Clove Spring Iron Works
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Clove Spring Iron Works
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The Clove Spring Iron Works papers cover the day to
day business operations of the company between the years
1870-1904. The papers include a variety of materials
including business correspondence, telegraphs, contracts,
legal documents, bills, receipts, checks, vouchers, deposit
slips, balance sheets, payments, postcards, construction
blueprints, paychecks, order records, invitations, tax
receipts, weights of coal, price lists, account statements,
lease agreements, insurance, and annual reports.
1870-1904
Marist College
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie
New York
12601
United States
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The Clove Spring Iron Works was a company founded in the
late 1800s in Dutchess County, New York. The general manager
of the company was John S. Schultze, who oversaw smaller
companies that ran under the authority of the Clove Spring
Iron Works including Sylvan Lake, the Clove Branch Railroad,
and Newburgh, Dutchess, and Connecticut Railroad Company. The
Clove Spring Iron Works was also managed by members of the
Brown Family: George Brown (President) and Sam Brown
(Treasurer). Other employees include William Reid
(Secretary/Treasurer), Charles A. Taylor (Cashier), and H.B.
Willits, an assistant to Schultze. The company also conducted
its operations--mainly its orders--through the company store.
Crocker Brothers, a manufacturing company, frequently ordered
materials from Clove Spring Iron Works to produce metals. The
Sylvan Lake mines were where the company extracted coal and
ore which were used to manufacture iron products. Important
employees at Sylvan Lake were Normal J Plass and C.A.
Stephens who both served as treasurer, and E.W. Plass and
Oliver Davidson who were both agents. Oliver Davidson also
managed the East Fishkill Mills with Silvanus Davidson. The
company transported coal and iron materials by the Newburgh,
Dutchess, and Connecticut Railroad Company, which John S.
Schultze managed until John Crosby Brown became the President
in 1902. William Wells served as secretary/treasurer until
H.H. Reed became the treasurer in 1902.The Newburgh, Dutchess
and Connecticut Railroad Company worked with the president of
the Philadelphia Reading and New England Railroad Company,
John Brock, to transport to materials outside of the
tri-state area.
The Clove Spring Iron Works papers cover the day to day
business operations of the company between the years
1870-1904. The papers include a variety of materials
including business correspondence, telegraphs, contracts,
legal documents, bills, receipts, checks, vouchers, deposit
slips, balance sheets, payments, postcards, construction
blueprints, paychecks, order records, invitations, tax
receipts, weights of coal, price lists, account statements,
lease agreements, insurance, and annual reports.
Clove
Spring
[Description of item, date, location of item in order of
series, box number, folder number ], in the Clove Spring Iron
Works Collection, Archives and Special Collections, James A.
Cannavino Library, Marist College.
Series is arranged into thirteen series: 1) Finances, has
four subseries, 2) Clove Spring Iron Works Company Store, has
five subseries, 3) Brown Brothers, has three subseries, 4)
Clove Branch Railroad, has three subseries, 5) Payroll, has
seven subseries, 6) Correspondence, has five subseries, 7)
Sylvan Lake, has three subseries, 8) Crocker Brothers, has
two subseries, 9) Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut
Railroad, has three subseries, 10) Administrative, has four
subseries, 11) Operations, has ten subseries, 12) Coal, has
twelve subseries, and 13) Miscellaneous, has three
subseries
1. Finances
1870-1904
Subseries 1.1: Bills
1871-1902
Bills
1871-1874
1
1
Bills
1875-1878
1
2
Bills
1879
1
3
Bills
1880
1
4
Bills
1881-1885
1
5
Bills
1886-1891
1
6
Bills
1902
1
7
Bills
1
8
Subseries 1.2: Receipted Bills
1873-1892
Receipted Bills
1873-1875
1
9
Receipted Bills
1876-1877
1
10
Receipted Bills
1878
1
11
Receipted Bills
1879
1
12
Receipted Bills
1880
1
13
Receipted Bills
1881-1886
1
14
Receipted Bills
1891-1892
1
15
Subseries 1.3: Correspondence
1875-1891
Account Information
1891-1891
1
16
Request for Payment
1885
1
17
Requests for Account Balance
1875-1881
1
18
Subseries 1.4: Financial
Documents
1877-1891
Vouchers
1877-1886
1
19
Checks
1871-1891
1
20
Deposit Slips from Bank of NY
1874-1878
1
21
Balance Sheets and Statements
1873-1878
1
22
Unidentified Financial
Calculations
1873-1891
1
23
2. Clove Spring Iron Works Company
Store
1873-1891
Subseries 2.1: Finances
1873-1891
Correspondence Receipts
1873-1879
2
1
Correspondence Receipts
1880-1884
2
2
Store Checks
1874-1875
2
3
Bils from William O. Mailler
1879-1880
2
4
Subseries 2.2: Orders
1872-1885
Correspondence Orders
1872-1874
2
5
Correspondence Orders
1880-1888
2
6
Orders with Eastmead
1879-1885
2
7
Orders with O. Davidson and
co.
1872-1875
2
8
Supply Orders
1883
2
9
Postcard Shipments
1878-1885
2
10
Subseries 2.3: Statements of
Orders
1883
Orders March/April
1883
2
11
Orders May
1883
2
12
Orders June
1883
2
13
Orders July
1883
2
14
Orders August
1883
2
15
Orders September
1883
2
16
Orders October
1883
2
17
Orders November
1883
2
18
Orders December
1883
2
19
Subseries 2.4: Contracts
1874
Contract Regarding Payment
Authorization
1874
2
20
Contract with Stopenell
1874
2
21
Subseries 2.5: Business
Inquiries
1872-1885
Business inquires
1872-1878
2
22
Business inquires
1880-1885
2
23
3. Brown Brothers
1870-1892
Subseries 3.1: Finances
1870-1892
Bills
1870-1892
3
1
Receipted Bills
1876
3
2
Receipted Bills
1877-1879
3
3
Letters to Sam Brown
(treasurer)
1872-1873
3
4
Letters to Sam Brown
(treasurer)
1874-1879
3
5
Subseries 3.2: Correspondence
1871-1902
George Brown to Taylor
1872
3
6
George Brown to Taylor
1873-1874
3
7
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1871-1902
3
8
Subseries 3.3: Miscellaneous
1892
George Brown Real Estate Lease
1892
3
9
Unidentified
3
10
4. Clove Branch Railroad
1874-1903
Subseries 4.1: Finances
1874-1881
Bills
1879-1881
3
11
Receipts and Receipted Bills
1874-1881
3
12
Payroll
1881
3
13
Subseries 4.2: Statements
1877-1903
Subseries 4.3: Correspondence
1874-1889
Meeting of the Board of Directors
Invitations
1881-1889
3
17
Intra-company: capital stock, taxes, ore
prices
1874-1876
3
18
Finances and Orders
1874-1877
3
19
Letters about number of cars
1875
3
20
Purchase Inquiry
1875-1876
3
21
5. Payroll
1874-1903
Subseries 5.1: Reports
1875-1885
Payroll
1875-1876
3
22
Payroll
1879
3
23
Payroll
May and June 1880
3
24
Payroll
September, November, and December
1880
3
25
Payroll
1881-1882
3
26
Payroll
1883-1884
3
27
Subseries 5.2: Check Receipts
1874-1886
Check receipts for payments in wages,
charcoal, and jobs
1874-1886
3
28
Subseries 5.3: Employee Wages
1881-1896
Employee Wages--Correspondence
1881
1884
1896
3
29
Subseries 5.4: Employee Requests
1884-1886
Employee Requests
1884-1886
3
30
Subseries 5.5: Conflict
1884-1896
Conflict with employee agreement and
policies
1884-1885
1896
3
31
Subseries 5.6: Job Inquiries
1881-1885
Job Inquiries
1881-1885
3
32
Subseries 5.7: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
3
33
6. Correspondence
1872-1889
Subseries 6.1: Charles Taylor
(cashier)
1872-1874
I.N. Bartman, Furnace Architect and
Builder
1872-1873
4
1
NY Boston and Montreal Railway
Company
1873
4
2
Letters from Lyman Hall
1873
4
3
Reed and Hoyt, Real Estate
Brothers
1873
4
4
The Blake Crusher Company
1872-1873
4
5
Edward Storm
1872-1873
4
6
Office of the Continental
Works
1873
4
7
East Fishkill Mills
1873
4
8
Stissing National Bank
1872-1874
4
9
Letter to Taylor from Various
1872-1874
4
10
Subseries 6.2: Intra-company
1872-1885
Schultze
1877-1880
4
11
Schultze
1881-1885
4
12
Taylor
1872-1873
4
13
Miscellaneous
1872-1878
4
14
Subseries 6.3: W.A. Reid (secretary and
treasurer)
1872-1878
Schultze to Reid
1874-1877
4
15
Reid to Taylor
1872-1873
4
16
Letters to Reid
1872-1878
4
17
Subseries 6.4: Norman J. Plass
(treasurer)
1873-1889
Schultze and Plass
1877-1889
4
18
Davidson to Plass
1873
1881-1889
4
19
CL Kimball to Plass
1880-1888
4
20
Edward Paul to Plass
1885
4
21
HB Willits to Plass
1878-1887
4
22
HB Willits to Plass
1881-1882
4
23
HB Willits to Plass
1883-1889
4
24
Plass Miscellaneous
1878-1886
4
25
Subseries 6.5: Viola and Company
1882-1885
Viola and Company to Clove Spring Iron
Works
1882-1885
4
26
7. Sylvan Lake
1871-1885
Subseries 7.1: Finances
1871-1884
Receipted Bills
1873-1879
5
1
Receipted Bills
1882-1884
5
2
Letter Receipts
1876-1884
5
3
Transportation Charges
1871-1879
5
4
Statements
1871-1883
5
5
Weights of Iron Shipped
1871-1883
5
6
Wage Rates
1883
5
7
Boarding Payments
1874-1881
5
8
Subseries 7.2: Correspondence
1871-1884
Receipted Bills
1873-1879
5
9
Receipted Bills
1882-1884
5
10
Letter Receipts
1876-1884
5
11
Transportation Charges
1871-1879
5
12
Statements
1871-1883
5
13
Weights of Iron Shipped
1871-1883
5
14
Wage Rates
1883
5
15
Boarding Payments
1874-1881
5
16
Subseries 7.3: Miscellaneous
1873-1885
Court Order for John Buckley
1881
5
16
Report of Materials Received at the Sylvan
Lake Mine
1883
5
17
Inquiry regarding creditworthiness of
employee
1885
5
18
Beekman Furnace Company
1873-1881
5
19
8. Crocker Brothers
1874-1888
Subseries 8.1: Finances
1878-1883
Statements of payment between Crocker
Bros. and CSIW
1878
5
20
CSIW account with Crocker
Brothers
1880-1883
5
21
CSIW account with Crocker
Brothers
1880-1882
5
22
Transportation Charges
1880-1882
5
23
Financial Calculations
Unspecified
1883
5
24
Subseries 8.2: Correspondence
1874-1888
CSIW and Crocker Brothers
1874-1888
5
25
Letters to E.W. Plass
1877-1879
5
26
Letters to E.W. Plass
1880-1882
5
27
9. Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut
Railroad
1874-1888
Subseries 9.1: Finances
1878-1904
Bills
1878-1879
6
1
Bills
1880-1888
6
2
Financial Correspondence
1879-1896
6
3
Financial Correspondence
1901-1904
6
4
Subseries 9.2: Correspondence
1881-1903
Telegraphs
1881-1903
6
5
Wells to NJ Plass
1881-1885
6
6
Subseries 9.3: The Philadelphia Reading and
New England Railroad Company
1888-1902
Shares and Mortgage Bonds
1891-1902
6
7
Letter Receipts
1896-1899
6
8
Bills
1985-1991
6
9
Fowler (lawyer) to Brock
1888
6
10
Fowler to Brock
1890-1902
6
11
Fazende and Seixas to Brock
1888
6
12
Fazende and Seixas telegraphs
1888
6
13
Appleton to Brock
1898-1900
6
14
Appleton to Brock
1888
6
15
Letters to Brock
1888-1899
6
16
Invitation to Board Meetings
1885-1890
6
17
10. Administrative
1872-1898
Subseries 10.1: Orders
1872-1898
Administrative Supplies (Willits to
Plass)
1879-1888
6
18
Order Conflicts
1872-1873
1881
6
19
Miscellaneous Orders
1872-1885
6
20
Subseries 10.2: Legal
1872-1887
Legal Matters
6
21
T. Coffin (lawyer) to Reid
1875-1876
6
22
Lease Agreements
1872-1873
6
23
Contracts
1873-1875
1887
6
24
Subseries 10.3: Finances
1872-1898
Insurance
1872-1884
6
25
Taxes
1874-1885
1898
6
26
Annual Reports
1881-1886
6
27
Bond Issues
1873-1874
6
28
Subseries 10.4: Miscellaneous
1873-1889
Surveys
1873-1883
6
29
Census Statistics
1880
6
30
Meetings
1878
1883
1889
6
31
Use of House Space Agreement
6
32
11. Operations
1872-1898
Subseries 11.1: Broken Equipment and
Repairs
1872-1898
Broken Equipment and Repairs
1872-1878
7
1
Subseries 11.2: Broken Equipment, Supplies
and Repairs
1881-1888
Broken Equipment, Supplies and
Repairs
1881-1888
7
2
Subseries 11.3: Shipping
1876-1888
Shipping
1876-1888
7
3
Subseries 11.4: Receipt of
Shipments
1881-1881
Receipt of Shipments
1881
7
4
Subseries 11.5: Bills
1873-1881
Bills
1873
1880-1881
7
5
Subseries 11.6: Horses, Hay and
Feed
1873-1885
Horses, Hay and Feed
1873-1885
7
6
Subseries 11.7: Requests for Iron
Statistics
1883-1889
Requests for Iron Statistics
1883-1889
7
7
Subseries 11.8: Requests for Iron
Statistics
1878-1878
Loaned Coal Statements
November 1878
7
8
Subseries 11.9: Construction
1890-1890
Construction
1890
7
9
Subseries 11.10: CSIW Blueprints
1892-1892
CSIW Blueprints
1882
7
10
12. Coal
1872-1888
Subseries 11.1: Offers of
Coal/Wood
1873-1886
Offers of Coal/Wood
1873-1886
7
11
Subseries 11.2: Offers of
Coal/Wood
1882-1882
Offers of Coal/Wood
1882
7
11
Subseries 11.3: Coal/Wood Orders
1875-1888
Offers of Coal/Wood
1875-1888
7
12
Subseries 11.4: Receipt of
delivery/payment
1874-1875
Receipt of delivery/payment
(coal)
1874-1875
7
13
Subseries 11.5: Correspondence Regarding
Coal Accounts
1873-1885
Correspondence Regarding Coal
Accounts
1873
1884-1885
7
14
Subseries 11.6: Statements of Charcoal
Received
1874-1874
Statements of Charcoal
Received
1874
7
15
Subseries 11.7: Conflict with
Coal
1879-1879
Conflict with Coal
1879
7
16
Subseries 11.8: Charcoal and Wood
Contracts
1870-1874
Charcoal and Wood Contracts
1870-1874
7
17
Subseries 11.9: Charcoal and Wood
Contracts
1875-1877
Charcoal and Wood Contract
1875-1877
7
18
Subseries 11.10: Wood Contracts
1873-1873
Wood Contracts
1873
7
19
Subseries 11.11: Wood and Hauling
Contracts
1874-1874
Wood and Hauling Contracts
1874
7
20
Subseries 11.12: Ore Analysis
1880-1885
Ore Analysis
1880-1885
7
21
13. Miscellaneous
1880-1892
Subseries 12.1: Companies
1880-1892
Ozone MFG Co.
1890-1892
7
22
Albany and Rensselaer Iron and Steel
Company
1880-1881
7
23
Subseries 12.2: CompaniesOriginal Finding
Aid (names)
Original Finding Aid (names)
7
24
Subseries 12.3: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
7
25