E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Legal Dept. Records, 1801-1965. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company was incorporated on May 19, 1903. It was organized as an operating company to consolidate approximately 100 explosives manufacturers controlled by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. These firms represented 95 percent of the powder business in the United States. In 1907, the United States government brought a suit to dissolve the company as an illegal combination under the antitrust law. In 1911 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government, which accept...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Legal Dept.

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The Legal Dept. was established as a staff department in 1905, following the reorganization of the company by 1902 Pierre Samuel du Pont, Alfred du Pont and T. Coleman du Pont. From the description of Records, 1801-1965. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122370806 ...

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834

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Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, was born in Paris on June 24, 1771. In 1787, he was accepted as a student in the Regis des Poudres, a government agency for the manufacture of gunpowder which was directed by Antoine Lavoisier. In 1800 Eleuthère Irénée du Pont emigrated to the United States and began investigating sites for a black powder manufactory. After consulting with Thomas Jefferson he established E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. on the bank of ...

Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927

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Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and explosives expert. He worked as a consultant for the Du Pont Company from 1897 to 1927 and wrote books on explosives and literary and political matters. From the guide to the Hudson Maxim papers, 1883-1927, 1890s-1927, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville Maine on February 3, 1853, to a poor but mechanically-gifted family. Hi...

United States. Office of Alien Property Custodian

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The office of Alien Property Custodian was created by the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917. According to the act the right to seize enemy property was vested in the president, which was then delegated to the Alien Property Custodian. During the Second World War the Alien Property Custodian was reinstituted. Patents held by German and Japanese nations were defined as alien property and seized. From the description of Records, 1943-1946. (Hagley Museum & Library). Worl...

Christiana Securities Company

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The Christiana Securities Company was a private, closed-end investment company established by A. Felix, Pierre S., Irénée and Lammot du Pont and their associates. Its primary function was to retain control of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in that branch of the family through the ownership of a large block of stock. The Christiana Securities Company was incorporated on March 2, 1915, as the Du Pont Securities Company for the purpose of purchasing the shares of E...

Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

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In 1902 the control of the hundred year old Du Pont Company passed into the hands of three younger du Pont cousins, T. Coleman, Pierre S., and Alfred I.T. Coleman du Pont, who became president after the 1902 incorporation, had spent the previous two decades involved in the coal, iron, and street railway industries of Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. His major investment was in The Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., and Lorain, Ohio, to which he introduced modern engineering principles and mana...

Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954

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P. S. du Pont was president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940. He was also president of General Motors (1920-1923) and chairman (1920-1929), as well as a member of many other major corporate boards. He was also an avid collector of documents on the early history of the Du Pont family and company. From the description of The P. S. du Pont Office Collection, 1749-1939. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 16...

Reese, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1862-1940

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Charles L. Reese was a research chemist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1886. After teaching, he developed a second career in industrial research with the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1900. In 1902 he became chief chemist at the Repauno Works of the Eastern Dynamite Company, controlled by the du Pont interests. From the description of Laboratory notebooks, 1900-1927. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122392308 Charles L...