54 Minnesota: Becker County - misc. tracts


Box 54 Minnesota: Decker & Ottertail Counties, misc. tracts


Box 54 Minnesota: Clay County - tax receipts, 1878-1890


Box 54 Minnesota: Clay County - misc. tracts


Box 54 Minnesota: Nettleton trust, circa 1875-1890


Box 54 Minnesota: Ottertail County - tax receipts, circa 1870-1889


Box 54 Minnesota: Ottertail County - misc. tracts


Box 54 Minnesota: L. H. Tenney contract nos. 1-6, circa 1870-1885


Box 54 Minnesota: L. H. Tenney contract nos. 7 (Duluth), circa 1870-1885


Box 54 Minnesota: L. H. Tenney contract nos. 7 (Glyndon), circa 1870-1885


Box 54 Minnesota: L. H. Tenney contract nos. 8-14, circa 1870-1885


Box 54 Minnesota: L. H. Tenney - miscellaneous, circa 1870-1895


Box 54 Minnesota: Vermillion iron, undated, 1876; 1879; 1880; 1881, 1882


Box 54 Minnesota: Wadena County - misc. tracts


Box 54 Minnesota: Wadena County - tax receipts, circa 1880-1889


Box 54 Minnesota: Miscellaneous, circa 1870-1889



Box 55 Minnesota: St. Louis County - Duluth Tracts - Endion Subdivision


Box 55 Minnesota: St. Louis County - Lakeside Land Co. -Contracts for Deeds (A-B), (C-E), (F-H), (I-K), circa 1915


Box 55 Minnesota: St. Louis County - Lakeside Land Co. - Misc. (2 Folders), circa 1890-1905


Box 55 Minnesota: St. Louis County - tax receipts



Box 56 New York: Cox, Daniel - Patent Papers


Box 56 New York: Tower, Reuben - Deeds


Box 56 New York: Oneida County - McKown, William J.


Box 56 New York: Oneida County - Osgood House - Expenditures, 1846


Box 56 New York: Oneida County - Waterville - Tower tracts


Box 56 New York: Rocherster - Prince Street Property - Misc. papers


Box 56 New York: Rocherster - Prince Street Property - receipts, etc.


Box 56 New York: Rocherster - Prince Street Property - taxes & assessments



Box 57 New York: New York City - Thompson, James J.


Box 57 New York: New York City - Weber, Philip - Estate (3 folders), 1835-1836



Box 58 North Dakota: Contracts no. 18-19, circa 1870-1885


Box 58 North Dakota: Miscellaneous, circa 1870-1890


Box 58 Washington: Tacoma Land Company


Box 58 Washington: Tax receipts


Box 58 Washington: Miscellaneous


Box 58 Western Lands (3 folders of misc. items relating to real estate in the Middle West, Plains States and the Far West)



Box 59 Pennsylvania: Beaver Brook Estate


Box 59 Pennsylvania: Brown, John H. - Deeds


Box 59 Pennsylvania: Carey, Henry C.


Box 59 Pennsylvania: De Roux Tracts


Box 59 Pennsylvania: Fishing Creek Lands


Box 59 Pennsylvania: German Lands; L. & W-B Coal Co., Honey Brook - Brief title with sundry deeds (2 folders)



Box 60 Pennsylvania: Kunckel Tracts, 1788-1850, 1860-1864, June 9, 1865, June 10, 1865, 1866-1873


Box 60 Pennsylvania: Kunckel Tracts miscellaneous (2 folders)


Box 60 Pennsylvania: Lauderbach, Spangler & Company


Box 60 Pennsylvania: Lescher, John - tract



Box 61 Pennsylvania: Rommel, John - tracts


Box 61 Pennsylvania: Stimpler land books, 1847


Box 61 Pennsylvania: tax receipts (2 folders), circa 1900-1930


Box 61 Pennsylvania: tax receipts & related documents for Carbon, Luzerne, and Northumberland Counties


Box 61 Pennsylvania: Tryon vs. Campbell


Box 61 Pennsylvania: Wheeler surveys


Box 61 Pennsylvania: Miscellaneous



Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Abstract of title


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - court records


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - maps


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - papers (2 folders)


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - Doc. #21-26 (Schuylkill County)


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - Doc. #1-19 (Berks County)


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Brandon vs. Fritz - re: Klinger, John - Tract - Karcher's letters


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - John Brown & Company


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Geological Surveys


Box 62 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Geological Surveys - Bills, 1872



Box 63 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Smith, James - Tract (2 Folders)


Box 63 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Taggart, James - Deeds, etc. (2 folders)


Box 63 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Miscellaneous


Box 63 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Taggart, James - Abstract of title (Bound volume)



Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Beatty & Rope Tracts


Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Corresp. & reports


Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Indentures (printed)


Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Shepp/Coxe ejectment papers (2 folders)


Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - title papers re: Paul Beatty


Box 64 Pennsylvania: Green Mountain Lands - Coxe & Tower - Miscellaneous



Box 65 Pennsylvania: Berks County - Fisher, Danielle (i.e., Leesport & Fleetwood Iron Ore Beds)


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Berks County - Rockland Ore Land


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Berks County - Rockland Ore Land - tax receipts, 1880-1889


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Berks County - Wilson Patents


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Berks County - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders)


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Carbon County - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders)


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Luzerne County - Miscellaneous tracts (2 folders)


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northhampton County - Shafer Deeds


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northhampton County - Miscellaneous tracts


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Girard Estate Lands (?)


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Hazelton Coal Basins, circa 1793-1884


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Heiser


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Helfenstein, William L. - tracts, 1852


Box 65 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Heller & Zimmerman tracts



Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Mahoney & Shamokin Improvement Co. - Abstract of title


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Meyers, John


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, Peebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris - abstract of title (2 folders)


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, Peebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris - deed


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, Peebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris - Northumberland Coal Co.


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, Peebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris, circa 1850-1859


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, Peebe, Chambers, Heiser and Morris - misc. tracts (2 folders)


Box 66 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Russell, William - tract



Box 67 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Trevorton Coal & Railroad Co.


Box 67 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Zerbes & Shamokin Improvement Co. - Abstract of title


Box 67 Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Miscellaneous tracts (10 folders)



Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Adams, Robert Tract


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Applications for property (misc.), (Stauffer family), 1871


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Beidler


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Bonawitz, Benjamin


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Bitler tracts


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Capp and Kauffman tracts (5 folders)


Box 68 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - coal lease mortgages



Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Dim, Christopher tract (2 folders)


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Earp, Robert - abstract of title & deeds


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Eighteen Hundred Acre tract


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Fisher, Samuel B. - tract


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Hain, Samuel - tract


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Hechler, William, 1874


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Henniger, George - tract


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Helper Farm, circa 1874


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Howell tracts


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Huber, John - tract


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Kauffman, Jonas - tracts


Box 69 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Kendall tracts



Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Ley Tracts, circa 1825-1849; 1847; 1850


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Lindner tracts


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Livergood & Hubley tracts


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - McCool, J. Wallace - tract


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - McCreary, John B., 1850-1859


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - P & R Coal & Iron Co. lands


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Reeves tract


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Shearer, Richard - tract


Box 70 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Shomo, John - tract



Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Silvis, Benjamin - tract


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - State road construction, circa 1873-1879


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tracts


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tracts - applications, circa 1815-1830


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tracts - Patents


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Straub, Christian, 1854-1859


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Strong, Henry K.


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tarr, Elihu - tracts


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tower and Shaefer tracts


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tower city properties (WM Yohe, Agt.), 1869-1885


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tower city properties - misc.


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Tower tracts


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Traut, Jacob - title papers


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - treasurer's bills, 1866-1872


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Warrants, 1815-1864


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Whitman tracts


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Zantzinger tract


Box 71 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Zimmerman tract



Box 72 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - dated folders, 1800-1810; 1810-1819; 1820-1829; 1840-1849; 1850-1859; 1860-1869; 1870-1879; 1880-1889


Box 72 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - misc. tracts (folders #1-7)



Box 73 Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Misc. tracts (Folders #8-19)



Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Blythe, Barrett, Bayard, Seely


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Blythe tract (5 Folders)


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Boyer tract


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Districh, John (2 folders)


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Frenchman's lands


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Graham, E.A. - Deeds


Box 74 Munson & Williams' Land - Graeff, William (2 folders)



Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Hand, John


Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Huber, John (2 folders)


Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Kunstelman Family (2 folders)


Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Minick, Peter - Warrants, etc. (Waffel Iron Tract)


Box 75 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Berks County - Misc. (3 folders)



Box 76 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Mt. Carmel - Misc.


Box 76 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Northumberland County - Misc.


Box 76 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Schuylkill County - Misc. (Folder #1-9)



Box 77 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Schuylkill County - Misc. (Folder #10-14)


Box 77 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Schuylkill County - taxes & receipts, 1850-1859


Box 77 Munson & Williams' Land - Penna. - Schuylkill County - taxes & receipts, 1871-1872


Box 77 Munson & Williams' Land - Philadelphia & reading Coal & Iron Company



Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Seely; Hand; Williams, E.; etc. - Deeds


Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Seely; Hand; Williams, E.; etc. - Misc., 3 folders


Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Seltzer


Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Spatzer, Francis


Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Williams, Emion & Daniel


Box 78 Munson & Williams' Land - Zerbee, John Adam



Box 79 Munson & Williams' Land - Land Patents


Box 79 Munson & Williams' Land - miscellaneous deeds, 5 folders


Box 79 Munson & Williams' Land - miscellaneous



Box 80 Munson & Williams' Land - Partial abstracts, 7 folders



Box 81 Munson & Williams' Land - Court Records, 4 folders


Box 81 Munson & Williams' Land - Will



Box 82 Miscellaneous, 7 folders



Box 83 Miscellaneous, 7 folders



Box 84 Miscellaneous, 6 folders



Box 85 Miscellaneous, 11 folders



Box 86 Miscellaneous, 17 folders



Box 87 Miscellaneous, 11 folders



Box 88 Miscellaneous - Dated, undated; 1889-1901; 1890-1898; 1902-1903; 1904-1925


Subseries V.6: Receipts, Bills, Etc.

Arranged Chronologically



Box 89 Receipts, etc. (A-G), circa 1850-1855


Box 89 Receipts, etc. (H-M), circa 1850-1855


Box 89 Receipts, etc. (N-S), circa 1850-1855


Box 89 Receipts, etc. (Misc.), circa 1850-1855


Box 89 Receipts, etc., 1861-1862; circa 1865-1875; circa 1870-1879; circa 1870-1880; circa 1880-1889; 1881-1882



Box 90 Receipts, etc., 1883-1885; circa 1885-1889


Box 90 Receipts, etc. - Miscellaneous, 7 folders