Information Sheet

 

 

 

R         Schoenherr, Adolph.

615                  Papers, 1906-1919.

                                    Three folders.

 

MICROFILM

 

 

 

These are business and personal papers of Adolph Schoenherr, a businessman and mine op­erator in Jasper County, Missouri.   The papers concern lead and zinc mines around Webb City and Carterville, and the operations of the Schoenherr-Walton and Reliance mining companies.  There are also papers concerning a proposed adoption of a child by Adolph and Beulah Schoen­herr.

 

Folder 1 contains papers, correspondence, leases, and legal papers concerning the mining business in Jasper County.  The earliest material concerns Adolph Schoenherr, who engaged in the mining business with W. F. Schoenherr, O. H. Schoenherr, H. A. Genung, and T. R. Smith in a firm styled Schoenherr Brothers & Company.  In 1906, the Schoenherrs leased mineral rights to the Guinn land near Carterville from the Rhea Lead & Zinc Company.  The Schoen­herrs formed the Schoenherr-Walton Mining Company with William Walton in 1907. Walton obtained a one-half interest in the new mining company, for which he was to provide mining tools, machinery, buildings, and a concentrating plant.  Walton was also the on-site mining su­perintendent.  The other stockholders, W. F. Schoenherr, O. H. Schoenherr, Adolph Schoenherr, T. R. Smith, and W. E. Rogers, contributed the lease by which mining would begin in July 1907.   The operations by the Schoenherr Brothers and the formation of the Schoenherr-Walton Mining Company are docu­mented by various leases and other papers in the collection.

 

Folder 1 also includes papers and correspondence of the Stevison-Rogers Lead & Zinc Com­pany and the Reliance Mining Company of Webb City, 1909-1919.  This material also con­cerns mine leases and mining operations around Webb City and Carterville, but whatever con­nection they might have with the Schoenherr operations is not evident in the papers.

 

Folder 2 consists of statistical summaries on the operations of the Schoenherr-Walton Min­ing Company.  Included are monthly statements of profit and loss, and comparative analyses of the company’s operations from 1907 through June 1913.  Many of the reports include a narrative paragraph summarizing mine operations and the fortunes of the mining company, which de­clined after 1911.

 

Folder 3 contains correspondence regarding the proposed adoption by Adolph and Beulah Schoenherr of Edith DeLacy.  Included are letters from the Schoenherrs to the superintendent of the Masonic Home of Missouri, Edith DeLacy, and her father, George DeLacy.  The adoption pro­ceedings were never finalized.

 

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