Scope and Contents Correspondence includes: * Letter of recommendation written in Spanish on behalf of G. Gunby Jordan to Romero Rubio of the Mexican Mercantile Exchange (Bolsa Mercantil Mexicana) by Pearl Wight, President of the Mexican, Central American and South American Commercial Exchange in New Orleans. March 3, 1884. * Letter on the letterhead of Wm. A Little, Attorney at Law, signed by him and others attempting to avert a duel between Jordon and B. T. Hatcher over a business dispute, as...

Scope and Contents The Correspondence Includes: * Draft of a condolence letter on the death of Alfred I. Young, probably to his father, W.H. Young, Secretary of the Eagle & Phenix Mills in Columbus,Georgia, written on letterhead of the Metropolitan Hotel in New York City, with partial date of 188_, but presumably written after the death of Alf I. Young in April, 1890 * Assumption by Toombs Crawford of the liabilities of the firm of Jordan & Crawford Fire Insurance Agents as of...

Scope and Contents The Correspondence includes: * Draft contract between the Columbus Power Company and the Columbus Manufacturing Company. 1900 * Letter from F. B. Gordon of the Columbus Manufacturing Company to G. Gunby Jordan as Treasure of the Columbus Power Company regarding a contract to cover “recent verbal agreements” between the two companies. March 12, 1900 * Letter from G. Gunby Jordan to J. M. Terrell, Governor of Georgia, resigning his post as a member of the...

Scope and Contents The Correspondence Includes: * Letter to G. Gunby Jordan from A. H. Bickerstaff accepting the resignation of Jordan as president of the Columbus Clearing House Association. January 18, 1921. * Letter to Theodore H. Price from G. Gunby Jordan, inclosing notes of a speech made by Jordan welcoming Price on behalf of the Textile Manufacturers Association of Columbus, Georgia, outlining the history of the Eagle & Phenix Mills from 1857 through the Civil War and its...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...

Scope and Contents Speeches Include: * Two copies of a speech by G. Gunby Jordan o the Convention of the Georgia Industrial Association in Warm Springs,Georgia. Jordan discussed manufacturing in the South, the need to improve education in Georgia to enable it to improve the quality of its exports, and proposed a State Immigration Agency to encourage new immigrants to the U.S.to settle in the South and in Georgia in particular. May 30, 1901 * Two copies of a speech given by G. Gunby...

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Last Will and Testament of G. Gunby Jordan. 16 April, 1927. Letters Testamentary and probate records. 1930-1939

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...