Real estate investment

Deeds, correspondence, and financial records. The majority of this collection are deeds in Usher's name or later ones for his heirs. The correspondence folders are mostly legal documents and some pertaining to the lumber business.

Six volumes. Memoranda and expense account books containing details of day-to-day business transactions; lists of notes due and notes payable by Smith; descriptions of timber lands, residential, and commercial properties owned; information relating to railroad activities and to brickyard and oil company investments; and some genealogical data on the families of John Moody Smith and John Burleigh, as well as a record of many deaths in Portland.