(American : Economic History). File of Manuscripts and Related Material, Concerning Chiefly Henry Ledyard, Lewis Cass Ledyard, and other Ledyard and Cass Relations.
Mostly 19th- and early 20th- century material comprised of legal, commercial, and personal documents - also includes ledgers and railroad stock certificates and bonds - ca. 1870. Many hundreds of pieces in total.
Ledyard, Henry, 1812 - 1880, Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, Assistant U.S. Secretary under Lewis Cass, president of Newport (RI) Hospital, and Redwood Library in Newport.
Ledyard, Lewis Cass, born 1851, New York lawyer, president of New York Library, private counsel to Pierpont Morgan.