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George F. Lee papers
George F. Lee (died 1893) worked for his father's bricklaying business in Philadelphia and then started his own business as contractor and engineer for the construction of gas works. After Lee lost interest in this business, he concerned himself principally with real estate investments. Lee&#...
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| Collection: | George F. Lee Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1902 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
| Physical Description: |
10.8 Linear feet ; 27 boxes |
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The collection is open for research. |
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George F. Lee (died 1893) worked for his father's bricklaying business in Philadelphia and then started his own business as contractor and engineer for the construction of gas works. After Lee lost interest in this business, he concerned himself principally with real estate investments.
Lee's collection is primarily composed of mixed papers such as include business correspondence and accounts and personal receipted bills, dating from 1836-1889. Many relate to the building of plants in Albany, Troy, and Utica, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; and Chicago, Illinois. The remainder of the correspondence concerns the management of mortgages he held and his own properties, particularly in Chicago, where his interests were much affected by the fire of 1871, and in Troy. Correspondents include James K. Burtis, superintendent of the St. Louis and Chicago gas works and also Lee's personal agent in Chicago, Burtis' successor Junius Mulvey, and Lee's agent in Troy S. S. Dauchy. There are also Franklin Lee and Sons account books, 1820-1844, as well as a small amount of family correspondence dating from the mid to late 1840s. Also among the earliest records in the collection are the papers of bookseller Thomas Davis, circa 1823-1852, and papers of the estate of Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth, and Benjamin Davis, 1833-1879. |