Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Barrett, Farnum & Company

BARRETT, FARNUM & CO.

JUL ?? 1899

CHICAGO.

Barrett, Farnum futures contract fragment

John F. Barrett was CBOT member 3039

Thomas E. Barrett was CBOT member 4073

Albert H. Farnum was CBOT member 3416

From what I can find, the firm did not reemerge from bankruptcy to continue trading after September 1899.

NYT, September 21, 1899:

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: E. S. Woodworth & Company

E. S. WOODWORTH & CO.

NOV

7

1898

Edson Snow Woodworth was CBOT member 6924

from The Commercial West, May 28, 1904

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: E. Seckel & Company

E. SECKEL & CO.

?? 18 1899

CHICAGO

E. SECKEL & CO.

SEP 8 1898

CHICAGO.

Edward Seckel was CBOT member 1418 (not a member by 1898)

Adolph Seckel was CBOT member 2462 (not a member by 1898)

Albert Seckel was CBOT member 2763

Frank G. Badger was CBOT member 5334

William M. Timberlake was CBOT member 4802

from The Amercian Elevator & Grain Trade, October 15, 1900

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: ReQua Brothers

ReQua Bros.

JUN 8 1899

Chicago

Stephen F. ReQua was CBOT member 1812 (not a member by 1898)

Charles H. ReQua was CBOT member 2871

Charles W. ReQua was CBOT member 5387

William B. ReQua was CBOT member 3126

ReQua Bros match container

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Charles Counselman & Company

CHAS. COUNSELMAN & CO.

SEP

1

1899

CHICAGO.

Charles Counselman was CBOT member 312

Willis Counselman was CBOT member 6384

from The Commercial West, August 24, 1901

 

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Tracy & Company

TRACY & CO.

DEC 8 1898

CHICAGO

William Warren Tracy was CBOT member 6609

William Warren Tracy was also a member of the New York Stock Exchange

NYSE related cancels

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Edward L. Brewster & Company

E. L. B. & CO,

MAY 1 1901

CHICAGO.

E. L. B. & CO,

FEB 10 1901

CHICAGO.

Edward L. Brewster was CBOT member 2468.

advert, The Economist (Chicago), October 7, 1899

It is possible the stamps above came from stock trades, as he was both a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Board of Trade.  We do know the stamps were canceled in Chicago and not New York.

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: F. G. Kammerer & Company

F. G. KAMMERER & CO.

OCT 24 1899

CHICAGO, ILL.

F. G. Kammerer was CBOT member 2760, and was listed as a commission trader.  But his businesses seemed to have had a wide range, as this example from Ice & Refrigration, June 1896 shows:

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Robert Pringle & Company

R. Pringle & Co.

SEP

17

1898

Chicago

ROBERT PRINGLE

11 BOARD OF TRADE COURT

Robert Pringle was CBOT member 5267

Robert Pringle from The History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, 1917

from the NYT, February 12, 1919

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: James Kidston

JAMES KIDSTON,

625 RIALTO B...

James Kidston was CBOT member 5327

William H. Kidston was CBOT member 6520

James Kidston from History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, 1917

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Armour & Company and Armour Grain Company

ARMOUR & CO.

JUL

16

1901

CHICAGO.

from The American Elevator & Grain Trade, January 15 1899

George Armour was CBOT member 36

Joseph F. Armour was CBOT member 37

Phillip D. Armour was CBOT member 38

Jonathon Ogden Armour was CBOT member 4011

Calvin Favorite was CBOT member 484

George Webster was CBOT member 3267

Stuart Watson was CBOT member 6763

Reuben Huffman was CBOT member 5970

Armour & Company changed its grain trading company name to Armour Grain Company sometime in 1901, though the cancels from each operation overlap by date on occasion.

from The American Elevator & Grain Trade, May 15 1902

Armour & Co., 205 LaSalle St.,

SEP

18

1899

CASHIERS DEPARTMENT

Chicago.

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: John J. Wrenn & Company

JOHN H. WRENN & CO.

JUL

15

1899

John H. Wrenn was CBOT member 2041

from The Commercial West, May 28, 1904

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Bartlett, Frazier & Company

A George C. Ball is listed as CBOT member 66, but with J. H. Wrenn & Co. in 1901.  Probably not the same person as in the cancel, but maybe the canceller is George C. Ball Jr.?

William H. Bartlett was CBOT member 4999

William A. Barrell was CBOT member 4333

Frank P. Frazier was CBOT member 4500

advert, The Grain Dealers Journal, January 10, 1902