Inventor Name
Rust, John Franklin
Repository
Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
216-721-5722 ext 264
http://www.wrhs.org/library/template.asp?id=145
Physical Description
11.3 linear ft.
Summary
Rust was an active businessman in the Saginaw, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio area. He owned a lumber firm in Cleveland known as Rust, King & Company. Correspondence, commercial and legal documents, and other papers, relating to Rust's activities in the lumber and shipping businesses on the Great Lakes and to the activities of the companies with which he was associated. Includes invoices, receipts, trip accounts for lake vessels, tax records, insurance policies, agreements, deeds, contracts, bills of sale, mortgages, patents, redemption certificates, wills, land plots, township and range charts, circulars, and financial and statistical data. The bulk of the collection consists of accounts of the many trips made by the companies' vessels and receipts and disbursements (1866-84) for each vessel.