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Archives related to: Deering, Charles, 1852-1927
| title | Charles Deering Papers, 1900-1922 | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Correspondence, scrapbooks, sketches, inventories, pamphlets, clippings, and other materials, relating to Deering family homes in New York City and Miami, and plant introduction and cultivation in Miami. |
| extent | 3 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Scrapbooks Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:54 |
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| title | William Deering (1826-1913) Family Papers, 1845-1983 | repository | Northwestern University Archives |
| description | The series is arranged in one and one-half boxes and includes biographical materials, clippings, correspondence, and genealogical records documenting several generations of the Deering family and its relationship to Northwestern University. The materials are arranged first according to the family member to which they pertain and then topically within' folders thereafter. One folder of general family genealogies, clippings, and profiles is filed at the front of the series. The bulk of the series pertains to William Deering (1826- 1913). Included are general biographical materials obituaries, tributes, and correspondence relating to Northwestern University business. Of particular interest is a folder of correspondence, dating from the period 1861-1863 and 1877, between William and his son, Charles. The remainder of the series includes biographical materials and correspondence relating to Charles Deering (1852-1927), Marion Whipple Deering (Mrs. Charles Deering, d. 1943), James DEERING (1859-1925), Roger Deering (1884-1936), and Chauncey McCormick (1884-1925). Several Letters between Judge Elbert H. Gary and Charles and James Deering are included as is a publication highlighting the architecture and art collection of Marycel, Charles Deering's Spanish estate. |
| extent | Boxes 1-2 (Including one half-size box) |
| formats | Clippings Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | None. |
| record source | http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/findingaids/Deering_papers.pdf |
| finding aid | In repository and on repository's Web site |
| acquisition information | Three accessions make up this series: #74-69, #81-171, and #85-204. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | Charles Deering Collection | repository | University of Miami, Libraries |
| description | Charles Deering was a collector of art and a friend to many notable artists including John Sargeant and Augustus St. Gaudens. Painting, sculpture, prints, rugs and many other items combined to decorate and furnish the Deering Estate in Florida. He collected a wide range of artwork, and the Print Department of the Art Institute of Chicago received his fine collection. Biographical Note: Charles Deering, son of William and Abbey Reed (Barbour) Deering, was born on July 31, 1852, in South Paris, Maine. His father was the founder of Deering, Miliken & Company, and later of Gammon & Deering, manusfacturers of harvesters and the predecessor of the Deering Harvester Company, organized in 1880. This latter company merged with International Harvester Company in 1902. Charles Deering married Anna Rogers Case of November 3, 1875, in Newport, Rhode Island. Their son, WIlliam Case Deering was born on October 18, 1876, and died on May 12, 1924. Anna Rogers (Case) Deering died on October 31, 1876. Charles Deering was remarried, on January 2, 1883, to Marion Denison Whipple. Deering died in Miami, Florida, on February 5, 1927. |
| extent | 6 linear ft. |
| formats | Clippings Correspondence Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/papers/deering.html |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | Nettie Fowler McCormick Correspondence, 1775-1939. | repository | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| description | Papers of Nettie Fowler McCormick, a philanthropist and wife of the inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick, including correspondence with family and friends, with company officials, and with individuals, organizations, and institutions involved in her many philanthropies. Interfiled are legal documents such as powers of attorney, indentures, and contracts; and annual statements and reports. Correspondence before her marriage consists chiefly of letters relating to her own and her husband’s ancestors and friends; relatives included the Adams, Esselstyn, Fowler, Merick, and Spicer families. She corresponded regularly with her children Harold, Stanley, Virginia, and Anita and with those who cared for Stanley and Virginia after their mental breakdowns. The papers reveal Mrs. McCormick’s role as her husband’s aid and her eldest son’s advisor. The correspondence illustrates her involvement in business as she accompanied her husband on many trips, discussed problems and wrote letters for him, and in his absence received confidential mail relating to his business and their family life. After Cyrus H., Jr., entered the company in 1879 and became president in 1884, frequent communications between son and mother discuss the business, the estate, and investments. References are made to competitors, patents, and strikes of 1885 and 1886; the unsuccessful attempt to form the American Harvester Company in 1888-1890; and problems attending consolidation when the International Harvester Company was established in 1902. Her close contact with these interests, as well as investments and philanthropies, produced correspondence with lawyers, employees, financial agents, and advisors. Mrs. McCormick received informational copies of many letters and reports from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company long after she ceased to be closely involved. In the 1890’s, Mrs. McCormick gave more attention to her interest in philanthropy, an interest that accounts for fully half of her correspondence. The McCormick Theological Seminary, originally her husband’s interest, continued to receive a major share of her attention and funds. Its administrators and faculty, as well as her own pastors at Fourth Presbyterian Church, consulted with her regularly and advised her on other schools and missions. Using the need for Christian service as her personal motivation, she became greatly interested in aiding small schools and academies, particularly those stressing self help for students, manual training, and domestic service. These were chiefly white although some were Afro-American. Letters give evidence of the extent to which she advised them, influenced their curricula, and helped to maintain them. The extent of her personal involvement is illustrated by her many years of correspondence with Harold S. Clemons, whom she assisted through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her interest in the welfare of those in the southern Appalachians led her to aid the Home Industrial School at Asheville under Florence Stephenson ; and to give encouragement to the Laurel schools and to projects in mountain crafts, out of which grew correspondence with Frances L. Goodrich. She helped support Thornwell Orphanage in South Carolina, writing to William Plumer Jacobs; and she kept in touch with James G. K. McClure, Jr., of the Farmers’ Federation in North Carolina. Mrs. McCormick also received numerous requests from civic groups in the Chicago area, and responded to many. Letters concerning the Presbyterian Church, its various boards of education and missions, and its publications comprise much of the correspondence; Bible work and rescue missions were also important to her. In the last thirty years of her life, foreign mission schools claimed much of her attention; and both the personnel and the institutions were her correspondents as well as recipients of her largess. The papers also document her great interest in both the Young Men’s and the Young Women’s Christian Association, locally, nationally, and internationally. Through numerous letters exchanged with John R. Motte she aided the World’s Student Christian Movement and the work of the International Committee of the YMCA. She corresponded also with Fletcher S. Brockman, George M. Day, Sherwood Eddy, Carlisle V. Hibbard, Richard C. Morse, and Luther D. Wishard concerning the YMCA; and with Grace Dodge and Elizabeth Wilson of the YWCA. |
| extent | 140.2 c.f. (351 archives boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Legal Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ |
| finding aid | Box list. Also described in Guide to the McCormick Collection, Margaret R. Hafstad, ed., Madison: 1973. An alphabetical index to addressees in Series 1B fills six drawers in the McCormick card index file. One additional drawer indexes the series under selected topical headings. An alphabetical index to correspondents in Series 2B fills 7 drawers in the McCormick card index file. An additional wooden box of cards lists letters received from her husband. An alphabetical index to subjects in Series 3B fills 1.5 drawers in the McCormick card index file. |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the McCormick Collection. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | Cyrus Hall McCormick Correspondence, 1870-1936. | repository | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| description | Private and business correspondence of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr., consisting of incoming and outgoing correspondence, copies of monthly financial records, annual reports, newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, copies of wills, and other legal documents. A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, investments, trusteeships and settlements of estates, charities and donations, membership in many societies, particularly in Chicago, and family affairs. Many segments of the papers concern McCormick’s business life from the time he finished at Princeton University in 1879 until he retired from the board of the International Harvester Company in 1935. Internal operation, plant expansion, acquisition of factories producing materials needed by International Harvester, introduction of new lines of agricultural equipment, and both domestic and foreign marketing are revealed in communications passing through McCormick’s offices. Frequent trips in the United States and Europe by McCormick and his brothers, Harold, and for a few years, Stanley, produced numerous messages on behalf of their company, an organization that came to own plants in cities other than the Chicago area and had production agreements with many foreign manufacturers. Voluminous correspondence was carried on with other company officials, bankers, lawyers, and competitors. In addition to the business of his companies, McCormick’s papers contain correspondence, reports, stock purchase records, and negotiations concerning a great number and variety of investments. Present are files for McCormick Estates through which the family maintained a large interest in Chicago real estate; the Merchants Loan & Trust Company and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, of which McCormick was a director; the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company of San Francisco, through which McCormick invested in mines of the West and Canada; and the Deepwater Coal and Iron Corporation operating in Alabama, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Correspondence and reports on contributions to charities constitute a large portion of the papers, representing hundreds of appeals and giving evidence of a selective response by Mr. and Mrs. McCormick. Motivated by their daughter’s interest in the missionary work of the Waldensian Society, for many years after her death they corresponded with and supported Luigi Angelini at a school operated by the society in Italy. The chief beneficiary of their large Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund was child welfare in Chicago, especially open-air schools. The Presbyterian Church, locally and in the mission fields, consistently received communications and funds. From the time of his father’s death until his own, McCormick showed great concern for the McCormick Theological Seminary, of which he was a trustee and treasurer and for which his papers contain much correspondence concerning faculty, buildings, minutes of meetings, and treasurer’s reports. In 1889 he became a trustee for Princeton University, and for the remainder of his life corresponded with faculty members and other trustees. To a lesser extent his papers contain letters and reports relating to Lake Forest University, of which he was a trustee, and to other schools such as Dubuque Theological Seminary (Iowa), Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Virginia), Macalester College (Minnesota), and Washington and Lee University (Virginia). Institutions in and near Chicago, such as the Allendale Farm for Boys, Olivet Institute, and Presbyterian Hospital, also received his attention. The work of the Young Men’s Christian Association was of particular interest to McCormick, and there is ample evidence that he served as a working member of the Chicago YMCA and the board of the International Committee. The papers also demonstrate the McCormicks’ interest in the Young Women’s Christian Association and the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. In 1917, McCormick’s service as a member of the government’s Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia (the Root Commission) produced letters, reports, and clippings concerning post-revolutionary economic and social conditions there, including progress of International Harvester Company agents in Russia. McCormick was often asked to help welcome dignitaries to Chicago, and committee plans for receiving men such as Admiral George Dewey, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Georges Clemenceau, and David Lloyd George are filed with his papers. The McCormicks corresponded with the composer Serge Prokofiev, the pianist Gunnar Johansen, and the painter Vladimir Perfilieff; filed clippings concerning the Chicago Grand Opera; and gave active support to the Chicago Opera Association, the Art Institute, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Chicago Historical Society. He was particularly interested in the City Club of Chicago, the Commercial Club, and the National Civic Federation. Numerous letters to, from, and about his mother, other family members, and relatives in the Adams, Esselstyn, Fowler, Hammond, McCormick, Merick, Shields, Spicer, and Stickney families are included. McCormick was involved in the administration of family estates and trusts for which many records appear in both his correspondence and business files. He administered the estates of his parents, and of his first wife, Harriet, and of her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Stickney; was a trustee for the estates of his mentally incompetent sister, Mary Virginia, and brother, Stanley; advised his sister, Anita, on investments; and handled funds established in memory of his daughter and his wife. Very limited material appears related to his second wife, Alice Marie Hoit, whom he married in 1927. Her correspondence concerning the YWCA in included, a few letters and clippings make reference to her, and she signed many letters for him while she was McCormick’s secretary prior to their marriage. |
| extent | 119.6 c.f. (299 archives boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers Personal Papers Financial Records Legal Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ |
| finding aid | Box list. Also described in Guide to the McCormick Collection, Margaret R. Hafstad, ed., Madison: 1973. An alphabetical index to names and topics fills four drawers in the McCormick card index file |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the McCormick Collection. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | John F. Steward papers, 1833-1913 | repository | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| description | Papers of John F. Steward, a superintendent and supervisor of patents for the Deering Harvester Company and the International Harvester Company, chiefly concerning the history of the agricultural machinery industry. The collection documents the development of the twine binder, the accomplishments of several inventors in the agricultural machinery industry, and the efforts of Steward and others to dispute the importance of Cyrus Hall McCormick as an inventor. Includes patent applications of and correspondence with John F. Appleby, James Deering, William Deering, Elijah Gammon, C. W. Marsh, George Rugg, Cyrenus Wheeler, various agricultural equipment companies, and several pioneering inventors in the field; correspondence with and genealogical research about Obed Hussey; and notes, clippings, and drafts for a book that was posthumously published as "The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap." Also included are correspondence and magazine articles pertaining to Steward’s 1896 effort to stop a Bureau of Engraving and Printing plan to mint a ten dollar silver certificate with Cyrus McCormick’s image; documents relating to competitions among agricultural equipment manufacturers, including the Paris Exposition of 1900 (in French and English) and the 1900 Siamese Royal Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition; correspondence about Steward’s historical research and publications; and material relating to the purchase and improvements of Steward’s farm in Fox, Kendall County, Illinois. |
| extent | 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) |
| formats | Business Papers Correspondence Legal Papers Clippings Manuscript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ |
| finding aid | Register |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the McCormick Collection. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | Gate Lodge for Mr Charles Deering at Buena Vista, 1912. | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Elevations and plans for a Gate Lodge. The east elevation was reproduced on heavy stock and water colored. An elevation on tissue paper of the west elevation of the pumping plant, water tower and garage for the property is also included. Biographical or Historical Data : Never built. |
| extent | 8 sheets: some col. |
| formats | Drawings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| finding aid | See library's finding aids for other materials pertaining to Deering's Buena Vista estate. Includes information on Deering and the property |
| acquisition information | Miami-Dade Historic Preservation Division, gift, 1985. 1985-218-1 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Inventory of the furnishings of the apartment of Charles Deering, New York City [9 West 52 Street] appraised by the American Appraisal Co., Milwaukee, November 1, 1921. | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Listing of furnishings, not including bric-a-brac, by rooms, and with penciled notations that indicate which items were shipped to Miami. Includes TLS by H.S. Newman dated 1923 May 8, reporting on notations in inventory and on shipments to Miami. Inventory "does not include glass, porcelain and silverware, wearing apparel, jewelry nor supplies." Biographical or Historical Data : By 1920 Charles Deering had completed his purchase of 380 acres of South Dade land. The 1923 May 8 letter shows that ten boxes of furnishings were being shipped from New York to Evanston, and another 18 sent to Miami, probably for the new property, where Deering would add a three story stone residence to the existing wood frame Richmond Inn. |
| extent | 102 p. : typescript (carbon copy) ; 40 cm. |
| formats | Typescript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| acquisition information | Dade County. Historic Preservation Division, Gift, 1984. 1984-216 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Richmond Cottage (Cutler, Fla) register, 1900-1915 (bulk 1900-1908). | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Entries in register start with Saturday, April 7, 1900, and end with entries of August 12, 1915; there are no entries between May 15, 1908 and September 17, 1914. Names appearing on the register include H. M. Flagler, J. E. Ingraham (repeatedly); J. R. Parrott, J. F. Chaille, E. V. Blackman, Kirk Munroe, etc. Inserted between the pages are incidental items, including a business card for Chaille Apartments, and a pamphlet: Questions answered, issued by the Daily Miami Metropolis. Biographical or Historical Data : The Richmond Cottage or Richmond Inn was built in 1896 by S. H. Richmond, who was appointed resident manager when Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway gained an interest in the property. The Inn was operated by Mrs. Edith Richmond. It was a rustic hunting lodge catering to local residents and railroad executives who were then coming to Dade County in connection with the extension of the railway. The building later became a part of the Charles Deering estate. |
| extent | 1 v. ; 40 cm. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| acquisition information | Daniel M. Brown, gift, 1961. 1961-001 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Scrapbooks of the Buena Vista estate and Japanese life and customs, 1900-1909? | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Folder of preconstruction sketches for the Deering estate on Biscayne Bay north of Miami, and a turn-of-the-century photograph album on Japan. Buena Vista materials include two floor plans headed: Preliminary studies of house for Mr. Charles Deering, Miami, Fla. ; a photographic print of a building model; and eight watercolor sketches of different rooms, elevations, etc., signed by the architect Clinton MacKenzie of New York City. The Japanese album consists of a series of hand colored phographic prints showing traditional Japanese artisans, farmers and street scenes. They are numbered in Japanese and appear to have been commercially produced. Biographical or Historical Data : Charles Deering's first Miami residence, Buena Vista, was built in 1910 in what is now Bay Point. The Japanese album is not dated, but Deering was an escort for Ulysses S. Grant on an Asian tour in the 1880s and may have made other visits to Japan. The content of the prints, many of which are faded, would be compatible with a span of years around the turn-of-the-century. |
| extent | 2 v. |
| formats | Scrapbooks |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| acquisition information | James Deering Danielson, gift. 1989-105 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Biscayne Engineering Company field books, 1898-1924. | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Field notes from land surveys conducted primarily in Dade County. Properties surveyed include: Richmond property at Cutler (i.e., Charles Deering Estate); Vizcaya; Cape Florida; Charles Deering estate at Buena Vista; prairie lands of northeast Dade County; Montrey Corp. subdivision; Carl Fisher and Hugh Matheson homes; Lawrence Estate (Miami River); Key Largo Club; Halcyon Hotel; Seybold Arcade; etc. Biographical or Historical Data : Surveying company. Conducted land surveys in Miami, Dade County, and southeast Florida, 1898 to present. |
| extent | 40 items (2 linear feet). |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| acquisition information | Biscayne Engineering Company, gift, 1994. 1994-212 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Buena Vista and Cutler estates papers and photographic prints, 1913-1922. | repository | Historical Museum of Southern Florida |
| description | Correspondence, pamphlets, photographic prints and clippings document Charles Deering's interest in plant introduction, research and cultivation at his two Dade County estates. Included are letters and notes from John Kunkel Small, noted botanist and authority on the flora of the southeastern states; material on the building of the Cutler dwelling, with letters from its architect, Phineas Paist; and a folder of pamphlets issued by National Audubon Society, chiefly dated 1912-1916. Biographical or Historical Data : Industrialist Charles Deering (International Harvesters) built his first home in Miami in 1910, when he was not quite 60. This was Buena Vista, located in what is now Bay Point. By 1914 he was buying land in south Dade County and in 1920 was owner of 380 acres of bayfront in Cutler, where he added a three story stone house to existing buildings. Among these was the old Richmond Inn which had been in business before the turn of the century. After his death in 1927 his widow continued living at the Cutler estate until her death in 1943. In 1985 the Nature Conservancy purchased it as a nature preserve and historic site. It is now managed by Miami-Dade County Parks |
| extent | 345 photographic prints, 85 items (2 linear in.). |
| formats | Correspondence Clippings Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home |
| finding aid | Register available in library; folder level control. |
| acquisition information | James Deering Danielson, Gift, 1989. 1989-102 to 1989-105 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Charles Deering Papers (Mss 383) | repository | New England Historic Genealogical Society |
| description | Correspondence, family group sheets and copies of public records concerning the Deering and allied families. Much of the correspondence was with Emily Wilder Leavitt of Brookline, Eben Putnam, S.W. Watson of the Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, and General William D. Whipple. The largest collection of allied family data is for the Whipples, including again much research by E.W. Leavitt and a Whipple pedigree chart from J. Gardner Bartlett of NEHGS. A separate collateral family, Barbour, is represented by letters, family groups, and charts from Mrs. E. Russell Barbour (Carrie F.) of Portland, ME. The collection includes the original typescript "Ancestry of Barbara (Deering) Danielson" prepared by Mary Lovering Holman. In 1929, T.R. Marvin published "Abstracts of English Records" dealing with the English Deering-Whipple ancestry, based on research done for Charles Deering by Messrs Stevens & Brown, London. This research is represented by four typescript volumes, "Deering Reports". |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1057557 |
| record source | http://library.nehgs.org/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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