The records of The Knapp-Stout and Co., Company include correspondence, a letter book, constitutional documents, balance sheets, inventories, diaries, journals, historical material regarding the company and its founders, maps, cash books, ledgers, contracts, and other business and financial papers. The bulk of this material is contained in 90 volumes. The contents list which follows provides detailed information on the collection's contents.
In the correspondence in Box 1 are letters exchanged between Henry E. Knapp and other men involved in the operation of the Company--Thomas B. Wilson, Henry L. Stout, Andrew Tainter, and John H. Douglass. The history of the Company in Box 2 indicates the offices each of these men held.
Letters from William R. Marshall of St. Paul deal with the Knapp family's investments in real estate in the Twin Cities; and letters from Orrin H. Ingram, Eau Claire, and Joseph O. Thorp, Cambridge, Massachusetts, deal with lumbering and investments.
