M. C. Stoner papers, 1827-1967

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Summary

Abstract:
Collection comprises correspondence, legal papers, business records, bills and receipts, photographs, writings, recipes, clippings, and other items relating to the life and career of businessman M.C. (Marshall Clayton) Stoner, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and three generations of the Brewer and Stoner families from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Includes many speeches by George W. Brewer, a lawyer and senator in the Pennsylvania legislature, 1857-1859, and M.C. Stoner's father-in-law. Much of the correspondence and other items relate to coal mining and specifically to M.C. Stoner's Rocky Ridge Mining Company. There are also letters written to Stoner's daughter, Louise, chiefly from male friends.
Extent:
15 Linear Feet (12 boxes)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
RL.11841

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises correspondence, legal papers, business records, bills and receipts, photographs, writings, recipes, clippings, and other items relating to the life and career of businessman M.C. (Marshall Clayton) Stoner, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Includes many speeches by George W. Brewer, a lawyer and senator in the Pennsylvania legislature, 1857-1859, and M.C. Stoner's father-in-law. Much of the correspondence and other items relate to coal mining and specifically to M.C. Stoner's Rocky Ridge Mining Company.

Other materials, including early legal papers, pertain to three generations of the Brewer and Stoner families from Pennsylvania and Maryland. There are also letters written to Stoner's daughter, Louise, chiefly from male friends. Her writings may also be present in the collection.

Biographical / historical:

Born in Maryland in 1853, M. C. (Marshall Clayton) Stoner was a businessman whose primary residence after the 1910s was in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the grain and flour business, in real estate in Florida and Georgia, and in coal mining in Pennsylvania. In the 1890s he resided in Georgia, where he formed a company selling mining stock and securities. Although perhaps not reflected in these papers, he was reportedly one of the earliest owners of the Coca-Cola formula, and in Pennsylvania was an official of the Western Maryland Railroad.

Louise Stoner, M.C. Stoner's only child, became a published poet and linguist, and continued to live in the family home in Chambersburg until her death in 1971. She studied at Wilson College, the University of Florida, and the University of Havana in Cuba.

Acquisition information:
The M. C. (Marshall Clayton) Stoner papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 1971.
Processing information:

Core-level processing by library staff. Papers are in original condition as received.

Collection guide created by Paula Jeannet from box-level inventory, April 2020.

Arrangement:

Organized into the following groups: Correspondence; Rocky Ridge Coal and Mining Company correspondence; legal papers; financial papers; writings; recipes; clippings; photographs; and volumes.

Physical facet:
Approx. 17,071 items
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], M. C. (Marshall Clayton) Stoner papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University