Union Cattle Company Records: Finding Aid mssUCC
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March 2022
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Union Cattle Company records
Creator:
Union Cattle Company
Creator:
Higginson, Henry Lee (1834-1919)
Identifier/Call Number: mssUCC
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1886-1892
Abstract: Correspondence between investment banker Henry Lee Higginson and officers of the Union Cattle Company of Cheyenne, Wyoming,
concerning mutual investments and the cattle industry.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, March 2021.
Brothers Thomas and Frank Sturgis were New York investors. Thomas and another brother, William Sturgis, moved from New York
to Wyoming in 1873, and founded the Northwestern Cattle Company, later the Union Cattle Company. Henry Lee Higginson was a
prominent Boston businessman and investment banker working with Boston firm Lee, Higginson & Co.
Nineteen letters primarily from Frank Sturgis and Thomas Sturgis to Henry Lee Higginson, discussing their mutual investments.
Letters detail the financial aspects of the Union Cattle Company, challenges for the range cattle industry such as harsh weather
conditions and a depressed market, and the formation of the American Cattle Trust. A few letters were written by Union Cattle
Company receiver Frederick Voorhees, who informs Higginson of a fire at the company's feeding plant. Also included are undated
financial documents and a printed copy of an 1887 shareholders report by Thomas Sturgis.
Processed by Kelly Kress in March 2022.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Business letters -- 19th century
Cattle -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.)
Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
Cattle trade -- Wyoming
Financial records -– 19th century
Wyoming -- History -- 19th century
Box Main file 86, Folder 5
Union Cattle Company records 1886-1892