Title: Henry Carter Adams Papers Creator: Adams, Henry Carter, 1851-1921 Dates: 1864-1924 Extent: 30.3 linear feet, 3 oversize folders, 1 oversize folder Abstract:
Professor of economics at University of Michigan, 1880-1921, statistician for the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-1911, developed standard accounting procedures for railroads. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs.
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Finding aid prepared by: Bentley Historical Library Staff
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The collection was the gift of Professor Henry Carter Adams, Jr. (donor no. 4029) and came to the library in accessions of 1963 and 1965, and of Thomas Adams (donor no. 4320, 4029 and came to the library primarily in 1966.
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Preferred Citation:
item, folder title, box no., Henry Carter Adams Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Arrangement
The Henry Carter Adams papers have been arranged into nine series representing either types of documents or areas of activities. These series are:
Correspondence
Student Notebooks and Diaries and other bound materials
U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad and Utility Company Consultation Case files
Special Consultant to the Chinese Government
Addresses, Lectures and Writings
Miscellaneous
Topical file
Photographs.
Biography
Henry Carter Adams was born in Davenport, Iowa, December 31, 1851, the son of the Reverend Ephraim and Elizabeth (Douglass) Adams. His parents were members of the "Iowa Band," a group of New England Congregationalists who went west to establish churches and colleges modelled after Eastern counterparts. After graduating from Iowa College (later Grinnell) in 1874, Adams matriculated at Andover Seminary (his father's alma mater) to prepare for the ministry. After one year, however, he decided against a ministerial career and in favor of advanced study in political economy. Entering Johns Hopkins he fell under the influence of Herbert Baxter Adams. In 1878 he received the first doctor of philosophy degree awarded by the new university and spent the following year studying in Europe. In 1880, Adams accepted his first teaching position, a joint appointment at Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Forced out of Cornell because of his "radical" economic theories, he took up permanent residence in Ann Arbor, remaining on the Michigan faculty until his retirement in 1921.
In 1887, Adams accepted additional responsibilities as a statistician for the Interstate Commerce Commission. With the reorganization of the Commission in 1907, Adams became head of a section charged with accounts and statistics, where he served until he retired from federal service in 1911. In these beginning years of government utility regulation, Adams developed a uniform system of railroad accounting essential to such regulation. After he left the Commission, Adams used his technical knowledge in serving as an "expert witness" in numerous railroad compensation and tax cases.
From 1913 to 1916 Adams served the Chinese government as a special consultant on railroad accounts and statistics, spending a year in China by government invitation. In his last years he concerned himself increasingly with the improvement and expansion of education in business and the social sciences. Several universities, recognizing his pioneering work, granted Adams honorary degrees. In 1895 his professional colleagues elected him president of the then infant American Economic Association. He also served for a time as associate editor of the International Journal of Ethics.
As a spokesman for progressive ideas, Henry Carter Adams demonstrated a penchant for practical innovation and controversy, lecturing extensively and writing numerous books and articles on a wide range of social, economic and philosophical issues and questions. He died August 11, 1921.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The Henry Carter Adams papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs.
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
China -- History -- 1861-1912.
Detroit (Mich.)
Economics.
Education -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Germany.
Public utilities -- United States.
Railroads -- United States.
Social service -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Street-railroads -- United States.
Taxation -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Michigan.
Ann Arbor (Mich.) -- Dwellings.
Children.
Dwellings -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Private libraries.
Travel.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Adams, Henry Carter, 1851-1921.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
Canadian Express Company (Montrèal, Quèbec)
Canadian Northern Express Company (Toronto, Ont.)
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad Company.
Chicago Demurrage Bureau.
Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway.
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company.
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company of Illinois.
Chicago Warehouse & Terminal Company.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway Company.
Colorado and Southern Railway.
Detroit United Railway.
Erie Railroad.
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company.
Great Northern Express Company.
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)
Houston & Texas Central Railway Company.
Houston, East and West Texas Railway.
Houston and Shreveport Railroad Company.
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Illinois Tunnel Company.
International & Great Northern Railroad.
Iowa Central Railway Company.
Kansas City Southern Railway.
Lagonda Western Railway Company.
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
Louisiana & Pacific Railway Company.
Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company.
Louisiana Western Railroad Company.
Manufacturers' Railway Company.
Michigan. Board of State Tax Commissioners.
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company.
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
New Orleans, Natchez & Northwestern Railroad Company of Louisiana.
New York Central Railroad Company.
Northern Express Company (St. Paul, Minn.)
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
Union Pacific Oregon Shortline Railroad.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Pullman Company.
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company.
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company.
Southern Pacific Company.
Southern Railway (U.S.)
Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company.
Texas & Pacific Railway.
Toledo, St. Louis, and Western Railroad Company.
Trunk Line Association.
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
University of Michigan. Dept. of Economics.
University of Michigan -- Faculty.
Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway Company.
Western Express Company (Toronto, Ont.)
Western Railway Weighing Association and Inspection Bureau.
Adams, Bertha H. Wright.
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902.
Adams, Elizabeth Sylvia Ann (Douglass), 1821-1905.
Adams, Ephraim, 1818-1907.
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930.
Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901.
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908.
Anderson, William J.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Ashley, H. W.
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946.
Bartlett, Hamilton H.
Beakes, Samuel Willard, 1861-1927.
Bemis, Edward Webster, 1860-1930.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941.
Brown, W. C. (William Carlos), 1853-1924.
Bullock, Charles Jesse, 1869-1941.
Burton, Marion Le Roy, 1874-1925.
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.
Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935.
Canfield, James Hulme, 1847-1909.
Clark, Frederick Converse.
Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938.
Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934.
Commons, John Rogers, 1862-1945.
Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915.
Cooley, Charles Horton, 1864-1929.
Cooley, Lyman Edgar, 1850-1917.
Cooley, Mortimer E. (Mortimer Elwyn), 1855-1944.
Cooley, Thomas McIntyre, 1824-1898.
Dawson, William Mercer Owens, 1853-1916.
Dewey, Davis Rich, 1858-1942.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Dixon, Frank Haigh, 1869-1944.
D'Ooge, Martin Luther, 1839-1915.
Durand, Edward Dana, 1871-
Effinger, John Robert, 1869-1933.
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911.
Ely, Richard Theodore, 1854-1943.
Evans, Elizabeth Edson Gibson, 1832-1911.
Fairchild, Fred Rogers, 1877-1966.
Fetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1863-1949.
Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947.
Friday, David, 1876-1945.
Giddings, Franklin Henry, 1855-1931.
Fuertes, E. A.
Gifford, Walter S. (Walter Sherman), 1885-1966.
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908.
Gore, Mr. (Thomas Pryor), 1870-1949.
Gray, John H. (John Henry), 1859-1946.
Guthe, Karl Eugen, 1866-1915.
Hadley, Arthur Twining, 1856-1930.
Hanshue, J. J.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.
Hathaway, F. R.
Hawes, Harry B.
Hawley, Willis Chatman.
Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941.
Hollander, Jacob Harry, 1871-1940.
Hopkins, Albert J. (Albert Jarvis), 1846-1922.
Hull, Charles Henry, 1864-
Hutchins, Harry B. (Harry Burns), 1847-1930.
James, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1855-1925.
Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.
Jeffery, Edward Turner, 1843-1927.
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856-1929.
Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Jruks, J. W.
Knight, George W. (George Wells), 1858-1932.
Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933.
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932.
Laughlin, J. Laurence (James Laurence), 1850-1933.
Lawton, Charles De Witt, 1835-1909.
Lewis, David J. (David John), 1869-1952.
Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954.
Martin, H. B.
Mayo-Smith, Richmond, 1854-1901.
Mead, Edwin Doak, 1849-1937.
Newcomb, H. T. (Harry Turner), 1867-1944.
Ono, Yeijiro.
Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.
Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948.
Peabody, Charles.
Pickard, Josiah Little, 1824-1914.
Raymond, J. Everett.
Ripley, William Zebina, 1867-1941.
Rogers, Henry Wade, 1853-1926.
Rosenthal, Lessing, 1868-1949.
Salter, William Mackintire, 1853-1931.
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Sedgwick, W. T. (William Thompson), 1855-1921.
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson, 1861-1939.
Sharfman, I. Leo (Isaiah Leo), 1886-1969.
Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.
Shibley, George H. (George Henry), 1861-
Small, Albion Woodbury, 1854-1926.
Smith, Henry Cassorte, 1859-1911.
Smith, J. Allen (James Allen), 1860-1926.
Smith, John McMunn C., 1853-1923.
Stanley, Augustus Owsley, 1867-1958.
Stearns, Justus S. (Justus Smith), 1845-
Stephens, E. W.
Taussig, F. W. (Frank William), 1859-1940.
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938.
Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919.
Towne, Charles Arnette, 1858-1928.
Townsend, Charles E. (Charles Elroy), 1856-1924.
Tunell, George Gerard.
Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
Van Hise, Charles Richard, 1857-1918.
Vaughan, Victor C. (Victor Clarence), 1851-1929.
Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929.
Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913.
Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Wilcox, Delos F. (Delos Franklin), 1873-1928.
Wilcox, Walter Francis, 1861-
Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Adams, Bertha H. Wright.
Adams, Elizabeth Sylvia Ann (Douglass), 1821-1905.
Adams, Henry Carter, 1851-1921.
Adams, Henry Carter, 1891-1970.
Adams, Theodore Wright, 1896-
Adams, Thomas Hammond, 1901-
Adams family.
Contents List
Request materials for use in the Bentley Library
Container / Location
Title
Correspondence [series]
he Correspondence series, dating from 1864 to 1925 (with the inclusion of scattered materials following his death), includes both letters received and letterpress volumes of copies of letters sent. Correspondence for 1881-1902 and 1903-1907 has been microfilmed. The letterpress volumes represent Adams' professional correspondence while a faculty member at the University of Michigan. Letterpress volumes from his service with the Interstate Commerce Commission will be found in that series. A selective name inventory of the correspondents in the Adams collections can be found at the end of this finding aid.
Box 1
1864-June 1883
Box 2
July 1883-March 1890
Box 3
April 1890-January 1896
Box 4
February 1896-February 1899
Box 5
March 1899-1901
Box 6
1902-March 1904
Box 7
April 1904-March 1906
Box 8
April 1906-1909
Box 9
1910-March 1911
Box 10
April 1911-June 1916
Box 11
July 1916-June 1920
Box 12
July 1920-May 1925
Box 12
Undated
(8 folders)
Box 13
undated
(7 folders)
Box 13
Correspondence of Professor David Friday 1912-1919
Box 13
Letters written from China by HCA and his wife to their son, Carter 1913-1915
Box 13
Letters of son Theodore Adams exchanged with his parents and grandparents 1898-1914
Box 13
Letters of son Thomas Adams exchanged with his parents and grandparents 1901-1915
Letterbooks
Box 13
October 1893-January 1896
Box 13
January 1896-March 1899
Box 13
April 1899-October 1900
Box 13
October 1900-March 1902
Box 14
March 1902-July 1903
Box 14
July 1903-February 1906
Box 14
1895-1900
(Michigan Political Science Association secretary's correspondence)
Student Notebooks, Diaries and other bound materials [series]
The Student Notebooks, Diaries and other bound materials series consists of bound volumes of diaries and notes and notebooks from the period when Adams was a student at Iowa College, then at Andover Seminary. There are also diaries and notes from his stay in Germany, 1878-1879, other diaries from 1882, and various other notebooks. This series is arranged chronologically and dates from 1870 to 1884 with one non-Adams account book from the period of 1922-1923.
Box 14
Student notebook on Roman history 1870-1874
Box 14
Diary 1871
Box 14
Diary and student notes 1873-1882
Box 14
Andover Seminary notes 1875
Box 14
Andover Seminary student notes 1875-1877
Box 14
Essay on taxation circa 1875-1877
Box 14
Andover diary and notes 1875-1877
Box 15
Diary 1878
Box 15
Stuttgart notes circa 1884
(more probably notes for Taxation in United States or Science of Finance)
Box 15
Berlin diary 1878-1879
Box 15
Berlin notes 1879
Box 15
Subjects for essay with bibliography 1880
Box 15
Diary 1882
Box 15
Lectures on taxation by Thomas M. Cooley 1882
Box 15
Academic notes 1884
Box 15
Account book 1922-1923
U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission [series]
The Interstate Commerce Commission series covering the period of Adams time with the ICC (1887-1911), though it does include some volumes of administrative reports and instructions, consists primarily of two subseries. The first is a file of reports arranged alphabetically by the name of railroad or the railroad-related agency. The second is a sequence of letterpress volumes of correspondence sent by Adams while with the ICC. These volumes date from 1889 to 1911.
Box 15
Classification of Operating Expenses 1889
Box 15
Book of Instruction for Annual Report 1889
Box 15
Manuscript volume of statistics presented by Elmer Walker
Box 15
Instructions to Examiners
Reports (by name of company or agency)
Box 15
Atlantic Coast Line Company
Box 15
Canadian Express Company at Montreal, Canada
Box 15
Canadian Northern Express Company at Toronto, Canada
Box 15
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company and Illinois Central Railroad Company
Box 15
Chicago Demurrage Bureau
Box 15
Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railway Company
Box 15
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company
Box 15
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Box 15
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway Company
Box 16
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company
Box 16
Colorado and Southern Railway Company
Box 16
Conference of Examiners of the Bureau of Statistics and Accounts
Box 16
Erie Railroad Company
Box 16
Free Transportation: Special Report in the Matter of Free Transportation Furnished by Carriers
Box 16
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad
Box 16
Grain Shipper at Cincinnati, Ohio 1907-1908
Box 16
Great Northern Express Company
Box 16
Great Northern Railway
Box 16
Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company; Houston East and West Texas Railway Company; Houston and Shreveport Railroad Company
Box 16
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Box 16
Illinois Tunnel Company and the Chicago Warehouse and Terminal Company
Box 16
International and Great Northern Railroad Company
Box 16
Iowa Central Railway Company
Box 16
Joint Rate Inspection Bureau
Box 16
Kansas City Southern Railway Company and the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company
Box 16
Lagonda Western Railway Company
Box 16
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Box 16
Louisiana and Pacific Railway Company
Box 16
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Box 16
Manufacturers' Railway Company of St. Louis
Box 16
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois Line
Box 17
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company
Box 17
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Box 17
Missouri Pacific Railway System
Box 17
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company; Louisiana Western Railroad Company
Box 17
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company
Box 17
New Orleans and Northwestern Railroad Company
Box 17
New York Central Railroad Lines
Box 17
Northern Express Company at St. Paul, Minnesota
Box 17
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Box 17
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Box 17
Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
Box 17
Pullman Company: Chicago and Alton Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company
Box 17
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company
Box 17
St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company
Box 18
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company
Box 18
Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company
Box 18
Southern Railway Company
Box 18
"Tap Line" Hearing at New Orleans
Box 18
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Box 18
Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Company
Box 18
Track Changes at Gary, Indiana for U.S. Steel
Box 18
Trunk Line Association
Box 18
Southern Pacific Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Box 18
Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway
Box 18
Western Express Company at Toronto, Canada
Box 18
Western Railway Weighing Association and Inspection Bureau
Box 18
Miscellaneous Reports, Memoranda, Charts
Box 19
Letterbooks
Box 19
1889-1892
Box 19
1891-1893
Box 19
1891-1894
Box 19
1892-1893
Box 19
1893-1894
Box 19
1894-1895
Box 19
1895-1896
Box 19
1896-1899
Box 19
1899-1900
Box 20
1900-1901
Box 20
1901-1903
Box 20
1903-1904
Box 20
1904-1905
Box 20
1908-1909
Box 20
1909-1910
Box 20
1910
Box 20
1910-1911
Railroad and Utility Company Consultation Case files [series]
The Railroad and Utility Company Consultation Case files include reports, memoranda, and other working materials from a variety of tax and appraisal cases for which Adams was a consultant.
Box 21
American and Telephone and Telegraph Company
Box 21
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
Box 21
Chicago Smoke Abatement Case
Box 21
Chicago Sanitation Drainage Canal Case
Box 21
Detroit United Railway
Box 22
Detroit United Railway (cont.)
Box 23
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway Company
Box 23
Illinois Central Railroad Company and Illinois Charter Tax Case
Box 23
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Box 23
Michigan Central Railroad
Box 23
Michigan Railroad Appraisal Case
Box 23
Michigan Railroad Tax Case
Box 23
New Jersey Public Service Railway
Box 23
New York Central Railroad Company
Box 23
Railway Mail Pay Case
Box 24
Western Pacific Railroad
Box 24
Miscellaneous Material
Special Consultant to the Chinese Government [series]
The Special Consultant to the Chinese Government series includes a scattering of collected material on Chinese railroads from the period 1913-1916.
Box 24
Miscellaneous materials on Chinese railroads
Addresses, Lectures and Writings [series]
The Addresses, Lectures, Writings series consists of three subseries for addresses, lectures, and manuscripts of writings. Included here as well are volumes of Adams' published essays and addresses.
Addresses [subseries]
Box 25
The Doctrine of Capital
Box 25
The economics of arbitration
Box 25
Historic background of the labor movement
Box 25
Is civilization just to working men
Box 25
On the meaning of industrial history
Box 25
Opening address for School of Applied Ethics
Box 25
The outlook for federal railway legislation
Box 25
The outlook of a political economist
Box 25
Relation of church to working man
Box 25
Remarks on occasion of presentation of portrait of Ephraim Adams to Grinell College
Box 25
The right of employment
Box 25
Social significance of machinery
Box 25
Socialism
Box 25
Trusts
Box 25
Trusts
(address presented before American Economic Association)
Box 25
Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Lectures (alphabetical by title) [subseries]
Box 25
Analysis of economic thought
(microfilm copy available)
Box 25
Austrian School of Economy
Box 25
Communism and socialism
Box 25
Current economic problems
(3 folders)
(microfilm copy available)
Box 25
Fluctuation of prices from 1782-1865
Box 25
Free trade
Box 25
Immigration
Box 25
Industrial history
Box 25
An interpretation of the movement of our times
Box 25
Labor
Box 25
Labor and monopoly problem
Box 25
Outline of lectures on social and industrial problems
Box 25
Panics and commercial depressions
Box 25
Railway problems
Box 25
School of Applied Ethics
Box 25
Social and industrial reform
Box 25
Social movements
Box 26
Taxation
(2 folders)
(microfilm copy available)
Box 26
Transportation
Box 26
Trusts
Box 26
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Writings [subseries]
Box 26
First Period of State Indebtedness. Revolutionary Period
Box 26
Outline of Political Economy
(2 folders)
Box 26
Public debt
(3 folders)
Box 26
Public industries and the fiscal policy
(2 folders)
Box 26
Railway accounting
(5 folders)
Box 27
Science of finance
(2 folders)
Box 27
Survey of the American taxing system
(microfilm copy available)
Box 27
Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816, thesis, Johns Hopkins University
Box 27
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Box 27
Articles and reprints of articles by HCA
(1 folder)
Box 27
Collected essays and addresses
(1 volume)
(published articles)
Miscellaneous [series]
The Miscellaneous series includes smaller files relating to the U-M Department of Economics, some student research papers, biographical information, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and some letters and other materials of Mrs. Henry Carter Adams.
Box 27
U-M Department of Economics materials
Box 27
U-M student term papers
Box 27
Personal and bibliographical materials
(2 folders)
Box 27
Articles and papers about Henry Carter Adams
Box 28
Scrapbooks
(2 volumes)
Box 28
Newspaper clippings
(7 folders)
Box 28
Miscellaneous
(4 folders)
Box 28
Papers of Mrs. Henry Carter Adams 1917-1934
(5 folders)
Topical File 1908-1911 [series]
The Topical File series was received several years after the major accession of Adams papers. It covers the years 1908 to 1911, is arranged alphabetically, and relates primarily to railroad and utility rates and statistical issues.
Committee on Uniform Railway Statistics
Box 29
Records
(4 folders)
Oversize Folder 3
Map of Southern Railway blueprint
(1 oversize folder)
Box 29
Accounting Officers Association
Box 29
Additions and betterments
Box 29
Advance rate hearings
Box 29
Ann Arbor Office
Box 29
Annual reports
Box 29
Balance sheet correspondence
Box 29
Board of examiners
Box 29
Capitalization
Box 29
Corporation tax file
Box 29
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Box 29
Depreciation of maintenance of way and structures
Box 29
Destruction of records
Box 29
Division of Statistics and Accounts
Box 29
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad
Box 29
Electric railways
Box 29
Employees, reclassification of
Box 29
Express companies
(2 folders)
Box 29
General
Box 29
G Street building
Box 29
Income account
Box 29
Industrial Railroad Division
Box 29
Joint facilities file
Box 29
Jurisdiction
Box 30
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Box 30
New York City Subways
Box 30
Outside operations
Box 30
Pass accounts
Box 30
Pipe lines
Box 30
Property abandoned
Box 30
Pullman matters
(4 folders)
Box 30
Railroad Securities Commission
Box 30
Telegraph Company
Box 30
Telegraph literature
Box 30
Telephone company
Box 30
Texas Railroad Commission
Box 30
Undercharges, collection of
Box 30
Union Pacific report
Box 30
Validating Bureau
Box 30
Valuation
Box 30
Water carriers
Box 30
Western Pacific Railroad
Box 30
Synopses of certain examiners reports
Box 30
Texts of the ICC law
Box 30
Miscellanea
Photographs [series]
(see also Uam oversize folder)
Photographs includes portraits of Adams and other family members and views of his home on Hill Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Henry Carter Adams
Box 31
Portraits
Box 31
Homes, Miscellaneous
House, 1421 Hill Street, Ann Arbor
Box 31
Exterior
Box 31
Interior
Box 31
Gardens
Box 31
Bertha Wright Adams (HCA wife)
Box 31
Henry C. Adams (HCA son)
Box 31
Theodore Adams (HCA son)
Thomas Adams (HCA son)
Box 31
Portraits
Box 31
European trip, 1914, pre-August
Box 31
Elizabeth Adams (HCA mother)
Box 31
Adams family, various
Additional Descriptive Data
Partial Index to Correspondence
Adams, Bertha H. Wright.
Correspondence throughout collection after 1889.
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902.
May 30, 1882; Feb. 12, 1883; Jan. 31, 1884; Feb. 9, 1884; Mar. 7, 1884; Mar. 9, 1884; Apr. 9, 1884; Apr. 25, 1884; May 12, 1884; May 17, 1884; May 26, 1884; Mar. 11, 1885; May 18, 1885; Apr. 21, 1890; Jan. 24, 1895; Feb. 4, 1895; Mar. 5, 1897; Feb. 4, 1899; Feb. 23, 1899.
Adams, Elizabeth Sylvia Ann (Douglass), 1821-1905.
Correspondence throughout collection.
Adams, Ephraim, 1818-1907.
Correspondence throughout collection.
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930.
Correspondence throughout collection.
Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901.
May 12, 1882; June 15, 1882; Oct. 17, 1883; Jan. 24, 1884; Feb. 20, 1884; Mar. 18, 1884; Apr. 27, 1884; May 6, 1884; June 25, 1884; Aug. 23, 1884; Mar. 12, 1885; May 21, 1890; Jan. 18, 1895; Feb. 18, 1895; May 13, 1895; Feb. 5, 1896; Feb. 11, 1896; Mar. 25, 1896, Jan. 30, 1901
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
June 28, 1895, Sept. 11, 1899, Mar. 6, 1901.
Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908.
Jan. 21, 1888.
Anderson, William J.
March 23, 1900
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Aug. 1, 1899 and 1899 undated and correspondence throughout collection.
Ashley, H. W.
Dec. 8, Dec. 26, 1900
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946.
Jan. 2, 1906.
Bartlett, Hamilton M.
Correspondence throughout collection.
Beakes, Samuel Willard, 1861-1927.
June 8, 1914.
Bemis, Edward Webster, 1860-1930.
May 3, 1895; May 23, 1895; Dec. 17, 1896; Dec. 28, 1896; Dec. 10, 1897; May 11, 1899; May 16, 1899; Mar. 22, 1901; Apr. 9, 1901; Apr. 23, 1901; May 18, 1901; May 27, 1901; Dec. 18, 1905; Feb. 28, 1906; Mar. 8, 1906.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941.
June 14, 1911.
Brown, W. C. (William Carlos), 1853-1924.
Nov. 5, 1910; May 2, 1911; June 26, 1911; Oct. 10, 1911; Nov. 7, 1911.
Bullock, Charles Jesse, 1869-1941.
Apr. 7, 1902; Apr. 16, 1902; Oct. 24, 1902; Oct. 19, 1905; Mar. 2, 1915; Mar. 29, 1915; Apr. 26, 1915; May 24, 1915; Aug. 15, 1916; May 28, 1918; June 21, 1918.
Burton, Marion LeRoy, 1874-1925.
Sept. 21, 1920.
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.
Jan. 11, 1902.
Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935.
Jan. 16, Feb. 6, Mar. 5, May 29, Nov. 17, 1900
Campbell, Milo D.
May 15, 1900
Canfield, James Hulme, 1847-1909.
May 20, 1895; May 27, 1895; June 11, 1895.
Clark, Frederick Converse
April 30, May 25, 1900
Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938.
Dec. 10, 1886; Dec. 29, 1886; Feb. 17, 1887; May 31, 1887; May 21, 1889; Sept. 18, 1890; Jan. 10, 1895; 1895; Jan. 4, 1896; June 3, 1896; July 10, 1901; July 26, 1901; Mar. 12, 1904; Dec. 12, 1919.
Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934.
August 29, 1899, Mar. 4, 1899, April 23, 1900, June 1, 1900
Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), b. 1860.
Feb. 14, 1901; Apr. 22, 1911.
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.
Feb. 4, 1895; Feb. 26, 1895; Mar. 20, 1897; Mar. 31, 1897; Apr. 20, 1897; May 4, 1897; June 16, 1897; Jan. 14, 1898; Apr. 2, 1898; Nov. 26, 1898; Jan. 2, 1899; Mar. 24, 1899.
Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948.
Jan. 29, 1915.
Peabody, Charles
September 26, 1899
Pickard, Josiah Little, 1824-1914.
Feb. 4, 1882; Nov. 11, 1882.
Raymond, J. Everett
Feb. 20, 1900
Ripley, William Zebina, 1867-1941.
Feb. 21, 1900, Mar. 5, 1900, Oct. 27, 1900, Dec. 31, 1900; Mar. 8, 1901; Feb. 21, 1902; Mar. 29, 1902; Oct. 10, 1902; June 1, 1903; Sept. 8, 1904; Mar. 30, 1915; Apr. 9, 1915; May 10, 1921.
Rogers, Henry Wade, 1853-1926.
Aug. 25, 1891; Aug. 31, 1891; Sept. 5, 1891; Sept. 11, 1891; Feb. 6, 1899.
Rosenthal, Lessing, 1868-1949.
Jan. 26, 1900
Salter, William Mackintire, 1853-1931.
Sept. 24, 1981; Nov. 20, 1981; July 18, 1982; August 8, 1982; Sept. 27, 1982; Oct. 6, 1982; Oct. 24, 1982; Nov. 10, 1982; May 25, 1983; June 17, 1983; Oct. 1, 1984; Dec. 30, 1984; June 25, 1985; April 6, 1986; Sept. 9, 1990; Aug. 7, 1995; Aug. 11, 1995; Aug. 18, 1995; Aug. 10, 1996; Aug. 28, 1996; Feb. 5, 1907; April 24, 1907; April 30, 1907.
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Dec. 3, 1884.
Sedgwick, W. T. (William Thompson), 1855-1921.
Oct. 27, 1881.
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson, 1861-1939.
Nov. 12, 1899, Jan. 4, 1900, Jan. 25, 1900, Feb. 4, 1900, Mar. 28, 1900, Apr. 29, 1900, May 18, 1900; Correspondence throughout collection.
Sharfman, Isaiah Leo, 1886-
Dec. 18, 1920; Correspondence throughout collection.
Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.
May 28, 1883; June 12, 1883; June 5, 1885; June 17, 1885; Apr. 23, 1886; Nov. 19, 1889; Jan. 5, 1895; Aug. 6, 1895; Dec. 3, 1896; Dec. 9, 1896; Sept. 6, 1898; Dec. 1, 1898; Jan. 4, 1899; Feb. 2, 1899; Apr. 2, 1904.
Shibley, George H. (George Henry), b. 1861.
March 25, 1900
Small, Albion Woodbury, 1859-1926.
July 29, 1895; Feb. 24, 1899; Nov. 16, 1899; Dec. 17, 1903; Dec. 24, 1903; Mar. 5, 1904; Mar. 9, 1904; Mar. 17, 1904; June 15, 1904; June 28, 1904; July 15, 1904.
Smith, Henry Cassorte, 1859-1911.
Mar. 28, 1901, Mar. 30, 1901.
Smith, J. Allen (James Allen), 1860-1926.
July 29, 1895; Aug. 5, 1895; Aug. 12, 1895; Aug. 13, 1895; Aug. 17, 1895; Sept. 23, 1895; Oct. 31, 1895; Dec. 23, 1895; Feb. 7, 1896; Mar. 16, 1896; Apr. 25, 1896; June 27, 1896; June 15, 1897; Dec. 2, 1898; Jan. 4, 1899; Jan. 5, 1899; Apr. 18, 1899; Jan. 14, 1901; Aug. 9, 1906.
