Merchants -- Maine -- Portland

According to the notes attached to the inventory, there are two, unrelated parts to this collection. The first contains biographical and career information on Furlong and his family. The second contains information on various aspects of John Bundy Brown (1805-1881), a prominent Portland merchant and banker. It is not known how the Brown materials came into the possession of the donor. This information and inventory was done by ESM 6/88.

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.

Fourteen volumes and one letterbook relating to land and lumber investments in Pennsylvania, letters of instruction to vessel captains, and some pertaining to the Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad, recording the vessels and cargoes at Smith's and Widgery's wharf, some with weather observations.