1827-1968
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摘要
This collection consists of correspondence, addresses, and other 金融家奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特的论文. 小奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特.
小传
8月 Belmont (1813-1890), financier, politician, and diplomat, was born 8月 Schonburg, the son of Simon and Frederika Schonberg of Alzey, Rhenish Prussia (now Germany). 年轻时 boy, he began an apprenticeship at the Frankfurt banking office of the Rothschild family. In 1837, on his way to Havana on Rothschild business, Belmont arrived in New York City in the midst 1837年的金融恐慌. He remained in New York City, and after the Rothschild business there failed, he founded his own financial services company, 8月 Belmont and Co. 他后来 served as consul general to Austria, minister to the Netherlands, and was active in Democratic 政治. Belmont died in New York City on 24 November 1890, leaving his wife Catherine Slidell 佩里·贝尔蒙特(1829-1892)和五个孩子.
小奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特. (1853-1924) was born in New York to 8月 贝尔蒙特,老. 和凯瑟琳 斯莱德尔(佩里)贝尔蒙特. St的毕业生. Mark's School and Harvard University (Class of 1875), Belmont became a financier, working first for his father's company, 8月 Belmont and Co. He founded the Interborough Transit Company in 1902 to finance the 建设 of New York City's subway system and was instrumental in the promotion and 建设 of 科德角运河. Belmont was married twice: to Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan (1862-1898), with whom he had three 女演员埃莉诺·罗布森(1879-1979). 贝尔蒙特于1924年12月10日在他的 他住在纽约公园大道的公寓里.
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This collection consists of correspondence, addresses, and other papers of financiers 8月 贝尔蒙特,老. 小奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特. Correspondents include William Waldorf Astor, Newton D. 贝克、约瑟夫斯·丹尼尔斯、史岱文森·菲什、乔治·W·布什. 高堡,W. 艾弗里尔·哈里曼，亨利·卡伯特 洛奇，埃莉诺·罗斯福和伍德罗·威尔逊.
老奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特的报纸. consist of typescript translations of correspondence with 他的父亲和妹妹巴贝特(1828-1841). These letters concern his early financial training in the Rothschild office at Frankfurt, 1829-1830, and his activities in New York City, 1836-1841, 同时担任罗斯柴尔德公司的代理人. 他的信中有对美国人的评论 culture and his personal life, including a duel of honor fought with William Hayward in 1841年9月.
小奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特的报纸. relate mainly to the engineering, building, and financing of 科德角运河, 1907-1924, but also include letters concerning the 建设 of the Belmont Tunnel in New York, Belmont's horse racing interests, and other enterprises. 大部分 the collection consists of correspondence documenting Belmont's presidency of the Cape Cod 建设有限公司. 以及波士顿、纽约和科德角运河公司. 包括来自 officials of these companies about the engineering, financing, and 建设 of the canal. Chief correspondents during this period include vice-presidents of the firm H. P. 威尔逊, 队长J. W. 米勒和总工程师威廉·巴克利·帕森斯. 施工副本 contracts from 1909 contain specifications for the canal. 土地协议谈判 and water rights and access bridges are detailed in correspondence with local Cape Cod authorities, legislators, and officers of the New Haven Railroad. 包括几分钟 董事' meetings and occasional correspondence with W. Averell Harriman和其他人 董事.
Papers relating to the opening of the canal on 29 July 1914 include letters and telegrams of 威廉·G的祝贺. McAdoo W. Averell Harriman, Nathan Straus, Harry Payne Whitney, 和伍德罗·威尔逊. Other papers pertain to the opening ceremonies presided over by Seth Low and Belmont's arrangements for guests making the initial canal trip. 随附的是 addresses, notes, and telegrams acknowledging invitations to the event. 在通讯员中 纽约州州长费什(Martin H. 格林和埃莉诺·罗斯福.
The operations of 科德角运河, 1917-1935, are documented in Belmont's correspondence, reports on traffic, statistical surveys, copies of proposed legislation surrounding government takeover of the facility, and additional reports received and collected by Belmont's wife after 他于1924年去世. The lengthy litigation over government seizure of the canal in 1917 and negotiations over compensation are documented in papers from 1917-1924. 特别有趣的是 与特别检察官谢尔曼·L. 惠普尔,1919 - 1921. 波士顿律师事务所Currier和 Young and Innes and Turtle also represented Belmont's interests. 包括确证 工程专家乔治? W. 目标，经营账目，通信 with legislators sympathetic to Belmont's cause, and exchanges with Secretaries of War Newton D. 贝克和约翰·W. 周.
The papers of Eleanor (Robson) Belmont relate to a memorial tablet placed at the site of the Cape Cod Canal in memory of her husband in 1935-1936 and proposals for improvements to the canal 而在美国司法管辖之下.S. 1935年的陆军工程兵团. 对应的 1959 to 1965 pertains to the publication of an edition of 的建筑 科德角运河 about the history of the canal and Belmont's role in its 建设.
获取信息
夫人的礼物. 奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特，1971年3月.
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8月 贝尔蒙特的论文, 马萨诸塞州历史学会.
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