CHARLES P. NOYES:

Charles P. Noyes was born in Connecticut in 1842, and came to St. Paul in 1868 where he engaged in the wholesale drug business. He started Noyes Bros. & Cutler, a wholesale firm which dealt with drugs and related products. Members of the firm were Charles P., Daniel R., and Winthrop G. Noyes and Edward H. Cutler. He died on April 30, 1921.

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Papers include correspondence, accounts, and contracts for the building of Noyes' house (1887); material that he collected as a delegate to the Indianapolis monetary convention (1898), from the launching of the steamship Dakota (1904), and as chairman of a St. Paul Commercial Club committee to erect a memorial to Joseph A. Wheelock (1906-1907); reports and correspondence on the construction of a dam on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul; and invitations and programs of several patriotic societies. A large group of papers (1883-1921) collected by Noyes as a member of various committees of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul consist of correspondence, financial records, lists of members and contributions, and contracts for the erection and furnishing of a new edifice.

The papers also contain material on the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, including a report of its committee on education which gives statistics on schools in St. Paul (1899); records kept by Noyes as treasurer of the St. Paul Presbyterian Missionary Society (1884-1888) and of the Archaeological Institute of America (1912-1919); correspondence and data on the membership of the Minnesota Historical Society and on the controversy over its building site (1914-1920); records of the St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters (1907-1908); and genealogical correspondence and memoranda on the Noyes, Rogers, and associated families.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Charles P. Noyes Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 1990; 2162; 14,516; 16,361

Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 990017336530104294

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Buildings -- Specifications.

Businessmen -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Dams -- Mississippi River.

Money -- Congresses.

Patriotic societies.

Schools -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Statistics.

Persons:

Noyes, Charles Phelps, 1842-1921 -- Homes and haunts.

Noyes family.

Rogers family.

Wheelock, Joseph Albert, 1831-1906.

Organizations:

Archaeological Institute of America. St. Paul Society.

Dakota (Steamship).

General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.)

House of Hope Presbyterian Church (Saint Paul, Minn.)

Minnesota Historical Society.

Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce (1867-1904).

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Minnesota.

Society of the War of 1812.

Sons of the Revolution.

St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters.

St. Paul Presbyterian Missionary Society.

Places:

Mississippi River.

Document Types:

Genealogies.

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