Burt and Brabb Lumber Company records, 1890-1939
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Burt and Brabb Lumber Company records, 1890-1939
- Creator
- Burt and Brabb Lumber Company
- Extent
- 10 cubic ft.
- Subjects
- Burt, Charles W.
- Burt, Wellington M.
- Brabb, Marvil I.
- Wilson, Samuel M.. (Samuel Mackay), 1871-1946.
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (Ky.)
- Asher Lumber Company (Ky.)
- Land tenure -- Kentucky.
- Lumbering -- Kentucky.
- Forests and forestry -- Kentucky.
- Timber -- Kentucky.
- Business records -- Kentucky -- Floyd County.
- Lexington (Ky.) -- History.
- Clark County (Ky.) -- Economic conditions.
- Kentucky River -- Power utilization.
- Appalachian Region.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- This collection is a partial record of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company from 1890-1912. While incorporated in Michigan, the company maintained operations in Ford, Kentucky in Clark County. This small community, located where the Cincinnati-Knoxville division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad crosses the Kentucky River, had approximately 2,500 inhabitants during this period. The Burt and Brabb Lumber Company operated two saw mills, a planing mill, a box factory, dry kilns, and a yard at the Ford site. In addition to its Clark County properties, the company maintained several booms on the Kentucky River and its tributaries and owned property and timber rights in Madison, Leslie, Harlan, Letcher, Perry, Knott, Bell, Clay, and Breathitt Counties.
- Formed in 1890 as the Asher Lumber Company, the corporation subsequently changed its name in 1896 to the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company when Marvil I. Brabb and the Wellington R. Burt family assumed control. W.R. Burt, the company's largest stockholder, was at one time a receiver for the Toledo, Ann Arbor, and Northern Michigan Railroad and in 1888 was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the office of governor of Michigan. The company ceased business gradually and liquidated itself around 1906 when it became clear that its timber holdings had become depleted. Much of the company's lumber was marketed in Great Britain.
- Scope and Content
- The collection includes minutes of the company's Board of Directors and Stockholders, maps, instructions to a lumber foreman, rate tables, account books, check registers, sharebooks, ledgers, journals, legal papers, correspondence and other miscellaneous materials. The correspondence is chiefly that between Charles W. Burt, the company's general manager, and other stockholders, company officials, and relatives. It treats matters of routine business, finance, foreign transactions, and family affairs.
Contents of the Collection
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PAPERS,, 1890-1912
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Articles of Association of the Asher Lumber Company, 1890
By-laws of the Asher Lumber Company and Minutes of Directors and Stockholders Meetings, 1890-1906
Proxies and Minutes pertaining to Annual Stockholders Meetings, 1899-1903
Proxies and Minutes pertaining to Annual Stockholders Meetings, 1904-1906
Ice Order Book, 1899-1903
Hardwood Manufacturer's booklets, 1892-1911
Asher Lumber Company - Foreman's instructions and Abstracts of Land Tracts, pt.1, n.d.
Asher Lumber Company - Foreman's instructions and Abstracts of Land Tracts, pt. 2, n.d.
Miscellaneous checks, contract, patent, and receipts, 1898-1912
Notebook, author and date unknown
Weights and price schedules
Price and weight tables for shipments to Great Britain
ACCOUNT BOOKS, LEDGERS, AND JOURNALS
Account Book, 1890-1911, marked "suspended"
Notes and Bills Receivable Book, 1902-1912
Account book of C. W. Burt, inscribed "original" and dated July 1, 1905
Account book of C. W. Burt, dated January 1, 1911
Account Book, inscribed "C Miscellaneous Book," July 1, 1909-May 1, 1912
Check Register, December 1907-July 1909
Return of Annual Net Income, 1910
- Box 4, Folder 2
Includes "Explanatory notes showing how costs of goods and gross income were arrived at"
C.W. Burt Transaction Letterbook, August 4, 1904- February 16, 1911
Index to unidentified volume (1)
Index to unidentified volume (2)
ACCOUNT BOOKS, LEDGERS, AND JOURNALS [WRAPPED VOLUMES]
Account Book, July 1909-January 1912
Check Register, February 1899-December 1902
Sharebook of the Asher Lumber Company, September 1, 1892-January 10, 1896
Sharebook of the Randall Lumber Company
Ledger A, Asher Lumber Company, 1890-1897
Index to Ledger A
Journal No.2, Asher Lumber Company, December 1892-December 1897
Journal A, Burt and Brabb Lumber Company, January 1898-December 1902
Journal B, Burt and Brabb Lumber Company, January 1903-June 1909
LEGAL PAPERS,, 1894-1939
MISCELLANEOUS
Misc. Legal Papers, Abstracts of Title, and Deeds, 1894-1908, n.d.
John L. Turner, et al. vs. Burt and Brabb Lumber Company, et al., 1904-1906
Correspondence between Samuel Wilson and C. W. Burt Family, 1906-1939
A. B. Cornett Litigation, 1908-1910
Index to Patents in University Composition Book, n.d. [pre-1906]
Index to Patents, July 1906-November 15, 1907
Opinion as to Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Land Titles, n.d. (copy 1)
Opinion as to Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Land Titles, n.d. (copy 2 - includes handwritten notes)
Opinion as to Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Land Titles, n.d. (copy 3 - includes handwritten notes)
Abstracts of Title of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Eastern Kentucky Lands, with handwritten notes, dated March 8, 1906 (copy 1)
Miscellaneous papers removed from copy 1
Abstracts of Title of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Eastern Kentucky Lands, n.d. (copy 2)
Abstracts of Title of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Eastern Kentucky Lands, n.d. (copy 3)
Abstracts of Title of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company's Eastern Kentucky Lands, n.d. (copy 4)
CORRESPONDENCE,, 1895-1911
This series contains the correspondence of Charles W. Burt.
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1911
Barton-Shreve, 1895-1904
Simpson-Swift, 1897-1904
1910-1911 [RESTRICTED]
- Box 20, Folder 3
The materials in this folder have been restricted due to their poor condition. Photocopies of the materials have been made available for patron use in box 20, folder 4. Patrons must receive permission before looking at the original documents.
1910-1911
- Box 20, Folder 4
This folder contains photocopies of the damaged materials in Box 20, Folder 3, as well as other (original) correspondence from this period.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH MARVIL I. BRABB, 1895-1900
Marvil I. Brabb was a Romeo, Michigan bank executive and President of the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company from 1896-1902.
July 3, 1895-June 15, 1896
July 8, 1896-December 10, 1897
January 21-December 28, 1898
January 2-December 22, 1899
January 5 - December 11, 1900
January 10-December 31, 1901
January 7, December 30, 1902
CORRESPONDENCE WITH LOUIS C. HAY, 1895-1907
Louis C. Hay was Charles W. Burt's brother-in-law and the London Agent for the Burt and Brabb Lumber Company.
February 27, 1895-December 20, 1897
January 6- March 31, 1898
April 5-June 23, 1898
July 1-Septmber 24, 1898
October 26-December 31, 1898
Jan 2-December 31, 1903
January 20-December 15, 1904
January 3-December 18, 1905
January 2, 1906-April 27, 1907
CORRESPONDENCE WITH WELLINGTON R. BURT, 1898-1900
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