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Boughey Series 1, 1896-1934, and undated, includes biographical material, correspondence, an assortment of financial and banking records, legal records, and miscellaneous, such as catalogs, township charts, and newspaper clippings.

The collection, Series 1, 1896-1934, and undated, includes biographical material, correspondence, an assortment of financial and banking records, legal records, and miscellaneous, such as catalogs, township charts, and newspaper clippings.

The collection was processed in two parts. First, three processing students in the Archives also processed 12 boxes, 12 volumes, and 2 oversized folders, approximately 8 cubic ft. This section is Series 1, which is described below. A separate Scope and Contents Note and Box Listing follows for each of the student’s box/es with their surname on both their box/es and scope notes/box listing follows after page 16 of this finding aid. This section is Series 2, which is described in a separate finding aid.

The biographical material includes such as licenses, cards, photographs, and copies of federal census for Michigan related to the Bougheys, Ruth’s wedding invitation, 1921, and personal correspondence and receipts of the Bougheys. There is a Bible Study Notebook of Margaret Wheelock, undated. Her relationship to the Bougheys is as of yet unknown.

Personal, business, and political correspondence, including some on postcards and in telegrams, are included. Of note is personal correspondence regarding Herbert P. Boughey’s stay in the Battle Creek Sanitarium and in the State Psychopathic Hospital, Ann Arbor, 1917-1925 (Box 3 and others). Additional Battle Creek Sanitarium correspondence are found throughout the boxes processed by the class.

Some of the political correspondence with Chase S. Osborn, about the state and national Republican committees and national convention, 1912-1930 (Box 3). Osborn was governor of Michigan, 1911-1913. See also Box 1 processed by B. White, and Boxes 1-2 processed by S. Wonsey. There is also personal correspondence with Governor Fred W. Green, 1928, in Series 2, Box 1 processed by M. Morgan.

Other correspondence of note includes personal correspondence between Herbert Boughey and Simon Redbird, a Native American, 1928-1931. Additional correspondence with Redbird is in Box 2, Series 2, processed by F. McDaniel and Series 2, Box 1 processed by A. Grove.

Most of the Carp Lake Lumber Company business correspondence dates from 1911 to 1934. There is numerous business correspondence with various companies mostly regarding lumber, and also for other supplies, including telephone services, railroads, insurance, and hotels. Many companies are documented but one of the most known is Hannah Lay Mercantile Company of Traverse City. Bliss and Van Auken Lumber Company are also included. There are also letterpress books, 1902-1923 (6 volumes). Oversized materials include maps and timber estimates related to the lumber business.

Financial and banking records in the collection include bank statements, check stubs, cash books, and cancelled checks mainly with First National Bank, Traverse City, but also with First Peoples State Bank and People’s Saving Bank of Traverse City, Cadillac State Bank, Leelanau County Bank, of Michigan, and People’s Bank, Blytheville, Arkansas, among others. There are numerous receipts for clothing, food, hotel stays, furniture, gifts, and other supplies. It is often difficult to tell if the receipts are for personal or business reasons. Also included are stock records and financial volumes.

Legal records include various deeds, land contracts, mortgages, business and insurance papers. Other more miscellaneous materials found in the collection include catalogs, and land and township charts, which may be for lumber or real estate purposes. A copy of Herbert F. Boughey’s codicil to his last will, 1931, and the last will and testament of Grace Boughey, 1931, are in Series 2, Box 1 processed by F. McDaniel.

Processing Note: Non-Michigan materials, duplicates, reading materials, material of a peripheral nature were removed from the collection during processing. Extremely dirty and moldy materials were also removed, with material of importance being photocopied. Extremely acidic materials were also photocopied and the originals were then withdrawn from the collection.

Boughey Series 2, 1901-1933, and undated, includes biographical material, correspondence, an assortment of financial and banking records, legal records, and miscellaneous, such as catalogs, township charts, and newspaper clippings.

The entire collection, 1896-1934, and undated, includes biographical material, correspondence, an assortment of financial and banking records, legal records, and miscellaneous, such as catalogs, township charts, and newspaper clippings.

Series 2, 100-1933, and undated, was largely processed, one box or more per person, by a class of 20 processors (30 boxes, 3 Oversized Folders, approximately 12 cubic ft.) during Archives Administration Class, History 583 in spring term 2012.

Processing Note: Non-Michigan materials, duplicates, reading materials, material of a peripheral nature were removed from the collection during processing. Extremely dirty and moldy materials were also removed, with material of importance being photocopied. Extremely acidic materials were also photocopied and the originals were then withdrawn from the collection.

Box 1, processed by Bronwyn Mroz Benson, contains general receipts for a number of the members of the Boughey family, including clothing, groceries, medical, and automotive. The receipts also include bills paid to a number of city services in Traverse City, as well as some banking receipts. Also included are personal correspondence of Grace Boughey and business correspondence of Herbert Boughey pertaining to his stock holdings.

Box 1, processed by Nicole Brandt, contains general receipts, both of a business and personal nature, for a number of members of the Boughey family, mainly husband and wife, Herbert and Grace. There were also personal documents and receipts for Boughey daughters Helen and Ruth. One receipt was also found made out to a Mrs. Greenstead who is believed to be Boughey’s mother or mother-in-law. The business receipts include various large companies, mainly in the Traverse City area, which specialized in lumber, steel, mercantile, wood, coal, and railway. Personal receipts include numerous companies for gas, electric/light and power, grocery, medical/drugstore, and clothing/shoe stores. Personal documents included two newspaper clippings, correspondence among family members and to Boughey family members from physicians, report cards for one of the Boughey daughters, and donation slips. Box 2 (Legal-size) processed by Nicole Brandt, contains Receipts of The Hannah and Lay Mercantile Company Retail, Traverse City, Mich., 1916-1920.

Boxes 1 and 2 (Legal-size), processed by Cynthia Engerson, include correspondence, business and personal receipts, and certificates of membership to various committees and leagues. The topically grouped material is divided into business and personal respectively and arranged alphabetically. Business correspondence relate primarily to insurance. Receipts are comprised of business and personal expenditures including bank transactions, medical bills, lumbering and general hardware, insurance, telephone records, clothing and energy expenses. Prominent organizations related to this material include Citizens Telephone Company, Battle Creek Sanitarium, First National Bank, Montgomery Ward and Company, Standard Oil Company, and Western Union Telegraph Company. Membership and subscription receipts belong to organizations related to war relief efforts such as The American Relief Committee for Widows and Orphans of the War in Germany, the “Belgian Children’s Fund,” and the International Peace Forum. Publication subscriptions include the American Boy, the Wall Street Journal, and the World Court Magazine.

Box 1, processed by Katharine Gallaher, contains the personal correspondence of Herbert F. Boughey’s son, Herbert P. Boughey. These letters are from different members of the Boughey family, including his parents, Herbert and Grace, and sisters, Ruth and Helen. There are some letters from Herbert’s school pen pal William, who lived in Oakland, California. Also included are some examples of Herbert P. Boughey’s homework and drawings of a Decaland badge and blimp, 1918, undated. There is also a list of references concerning the Todd Seminary for Boys in which Herbert F. Boughey is listed in the folder titled Todd Seminary…1917.

Box 1, processed by Tressa Graves, contains business correspondence dealing with property in Leelanau County, Michigan, Oregon, British Columbia, Canada and various other locations. The box also contains correspondence with Saginaw [Michigan] Real Estate, Quesnel Gold Mining Company in Washington state, and Willison court case materials, in which Mrs. Willison had claims against Crotser, Boughey, Otte, and Moran, 1925-1926. Box 2 (legal-size), processed by Tressa Graves, contains meeting minutes with Quesnel Gold Mining Company, Washington and various business information and agreements.

Box 1 processed by Anjali Grose, contains general and specific business correspondence pertaining to the Oregon and Colorado properties, Edgar J. Daly Real Estate, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company, Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad Company, and J.O. Nessen and Company, among others. This box also contains Western Union telegrams, a Wickes Brother Stock Company Catalog, hotel receipts, business cards, business receipts, bond subscription lists, bank statements, township charts, and personal correspondence. There is a copy of a large hand-drawn map in the Oregon business correspondence folder.

Box 1 and 2 (Legal-size), processed by Andreah B. Grove, includes personal correspondence, certificates of registration, and business correspondence relating to B.E. Taylor Builder and Realtor, Detroit-Traverse Realty Company, Edward G. Hacker Company, Grand Traverse Bond and Mortgage Company, Pure Oil Company, Simon Redbird, Swift and Company, and many more. Simon Redbird was a Native American (Ottawa) carpenter from Leelanau, Michigan, who worked for Boughey in Genoa, Nebraska. (For more on Redbird, see Farrah McDaniel’s Boughey boxes.) Also included is an Oversized folder of a blueprint of Leland Township, Leelanau County, Michigan, undated.

Box 1, processed by Emily Grover, contains general and specific business correspondence pertaining to Herbert F. Boughey’s banking, investments, insurance, legal correspondence, tax, and letters and receipts between potential customers concerning lumber and other goods, 1911-1916. Railway records from the Adams Express Company, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company, Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad Company, and Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company are also contained here. The box also contains personal correspondence, Michigan Certificates of Registration, Michigan Republican State Central Committee information, and correspondence with Chase S. Osborn. Box 2 (Legal-size), processed by Emily Grover, contains newspaper clippings (copies) that deal with Chase S. Osborn’s career and information regarding lumber and crops. This box also contains an Abstract of Title to property in Leelanau County, Michigan.

Box 1, processed by Adam J. Hamlin, includes personal and business correspondence, 1915-1919. Items of note include a postcard featuring World War I recruits practicing infantry drill at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; an invitation to the Alumnae Banquet at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, featuring seminars on fattening diets, fever diets, blood building diets and hyper-reducing diets. The invitation includes hand-written recipes on back; circular offering to “furnish Russians, Poles and Lithuanians” for unskilled labor (presumably mailed to Carp Lake Lumber).

Box 1, processed by Jake Huss, contains business records from transactions with various companies as well as donation “thank yous” from groups such as the National Republican Congressional Committee, American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, and Anti-Saloon League of Michigan, among others. It also contains insurance records for everything from vehicles to lumber products as well as bank transactions with multiple Traverse City area banks. Personal Records includes Boughey’s 1916 draft card as well as his 1917 hunting and trapping license. Box 2 (Legal-size), processed by Jake Huss, contains mostly balances due and freight manifests from various companies, 1917-1919, undated.

Box 1, processed by Hannah Jenkins, contains financial records regarding the Carp Lake Lumber Company from 1910 to 1912, as well as general correspondence and order requests to the company from 1909 to 1912, and a couple undated documents. The box also contains correspondence regarding Mr. Boughey’s real estate business. Personal folders include documentation from Mr. Boughey’s involvement in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Mr. Boughey’s interest in the Marble Company’s Game Getter Gun hunting rifle, manufactured in Gladstone, Michigan. Also included are general correspondence to Mr. Boughey from 1911 to 1912, invitations to meetings and conferences of which some are political in nature, and correspondence regarding Mr. Boughey’s political interests in the Roosevelt Campaign. Box 2 (Legal-size), processed by Hannah Jenkins, contains one folder of legal sized material including an undated list of second-hand boiler details and their prices, a financial record from January 30, 1912, and a political document from July 8, 1912 regarding Mr. Boughey’s involvement in the National Progressive Party.

Boxes 1 and 2 (Legal-size), processed by Farrah McDaniel, contain general business correspondences pertaining to the lumber business in Michigan and Oregon; a mining endeavor in Canada; and a variety of real estate ventures, both individually and in conjunction with someone else, throughout the states of Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin. The boxes also contain personal letters between the Boughey family, land deeds, personal receipts, insurance papers, and a letter from Herbert F. Boughey regarding the desire to patent a car windshield defroster. The Last Will and Testament of Grace Boughey, along with a codicil to the 1923 Last Will and Testament of Herbert F. Boughey, are located in the Boughey Legal Correspondence folder. In the Boughey Family, Personal Correspondence, 1930-1933, undated, is Correspondence from Grace Boughey to Herbert Boughey dated March 23, 1931, which includes a very candid conversation about female menopause and menstruation.

Box 1, processed by Marie Morgan, contains both general and specific information regarding H. Boughey’s business and personal life. In this box there is correspondence between H. Boughey and a number of businesses in Michigan, Oregon, and British Columbia. Besides correspondence between businesses, there are also receipts for many things pertaining to the business, newspaper clippings, telegrams, bank statements, and personal correspondence. The majority of the box contains information regarding H. Boughey’s lumber business, but there is also information regarding automobiles, hunting expenses, government paperwork, and other miscellaneous items. Two documents that particularly stand out in this box are the personal letters between a Ms. Helen Boughey and the Police Chief of Allen Park. The chief writes that Ms. Boughey had a violation against the city and must pay her debts or consequences will happen. There is also correspondence with Simon Redbird, 1927-1929. Box 2 (Legal-size), processed by Marie Morgan, includes miscellaneous legal-size materials: a list of U.S. merchants and manufacturers, undated; a copy of a right-of-way, undated; an analysis of earning for the First National Bank, Traverse City, 1927; a letter to stockholders of the Quesnel Gold Mining Company, Bellingham, Washington, 1926; and Meeting Minutes of the Sheppard Development Company, also of Bellingham, 1926. 1 Oversized folder has Hotel Cadillac Receipts, along with a large lumber receipt, 1926-1928.

Box 1, processed by Elizabeth Portenga, contains general and specific business correspondence pertaining mostly to companies in Michigan, 1912-1913. The main contents contain shipping orders, business correspondence, lumber orders, lumber inquiries, billing information, inventory, delivery status, account statements, a warranty deed, invoices, tax information, receipts, payments, stockholder meeting notes, credit information, dividends, supply information, lumber quotes, and work requests. The box also includes a Western Michigan Development Bureau Bylaws booklet, a Powers Theater, Grand Rapids, Michigan, program, lot drawings, a road map, a building blueprint, information from Boughey’s correspondence and work in Oregon, and personal letters from Governor Osborn inviting Boughey to his hunting cottage.

Box 1, processed by Kate Pritchard, contains general and specific business correspondence pertaining to Herbert F. Boughey Lumber, Cherry Home Company, The Haserot Company, The Lord and Bushnell Company, Southwestern Lumber Company, Standard Oil Company, Wakefield Fries, and Company Real Estate Rental and Loan Agency. The box also contains Western Union Telegrams, business receipts, business orders, bank statements, shipping instructions, New York Life Insurance statements, car insurance statements, and personal correspondence. Box 2 (legal-size), processed by Kate Pritchard, contains documents of general and specific business correspondence re: the Cherry Hill Company, Herbert F. Boughey Lumber, as well as contracts and receipts. 1 Oversized folder contains a map of Chippewa County, Michigan, with a timetable for the Arnold Transit Company for tourist season for 1906 connecting Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island, and Sault Ste. Marie via steamships.

Box 1, processed by Jessica Rodgers, includes business and personal receipts, and correspondence, 1925-1931. Of particular interest to researchers is the Lane Bryant receipt of the Boughey women, documenting dresses, hats etc. Other women’s clothing stores are also represented.

Box 1, processed by Liz Waterhouse, contains general and specific business receipts and correspondence pertaining to Edgar J. Daly Real Estate, First National Bank, H.P. Palmer Jones Company, Hannah and Lay Mercantile Company, The Stearns Company, Western Michigan Development Bureau, among others. This box also contains Western Union telegrams, hotel receipts, bank statements, personal miscellaneous items, personal correspondences, and business miscellaneous. There is a large hand-drawn map of possible building and land plots along Drift River (copy), undated, located in the Business miscellaneous folder, 1910-1911, undated.

Box 1, processed by Briăna White, contains business correspondences pertaining to the lumber business and associated investments in paper, flooring, and cherry production. This box also contains personal papers of the Boughey family, as well as information regarding donations, bills, letters, stocks, receipts, taxes, and correspondences between Former Governor Chase Osborn and Herbert Boughey. Of note is a receipt in Donations for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, undated.

Box 1, processed by Lisa White, contains general and specific business correspondence pertaining to the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company and the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad Company. This box also contains Western Union telegrams, personal correspondence, business receipts, personal receipts, and payroll records. Of particular interest, in business correspondence from 1911, is a letter from Wylie Cooperate stating that was an error in log scaling on their part. Mr. Boughey stated that he was short twenty-three Basswood logs from his order. Wylie Cooperage was offended that Mr. Boughey and his associate, Mr. Pease, accused him (Cooperage) of purposely trying to short them, and that he was sending a check to cover the overcharge. In Boughey personal receipts from 1911, taxes on Mr. Boughey’s personal property in Northport Village were $4.05. Also, this folder contains a register of deeds with Traverse City, Michigan, in account with Carson Warner. In Boughey personal receipts from 1912, there are financial records regarding Mr. Boughey’s furnished housekeeping rooms at 915 Thurman Street, Portland, Oregon. J.A. Parmele reported that there was no change in the house and that the rent balance is $32.42. Also, two of the tenants owed $21.00 in back rent, as they were currently unemployed, but they would pay soon.

Box 1, processed by Sandra Wonsey, contains business correspondences pertaining to Herbert F. Boughey and his lumbering business as well as other associations, 1918-1920. It also contains sources related to business transactions, such as Western Union Telegrams, banking receipts, business receipts, figures, orders, insurance coverage, and real estate ventures. The contents paint a picture of business success and problems as well. This collection also includes personal aspects of Mr. Boughey’s life. It contains his Draft card registration, Corrective Eating Society, and his monetary contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee and letter from them. Box 2 (Legal-size) contains banking transactions that show his substantial business dealings. It contains publications from The Standard Oil Company stockholders, minutes from the Board of Directors of Francis H. Haserot Company. It show cases typical real estate correspondence one between Herbert F. Boughey and Governor Chase R. Osborn.