| Scope and content |
Materials concern F. Rhem and Sons Company and related enterprises. Correspondence with commission merchants and shippers gives market prices and conditions for turpentine, cotton, and other products. Correspondence with Georgetown Chemical Works concerns naval stores. Bills of lading, statements, and receipts list cargo shipped and related information. Materials regarding the cotton market include issues of the New York Cotton Exchange Market Report and correspondence with cotton factor James M. Seignious, Charleston Cotton Exchange, South Carolina Cotton Oil Company, and Farmers & Spinners Cotton Company. Black River and Mingo Steamboat Company records include circulars, financial records, and correspondence. Financial records include account books, banking correspondence, notes, judgments and liens against the Rhems, contracts and promissory notes, and insurance policies and certificates. Legal correspondence concerns the estate of F. Rhem. Rhem Real Estate Company materials include land records, meeting minutes, and financial reports. Family correspondence discusses courting, hunting, and investments in Star Petroleum Company. Flint Rhem's baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals is represented in clippings and correspondence, including one letter from Ty Cobb. Genealogical materials pertain to the Rhem family of North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as the associated Beasley, Bell, Durant, Lane, Tucker, and Wadsworth families. Also includes family photographs, land surveys, maps, and land grants. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
F. Rhem and Sons Company Records (#469), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mrs. Suzanne R. Mason. |
| Biographical note | Furnifold Rhem, Sr. (1820-1888), founder of the F. Rhem Co., was a native of Craven County, N.C., who later moved to Williamsburg/Georgetown Counties, S.C. He and his wife Laura A. Cook had two sons, Durward Dudley (1862-1922) and Furnifold, Jr. (1864-1918). F. Rhem and Sons Company expanded to include the production and sale of cotton, naval stores, turpentine, the Black River and Mingo Steamboat Company, Rhem Real Estate Company, Rhem Dock and Terminal Company, Rhem Timber and Land Company, and Rhem Shingle Company. Charles Flint Rhem, Durwood's son, was a professional baseball player. |
