Cowan, McClung & Company (Knoxville, Tenn.)

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Photocopy of letter from W. A. Browning, Washington, D. C., to H. A. Kisley. May 29, 1865. Requests that permits be prepared for the President’s signature for Cowan, Dickinson & Company and Cowan, McClung, & Company. ALS 1 p. Original is in the National Archives, RG 366.

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Two 1859 and one 1868 orders and accounts to Cowan, McClung & Company. 3 pcs. + May 1861 Philadelphia Letter Sheet Price-Current. 2 pp.

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Small papers with printed ‘Members composing the firm of Cowan, McClung & Co.’, no date; December 11, 1873, promissory note to Cowan, McClung & Co., from John Vaughan. 1 pc.; September 11, 1874 promissory note to Cowan, McClung & Co., from John Vaughan, 1 pc.; receipt from Cowan, McClung & Co., to Newt. Lang. September 16, 1891 (may be 1897). 1 pc.

Scope and Contents DeWolfe Miller, Yellow Store, Hawkins County, Tenn. Statements and business accounts. Ca. 1889-1894. Many Knoxville business letterheads: Hazen, Lotspeich & Thomas; Knoxville Sugar Co.; Trent Grocery Co.; Shields Brothers Wholesale Grocers; S.B. Newman & Co. (etching of building); Cone, Shields & Co.; W.W. Woodruff & Co. (etching of buggies and etching of building); George Brown Wholesale; Knoxville Provision & Sugar Co.; John L. Callaway; Boyd, Allen & Co. (etching...

Scope and Contents From the estate of Harold Carl Frincke, gift of Alexine Thomas Frincke Dempster and Harold Carl Frincke, Jr. Includes four pastel portraits possibly by Flavius Fisher, framed (Charles James McClung, Charles McClung Thomas, Charles McClung and Matthew McClung); hair pin (Hugh Lawson McClung, CSA --on loan from McClung Collection to ETHS Museum); handkerchief and lace head dress (Margaret McClung; black ‘thread lace’ shawl (Margaret Cowan McClung); flannel petticoat (Charles Thomas McClung);...

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The McMahan Papers,1829-1923, contain documents of T. W. McMahan in Sevier County, Tenn. The collection contains original manuscripts, documents, two poems by Louisa Walker, and one issue of the Republican Semi-Weekly, Sevierville, Tenn., newspaper (August 22, 1885). Also: August 1862 Volunteer Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing for Private Joseph F. McClurg