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Businessmen -- Maine -- Houlton

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Pierce family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2703
Scope and Content note

The collection includes original documents such as letters (including Civil War and WWII), diaries, photographs and negatives, newspaper clippings, certificates, a guest book, scrapbooks, account books, charts, court cases, as well as transcriptions of letters and diaries, and research materials. There are Houlton town records, as Leonard Pierce, Sr. was a Justice of the Peace, as well as being the postmaster. Some of the transcriptions are in electronic format.

Dates: 1741 - 2011

Shepard Cary papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4232
Scope and Content note The collection includes correspondence, land leases, business and financial records, estate papers, maps, printed matter, and various account books and ledgers. This material relates primarily to Cary’s varied business enterprises, including his lumber operations and sales, employee records, and land leases and management. A portion relates also to his political positions and roles. Correspondence regarding his position as sutler, and his ensuing removal, are included, as are a handful of...
Dates: 1808 - 1889

Shepard Cary papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 411
Scope and Content note

Primarily correspondence from Bion Bradbury, Anson Gancello Chandler, John Hodgdon, Gorham Parks, Timothy Pilsbury, Edward G. Rawson, Collins Whitaker, and others, about political affairs, but also some regarding lumbering and other matters; also included are cancelled checks and twelve letters to Collins Whitaker, Cary’s business partner.

Dates: 1829 - 1857