Scope and Contents

This volume contains the documentation of the formal dissolution of the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company and its rebirth as the Eagle & Phenix Mills. The new entity was chartered and incorporated in early 1898 and was in place so that it could successfully bid on the assets of the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company. The final process of the formal delivery of possession of property to the new purchaser was July 6, 1898.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: It is important to note that the survival of the various types of documentation across the nearly 140 years of its existence is very uneven. There are large gaps in each of the series. T he minutes of the Board of Directors, for example, is virtually complete for the period from 1898 through 1947 and virtually non-existent for the period before that. The same disparity holds true for most of the other series. There has been significant physical damage to many of records, especially the...