Manuscript Group 29, Eugene Vanderpool (1844-1903), President of the Newark Gas Light Company Papers, 1817-1929 (Bulk dates: 1880-1903)

 

 

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Manuscript Group 29, Eugene Vanderpool (1844-1903),
President of the Newark Gas Light Company

 

Papers, 1817-1929 (Bulk dates: 1880-1903), 3 linear feet
/ 7 boxes/volumes

 

Call Number: MG 29 + Box number

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Summary:

 

Primarily business correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and financial records
pertaining to the Newark Gas Light Company, which was headed by Eugene Vanderpool and
merged in 1895 with the Citizens’ Gas Light Company of Newark.  He was the son of
Mayor Beach Vanderpool of Newark, and an 1864 Princeton graduate.  Although he began
his career as a gas engineer, Eugene Vanderpool became President of Howard Savings
Institution.  Includes correspondence with John J. Clancy, Henry C. Kelsey, Frederick
W. Stevens, and Marcus L. Ward, Jr.  There are papers of Walter S. Nichols and other
members of the Nichols family from 1820-1870.

 

 

Biographical Note:

 

Eugene Vanderpool, the son of Mary and
Oliver J. Hayes Vanderpoel, was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1844.  Eugene
graduated from Princeton College in 1869 and soon after married Eleanor (Ellen)
Banker Tiffany (1846-1900).  The couple had three children: Mary Isabella (b. 1870),
Loraine Eleanor (b. 1872), and Beach Wynant (1874-1875).  The Vanderpools lived
at 22 Washington Street in Newark, New Jersey.

 

Eugene Vanderpool was the President of the
Newark Gas Light Company from 1869 until 1895.  At the same time he was President
of the Orange Mountain Cable Company and an adviser to the Philadelphia gas
plant. Vanderpool was also a director in the National Newark Banking Company,
Howard Savings Institution and Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.  He died at
his home from appendicitis on July 12, 1903.

 

Sources:

Newark Directory, 1895 and 1900.

 

Vanderpoel Genealogy: Items Personal and
Social (Charles Francis: New York,
1912).

Administrative History:
The Newark Gas Light Company

 

The Newark Gas Light Company was chartered
on March 25, 1845.  In 1869, Eugene Vanderpool was president of the company
and the directors were: Ira Harrison (1795-1890), Henry
C. Kelsey (1837-1920), George A. Halsey (1827-1894), and Marcus L. Ward (1846-1920).
Vanderpool’s office was at 9 Bank Street in Newark, New Jersey and
the company had property along Market Street, also in Newark.  In 1895, upon
Vanderpool’s retirement, Henry Kelsey became President of the Newark Gas Light
Company.

 

The company ceased operations sometime
between 1895 and 1900.

 

Provenance Note:

 

The source of this collection is unknown.

Scope and Content Note:

 

The Eugene Vanderpool papers mostly
document the affairs of the Newark Gas Light Company, consisting of
correspondence, State of New Jersey acts and bills, indentures, receipts, and
other financial papers.  The papers date from 1817-1929, have bulk dates of
1880-1903, and measure three linear feet.  The documents have been organized by
record type: correspondence; legal documents; board records; financial documents;
literary and artistic materials; and printed materials.  The correspondence is organized by recipient, then
author, and date.  The other documents are arranged in chronological order.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1831-1895

 

The majority of the correspondence belongs
to Eugene Vanderpool and discusses the affairs of the Newark Gas Light Company.
A great deal of attention is paid to the merger of the Newark Gas Light
Company and the Orange Gas Light Company in 1895 and to state bills and acts
regarding incorporation.  This series also contains a number of letters addressed
to members of the Nichols family, particularly Walter S. Nichols.  These letters
discuss his life as a student at Princeton College as well as family news.

Series 2: Legal Documents, 1831-1911

 

Most of the legal documents are indentures
related to the Newark Gas Light Company although there are a number of
indentures pertaining to the Nichols family purchases in Upper Freehold, New
Jersey.  There is also a number of New Jersey bills and acts regarding
incorporation.

Series 3: Newark Gas Light Company Board
Records, 1874-1902

 

The Newark Gas Light Company Board Records
series mostly consists of board meeting minutes and notes regarding the merger
between the Newark Gas Light Company and the Citizens Gas Light Company of
Newark.

Series 4: Financial Documents, 1873-1903

 

The financial documents series mostly consists of
gas expenditures and earnings of the Newark Gas Light Company and other New
Jersey gas companies, and calculations for predictions for gas expenditures and
earnings.  There is also a collection of day cards from the Orange Mountain Cable
Company indicating how many tickets were sold for passengers, bicycles, and
horses, and receipts for salary and wages for the employees of the Orange
Mountain Cable Company.

 

Series 5: Literary and Artistic Materials

 

This series contains a variety of
documents that include Lydia Lavernia Ward’s obituary, Rev. Dr. John Burr’s
obituary, funeral sermons, and a sketchbook.

Series 6: Printed Materials

 

The printed materials series includes
university press catalogues, newspaper articles, and a sketchbook.

Related Collections:

 

Manuscript Group 111, Samuel Hayes
(1776-1839) Daybooks
: Hayes was Eugene Vanderpool’s physician

 

Manuscript Group 686, Franklin Murphy
(1846-1920) Papers
: Includes letters from Eugene Vanderpool

 

Box/Folder List:

 

 

Box Folder Title Dates

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE
EUGENE VANDERPOOL
1 1 Letters to and from William Beetle 1884-1892
1 2 Letters to and from John S. Chambers 1880-1894
1 3 Letters from
J. J. Clancy
1885-1890
1 4 Letters to and from John R. Emery 1893-1894
1 5 Letters to and from Henry C. Kelsey 1879-1890
1 6 Letters to and from Henry C. Kelsey 1891-1892
1 7 Letters to and from Henry C. Kelsey Jan.-Mar. 1893 
1 8 Letters to and from Henry C. Kelsey Apr.-Dec. 1893 
1 9 Letters to and from Henry C. Kelsey 1894-1898
1 10 Letters to and from Emerson McMillon 1893-1894
1 11 Letters from John W. Newell 1884-1885
2 1 Letters to and from
W. W. Shippen
1876-1885
2 2 Letters to and from
A. A. Smalley
1882-1885
2 3 Letters to and from Frederic W.
Stevens
1893-1895
2 4 Letters to and from Reuben Trier 1891
2 5  

Letters to and from United Gas
Improvement Company

 

1888-1894
2 6 Letters to and from
E. F. Young
1880-1891
2 7 Letters to and from A-F 1879-1895
2 8 Letters to and from G-O 1879-1895
2 9 Letters to and from P-Y 1871-1903
Nichols Family and Miscellaneous
Correspondence
2 10 Letters to Walter S. Nichols 1860-1875
2 11 Nichols Family Correspondence 1831-1868
2 12 Letter from
H. N. Congar to Cornelia
Ward
1838
2 13 Letter from
(?) Stratton to William H.
Ireland
1831
2 14 Correspondence and Documents re:
Henry Duryee
1875

SERIES 2: LEGAL DOCUMENTS
3 1 Newark Gas Light Company Indentures 1892-1898
3 2 Newark Gas Light Company and The
Orange Gas Light Company Mortgage
1895
3 3 Newark Gas Light Company and The Orange
Gas Light Company Mortgage
1895
3 4 Legal Documents Pertaining to the
Orange Mountain Cable Company
1895
3 5 Subpoena of Eugene Vanderpool 1898
3 6 New Jersey State Bills and
Acts
1881-1903
3 7 Philadelphia Gas Improvement Co.
Incorporation and Assignment of Interest of Oxy-Hydrogen Company of the U.S.
1875, 1898
3 8 Oxy-Hydrogen Co. of U.S.A.
Stockholders’ Agreements
1894-1898
3 9 Agreement of Lease of United
Gas Improvement Co. to Essex-Hudson Gas Co.
1898-1899
3 10 Newark Consolidated Gas Company
Indentures
1884,1898
3 11 Styron National Fuel Gas Company
Certification
1890
3 12 1st Presbyterian Church of
Newark Contracts
n. d.
4 1  

Indentures and Land Deeds in Upper
Freehold and Newark

 

1827-1864
4 2  

Indentures and Land Deeds in Upper
Freehold and Newark

 

1865-1899
4 3 Nichols Family Indentures 1817-1911
4 4 Nichols Family Indentures 1831-1898

Series 3: NEWARK GAS LIGHT COMPANY BOARD
NOTES
4 5 Board Meeting Minutes 1874-1892
4 6 Board Meeting Minutes 1893
4 7 Board Meeting Minutes 1893-1894
4 8 Board Meeting Minutes
4 9 Board Meeting Minutes 1895-1898
5 1 Merger Agreement: Newark Gas Light
Company and The Citizens Gas Light Company
1895
5 2 Account of Trouble With East Newark
Gas Supply
1902

SERIES 4: FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS
5 3 Financial Notes and Calculations 1873-1883
5 4 Financial Notes and Calculations 1885-1887
5 5 Financial Notes and Calculations 1888-1891
5 6 Financial Notes and Calculations 1892
5 7 Financial Notes and Calculations 1893
5 8 Financial Notes and Calculations 1894
5 9 Financial Notes and Calculations 1895-1897
5 10 Financial Notes and Calculations 1898-1899
5 11 Financial Notes and Calculations 1900-1903
5 12 Financial Notes and Calculations No
Dates
5 13  

Newark Gas Light Co. Merger:
Stockholders’ Receipts, A-K

 

1894-1896
5 14  

Newark Gas Light Co. Merger:
Stockholders’ Receipts, L-W

 

1894-1896
6 1 Receipts 1869-1899
6 2 Orange Mountain Cable Company Day
Cards
1895
6 3  

Orange Mountain Cable Co. – Receipts for Wages, Salaries,
etc., #s 78-202

 

1894-1895
6 4  

Orange Mountain Cable Company – Wages, Salary Receipts, etc., #s 204-399

 

Jan.-May 1895
6 5 Orange Mountain Cable
Company – Wages, Salary Receipts, etc., #s 403-482
May-July 1895
6 6  

Orange Mountain Cable Company – Wages, Salary Receipts, etc., #s 501-621

 

Aug.-Oct. 1895
6 7  

Orange Mountain Cable Company – Wages, Salary Receipts, etc., #s 622-685

 

Nov. 1895, Jan.
1896

SERIES 5: LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MATERIAL
6 8 Vanderpool: Funeral Sermons and
Obituaries (funerals of Lydia Lavernia Ward and Rev. Dr. Jonathan K. Burr)
1858-1882

SERIES 6: PRINTED MATERIALS
6 9 Printed Materials 1890-1929
– Proposed Purchase of American Gas
Undertakings
1890
– University of Minnesota Press
Catalogue
1928-1929
– First Annual List of Publications
by the Ohio State University Press
1928
– Bulletin of the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Park Recreation
Areas in the United States
1928
– Europe and the United States in the West
Indies, by Talcott Williams
1905
6 10 Newspaper Articles 1894-1914
6 11 Invitations to the Ward Family n. d.
6 12 Miscellaneous 1895
– Inventory of Books, Boxes and Papers
of Newark Gas Light Company
1895


 

Processed by James Lewis, April 2001 as part of the “Farm to City”
project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.

 

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