Kenesaw Mountain Landis papers

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LANDIS, KENESAW MOUNTAIN – PAPERS  (77:59)

 

Biographical Sketch of Kenesaw Mountain Landis

By John Miller; rev. by Bob Blythe and Julie Wroblewski, 2017

 

Kenesaw Mountain Landis served as a federal judge and as the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball.He was born in Millville, Ohio, November 20, 1866 and was named (with a slight spelling variation) after Kennesaw Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia. His father, Abraham Landis, was a veteran of the Union Army who lost a leg at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.

Landis attended school in Logansport, Indiana, received his law degree from Union College of Law in Chicago in 1891, and was admitted to the bar in 1891. He married Winifred Reed on July 15, 1895, with whom he had three children: Reed Gresham Landis; Susanne (Mrs. Richard W. Phillips); and Winifred.

 

Landis served as secretary to Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham from 1893 to 1895. He went on to practice law in Chicago, Illinois, from 1895 to 1905, specializing in corporate law with clients that included the Grand Truck railway and the Calumet Electric. In 1905, he was appointed United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, where he served until 1922.  One of Judge Landis’ most well-known decisions was in 1907, when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $29 million for violating federal laws prohibiting rebates on railroad freight tariffs. He also presided over several trials of draft resisters during and after World War I, including Representative Victor L. Berger and four other leaders of the Socialist Party.

 

In 1921 he was appointed as an arbiter of disputes in the Chicago building trades. Among other rulings in his report, he cut wages, removed restrictions on machinery, and established a standardized overtime rate. 

 

Also in 1921, the major league baseball team owners appointed Judge Landis as the first Commissioner. After the “Black Sox” scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of accepting bribes from gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds, the commissioner was expected to restore public trust in the integrity of the league. After taking office as Commissioner, Landis barred the eight Chicago White Sox players from baseball for life.

Landis also fined New York Yankees Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercey and suspended them for the first month of the 1922 season for violating his rule against barnstorming. After his judgeship and the baseball commissionership concurrently for a short period, he resigned from the federal bench in 1922.  He went on to serve 24 years as Commissioner of Baseball.

 

Judge Landis died on Nov. 25, 1944. 

 

Series I

Personal and Family Correspondence

 

Box 1

1a Medical information 1926-1936

1 Correspondence with Mr. Joseph T. Buckner 1922-1943

2 3rd Landis family reunion (Aug. 18, 1913) and 7th Landis family reunion (Aug. 4, 1917)

3 The Landis Award 1927

4 Landis Salary 1921-1933

5 Receipt for cemetery lot 1939

6 Gravesite photos and material

7 Invitation to commencement 1891 and Landis coat of arms

8 Correspondence with grandchildren 1929-1939

9 Correspondence with grandchildren 1940-1943

10 Correspondence with grandchildren undated

11 Correspondence with grandchildren undated

12 Correspondence with children

13 Correspondence with children

14 Correspondence with Winfred Reed Landis 1935-1943

15 Correspondence with Winfred Reed Landis 1927-1934

 

Box 2

1 Correspondence re: Will of Orton C. Wells, Dec. 1938

2 Correspondence with Orton C. Wells 1927-1937

3 Correspondence with Orton C. Wells 1939

4 Correspondence with Orton C. Wells 1938

5 Correspondence with John F. Landis 1938-1941

6 Correspondence with John F. Landis 1935-1937

7 Correspondence with John F. Landis 1942-1943

8 Correspondence with John F. Landis 1918-1928

9 Correspondence with John F. Landis 1944-1945

10 Correspondence with Mrs. M.A.J. Devlin (cousin Jenny) 1935-1942

11 Correspondence with Mr. & Mrs. John H. Landis 1896-1943

12 Correspondence with Lincoln Landis 1942-1944

13 Correspondence with John Landis Holden

 

Box 3

1A Correspondence, Crank letters 1910-1921 and undated

1 Correspondence with Mary Landis 1922-1932

2 Correspondence with Susanne Landis 1907-1910

3 Correspondence with Jacob Kumler 1921-1925

4 Correspondence with Mary Kumler (cousin) 1929-1937

5 Will of Charles J.S. Kumler 1918

6 Family Correspondence, undated

7 Estate papers of Kenesaw Mountain Landis Feb. 1945

8 Correspondence with Mary Kumler Landis undated

9 Correspondence claiming relationship with KML 1940-1942

10 Correspondence with John F. Kumler 1897-1906

11 Newspaper Clippings, Death of Fredrick Landis 1934

12 Correspondence with Charles J.S. Kumler 1913

13 Correspondence re: Death of Charles B. Landis April 23, 1922-June 8, 1922

14 Correspondence with Preston Kumler 1918-1929

15 Correspondence with Katharine Kumler October 1929-July 1944

16 Correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Kumler 1944

17 Correspondence with Mrs. G.V. Stoddard (Nellie Kumler) 1926

18 Correspondence with H. Harter Walter (cousin) 1936

19 Correspondence with Charles H. Kumler 1923-1941

20 Correspondence with Mrs. Jessie Kumler 1940

21 Correspondence with Reverend Luther Kumler 1923-1944

22 Correspondence with Mrs. Charles B. Landis (Cora) 1909-1940

22A Profit and Statement for Uhl, Jones and Landis

23 History of the Landis family

24 Correspondence with William W. Catlin, Henry L. Bryan and Joseph H. Gannon 1895-1921

25 Correspondence with G.A. Funkhouser (uncle) 1896-1940

26 Correspondence with LeRoy Armstrong 1899-1924

 

Box 4

1 Correspondence re: Baseball in the South Pacific (incl. Bill Veeck letter) 1944

2 Apartment lease 1895

3 Correspondence with the Phillips family Mar. 29, 1927-Nov. 9, 1935

4 Correspondence with Richard W. Phillips Jr. (grandson) 1941-1944

5 Correspondence with the Phillips family June 17, 1936-Mar. 18, 1944 and undated

6 Correspondence with Joanne Landis Phillips 1943-1944

7 Correspondence with Walter Landis 1898-1924

8 Correspondence with Ms. Frances Q. Landis 1935

9 Correspondence with Charles W. Landis Jan. 1940-Sept. 1944

10 Correspondence with Fred Landis (brother)

11 Correspondence with miscellaneous family members

12 Correspondence with Charles T. Atkinson (uncle) 1940 and undated

13 Correspondence/messages of sympathy re: Death of Frederick Landis 1934

14 Correspondence with Frederick Landis 1922-1927

15 Magazine issue of Mar. 1922 article, “America’s most interesting man”

16 Correspondence with Ms. Frances Q. Landis 1924-1934/1936-1943 and undated

17 Correspondence with Katherine A. Landis 1939

18 Correspondence with Charles B. Landis 1900-1922

19 Drawing of Landis with letter 1936

 

Box 5

1A Correspondence with Frank W. Morse 1902-1928

1 Correspondence with Dawes Brothers, sheet music

2 Memorandum of agreement between Kenesaw Mountain Landis and baseball 1920, correspondence with Amon G. Carter

3 Three books on conduct of Judge Landis 1921

4 Correspondence re: Attempted swindle 1934-1935

5 Correspondence with Keehn Landis (son of Reed Landis) 1943-1944

6 Correspondence/letters of congratulations re: Re-election to office of Commissioner of Baseball Dec. 1926

7 Correspondence re: Moving to 730 Bluff St., Glencoe IL 1944

8 Correspondence with Elizabeth Ann Landis Cullen Sept. 1942-May 1944

9 Correspondence with Kenesaw Mountain Landis (second son of Frederick Landis, nephew of Judge Landis) 1928-1944

10 Correspondence re: The conduct of Judge Landis 1921-1928

 

Box 6

1 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1917

2 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1917

3 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1917-1918

4 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1918

5 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1918

6 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1918

7 Reed Landis gallantry citation Oct. 5, 1918

8 Newspaper clippings about Reed Landis exploits 1918-1919

9 Correspondence of Reed Landis 1906-1920

10 Machine Gun Operation from the Cadet School of Military Aviation at the University of Illinois

 

 

Box 7

1A Correspondence of Reed Landis 1916-1926

2A Correspondence of Reed Landis 1917

3A Partial manuscript by Reed Landis 1919

4A Correspondence of Reed Landis undated

5A Cancelled checks, notes and correspondence, Keith/Landis Corporation 1924

6A Correspondence of Keith/Landis Corporation 1922-1923

7A Correspondence of Keith/Landis Corporation 1925

8A Correspondence of Keith/Landis Corporation 1925-1933

9A Correspondence of Keith/Landis Corporation 1928-1933

10A Correspondence of Reed Landis 1930-1940

11A Correspondence of Reed Landis 1934-1941

12A Correspondence of Reed Landis 1942-1944

13A Correspondence of Reed Landis undated

 

Box 8

1 Burtlake Michigan property correspondence 1903-1922

2 Burtlake Michigan property deeds, abstractions, insurance policies and correspondence 1910-1923

3 Burtlake Michigan property mortgage papers 1923

4 Burtlake Michigan property correspondence 1927-1931

5 Burtlake Michigan property correspondence 1932 1935

6 Burtlake Michigan property correspondence 1923-1940

7 Burtlake Michigan property correspondence 1936-1944

 

Box 9

1 General correspondence 1915-1919

2 General correspondence 1915-1919

3 Correspondence re: Suez Canal 1889

4 General Correspondence 1896

5 General correspondence 1910-1912

6 General correspondence 1905-1907

7 General correspondence 1905-1909

8 General correspondence 1893-1896

9 General correspondence 1913-1915

10 Shorthand notebook 1912

11 General correspondence Oct. 5, 1910-Feb. 21, 1913

 

Box 10

1A Court case, B.B. Davis Jan. 21, 1915

1 General correspondence Feb. 18, 1911-July 13, 1913

2 General correspondence 1920

3 General correspondence undated

4 General correspondence Jan.-May 1921

5 General correspondence July-Aug. 1921

6 Correspondence with Francis J. Carey 1921-1924

 

Box 11

1 General correspondence Sept.-Dec. 1921

2 General correspondence Jan. 1922

3 General correspondence 1922

4 General correspondence May-July 1922

5 Correspondence re: Arment

6 Papers delivered in re: Arment

7 General correspondence Sept.-Dec. 1922

8 Correspondence with Colonel William Greene Sterrett in re: Ku Klux Klan

 

Box 12

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1923

2 General correspondence Feb.-Apr. 1923

3 General correspondence Apr. 1923

4 General correspondence May-Sept. 1923

5 General correspondence Oct.-Dec. 1923

6 General correspondence Jan.-June 1924

7 General correspondence July-Sept. 1924

 

Box 13

1 General correspondence Oct.-Dec. 1924

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1925

3 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1925

4 General correspondence May-June 1925

5 General correspondence July-Aug. 1925

6 General correspondence Sept.-Dec. 1926

7 General correspondence Jan.-June 1926

8 General correspondence July-Oct. 1926

9 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1926

 

Box 14

1 General correspondence Jan. 1927

2 General correspondence Feb. 1927 (incl. Chick Evans letter)

3 General correspondence Mar. 1927

4 General correspondence Apr.-June 1927

5 General correspondence July-Dec. 1927

6 General correspondence undated

7 Undated notes in shorthand

8 Correspondence re: The Sportsmanship Brotherhood 1927

 

Box 15

1 General correspondence Jan.-Mar. 1928

2 General correspondence Apr.-June 1928

3 General correspondence July-Sept. 1928

4 General correspondence Oct.-Dec. and undated 1928

 

Box 16

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1929

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1929

3 General correspondence May-June 1929

4 General correspondence July 1929

5 General correspondence Aug. 1929

6 General correspondence Sept. 1929

7 General correspondence Oct. 1929

8 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. and undated 1929

 

Box 17

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1930

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1930

3 General correspondence May-June 1930

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1930

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1930

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1930

 

Box 18

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1931

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1931

3 General correspondence May-June 1931

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1931

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1931

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. and undated 1931

 

Box 19

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1932

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1932

3 General correspondence May-June 1932

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1932

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1932

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. and undated 1932

 

Box 20

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1933

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1933

3 General correspondence May.-June 1933

4 General correspondence July.-Aug. 1933

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1933

6 General correspondence Nov. 1933

7 General correspondence Dec. 1933

 

Box 21

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1934

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1934

3 General correspondence May-June 1934

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1934

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1934

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. and undated 1934

7 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1935

8 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1935

9 General correspondence May-Sept. 1935

 

Box 22

1 General correspondence July-Aug. 1935

2 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1935

3 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1935

4 General correspondence undated 1935

5 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1936

6 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1936

7 General correspondence May-June 1936

8 General correspondence July-Aug. 1936

9 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1936

10 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1936

 

Box 23

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1937

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1937

3 General correspondence May-June 1937

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1937

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1937

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1937

7 General correspondence undated

8 General correspondence undated

 

Box 24

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb.1938

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1938

3 General correspondence May-June 1938

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1938

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1938

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1938

 

Box 25

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1939

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1939

3 General correspondence May-June 1939

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1939

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1939

6 General correspondence Nov. 1939

7 General correspondence Dec. 1939

 

Box 26

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1940

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1940

3 General correspondence May-June 1940

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1940

5 General correspondence Sept. 1940

6 General correspondence Oct. 1940

7 General correspondence Nov. 1940

8 General correspondence Dec. 1940

9 General correspondence undated 1940

 

Box 27

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1941

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1941

3 General correspondence July-Aug. 1941

4 General correspondence May-June 1941

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1941

6 General correspondence Nov. 1941

7 General correspondence Dec. 1941

 

Box 28

1 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1942

2 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1942 (incl. letter from Bill Veeck, Sr.)

3 General correspondence May-June 1942 (incl. material re: Allstar game)

4 General correspondence July-Aug. 1942

5 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1942

6 General correspondence Nov.-Dec. 1942

7 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1943

8 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1943

9 General correspondence May-June 1943

 

Box 29

1 General correspondence July-Aug. 1943

2 General correspondence Sept.-Oct. 1943

3 General correspondence Nov. 1943

4 General correspondence Dec. 1943

5 General correspondence Jan.-Feb. 1944

6 General correspondence Mar.-Apr. 1944

7 General correspondence May-June 1944

8. General correspondence July-Aug. 1944

9. General correspondence Sept.-Dec. 1944 & undated

10. General correspondence Mar.-Oct. 1945

11. General correspondence undated

12. Nine pieces sheet music some signed by Thekla H. Andrew

 

Series II

Letterbooks

 

Box 30

3 Bound books 536-549-550

May 16, 1892 – June 23, 1897

 

Box 31

2 Bound books 535-542

Dec. 29, 1898 – May 13, 1902

 

Box 32

2 Bound books 543-552

May 26, 1902 – Mar. 2, 1904

 

Box 33

2 Bound books 406-553

Dec. 14, 1918 – Aug. 9, 1920

 

Box 34

2 Bound books 558-539

June 23, 1897 – Jan. 31, 1899

 

Box 35

2 Bound books 521-547

Aug. 9, 1920 – May 7, 1921

 

Box 36

2 Bound books 527-551

Mar. 2, 1904 – Mar. 27, 1905

 

Box 37

2 Bound books 598-537

May 7, 1921 – Dec. 21, 1921

 

Box 38

3 Bound books 541-544-546

May 3, 1905 – Jan. 7, 1913

 

Box 39

1 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1921-1922

2 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1923

3 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1924

4 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1927

5 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1925-1926

6 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1928-1929

7 American Legion press releases re: Disabled war veterans

8 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1930-1931

9 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1932

10 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1933-1934

11 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1935-1936

 

Series VI

Correspondence

 

Box 40

1 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1937

2 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1938

3 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1940

4 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1941

5 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1939

6 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1942

7 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1943

8 Correspondence with charitable organizations 1944

 

Box 41

1 Boys Brotherhood Republic 1925-1944

2 The Boys Scouts of America 1922-1931

3 The Boy Scouts of America 1932-1943

4 Izaak Walton League 1924

5 Izaak Walton League 1925

6 Izaak Walton League 1926

7 Izaak Walton League 1928

8 Izaak Walton League 1929-1936

9 Izaak Walton League undated

10 Izaak Walton League 1937-1942

11 Jane Addams Hull House 1933-1944

 

Series III

Prominent People

 

Box 42

1 Extracts from 7th Annual Message from President Monroe 1823

2 Correspondence from U.S. Grant copies 1864

3 Pamphlet, ‘Mister Blaine and his foreign policy’ 1884

4 Dedication to A.G. Spalding with pictures of baseball players 1889

5 Correspondence from Gen. Blair to Gen. Greshem 1888-1932

6 Correspondence with James R. Mock 1892-1897

7 Correspondence with Henry T. Thurber 1896-1900

8 Correspondence with Charles G. Dawes 1898-1943

9 Correspondence with Gov. Frank Lowden 1898-1933 and undated

10 Correspondence with Mr. Francis Julius Kieckhoefer 1896-1898

11 Correspondence with Sen. Charles W. Fairbanks 1900-1903

12 Correspondence with W.A. Pinkerton 1901

13 Correspondence with Judge Albert B. Anderson 1905-1929

14 Correspondence with Will Hayes 1905-1942

15 Speech by ex-President Grover Cleveland at the Union League Club of Chicago Feb. 22, 1907

16 Correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt 1905-1935

17 Correspondence with George Ade 1918-1944

18 Correspondence with Frederick W. Hough (U.S. Naval Air Service) 1918

19 Correspondence with Dr. W. W. Lewis 1919-1932

20 Correspondence with Sen. William S. Kenyon 1915-1934

 

Box 43

1 Correspondence with Billy Sunday (handwritten, signed letter)

2 Correspondence with Tillingast L. Huston 1922-1938

3 Correspondence with Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (pertains to baseball) 1921

4 Correspondence with the Wallace family (friends) 1922-1945

5 Correspondence with Jack & Pauline Desha (feat. Word picture by Pauline Desha) 1922-1938

6 Correspondence with William Jennings Bryan ca. 1920

7 Correspondence with Jay Jerome Williams 1922-1932

8 Frank Bacon Memorial Services Sept. 1922-July 1923

9 Correspondence with Royal C. Johnson 1923-1928

10 Correspondence with Colonel Charles H. Ebbets (owner of Brooklyn Dodgers) 1923

11 Correspondence with George M. Cohan 1923

12 Correspondence with Judge Edward D. White 1912

13 Correspondence with James J. Jenkins and Paul B. Jenkins (religious discussion)

14 Correspondence re: Presentation of Judge Thomas Drummond portrait Feb. 1, 1913

15 Correspondence with Sen. Robert M. La Follette 1912-1914

16 Correspondence with Attorney General George W. Wickersham 1912

17 Correspondence with Richard T. Whitney (Reference to Reed Landis) 1919

18 Correspondence with John W. Norton (President of St. Paul Baseball Club) 1923-1930

19 Correspondence with Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte Sept. 20, 1907

20 Correspondence re: Benjamin Franklin Birthday Committee 1923-1938

 

Box 44

1 Correspondence with Charles A. Hughes 1924-1944

2 Correspondence with Herbert Hoover 1924-1930

3 Newspaper Clippings related to Calvin Coolidge 1924-1926

4 Correspondence with Colonel Joseph H. Thompson 1925-1933

5 Correspondence with Fred Turbyille 1925-1930

6 Correspondence with John R. Robinson 1925-1926

7 Correspondence with William G. Bramham (pertains to baseball) 1927

8 Correspondence with Charles A. Comiskey 1926-1931

9 Correspondence with George F. Johnson 1927-1933

10 Correspondence with John T. McCutcheon 1927-1943 and undated

11 Correspondence with William J. Chalmers 1927-1936

12 Correspondence with John A. Heydler (President of National League) 1927-1944

13 Correspondence with Forrest Crissey 1927

14 Correspondence with Charles K. Blandin 1928-1942

15 Correspondence with Ring Lardner 1928

16 Correspondence with Gov. Frank Lowden 1934-1936

17 Newspaper clippings related to Gov. Frank Lowden 1943

18 Correspondence with Gov. Frank Lowden 1937-1944

19 Correspondence with Alva Bradley 1938-1944

 

Box 45

1 Paper prepared by James H. Winston on Judah P. Benjamin/”Ginger Ale Promotional” Mar. 1929

2 Correspondence with August Busch 1929

3 Correspondence with John D. Gates 1929 and undated

4 Correspondence with Edward W. Morrison 1929-1933

5 Correspondence with Frank A. Johnson 1929-1930

6 Correspondence with Walter Rowan and Co. (feat. catalog) 1929

7 Correspondence re: Galveston Wharf Co. controversy 1930

8 Correspondence with Amon G. Carter 1930-1943

9 Correspondence with Gov. Louis Emerson 1930-1931

10 Correspondence with Mrs. Wilbur D. Nesbit 1930-1939

11 Correspondence with Alva Bradley 1930-1937

12 Correspondence with Frank Luke Jr. Memorial Association 1930

13 Correspondence with Jim Lyke 1931

14 Correspondence with Otto Murray Summers 1931-1943

15 Correspondence with Fayette Munro 1931-1942

16 Correspondence with Kyrle Dale 1931-1932

17 Correspondence with Albert D. Lasker 1932-1940

18 Correspondence with the Wrigley family 1932-1942

19 Correspondence with the Van Natta family 1932-1943

21 Correspondence with Jay Jerome Williams 1933-1944

22 Correspondence with Colonel Bill Sterett 1935

 

Box 46

1 Correspondence with George F. Johnson 1939

2 Correspondence with George F. Johnson 1934-1938

3 Jacob Rupert last will and testament Mar. 7, 1934

4 Correspondence T.J. Hickey 1934

5 Correspondence with John W. Norton 1931-1940

6 Correspondence with John W. Norton 1934-1937

7 Correspondence with John W. Norton 1941-1944

8 Correspondence re: Will Rogers Memorial 1935

9 Correspondence with E. F. Swinney 1927-1934

10 Correspondence with E. F. Swinney 1935-1940

11 Correspondence with E. F. Swinney 1941-1944

12 Correspondence with George K. Morrow 1936-1943

13 Radio address at Bucknell University: Laying of the cornerstone for a new gymnasium (Christy Mathewson)

14 Correspondence re: Laying of the cornerstone for a new gymnasium Sept. 30, 1937 (Christy Mathewson)

15 Correspondence with Westbrook Pegler 1937

16 Speech by Hon. Ralph E. Church May 13, 1937

17 Newspaper clippings about Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938-1941 and undated

18 Newspaper clippings about D.C. Stephenson, KKK leader 1939

19 Correspondence with Charles Martindale 1933-1936

20 Bob Elson commercial script June 24, 1939

 

Box 47

1 Correspondence with William G. Bramham 1940-1944

2 Correspondence with Frank Schreiber 1940

3 Correspondence with William H. Hecox 1940-1945

4 Correspondence with Emory L. Ford 1940

5 Correspondence with Scott L. Probasco 1940-1943

6 Correspondence with Joseph Hostetler re: waiver rules Nov. 1940

7 Correspondence with James Duncan/George Vaux 1941-1943

8 Correspondence with Roy P. Wilcox 1941-1944

9 Correspondence with Warren Brown 1941-1942

10 Correspondence with Truman H. Newberry 1941-1943

11 Correspondence with Walter S. McLucas 1941

12 Correspondence with Charles L. Smith & Ms. Gail Smith 1941-1943 and undated

13 Correspondence with William Harridge & William Harridge Jr. 1942-1944

14 Correspondence with Thomas J. Hickey 1942-1943

15 Correspondence with the Yawkey family 1942-1944

16 Correspondence with Walter O. Briggs 1942-1943

17 Correspondence with J. Alvin Gardner 1942-1944

18 Correspondence with Velma Bowman 1943-1944

19 Correspondence, photos, newspapers and speech delivered at Great Lakes Naval Training Station Aug. 9, 1943

20 Correspondence with Robert Quinn 1943

21 Correspondence with R.W. Schroeder 1943

22 Correspondence with John Bricker 1944

23 Correspondence re: Bricker for President 1944

24 Correspondence with R.W. Schroeder re: Early aviation undated

25 Correspondence with Daniel Lamont undated

26 Correspondence re: Beef trust 1895-1899

 

Box 48

1 Correspondence re: Proposed impeachment of Landis 1921

2 Letters of support during impeachment attempt 1921

3 Letters of support during impeachment attempt 1921

4 Letters of support during impeachment attempt

5 Letters of support during impeachment attempt Mar. 1921

6 Letters of support during impeachment attempt Feb. 1921

7 Letters of support during impeachment attempt Feb. 1921

8 Letters of support during impeachment attempt Mar. 1921

9 Letters of support during impeachment attempt Mar.-May 1921

 

Box 49

1 United States vs. Standard Oil, pleadings

2 United States vs. Standard Oil , printed opionion of district court

3 United States vs. Standard Oil and matter of Chicago & Alton Railroad Co. 1907-1908

4 United States vs. Standard Oil pleadings and opinion 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

5.United States vs. Standard Oil Judge Landis’s charge to jury

6.United States vs. Standard Oil opinion of U.S. Supreme Court No. 398 term 1910

7. Commissioner of Corporations answer to the Allegations of the Standard Oil Company

8. “The Standard Oil Fine” Michigan Law Review December 1907

9.  Pamphlet "From the Directors of the Standard Oil Company to its employees and stockholders" 1907

10. Newspaper clippings and related material 1907-1930

 

Box 50

1 Testimony of William and Margaret Kirby

2 Testimony of William and Margaret Kirby

3 Testimony of William and Margaret Kirby

 

Box 51

1 Booklet and Court Records

2 Court Records 1901-1906

3 Opinions, charges and jury instructions 1906

4 Trial transcripts John Alexander Dowie bankruptcy

5 John Alexander Dowie bankruptcy 1906

6 John Alexander Dowie bankruptcy 1906

7 Legal papers for Johnson-Knox Lumber Co. Bankruptcy/Barber-Moon hearing 1906-1909

 

Box 52

1 Minutes of testimony Atkinson vs. the Fair 1893

2 Legal papers for Edward C. Dubois vs. Republic of Chile 1894

3 Trial transcript Mattie J. Cheynes vs. Calumet Street Railway 1898

4 Opinions, charges and jury instructions undated

5 Opinions, charges and jury instructions undated

6 Opinions, charges and jury instructions undated, ca. World War I

7 Legal material undated

8 Opinions, charges and jury instructions undated

 

Box 53

1 Court records 1907-1909

2 Court papers 1907-1919 and undated

3 Opinions, charges and jury instructions 1908

4 Opinions, charges and jury instructions 1909

5 Opinions, charges and jury instructions 1910

6 Legal documents for Hyman Epstein vs. United States 1910

7 Court documents 1910-1912

8 Excerpts from testimony of Mr. Hoffman/United States vs. Giani Alongi Apr. 1911/Hill vs. Kinser May 1911

9 Court records 1911-1915

 

Box 54

1 Tioga case June 23, 1913

2 Legal documents for Hyman Epstein vs. United States 1911-1913

3 Court testimony for Hyman Epstein vs. United States 1912

4 Case of William Edwards, Billy Posters, Harry Dubia: Actura Belt Railway of Chicago

5 Trial transcript of United States vs. Freeman et al. (application for executive clemency) 1914, 1918

6 Legals documents for Julius von Bernauer case 1915/William Amen vs. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, promisory notes 1912

7 Testimony given in case of People of Illinois vs. Annie Matters  June 1916

8 Legal papers 1915-1921

9 Court transcripts for United States vs. Eckhart 1916

10 Justice for Captain Carter Committee Apr. 3, 1940

 

Box 55

1 United States vs. Thomson & Taylor Spice Co./United States vs. McVoy Hardware Co./Northern Illinois University vs. William Kirby, a bankrupt 1912

2 French & Kimball/Vernon White bankruptcy/United States vs. Luman French 1912

3 Trial transcripts for B.B. Evans bankruptcy 1912

4 Investigation of John T. Smith and other cases 1915-1917

5 Court Papers for U.S. Supreme Court/U.S. Court of Appeals 1913

6 Legal papers for Alvin F. Bredshall (loan sharking) 1913

7 Correspondence with Ike Lewinsohn 1913-1923

8 Abstract of title 1913

9 Trial transcript for United States vs. Russell Dale 1913

 

Box 56

1 Legal papers for United States vs. Berger, et al. 1917

2 Correspondence with Charles Rettig re: counterfeit case 1917-1923

3 Correspondence re: S.C. Pandolfo and the Pan Motor Co. trial 1917-1926

4 Legal papers for D. Jacobellis and A. Tarallo vs. L.W. Hubbell fertilizer 1917

5 Legal papers for United States vs. Berger, et al. 1917

6 Legal papers for the Robert L. Pitte Co./Rudolph Pagenstecher case 1917

7 Legal papers for Daniel Hayes Co. bankruptcy 1920

8 Edward W. Morrison Trust 1921

9 Legal documents for United States vs. Francis J. Carey 1921

10 Johnson vs. Parker/Cooperative Society of America 1921

11 Correspondence re: Francis J. Carey case Feb. 11, 1921/William Dalton case appeal

12 Legal documents for estate of Charles. F. Apple 1922

13 Legal documents for investigation of Hon. Harry M. Daugherty Apr.-May 1924

14 Documents relating to prohibition violations 1921-1923

15 Legal documents for Grossman case Apr.-Oct. 1924

16 Legal documents for Grossman case, brief and transcript records Oct. 1924

17 Appointment as United States District Judge Mar. 28, 1905

18 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia 1923-1943

 

Box 57

1 The People vs. Samull 1927

2 Court documents for Ironite Co. vs. City of Rockford, etc. 1918

3 Legal documents for Henry Petry case 1918

4 Legal documents for State of Illinois vs. Julia Lucitt, May 1932

5 Correspondence re: Non Partisan League 1918-1920/Pagenstecher matter

6 Legal documents (2 Petitions) 1942-1943

7 Legal documents for Grossman case, brief and transcript record Oct. 1924

8 Legal documents for Jennings vs. Warden 1934

9 Legal documents for T.B. Stewart vs. City of Phoenix, Arizona 1935

10 Legal documents for State of Illinois vs. Arthur Johnson 1943

 

Box 58

1 Speech to the American Protective League Jan. 31, 1920

2 Oration, “The Conservative Man”

3 Speeches by Hon. John W. Kern and unknown 1913

4 Undated speech

5 Speech 1896

6 Speech to Superior High School Mar. 13, 1912

7 Speech to Old Time Printers Association Jan. 15, 1916

8 Speech to National Federation of Federal Employees Mar. 21, 1920

9 Speech to Wisconsin Legislature Mar. 3, 1921

10 Speech to American Legion Sept. 22, 1922

11 Speech to Chicago and St. Louis National League baseball teams Apr. 12, 1921

12 Speech to National Association of Professional Baseball Players Dec. 5, 1921

13 Speech to the American Legion June 8, 1923

14 Speech to the American Legion Dept. of Virginia Sept. 3, 1923

15 Speech to the American Legion Dept. of Indiana Sept. 11, 1923

16 Speech to the Traffic Club of Chicago Jan. 16, 1924

17 Speech to the American Legion July 30, 1924

18 Speech to the American Legion Sept. 2, 1924

19 Speech to American Legion Oct. 11, 1926

20 Notes for 2 speeches 1926

21 Eulogy to Alfred H. Spink July 1928

22 Quotations from a speech 1928

23 Undated speech

24 Undated speech

25 Notes for undated speech

26 Undated introduction and speech

27 Undated notes for speech

28 Speech by Sen. Vest, "Tribute to the Dog" undated

29 Speech to the American Legion undated

30 Undated speech

31 Undated speech

32 Undated speech

33 Undated speech

34 Speech to the Creve Coeur Club undated

 

Box 59

1 Income Tax Returns 1920-1925

2 Income Tax Returns 1926

3 Income Tax Returns 1927

4 Income Tax Returns 1930-1931

5 Income Tax Returns 1935

6 Income Tax Return 1928-1929

7 Income Tax Return 1936

8 Income Tax Returns 1937

9 Income Tax Returns 1932-1934

10 Income Tax Returns 1938

11 Income Tax Returns 1939

12 Income Tax Returns 1940

13 Income Tax Returns 1941

 

Box 60

1 Receipts and invoices

2 Receipts mostly Ambassador East Hotel

3 Receipts and invoices re: Insurance loan

4 Receipts and invoices

5 Receipts and invoices

6 Receipts and invoices 1940

 

Box 61

1 Receipts and invoices 1932

2 Receipts and invoices 1933-1934

3 Receipts and invoices 1935

4 Receipts and invoices 1936

5 Receipts and invoices 1937

6 Receipts and invoices 1938

7 Receipts and invoices 1939

8 Receipts and invoices

9 Receipts and invoices 1941

10 Receipts and invoices undated

11 Receipts and invoices undated

 

Box 62

1 Receipts and invoices 1937-1938

2 Receipts and invoices Jan.-Apr. 1933

3 Receipts and invoices 1942

4 Receipts and invoices 1943

5 Correspondence re: Continental bank loan 1935-1937

6 Personal property tax 1922-1942

 

Box 63

1 Receipts and invoices Jan.-Apr. 1941

2 Receipts and invoices Sept.-Dec. 1941

3 Receipts and invoices Jan.-Apr. 1942

4 Receipts and invoices May-Aug. 1942

5 Receipts and invoices Sept.-Dec.1942

6 Receipts and invoices Jan.-Apr. 1943

7 Receipts and invoices May-Aug. 1943

8 Receipts and invoices Sept.-Dec. 1943

9 Bank Deposit Slips 1942 –1944

10 Receipts and invoices May-Aug. 1941

 

Box 64

1 Receipts and invoices 1923-1924

2 Receipts and invoices 1925

3 Receipts and invoices 1926

4 Receipts and invoices 1927-1928

5 Receipts and invoices 1927-1930

6 Receipts and invoices June-Dec. 1929

7 Receipts and invoices Jan.-May 1929 and undated

8 Receipts and invoices 1930

9 Receipts and invoices Jan.-Apr. 1931

10 Stock Transactions 1930

11 Receipts and invoices 1931

12 Stock Transactions 1931-1940

13 Stock Transactions 1929

 

Box 65

1 Long Distance Telephone receipts Feb.-Mar. 1937, Jan. 23-Apr. 3, 1941

2 Long Distance Telephone receipts Jan.-Mar. 1938

3 Long Distance Telephone receipts Jan.-Mar. 1939

4 Railroad Ticket Stubs Jan.-May 1926

5 Long Distance Telephone receipts July-Oct. 1926

5a Long Distance Telephone receipts 1923 and 1924

6 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs undated

6a Railroad Ticket Stubs 1925

7 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs June-Sept. 1932

8 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs 1933-1936

9 Railroad Ticket Stubs 1930

10 Railroad Ticket Stubs 1931

11 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs 1937-1939

12 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs 1940

13 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs 1941

14 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs undated

15 Railroad and Airline Ticket Stubs Jan.-May 1932

 

Box 66

1 Engagements accepted 1923-1932

2 Schedule of trips 1923 –1937

3 Correspondence re: Women's Overseas Service League 1923-1931

4 Correspondence re: Women's Overseas Service League 1932-1944

5 Correspondence concerning resignation from Fed. Bench Dec. 31, 1920-Feb. 20, 1922

6 Correspondence concerning resignation from Fed. Bench 1925-1928

7 Correspondence concerning resignation from Fed. Bench Feb. 21- 24, 1922

8 Correspondence concerning resignation from Fed. Bench Mar. 6-28, 1922

 

Box 67

1 1 booklet April 1895 by-laws The Legal Club, 3 cards The Law Club, 2 small books The Law Club 1933 and 1936

2 2 Misc. cards, 5 golf course membership cards, 26 golf score cards

3 Northwestern University 1927 Alumni of Chicago

4 Delegate Badge 1920,  Building pass to 333 N. Michigan Mar. 27 1929, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Isthinian Baseball League, American Legion Convention 1923, courtesy cards

5 16 courtesy cards, 1 message card, New Orleans Country Club

6 13 courtesy cards, 1 message card, 1 ticket Detroit Tigers May 7 1941, 1 message card signed by                                                     KML, 2 tickets to Comiskey park, 1 Chicago Historical Society Membership Card 1929

7 courtesy cards, 1 courtesy card in folder, Los Angeles Baseball Club 1937 – 1942

8 10 courtesy cards, 6 message cards, 7 All Star game tickets, 13 Tickets Brooklyn Dodgers, 1 Golf Score Card

9 4 courtesy cards, 2 courtesy cards, 1 message card, Chicago Cubs 1937 – 1942

10 8 Courtesy cards, 5 message cards, St. Paul Club 1937 – 1943

11 9 Courtesy cards, 3 message cards, 1 envelope  Chicago Bears and the National Football League1936 – 1943

12 Political Ribbons: 46 Lowden, 2 Landis, 2 Flags, 1 small card inscribed Mr. Landis, 2 EWF buttons, 1 papa club filed day badge with picture of KML

13 6 courtesy cards in folder, 3 courtesy cards The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and The American Association of Professional Baseball Clubs 1939 – 1942

14 6 courtesy cards International League 1936 – 1942

 

Box 68

1 Union contract with stonecutters union 1921

2 Labor/management agreements and correspondence in re: Building trades, Landis duties as umpire Feb.-June 1922

3 Labor/management agreements and correspondence in re: Building trades, Landis duties as umpire June 24-Aug. 31, 1921

4 Union contract with coopers union

5 Correspondence re: Building Trades Arbitration 1921

6 Correspondence re: Building Trades Arbitration 1921

7 Correspondence re: Building Trades Arbitration 1921

8 Union contract with cement finishers union 1921

9 Labor/management agreements and correspondence in re: Building trades, Landis duties as umpire Sept. 6, 1921-Jan. 20, 1922

10 Union contract with brick layers union

11 Union contract with composite floor layers union

12 Union contract with marble, stone and slate polishers

13 Labor/management agreements and correspondence in re: Building trades, Landis duties as umpire undated

 

Box 69

32 envelopes containing passes mostly for Baseball Teams/Baseball Leagues and some Golf Courses and Football Teams

1 envelope with a Baseball Writers Association membership card

1 envelope with a Professional Umpire Association of America membership card

3 Letter press plates

 

Box 70

1A 5 lithography plates of Landis head or bust shots

1 Booklet Army-Navy Conference of Industry-Labor & OtherLeaders Jan. 1944

2 1863 Newspaper reprint concerning wallpaper

3 Correspondence re: Japanese Immigration to Hawaii 1894

4 Disabled American Veterans Baseball fund report 1922-1923

5 5 pamphlets/magazines

6 National Agreement and Rules for Professional Baseball April 12, 1917

7 Civil War Story “Our Escape” 1864

 

Box 71

1 Correspondence Hospital Stay October 7 – 15 1941

2 Correspondence Hospital Stay October 16 – 31 1941

3 Correspondence Hospital Stay November 13 – 17 1941

4 Correspondence Hospital Stay November 11 – 12 1941

5 Correspondence Hospital Stay November 1 – 10 1941

6 Correspondence Hospital Stay November 18 – 21 1941

7 Correspondence Hospital Stay December 1941

 

Box 72

1 Indiana Society of Chicago Souvenir 14th annual dinner

2 5 yearbooks from Midlothian country club, 1 membership list form the Mill Road Farm Country Club, 1 yearbook from the Law Club of Chicago 1941, 1 membership card from Illinois seniors golf association

3 6 yearbooks, map of Skokie country club

4 Central American Maps 18 maps dated 1893

5 Central American Maps 14 maps dated 1891 – 1892

6 Correspondence Lawyers Club 1913, Knox College Bulletin 1918

7 The Ohio Society of Chicago 8 yearbooks 1928 – 1936

 

Box 73

1 Union Contract with Electrical Contractors Association 1921

2 Union Contract with Dock, Pier, and Bridge work 1918

3 Union Contract with Fire Proofing Manufacturers 1921

4 Union Contract with Lighting Fixture Union #381 1921

5 Union Contract with Mantle and Tile Layers

6 Union Contract with Steam and Operating Engineers 1921

7 Union Contract with Chicago Gas Fitters Association

8 Union Contract with Roofers Union

9 Union Contract with Plumbers 1921

10 Union Contract with Pipe Coverers Union 1918

11 Union Contract with Riggers Union 1921

12 Union Contract with Teamsters, Chauffeurs, and Helpers Union 1920

13 Union Contract with Plasterers Union 1921

14 Union Contract with Sheet Metal Workers Union

15 Union Contract with Steam Fitters Union

16 Union Contract with Slate and Tile Roofers Union 1921

17 Union Contract with Marble Cutters and Setters 1921

18 Union Contract with Iron Workers 1921

19 Union Contract with Hod Carriers Common Laborers

20 Miscellaneous undated union contract-related papers

21 Union Contract with Mosaic and Terrazzo Layers

22 Union Contract with Glazers Union

 

Box 74

Technical Manual - School of Military Aeronautics University of Illinois

 

Box 75

1 Newspaper Clippings 1943-1944

2 Newspaper Clippings 1928-1929

3 Newspaper Clippings 1931-1940

4 Newspaper Clippings 1920-1936

5 Newspapers Partial – Chicago Examiner Mar. 24 1913, Chicago Tribune Mar. 8 1913, Mar. 5 1924, Feb.12 1924, Feb. 28 1924

6 Newspapers 1918-1919

 

Box 76

1 The Ohio Society of Chicago 1927- 1938

2 Indiana Society of Chicago 1918-1925

3 Stone Crab Club 1930-1944

4 Correspondence Twin Six Club 1923-1927

5 Correspondence Twin Six Club 1928-1940

6 Correspondence Wayfarers Club 1922-1934

7 Correspondence Wayfarers Club 1935-1944

8 The Ohio Society of Chicago 8 yearbooks 1928-1936

9 Correspondence Grand Army of the Republic 1907-1928

10 Correspondence Chicago Historical Society 1934-1942

11 Patriotic pamphlet 1935

 

Box 77

1 Correspondence c. 1942

2 Personal correspondence 1942

3 Ephemera and photos related to military service

4 Personal and military correspondence 1918-1934

5 Cartoon of trip to Washington DC

 

Box 80

Photographs

 

Box 81

Letterbooks Jan 7, 1913 – Dec. 9, 1918 (3 vols.: 548, 545, 405)

 

Box 85

Scrapbook No. 3 1911 – 1925

 

Box 86

Scrapbook No. 4 1908 –1927

Scrapbook No. 5 1896 – 1928

 

Vol 1

Scrapbook No. 1 1906 – 1919

 

Vol 2

Scrapbook No. 2 1906 – 1925