Philip D. Armour Correspondence, 1890-1900 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence from Armour (all but three letters in the collection) includes business letters to Frank F. Miles, a business associate at the Omaha plant, personal letters to his family and friends, and letters detailing the plans for a packing plant in Seattle, to cash in on the Klondike business.

Biographical/Historical Context:

Dubbed "the premiere pork baron" by one biographer, Philip D. Armour owned numerous successful slaughterhouses throughout the United States during the late nineteenth century.

Acquisition Source: The Illinois Historical Survey acquired these photocopies in 1965 from E. G. Schafer, Washington State University. Schafer, the son-in-law of Miles, donated the originals to the Illinois Institute of Technology.