Reuben B. Robertson Collection – M 77.13

Summary Information

Repository
UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
Title
Reuben B. Robertson Collection
ID
M77-13
Date [inclusive]
1986-2016
Extent
15 Linear feet
Description note
Contains correspondence, business records, tax records, photographs, news clippings, and genealogical records
Location note
Located in Special Collections, Row 9, Sections 2-3
Language
English

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Reuben B. Robertson Collection, Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville

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Bibliographic Note

Reuben B. Robertson was born in Cincinnati OH, in 1879 and after being admitted to the bar initially worked with his father in a Cincinnati law firm. In 1905 he married Hope Thompson, and the following year, his father in law Peter G. Thompson, founder of the Champion Coated Paper Co. of Hamilton, OH, asked Robertson to go to Canton, NC where the construction of a new Champion paper mill was having problems. Despite it being “a 50-day assignment”, Robertson never left Canton, forgoing a law career to eventually become president and chairman of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company. Under his tenure, Champion pioneered forestry conservation and management, and the Canton Mill was the first to organize many safety and worker initiatives. Additionally, Robertson served with many forestry related organizations, as well as other businesses and educational establishments in Western North Carolina. Robertson died in Asheville in 1972, at the age of 93.

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Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, speeches,scrapbooks, photographs, and news articles related to the life and career of Reuben B. Robertson. For over sixty years Robertson developed and managed Champion Papers Inc. in Canton, NC, and this collection includes include business records, along with personal tax, real estate and financial records. Also included are the texts of many of his speeches delivered before local civic groups in western North Carolina. Many of these contain themes which express his concern about continuing “free enterprise.” There are also materials pertaining to Robertson’s interest in the genealogy of his father’s family in the Shetland Islands, and correspondence and other materials relating to his travels there in search of this information.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu

Access Note

The collection is available for research

Accruals Note

No additional accurals are expected

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections staff, 1977. Updates and revisions by Colin Reeve, 2015, and Gene Hyde, 2022

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Related Materials

Related to the Walter Julius Damtoft Collection and Memoirs of Reuben B. Robertson

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Collection Inventory

Box 1

  • Folder 1:Prior to 1918; 6 items, family correspondence
  • Folder 2: 1920-1923; 18 items, letters between John D. Rockefeller and the Hon. John B. Knox; stock data
  • Folder 3: 1924; 15 items, stocks, taxes, and insurance correspondence
  • Folder 4:1925; 6 items, articles on education, government, socialism
  • Folder 5:1926; 15 items, deed and map of Patton Avenue property, article on Flat Rock, essays and speeches
  • Folder 6: 1927; 19 items, correspondence concerning Biltmore Avenue property, and speeches
  • Folder 7: 1928; 10 items, speeches on forestry and economics; correspondence concerning stocks
  • Folder 8: 1929; 19 items, correspondence concerning stocks, taxes, and real estate; speeches on wood fiber
  • Folder 9: 1930; 13 items, minutes of the board of W. C. T. C.; speeches; real estate data
  • Folder 10: 1931; 13 items: clippings, address to W. C. T. C. at Cullowhee, insurance, speeches concerning human relations in industry.
  • Folder 11: 1932; 13 items: speeches to the Blue Ridge Club, Foreman’s Club, “The Carolinas”; correspondence re: insurance and taxes.
  • Folder 12: 1927-1932; 4 items: Speeches on Foreign Pulp Competition, Economic Interests in N.C., and Human Relations in Indus
  • Folder 13: 1933-1934; 4 items: Speeches and clippings.
  • Folder 14: 1934; [Sept.-Dec.] 24 items: City Charter. Correspondence re: Council-Manager Form of Government
  • Folder 15: 1935; [Jan.-Feb.] 20 plus items: City Charter. Correspondence re: Council-Manager Form of Government.
  • Folder 16: 1935; 23 items: Correspondence, clippings, photos of Shetland Island and relatives living there; Essay on Shetland Island, tax data.
  • Folder 17: 1936; 24 items: U. N. C. Board; relatives in Shetland islands; tax, stock, and insurance data.
  • Folder 18: 1937; 11 items: Minutes of U. N. C. Board meetings; speeches to Old Timer’s Club.
  • Folder 19: 1937; 22 items: Japan Trip, May-July 1937.
  • Folder 20: 1937; 10 items: Japan Trip, Aug.-Dec. 1937.
  • Folder 21: 1938; 16 items: Speech on Human Relations; correspondence with U. N. C. Board of Trustees; Speeches to Southern Executives and Asheville Optimists.
  • Folder 22: 1939; 14 items; 
Report on Hopewood
 U. N. C. Board of Trustees notes;
 Speeches.
  • Folder 23: 1940; 4 items: Speeches and clippings.
  • Folder 24:  Robertson Stock, 1934-1939.
  • Folder 25:  28 items: Undated speeches
  • Folder 26:  22 items: Poems without wisdom, undated.
  • Folder 27:  No. 1 Scrapbook, jokes and clippings.
  • Folder 28:  No. 2 Scrapbook, jokes and clippings.
  • Folder 29: Undated Miscellaneous items.
  • Folder 30: Biographical sketch of Reuben Robertson compiled by May Holtzclaw.
  • Folder 31: Copies of correspondence from Geo. H. Smathers regarding Smathers’ autobiography

Box 2

  • Folder 1: 1941; 10 items: Real estate and sales, correspondence on Asheville School for Boys, one speech.
  • Folder 2a: 1942; 10 items: 4 speeches re: the industry’s role in the war effort; the proposed budget for Asheville School for Boys.
  • Folder 2b: 1942; 7 items: real estate assessments and sales.
  • Folder 3: 1943; 11 items: Asheville School’s drive for funds to remain open
  • Folder 4: 1944; 10 items: Correspondence of R. B. R. as trustee of Asheville School; correspondence with artist re: portrait of an ancestor of R. B. R.
  • Folder 5a: 1945; 8 items: Speeches by R. B. R., incluiding one published in the Southern Pulp and Paper Journal, entitled “Needs and Opportunities for Research in Industry.”
  • Folder 5b: 1945; 12 items:Miscellaneous correspondence re: real estate, Asheville School, U. N. C., etc.
  • Folder 6: 1946; 22 items: speeches, correspondence on Asheville School, varied personal business.
  • Folder 7: 1947; 16 items: 5 speeches, correspondence re: family portraits, etc.
  • Folder 8a: 1948 [Jan.-May]; 9 items: Includes speech as president of A. P. P. A. and to Bankers Club of Cincinnati; radio broadcast by R. B. R. on the General Electric Farm Hour.
  • Folder 8b: 1948 [June-Dec.]; 11 items: 7 speeches and the reminiscences of Mrs. Alexander Thomson.
  • Folder 8c:  1948; Unidentified transparencies.
  • Folder 9a: 1949 [Jan.-June]; 15 items: Letter by Congressman Monroe Redden, suggesting that R. B. R. run for Governor of North Carolina; speech to Asheville Merchants Assn.
  • Folder 9b: 1949 [July-Dec]; 8 items: 4 speeches, one to Industrial Relations Conference and the N. A. P. A. meeting in Houston.
  • Folder 10: 1940-1949; 22 items: Assessment of stock ownership in Champion Paper by R. B. R. and family.
  • Folder 11a: 1950 [Jan.-May]; 15 items: Correspondence on R. B. R.’s move from president of the company to Board Chairman, and his son Reuben, Jr. being promoted to president. Also includes 7 speeches by R. B. R.
  • Folder 11b:  1950 [June-Sept.]; 12 items: Includes a speech to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and an essay printed in Guidepost.
  • Folder 11c:  1950 [Oct.-Dec.]; 15 items: Speeches and program for day of activities honoring R. B. R. as Man of South.

Box 3

  • Folder 1a: 1951 [Jan.-June]: 12 items: Speeches at the University of Georgia School of Forestry, Chamber of Commerce.
  • Folder 1b: 1951 [July-Dec.] 16 items: Speeches at Forestry Meeting at Battery Park Hotel, Lions Club of Asheville and Chamber of Commerce.
  • Folder 2a: 1952 [Jan.-June] 9 items: Speech to Southern Pines Association.
  • Folder 2b: 1952 [July-Dec.] 11 items: Speech for Conference on Forest Education and Crusade for Freedom.
  • Folder 3a: 1953 [Jan.-May] 13 items: Speeches for Second Southern Municipal and Industrial Waste Conference, Houston Junior Achievement Meeting.
  • Folder 3b: 1953 [June-Dec.] 9 items: Includes text of a talk at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.
  • Folder 4a: 1954 [Jan.-June] 7 items: Legal correspondence re: sale of a house in Flat Rock and purchase of one in Asheville.
  • Folder 4b: 1954 [July-Dec.] 17 items: miscellaneous legal and personal items concerning purchase of a house on Town Mountain Road.
  • Folder 5a: 1955 [Jan.-June] 13 items: Letters re: paintings, speeches, letters re: Hopemont.
  • Folder 5b: 1955 [July-Dec.] 20 plus items: Speeches and clippings, Hopemont correspondence.
  • Folder 6a: 1956 [Jan.-May] 17 items: Inventory of Fort Lauderdale property, speeches, Citation to R. B. R. from Western Carolina College, Chamber of Commerce pamphlet.
  • Folder 6b: 1956 [June-Dec.] 20 plus items: Essays, Commencement address; talk to Junior Chamber of Commerce; letter from Vice-President Nixon; misc. correspondence.
  • Folder 7a: 1957 [Jan.-May] 29 items: Speeches, clippings of management techniques, economic forecasts, correspondence, office shelf inventory, genealogical and historical notes on Asheville and Buncombe County (16 pp.).
  • Folder 7b: 1957 [June-July] 10 items: Country Day School speech, Pamphlet of speech to N. Y. Society of Security Analysts, Inc.
  • Folder 7c:  1957 [Aug.-Dec.] 14 items: List of books in office and library; write-up of R. B. R.’s Human Relations Award; speeches to Old Timer’s, Blue Ridge, New York Society of Security Analysts, Inc.
  • Folder 8: 1958 – 18 items: Speeches on Advancement of Management, Health Research Foundation, Civitan of Raleigh, Old Timers, Helder Party; Inventory on Hope Manor; poems; miscellaneous correspondence
  • Folder 9: 1959 – 12 items: Speeches to “Y” on 40th Year; Security Analysts, Old timers, St. Genevieve’s, Asheville-Biltmore College, Champion employees, Snug Harbor; historical items on “Hopemont.”
  • Folder 10: Undated – 11 items: 1951-1959: Speeches and essays on forestry; trip to Finland; North Carolina’s Advantage as Location for Development.
  • Folder 11:  An Interview with Reuben B. Robertson: Trailblazing in the Southern Paper Industry, by Elwood R. Maunder, Elwood L. Demmon and Reuben B. Robertson

Box 4

  • Folder 1: 1960 – 12 items: Speeches to Masons at Pasadena; Boy Scouts; Asheville School Alumni Magazine; article on Alcoholism.
  • Folder 2: 1961 – 7 items: Clippings, article on Wild European Boar; magazine on Abominable Snowman; speech on: “Today’s Problems.”
  • Folder 3a: 1962 – 20 items: Article on C. B. Falls; article from Wall St. Journal on Karl Bends ten; insurance policy; clippings; “Profile of a Town” – Canton; speeches; correspondence re; presentation of Robertson portrait at Western Carolina College, July 16, 1962.
  • Folder 3b: 1962 – 18 items: Undated speech to Board of Directors in N. Y.; article on Economic Development to your Community; Who’s Who of North Carolina Colonial Pirates; clippings; map of the city; poems; Henry W. Grady’s speech on: The New South; article by John Paris – “Old Logging Days Recalled.”
  • Folder 4: 1963 – 8 items: Article on Integration; newspaper picture of Dedication Ceremonies of Biltmore Markets Glass Room; memorial to Mrs. Hope Robertson; clippings of “Y” Drive; Civitan Birthday.
  • Folder 5: 1964-1966 19 items: Insurance on paintings; Civitan Research Center correspondence; newspaper clippings re: Boy Scout Award; Canton “Y” Dedication; article on Scottish Brichs; the Robertson Coat of Arms; Masonic Award for 50 years of service
  • Folder 6: 1967 – 6 items: Newspaper clippings; speeches to Old Timers at Camp Hope; Lake Logan Policy Guidelines and Inventory; essay on “Americanus Delagatus.”
  • Folder 7: 1968 – 16 items: Lake Logan employees S. S. records; Nixon’s Presidential Nomination Speech of Acceptance at Miami – 1968; insurance papers; clippings on Air Pollution; Chip’s clippings; U. S. Forestry newsletter; Masonic pamphlet; correspondence from Karl Bendsten re: naming railroad station in Alabama for R. B. R. – “Robertson”; Old Timers party; article on: Industry’s Stake in Conservation; S. S. tax rate for household employees.
  • Folder 8a: 1969 [Jan.-June] 20 plus items: Letters in reply to Fishing Bee’s invitation; newspaper accounts of R. B. R.’s 90th and 91st birthdays.
  • Folder 8b:1969 [July-Dec.] 20 plus items: Lake Logan bills and receipts.
  • Folder 9: 1970; 20 items: correspondence re: Chips.
  • Folder 10a: 1971 [January] 50 plus items: Business Council names; Boy Scout and Blue Ridge bulletins; Newcomen Society letters; Chips bills and receipts; correspondence and get-well cards.
  • Folder 10b: 1971 [February] 40 items: Y M C A Newsletter; Chips; and get-well cards.
  • Folder 10c: 1971 [March] 50 plus items: Chips; get-well cards; correspondence re: closing of Lake Logan.
  • Folder 10d: 1971 [April] 30 items: correspondence re: Committee for Economic Development and the Business Council.
  • Folder 10e: 1971 [May] 24 items: Report to the Trustees from Committee for Economic Development; correspondence; Chips.
  • Folder 10f: 1971 [June ist-15th]; 40 plus items: Birthday cards and plans for dinner at Lake Logan, June 11th.
  • Folder 10g: 1971 [June 16th-30th]; 20 plus items: correspondence and birthday cards.
  • Folder 10h: 1971 [July-August] 40 plus items: personal correspondence; Lake Logan activities; Chips.
  • Folder 10i: 1971 [Sept.] 25 items: personal and financial correspondence; Lake Logan reservations; Chips.
  • Folder 10j: 1971 [October] 30 plus items: Chips [sic]; personal and financial correspondence.
  • Folder 10k: 1971 [November] 40 plus items: personal and financial correspondence on “Who’s Who” Biography.
  • Folder 10l: 1971 [December] 30 items: personal correspondence re: Holidays.
  • Folder 11: 1972 [Jan.-Mar.] 30 plus items: Correspondence; Fishing Bee plans.
  • Folder 12: 1972 [April-May] 30 items: correspondence; Fishing Bee plans.
  • Folder 13: 1972 [June] 20 plus items: correspondence; cards and guest lists for 93rd birthday celebration.
  • Folder 14: 1972 [June] 20 plus items: Thank-you letters and cards re: Birthday Celebration, June 11th at Sit ‘n’ Whittle.
  • Folder 15: 1972 [July-Dec.] 19 items: Entertainment plans for Lake Logan; employee records.

Box 5

  • Folder 1: 1945-1949; 16 items: R. B. R. named as one of 50 outstanding business executives in the South in 1949 by Dixie Business Magazine. 1945-1949 issues of Dixie Business.
  • Folder 2: 1950; 22 items: Photos of R. B. R. program for Man of South; one of James Self, Man of the South, 1952.
  • Folder 3: 1950; [Sept.-Oct. 19th]; 20 plus items: Announcement of R. B. R. as Man of the South; newspaper clippings and congratulatory letters, including one from the Asst. to the President.
  • Folder 4: 1950; [Oct. 20-31]; 20 plus items: Congratulatory letters, including one from Governor W. Kerr Scott.
  • Folder 5: 1950; [Nov. 1-18]; 20 plus items: Congratulatory letters and correspondence; list of invitees to R. B. R. Day; letter from Gov. Talmadge of Georgia.
  • Folder 6: 1950; [Nov. 20]; 20 plus items: Congratulatory letters, including ones from the governors of South Carolina, Virginia, and Louisiana.
  • Folder 7: 1950; [Nov. 21-22]; 20 plus items: Correspondence; Letters from the governors of Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama. Also from Asst. to the President.
  • Folder 8: 1950; [Nov. 23-27]; 20 plus items: Correspondence and letters from the senators from North Carolina and South Carolina.
  • Folder 9: 1950; [Nov. 28-30]; 20 plus items: Correspondence from the Secretary of Commerce.
  • Folder 10: 1950; [Dec. 1-7]; 20 plus items: miscellaneous correspondence.
  • Folder 11: 1950; [Dec. 8-14]; 20 plus items: Correspondence with Senator Willis Smith and Congressman Monroe M. Redden of North Carolina.
  • Folder 12: 1950; [Dec. 15-16]; 20 plus items: Telegrams and newspaper clippings commemorating R. B. R. Day.
  • Folder 13: 1950 [Dec. 16]; 6 items: Program of events, guest list, remarks by James G. K. McClure and Judge Alfred K. Nippert and response by R. B. R.
  • Folder 14: 1950 [Dec. 17-31]; 20 plus items: correspondence and thank-you letters by R. B. R. to those present at his testimonial dinner.
  • Folder 15: 1951 [Jan. 1-12]; 20 plus items: correspondence; The Log.
  • Folder 16: 1951 [Jan. 15-Dec.]; 20 plus items: Correspondence; remarks by Senator Clyde Hoey in the Congressional Record issues of Dixie Business.
  • Folder 17: 1952-1953; 20 plus items: Correspondence re: James C. Self, Man of the South 1952; remarks by R. B. R. on presenting the award to Mr. Self.
  • Folder 18: 1954-1956; 12 plus items: Dixie Business featuring M. O. S. for 1954-1956; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, 1954; Wilton E. Hall, 1955; Senator Walter F. George, 1956.
  • Folder 19: 1957-1958; 16 items: Biographical sketch and Dixie Business issue on A. Dee Simpson as Man of the South, 1957.
  • Folder 20: 1959 [Jan.-July]; 16 items: Norman Cocke awarded the Distinguished Citizenship Certificate; correspondence re: the election of Cocke as M. O. S.
  • Folder 21: 1959; August; 20 plus items; miscellaneous correspondence re: election of Norman Cocke as M. O. S.
  • Folder 22: 1959, Sept.; 20 plus items: miscellaneous correspondence re: Cocke’s election including complimentary letters by people who voted for him.
  • Folder 23: 1959 [Oct.-Nov.] 20 plus items: Cocke’s election and Plans for testimonial dinner.
  • Folder 24: 1959 [December]; 20 plus items: Program from Testimonial dinner for Cocke; R. B. R. speech at dinner.
  • Folder 25:1960-1961; 8 items: Memorial to the late R. B. R., Jr. in Dixie Business; Congratulatory letters to” Man of the South” designees, 1960, Joseph T. Lykes; Senator Ivan Allen of Georgia, 1961.

Box 6

  • Folder 1: 10 items: German songs. Music and words in German.
  • Folder 2:  9 items: Yale songs.
  • Folder 3: 29 items: Sheet music, old songs, and popular music.
  • Folder 4: 20 plus items: copies of misc. songs.
  • Additional materials in box 6: Song books, piano music, music for banjo, guitar, ukulele; songs for barbershop quartets; bound book, Tunes of a Family Team, words and music by Hope T. Robertson, 1948; some words written by Hope Norburn. Plus Champion Sings, book of miscellaneous songs for Champion activities

Box 7

  • Folder 1:13 items: Thomson-Gamble Genealogy; chart and introduction to the book – Trailblazers of the Thomson-Gamble Family.
  • Folder 2: 14 items: the Thomson-Gamble Line: biographical sketches of important people, descendants of the line, Peter Gibson Thomson, Laura gamble Thomson, etc.
  • Folder 3: 8 items: Sketches of the Logan, Randolph, Anderson and Cough families; ancestors of the Thomson-Gamble line.
  • Folder 4: 9 items: The Clark and Rogers Families, from which came William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; ancestors of the Thomson-Gamble line.
  • Folder 5: 1947; 14 items: correspondence on the genealogical collection.
  • Folder 6: 1948; [Jan.-June] 20 plus items: correspondence re: genealogical collection.
  • Folder 7: 1948; [July-August] 20 plus items: correspondence re: genealogical collection.
  • Folder 8: 1948; [Sept.-Dec.] 20 plus items: correspondence re: genealogical collection.
  • Folder 9: 1949; 20 plus items: Correspondence re: the genealogical collection.
  • Folder 10: 1932-1935; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 11: 1936-1939; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 12: 1940; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 13: 1941; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 14: 1942-1945; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 15: 1946; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 16: 1947-1951; 20 plus items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 17: 1956-1959; 6 items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 18: 1970-1971; 18 items: Financial and personal papers of Dr. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 19: 7 items: Biographical sketch of Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. (1908-1960); Memorial issue of The Log; Family Record of Reuben Buck and Hope Thomson Robertson.
  • Folder 20: 9 items: Papers relating to travels of R. B. R.
  • Folder 21: 1962-1967; 17 items: Correspondence re: “Dropper Dropper,” water filter for a fishing camp at Little Cayman Island in the British West Indies.
  • Folder 22: 2 items: Pamphlets – Chief Tunguska of the Cherokee Indians.
  • Folder 23: 4 items: Pamphlets – Amish Quakers of Pennsylvania
  • Folder 24: Thomson-Gamble Genealogy.
  • Folder 25: 1954; Bound Hopewood Album , R. B. R.’s home in Flat Rock, North Carolina (estimates of cost ; photos ; maps and topography).

Box 8

  • Folder 1: 1927 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson
  • Folder 2: 1929 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Robertson.
  • Folder 3: 1930 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Robertson.
  • Folder 4: 1930 [April]; Miscellaneous records; The Black Diamond Collieries
  • Folder 5: 1930 [May and June]; Miscellaneous records The Black Diamond Collieries.
  • Folder 6: 1931 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Robertson.
  • Folder 7: 1932 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Robertson and Reuben Robertson, Jr.
  • Folder 8: 1933 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Robertson and Reuben Robertson, Jr.
  • Folder 9: 1934 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 10: 1934 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 11: 1934 Tax Records; Federal and State for Reuben Robertson, Jr.
  • Folder 12: 1935 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 13: 1935 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 14: 1935 Tax Records; Federal and State for Reuben Robertson, Jr.
  • Folder 15: 1936 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope R. Coltish.
  • Folder 16: 1936 Tax Records; Federal and State for Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 17: 1936 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 18: 1936 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 19:  1936 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 20: 1937 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 21: 1937 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 22: 1937 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope R. Coltish.
  • Folder 23: 1937 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 24: 1938 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 25: 1938 Additional State Income Tax for R. B R.
  • Folder 26: 1938 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Inheritance for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 27: 1938 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. and Mary Watkins Robertson.
  • Folder 28: 1938 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Inheritance for Mrs. Hope R. Coltish.
  • Folder 29: 1938 Tax Records; Federal and State for Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 30: 1937-1939 Federal Audit on R. B. Robertson, Sr.
  • Folder 31: 1939 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 32: 1939 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. R. B. R.
  • Folder 33: 1938-1939; Local and Real Estate Taxes
  • Folder 34: 1939 State Income Tax Returns for R. B. R.
  • Folder 35: 1939 State Income Tax Returns for Mrs. R. B. R.
  • Folder 36: 1939 Additional State Income Tax
  • Folder 37: 1939; Federal Tax for Hope R. Norburn
  • Folder 38: 1939; Federal Tax for Logan T. Robertson
  • Folder 39: 1940 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for R. B. R. and Mrs. R. B. R.
  • Folder 40: 1940 Tax Records; Federal and Intangible for Mr. and Mrs. Logan T. Robertson and Laura Lee Robertson.
  • Folder 41: 1940 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Dr. Russell Norburn and Hope R. Noburn.
  • Folder 42: 1940 Local and real estate taxes.
  • Folder 43: 1941 Tax Records; Federal and State for Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 44: 1941 Tax Records; Federal and State (originals) for R. B. R.
  • Folder 45: 1941 Local and Real Estate Taxes.
  • Folder 46: 1941 Tax Records; Federal and State for R. B. R.
  • Folder 47: 1941 Tax Records; Federal and State for Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 48: 1941 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mrs. Hope T. Norburn, Laura Hope Norburn and Dr. Russell Norburn.
  • Folder 49: 1941 – Miscellaneous tax matters for R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 50: 1941 Tax Records of Mrs. Elizabeth Radder Robertson.
  • Folder 51: 1941 Tax Records (optional) for Laura Lee Robertson.
  • Folder 52: 1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Logan T. Roberson.
  • Folder 53: 1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, Intangible, Personal, and Property taxes for Laura Hope Robertson.
  • Folder 54:1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Elizabeth Radder Robertson.
  • Folder 55: 1941-1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Laura Lee Robertson.
  • Folder 56: 1942 Property Tax Listings for R. B. R. and H. T. R.
  • Folder 57: 1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for R. B. R.
  • Folder 58: 1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Mrs. R. B. R.
  • Folder 59: 1942 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Mrs. Hope R. Norburn and Dr. Russell Norburn.
  • Folder 60: 1942-1943 Local taxes for R. B. R. and family.

Box 9

  • Folder 1: 1943 Tax Records; Reuben B. Robertson, et al.
  • Folder 2: 1943 Property Tax listings for Buncombe and Henderson Counties.
  • Folder 3: 1943 Estimated Tax for Logan T. Robertson, Elizabeth Radder Robertson, and Laura Lee Robertson.
  • Folder 4: 1943 Estimated Income tax for R. B. R. and R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 5: 1943 Estimated Income Tax for Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 6: 1943 Estimated Income Tax for Hope R. Norburn, Laura Hope Norburn, and Russell, Jr.
  • Folder 7: 1943 Intangible Personal Tax for property – Dr. Russell Norburn.
  • Folder 8: 1944 Tax Records for Logan T. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 9: 1944 Tax Records for R. B. R., Mrs. R. B. R., and R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 10: 1944 Estimated Tax for R. B. R. and family.
  • Folder 11: 1944 Tax Records for Hope Norburn and family.
  • Folder 12: 1946-1947 Tax Record for Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 13: 1945 tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Mrs. Hope R. Norburn and family.
  • Folder 14: 1945 – Haywood Housing Company; correspondence with Reuben B. Robertson, Jr.; records of gains and losses; stockholders in Haywood Housing Co.
  • Folder 15: 1945 – Copies of Income Tax Returns for Reuben B. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 16: 1945 Tax Records; Federal, State, Estimated, and Intangible for Logan T. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 17: 1944-1945 Local taxes for R. B. R.
  • Folder 18: 1946 Copies of taxes for Hope Norburn and family.
  • Folder 19: 1946 Local taxes for R. B. R.
  • Folder 20: 1946 Copies of taxes for R. B. R.
  • Folder 21: 1946 Copies of taxes for Logan T. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 22: 1946-1947 Property taxes for Patton Ave. and French Broad Avenue.
  • Folder 23: 1947 Property taxes for Holland Ave. and Grove Park.
  • Folder 24: 1947 – Correspondence re: dividends, losses, interest, tax laws, etc.
  • Folder 25: 1947 Tax Records; Federal, State, Estimated, and Intangible taxes for R. B. R.
  • Folder 26: 1947 Tax Records; Federal, State for R. B. R. and Mrs. R. B. R.
  • Folder 27: 1947 Tax Records for Russell Lee Norburn, Jr.
  • Folder 28: 1947 Tax Records for Charles R. Norburn and Laura Hope Norburn.
  • Folder 29: 1947 Tax Records for Logan T. Robertson, Lillian Hope Robertson, and Laura Lee Robertson.
  • Folder 30: 1947 Tax Records for Hope R. Norburn.
  • Folder 31: 1947 Tax Records for Elizabeth Radder Robertson.
  • Folder 32: 1947 Tax Records for Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 33: 1947 Tax Records for Logan T. Robertson family.
  • Folder 34: 1947 Tax Records for Hope R. Norburn and family.
  • Folder 35: 1947 Tax Records; Federal, state, Intangible, and Exemptions for Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 36: 1947-1948 Property Taxes for R. B. R. and family.
  • Folder 37: 1948 Tax Records for Dr. Russell Norburn and family.
  • Folder 38: 1948 Tax Records for Mrs. H. T. Robertson.
  • Folder 39: 1948 Tax Records for Dr. Logan T. Robertson family.
  • Folder 40: 1948 Tax Records for Mr. and Mrs. Reuben B. Robertson
  • Folder 41: 1948 Estate Planning – R. B. R., and R. B. R., Jr.
  • Folder 42: 1949 Tax Records for Dr. Russell Norburn and family.
  • Folder 43: 1949 Property Taxes for R. B. R. and family.
  • Folder 44: 1949 Tax Records for Dr. Logan T. Robertson family.
  • Folder 45: 1949 Estimated Tax for Mr. and Mrs. Reuben B. Robertson; Florida vs. North Carolina State Income tax.
  • Folder 46: 1949 (year) Federal Report Deficiency on R. B. R. and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 47: 1949 Tax Records for Laura Lee Robertson and Lillian Hope Robertson.
  • Folder 48: 1949 Tax Records for R. B. R.; Federal and State; Interpretation of Federal Revenue Act Re: Sale of real estate.
  • Folder 49: 1949 – Re: 1947 Intangible Tax on Mrs. Georgia R. Perri.
  • Folder 50: 1949 – Stocks, common and preferred; wills of Reuben B. Robertson and Hope T. Robertson.

Box 10

  • Folder 1: 1950 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 2: 1950 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Laura Lee Robertson, Lillian Hope Robertson, and Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 3: 1950 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Dr. and Mrs. Logan T. Robertson.
  • Folder 4: 1951 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 5: 1952 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 6: 1953 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 7: 1954 Tax Records; Federal and State for Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 8: 1955-1956 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for Investment Properties.
  • Folder 9: 1957 Tax Records; Amended taxes, property taxes, Income Tax Withholding Table.
  • Folder 10: 1958 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Property; records of contributions.
  • Folder 11: 1958-1959 Tax Records; North Carolina Tax (Robertson Wall) Federal, State, Intangible, and Property Taxes – R. B. R.
  • Folder 12: 1959 Income Tax Data on R. B. R.
  • Folder 13: 1960 Tax Records; Federal, State, Intangible, and Property Taxes – R. B. R.
  • Folder 14: 1961 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Estimated – R. B. R.
  • Folder 15: 1962 Tax Records; Federal, State, Intangible, and Records of contributions.
  • Folder 16: 1962 Income Tax Data on Investment Properties.
  • Folder 17: 1963 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Estimated for R. B. R.
  • Folder 18: 1964 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Estimated for R. B. R.
  • Folder 19: 1965 Tax Records; Federal, State, Intangible, and Property Taxes; Partnership return of income – R. B. R.
  • Folder 20: 1966 Tax records; contributions and gifts; real estate; federal; supplemental tax on retirement; intangible.
  • Folder 21: 1967 Tax Records; Federal, State; Stock reports for R. B. R.
  • Folder 22: 1968 Tax Records; Federal, State, and Intangible for R. B. R.
  • Folder 23: 1968 Tax records; City and County – R. B. R.
  • Folder 24: 1969 Tax Records; Federal, State, Gift, and Estimated for R. B. R.
  • Folder 25: 1970 Tax Records; Federal, State, Property, and Estimated for R. B. R.
  • Folder 26: 1971 Tax Records; Federal, State, Intangible, and Sale of Stocks for R. B. R.
  • Folders 27-32: Haywood Housing Company (1939-1946)

Box 11

  • Folder 1: 1950 – Property taxes of Reuben B. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 2: 1951-1952 – Property taxes of Reuben B. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 3: 1953-1955 – Property taxes of Reuben B. Robertson and family.
  • Folder 4: 1954 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 5: 1955 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson; stocks and bonds.
  • Folder 6: 1955 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson; gift tax return.
  • Folder 7: 1955 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson; stock holdings.
  • Folder 8: 1955 – Tax papers; inventory of stock.
  • Folder 9: 1956 – Stock and Bonds holdings; financial statement; correspondence on tax matters.
  • Folder 10: 1956 – Correspondence re: North Carolina State Art Museum, portraits, letter to Governor Luther H. Hodges (6/13/56).
  • Folder 11: 1956 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 12: 1956 – Correspondence re: Extension to File.
  • Folder 13: 1955-1956 – Income Tax papers on R. B. R. and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 14: 1956 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 15: 1956 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Mrs. Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 16: 1956 – Correspondence re: Dicier Corporation.
  • Folder 17: 1956 – Income Tax papers; Intangibles, etc.
  • Folder 18: 1957 – Income tax Papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 19: 1957 – Income Tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 20: 1957 – Income Tax papers: correspondence re: “The Tread way Manor Hotel”; Miscellaneous correspondence.
  • Folder 21: 1957 – Miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence re: “The Tread way Manor Hotel”.
  • Folder 22: 1957 – Investment Properties, Inc.; Manor: and “The Willows.”
  • Folder 23: 1958 – Appraisals.
  • Folder 24: 1959 – Correspondence on Education and Miscellaneous.
  • Folder 25: 1960 – Income tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 26: 1961 – Income tax papers on Reuben B. Robertson and Hope T. Robertson.
  • Folder 27: 20 items: Theories and Procedures of Management, newspaper clippings.
  • Folder 28:  1918-1919: 9 items: R. b. R. business papers, various pamphlets and clippings.
  • Folder 29: 1927-1946; 16 items: pamphlets, clippings, outline of program, commercial Forestry Conference – November 1927.
  • Folder 30: 1946 [Feb.-April]; 15 items: American Pulp and Paper Association.
  • Folder 31: 1946 [May-Dec.]; 20 plus items: American Pulp and Paper Association.
  • Folder 32: 1947 [Jan.-Feb.]; 13 items: American Pulp and Paper Association.
  • Folder 33: 1949-1950; 12 items: Pamphlets, clippings re: The Economy in Business.
  • Folder 34: 1952-1956; 12 items Forestry, Education, capital and income survey of the U. S. Pulp and Paper Industry, etc.
  • Folder 35: 1965-1970; 14 items: Business papers.
  • Folder 36: 1971; 20 plus items: N A M Reports (National Association of Manufacturers), Bulletins from Commercial Research Dept. of Champion.
  • Folder 37: 1972; 20 plus items: The Business Council memorandum, book of membership, by-laws of Business Council.

Box 12

  • Folder 1: 20 plus items: Monthly accounts of Lewis Rogers, personal employee of R. B. R.
  • Folder 2: 13 items: Southern Industrial Relations Conference.
  • Folder 3: 3 items: Championship Chemical Pulps – sales samples of products; Champion Caustic Soda – how it is made and it’s relation to name of paper.
  • Folder 4: 3 items: The Recovery in Paper; booklet with information about income, net salaries, etc. on 16 companies; sample book of Champion paper.
  • Folder 5: 5 items: pamphlets and books; Wood Pulp – A Basic American Industry; The Story of Chestnut Extract.
  • Folder 6: 5 items: Article on R. B. R. reprinted from 1944 issue of Southern Pulp and Paper Journal, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Folder 7: 1936; Claims of 24 western counties tributary to Asheville, to the county Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 8: 1936; Claims of western counties – Avery, Jackson, Yancey, Transylvania, and Henderson.
  • Folder 9: 1936; Claims of Haywood County to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 10: 1936; Claims of McDowell and Buncombe.
  • Folder 11: 1936; Claims of Madison.
  • Folder 12: 1936; Claims of 30 Central and Eastern N.C. counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 13: 1936; Claims of 30 Central and Eastern N.C. counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 14: 1936; Claims of 30 Central and Eastern N.C. counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 15: 1936; Claims of 27 eastern counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 16: 1936; Claims of 27 eastern counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 17: 1936; Claims of 27 eastern counties to Highway Dept. Commission.
  • Folder 18: 1948; 19 items; Preprint – printed by the Forest Products Research Society – The Pope Maker.
  • Folder 19: 1950; Photographs – R. B. R. in Charlotte for Crusade for Freedom.\
  • Folder 20: 1951; 2 items: Annual Report of Champion Paper.
  • Folder 21: 1952; 1 item: Champion Paper and Wood Related Costs.
  • Folder 22: 1960; 20 plus items: Lake Logan Reservations
  • Folder 23: 1951-1967; 20 plus items: Stock owned by R. B. R. family.
  • Folder 24: 1968-1970; 19 items: The Newcomen Society pamphlets.

Box 13

  • Folder 1: 1936; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 2: 1937; Bills payable, insurance accounts, and accounts receivable.
  • Folder 3: 1937; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 4: 1938; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 5: 1939 [Jan.-June]: R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 6: 1939 [July-Dec.]: R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 7: 1940; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 8: 1941; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 9: 1942; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 10: 1943; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 11: 1944; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 12: 1945; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 13: 1946; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 14: 1947; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 15: 1948; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 16: 1949; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 17: 1950; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 18: 1951; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 19: 1952; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 20: 1953; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 21: 1954; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 22: 1955; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 23: 1956; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 24: 1957; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 25: 1958; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 26: 1959; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 27: 1960; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 28: 1961; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 29: 1962; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 30: 1963; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 31: 1964; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 32: 1965; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 33: 1966; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 34: 1967; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 35: 1968; R. B. R. bank account.
  • Folder 36: 1969; R. B. R. bank account.

Box 14

  • Folder 1: 12 bound bank account books, 1921-1935
  • Folder 2: Clippings, and written and typed notes, on various subjects
  • Folder 3: Clippings, and written and typed notes, on various subjects

Box 15

  • Various photographs