| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Barber, Ohio Columbus |
| Title: | Ohio Columbus Barber Papers |
| Dates: | 1854-1919 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920) was a business executive of Akron, Ohio. He co-founded the Barber Match Company, which was succeeded by the Diamond Match Company. The collection consists of correspondence, statements, stock certificates, mortgage bonds, railroad passes, automobile registrations, proposed constitution and bylaws for the National Match Company; newspaper clippings of Barber's family; single letters from George B. Cortelyou, Marcus A. Hanna, and Booker T. Washington; and statement (1907-1908) of the Diamond Match Company. |
| MS Number | MS 1617 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Ohio Columbus Barber Papers, 1854-1919 and undated, consist of correspondence, statements, stock certificates, mortgage bonds, railroad passes, automobile registrations, proposed constitution and bylaws for the National Match Company; newspaper clippings of Barber's family; single letters from George B. Cortelyou, Marcus A. Hanna, and Booker T. Washington; and statement (1907-08) of the Diamond Match Company.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of match manufacturing in Ohio and the Western Reserve in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Those studying the history of business and entrepreneurship and the Diamond Match Company will find this collection useful. Those studying the history of Barberton, Ohio, Akron, Ohio, and the National Sewer Pipe Company will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 1617 Ohio Columbus Barber Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio Columbus Barber Papers 1854-1919 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous documents 1854-1919 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Stock certificates, mortgages, and miscellaneous documents ca. 1880-1913 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Diploma 1913 | |||||||||