Guide to the Charles G. McIlvain Papers, 1899-1921 AIS.1970.09
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Title
Papers of Charles G. McIlvain, 1899-1921, McIlvain papers, 1899-1921
Subject
McIlvain, Charles G, Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Legal consultants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Description
This collection contains the personal and business correspondence of Pittsburgh lawyer, Charles G. McIlvain. Legal records are in reference to the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line and the following companies: Rodgers Sand, Robinson Machine, Illinois Collieries and the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke. Also, there are records of the business affairs of Captain William B. Rodgers. McIlvain's personal correspondence concerns matters of hunting trips, horse breeding and racing. His business correspondence contains information about coal lands, leases and stocks, timberlands and gas leases in West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama and Ohio. His legal correspondence concerns matters of mortgages, deeds, rights-of-way, collecting of rentals and settlement of claims. A list of companies includes: Monongahela River Syndicate, Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke, Umpire Coal Works, Hazel Kirk Gas Coal, Ivy Coal and Coke, Corona Coal and Iron (Alabama) and Virginia and Alabama Coal. There is correspondence relating to the Monongahela River Consolidation Coal and Coke Company. The material relating to the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line contains correspondence and memoranda. The majority of the material concern claims involving: Richard Barksdale and Steamboat "Queen City," Dunshee, John Eichleay Jr. Company and Steamer "Virginia," Hallan P. Hudson, Elize Menges, National Metallic Packing Company, Steubenville Bridge Company, Randolph McClements, James Rees Sons Company, J. F. Schalm and J. L. Waugaman. The papers of James A. Henderson, Receiver, at the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line contain correspondence, an agreement, claims and a prospectus to organize a passenger and freight line of steamboats to ply on the Monongahela, Ohio, Kanawha and Mississippi Rivers. The legal documents of Captain William B. Rodgers include: mortgages, deeds, agreements and abstracts of titles. The Rodgers Sand Company legal documents include: claims, assignments and deeds. Miscellaneous legal documents include: agreements, petitions and mortgages. There is a petition for patenting the name "Independent Party," Bellevue, Pennsylvania ca. 1905 and an advertisement designating intention to request a charter, "Mange Land Company," ca. 1900., Papers of Charles G. McIlvain, 1899-1921, AIS 1970:09, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of Miss Josephine McIlvain, July 21, 1970., Charles Greer McIlvain was educated in the public schools of Carroll Township and graduated from the old Jefferson Academy at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law and received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan. Charles practiced law in Pittsburgh and was a partner of Squire and Wurzel. In 1900, he organized the firm of McIlvain and Murphy, of which he was a lifetime partner. McIlvain was a district attorney in Pittsburgh during Judge Portio's term. He married Nancy May Donaldson. Charles McIlvain died in March, 1927., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais197009
Contributor
McIlvain, Charles G., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)