Agreements, orders for supplies and raw materials, reports from company managers and factory foremen, annual and monthly reports, ledgers, and material on company personnel and investments. Correspondence between partners Merritt J. Corbett and John L. Stuart, and with managers of subsidiary companies at Corbett, East Branch, Harvard, Livingston Manor, and Peakville, N.Y., St. Mary's, Milanville, and Sherman, Pa., and Wells, Mich.

This collection consists of materials related to Chauncey Hill’s lumber business, 1830s; Alvin E. Hill’s dairy farm, 1890-1931; Willian Manson’s Lakeview Poultry Farm, 1914-1918; and Francis Hill’s saw mill and lumberyard, 1950s; all in Chenango County, NY.