Charles E. Ladd financial papers

Collection

Identifier: Coll 1071

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of financial papers of Charles E. Ladd, a financier who lived in Portland, Oregon, and in Carlton, Oregon. These papers include letters, telegrams, and agreements. Most letters are addressed to Ladd's home in Carlton. The bulk of the collection relates to stock in the Palmer Union Oil Company of San Francisco, California. Other firms represented include the Alaska Galena Company, the Brown-Walker-Simmons Company, the Carlton Consolidated Lumber Company, the Diaz Havana Company, the Hygienic Refrigeration Company, the Midway Oil Company, the Old Mission Portland Cement Company, the Pacific Monthly Company, and the Stratton Oil Company.

Dates

Creation: 1898-1918

Creator

Ladd, Charles E. (Charles Elliott), 1857-1920 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Biographical Note

Charles Elliott Ladd was born in 1857 in Portland, Oregon, the son of William Sargent Ladd (1826-1893). He studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then at Amherst College, Massachusetts. After graduating from Amherst and marrying Sarah Hall (1860-1927), Ladd returned to Portland and worked at the Ladd & Tilton Bank. He was also president of the Carlton Consolidated Lumber Company and associated with Theodore B. Wilcox in the flour milling business. He had a residence in Portland, Oregon, and a farm home in Carlton, Oregon. Ladd died in 1920.

Sources: Obituary in the Oregonian, March 21, 1920, page 4; vital records via Ancestry.com

Extent

0.23 Cubic Feet (1 slim legal document case)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Financial papers of Charles E. Ladd (1857-1920), including correspondence, telegrams, and agreements. The majority of the materials relate to stock in the Palmer Union Oil Company. Ladd was a financier who lived in Portland, Oregon, and Carlton, Oregon.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Virginia Young, July 1998 (Lib. Acc. 23603).

Related Materials

Other materials at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library relating to Charles E. Ladd include the William Sargent Ladd papers, Mss 579; the Ladd family photographs, Org. Lot 58; and the Lily E. White negatives, Org. Lot 1415.