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Cogswell Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0152
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains numerous letters relating to personal and business events involving the Cogswell family. It also includes legal documents relating to business transactions reflecting the development and establishment of the Cogswell family throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This family ran very successful businesses and these papers reflect the changes occurring in social attitudes and methods of business transactions over a 100 year period. The papers in this collection include business transactions, cases, bonds and personal letters showing the development and establishment of the Cogswell family.

Dates

  • 1823 - 1927

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Cogswell Family Papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Biographical / Historical

The Cogswell Family was active in the business world in late nineteenth century New York and early twentieth century Maine, primarily in the tannery and general commission business. This collection contains the correspondence and legal documents of Frederick Cogswell, his son William Cogswell, and William's wife Edna Maude Cogswell, the inventor of sealing letter envelopes. Frederick Cogswell was a Justice of the Peace in Maine and a prominent member of society. He started as a tanner and his son, William, inherited this business and built it up into a fairly wealthy enterprise.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (3 folders)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection contains numerous letters relating to personal and business events involving the Cogswell family. It also includes legal documents relating to business transactions reflecting the development and establishment of the Cogswell family throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This family ran very successful businesses and these papers reflect the changes occurring in social attitudes and methods of business transactions over a 100 year period.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift from the Cogswell family and received on April 5, 1962.

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Record Groups

Related Names

Creator

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Cogswell Family papers, 1823-1927
Status
Completed
Author
Jessica Powell
Date
2008
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
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Houston Texas 77005 USA

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