A Guide to the Papers of James L. Skerritt1910-1978 (bulk 1935-1974) Mss 80-3 MSS.80.3
Skerritt, James L.
collectionnumber MSS 80-3
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Cecilia Brown
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- American property -- Foreign countries -- Germany
- F. W. Woolworth Company
- Property (International law)
- Skerritt, James Lewis, 1898-1974
- Smidt, Thomas L., 1871-1940
- Strongman, Richard H., 1880-1940
- United States -- Claims
- United States. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
- Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
- Wills
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Skerritt, James Lewis, 1898-1974
- Smidt, Thomas L., 1871-1940
- Strongman, Richard H., 1880-1940
- Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
Container List
Mixed Materials [35007007834314] MSS 80-3, Box 1 folder: 1
Skerritt: Bank Accounts
1963-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007834314] MSS 80-3, Box 1 folder: 2
Skerritt: Correspondence and memoranda re clients and Skerritt's health while in hospital
1944-04-1944-05
Mixed Materials [35007007834314] MSS 80-3, Box 1
Skerritt: Time Sheets
1941-1942
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 1
James, H. P. and James, Arthur Curtis Estates. Memoranda, draft of litigation history, will of William DeForest Manice, and
some Skerritt's notes
1944, 1964, 1966
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 2
Slater, Cecelia. Deed of Woodlawn Cemetery plot
1910
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 3
Slater, John J. Estate: Legal documents. Skerritt's memoranda and some correspondence
1932-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 4
Slater, John J. Estate. Annual Reports of Citizens Southern National Bank
1935, 1957, 1960, 1962
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 5
Slater, John J. Estate: Appraisals, court documents re Elliott R. May; some correspondence. Adjustment of Skerritt fees for
legal services
1939-1967
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 6
Slater, John J. Estate: Printed materials and newspaper clippings
1957-1958, 1966
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 7
Slater, John J. Estate re: May, Robert M. Guardian of Elliot R. May. Legal documents: letter of guardianship, agreements,
deed, affidavit, summons
1960-1963
Mixed Materials [35007007834322] MSS 80-3, Box 2 folder: 8
Slater, John J. and Cecelia Estate re Division of fees and bills of services between Gabriel E. Torre and Mr. Skerritt.
1964-1966
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 1
Smidt, Thomas L: Will of 1937 and 1940 English translation of will; German inventory of property
1937-1940
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 2
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Record Roll. Executors Account(1st)documents
1937-1952
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 3
Smidt Thomas L. Estate: Correspondence between Thomas L. Smidt and Skerritt; German claim of John A. Smidt and Thomas R. Smidt;
power of attorney for German lawyer; distribution of property from German estate; Skerritt's notes; printed materials
1937-1967
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 4
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate re: Helene Smidt Trust schedules. Skerritt's notes
1937-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 5
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate re: German assets. Approval of beneficiaries accounts; German statements of accounts and English translations;
distributions of assets plans; printed copies of treaties between the United States and Germany: Friendship, Commerce and
Consular Rights
1935, 1953, 1954; Instructions for preparing claims for World War losses , 1962. 1942-1956
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 6
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Statements of German accounts
1942-1956, 1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834330] MSS 80-3, Box 3 folder: 7
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: German accounts [of John A, Smidt; Thomas R. Smidt; Helene Smidt-Rockwell; Julies Smidt-Marshall;
Bertha Smidt; Frieda Smidt-Bliss; Marie Smidt; Ethel Darley].
1945-1956
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 1-3
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: German property. Correspondence with German attorneys Hermann Janssen and Johann G. Lohmann
1949-1954
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 4
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Statements of stocks dividends, sales of securities, account of proceedings
1952-1963
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 5
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Accounting schedules
1952-1963
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 6
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: newspaper clippings
1953-1955
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 7
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Magazine articles [copies]; State Department Press Release No. 122 (March 3, 1955); Skerritt's notes
1953-1956
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 8
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: [Wills of Helene Smidt, Bertha Smidt, Friede Smith, Marie Smidt, Thomas R. Smidt.] Skerritt's work
schedule from 3/10/1954 - 12/1954.
1954 (1935-1945)
Mixed Materials [35007007834348] MSS 80-3, Box 4 folder: 9
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Income tax on German property. [Correspondence, memoranda].
1954-1957
Mixed Materials [35007007834355] MSS 80-3, Box 5 folder: 1
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate: Market value and annual income of trust estate. [Skerrit's notes]
1962-1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834355] MSS 80-3, Box 5 folder: 2-3
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate Trust: Final Accounting
1962-1965
Mixed Materials [35007007834355] MSS 80-3, Box 5 folder: 4
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate Trust: 1963 income taxes, accounts. [Some correspondence, Skerritt's notes]
1963-1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834355] MSS 80-3, Box 5 folder: 5
Smidt, Thomas L. Estate Trust: Trustees Second and Final Account of Proceedings (1952-1963)
1963-1965
Mixed Materials [35007007834355] MSS 80-3, Box 5 folder: 6
Smidt Thomas L Estate Trust: Attorneys fees. [Skerritt's attorney fees, notes, some memoranda, drafts, newspaper clippings]
1964-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834363] MSS 80-3, Box 6 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H: Personal legal documents. [Certificate of marriage, U. S. passport, will, certificate of death]; some
correspondence with State Department and The Grand Lodge of Masons of Illinois.
1921-1962
Mixed Materials [35007007834363] MSS 80-3, Box 6 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H: German inventories and German appraisal of property in Germany. Divorce action
1930, 1940-1941
Mixed Materials [35007007834363] MSS 80-3, Box 6 folder: 3-4
Strongman Richard H: Miscellaneous documents: translations of German documents, memoranda, copies of correspondence with German
officials and heirs, notes.
1934-1966
Mixed Materials [35007007834363] MSS 80-3, Box 6 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H: Woolworth Co. [Memoranda, copies of correspondence, and notes re reorganization of Woolworth in Germany,
and German assets].
1932-1968
Mixed Materials [35007007834371] MSS 80-3, Box 7 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H: Woolworth Co. G. M. B. H. of Berlin documents
1938-1951
Mixed Materials [35007007834371] MSS 80-3, Box 7 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate: Executors First Intermediate Account.
1940-1943
Mixed Materials [35007007834371] MSS 80-3, Box 7 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate: Skerritt's time report
1940-1944
Mixed Materials [35007007834371] MSS 80-3, Box 7 folder: 4-5
Strongman Richard H. Estate: Correspondence. Domestic and foreign
1940-1951
Mixed Materials [35007007834389] MSS 80-3, Box 8 folder: 1-3
Strongman Richard H. Estate: Correspondence. Domestic and foreign
1940-1951
Mixed Materials [35007007834389] MSS 80-3, Box 8 folder: 4
Strongman Richard H. Estate: Power of attorneys copies and draft of Skerritt's Compensation explanation
1940-1950, 1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834389] MSS 80-3, Box 8 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate: German inventory. Petition for discovery of property.
1940-1968
Mixed Materials [35007007834389] MSS 80-3, Box 8 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H: Newspaper clippings.
1941-1942
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H. Newspaper clippings re German property.
1941-1945
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German estate. Memoranda and related miscellaneous documents
1941-1945
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Federal Estate Tax [documents].
1941-1946
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 4
Strongman Richard H. - German Woolworth. Balance sheets and printed materials.
1941, 1948, 1952, 1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Biography and background. [Skerritt's notes].
1941, 1950-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - New York State Taxes Record. 1948. Executors accounts.
1942-1948
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - New York State Tax returns.
1942, 1957-1968
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Miller, Hortense S. legal documents: birth certificate, wills, death certificate, newspaper
clippings
1942-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834397] MSS 80-3, Box 9 folder: 9
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Executors accounts. Second intermediate account.
1943-1944
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 1
Strongman, Richard H. Estate re War Claims. [Miscellaneous copies of documents related to Strongman's claims; printed materials,
handwritten notes].
1944-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Executors accounts. Third intermediate account.
1948-1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - War Claims Act and International Law. [Printed materials, newspapers clippings, Skerritt's notes]
1948-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 4
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Woolworth Co. Annual Report and Extract of Woolworth German Co. Correspondence. [Skerritt's
notes]
1948-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate Germany - N. Y. Woolworth Officers re German Woolworth.
1949-1958
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German estate inventory; powers of attorney; Assignment of Right to Purchase.
1950
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German Woolworth stock transfer and Gift Tax return.
1950-1951
Mixed Materials [35007007834405] MSS 80-3, Box 10 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Correspondence primarily between Skerritt and German notary Heinrich F. Albert, Woolworth officials
and German representatives.
1950-1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Heinrich F. Albert,[German notary], fees
1950-1964
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 2
Skerritt's notes re Strongman Estate.
1950,1968, 1971, 1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Correspondence. Copies of correspondence with Woolworth representatives and Strongman heirs;
[Skerritt's notes].
1951-1967
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 4
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Miscellaneous copies of documents
1951-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Research materials and notes.
1959-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Woolworth Co. Annual Reports, [Skerritt's notes].
1960-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - War Claims. Copies of legislative documents
1961-1965
Mixed Materials [35007007834413] MSS 80-3, Box 11 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German documentation of Strongman's property in Berlin
1961-1967
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Skerritt's legal fees
1961-1976
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Claim No. W-13008
1962-1966
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Chapple, Charlotte S. and Linda Miller Bain and Byron Strongman Miller Claims. [Copies of documents]
1962-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 4
German War Claims - New York Law. [Skerritt's notes]
1962-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Correspondence, awards and related documents re Strongman,
Chapple, and Miller estates.
1962-1976
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Skerritt account
1963-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German claims. Copies of translations of German documents.
1965
Mixed Materials [35007007834421] MSS 80-3, Box 12 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Proof of American citizenship. War Claim - NY Woolworth.
1965
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 1
Strongman Richard H. Estate- Congressional Petition re Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Claims No. W-13008; W-7116; W-
7122
1966-1967
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Hortense S. Miller War claims awards
1966-1968
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Linda Hart Miller, Byron Strongman and Gail Hart claims
1966-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 4
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Memoranda in connection with additional fee claim
1966-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Fees, correspondence with Dr. Koch-Weser
1966-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Congressman Ogden R. Reid letter
1968
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Administrative Procedure Act. [Annotated copies of treatises and Skerritt's notes]
1968-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Law Reports (copies). Skerritt's notes
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834439] MSS 80-3, Box 13 folder: 9
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Mistake of Law and Fact of Commission. [Skerritt's notes]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 1
Strongman, Richard H. Estate - [Annotated printed materials, Skerritt's notes]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 2
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Congressional Staff Directory. [Copy]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 3
Strongman Richard H. Estate - German laws of inheritance and conflict of laws. [Skerritt's notes and clippings]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 4
Strongman, Richard H. Estate - Modern Constitutional Laws. Federal laws, [Skerritt's notes]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 5
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Violation of JLS [Skerritt] constitutional right of due process of law. [Newspaper clippings
and copies of Skerritt's notes]
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 6
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Law dictionaries. Interpretation of terms. [Skerritt's notes]
1972-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 7
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Skerritt's correspondence with Zvonko R. Rode re Claims W-7116 and W-7122 of Byron S. Miller,
et al.
1972-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 8
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Correspondence with G. Kirby Munson, Esq.
1972-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 9
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Skerritt's drafts as executor of Strongman Estate.
1972-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 10
Strongman Richard H. Estate - [Skerritt's notes and reflections re compensation for attorney fees].
1972-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 11
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Correspondence re Woolworth Claims.
1973
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 12
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Skerritt letter to Wayland McCleland, General Counsel
of the FCSC.
1973-06-11
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 13
Strongman Richard H. Estate - Skerritt's correspondence, memoranda and notes re Strongman's German war claims.
1973-1974
Mixed Materials [35007007834447] MSS 80-3, Box 14 folder: 14
Strongman Richard H. Estate - [Correspondence between Elizabeth Skerritt and Clyde R. Armstrong re Richard H. Strongman estate
accounts]
1975-1978
Mixed Materials [35007007834454] MSS 80-3, Box 15
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt. Judicial Settlement of the Third Intermediate Account of Proceedings of Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Frank L. Crocker as Executors..... of Harry Payne Whitney. P2717-1930. Intermediate
Account of Proceedings of the Executors and of the Trustees from Nov.1, 1936 to March 31, 1941.
1941
Mixed Materials [35007007834454] MSS 80-3, Box 15 folder: 2
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt. Photocopy of Decree on Accounting (Executors)
1943
Mixed Materials [35007007834454] MSS 80-3, Box 15 folder: 3
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt. Newspaper clippings.
1972-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007835105] MSS 80-3, Box 16
Bibliographic materials. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States. Decisions and Annotations. Washington,
D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, [1968]. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States. Annual Report to
the Congress for the Period January 1-December 31, 1967. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States. Annual
Report to the Congress for the Period January 1-December 31, 1968. Lilich, Richard B. and Gordon A. Christenson: International
Claims: Their Preparation and Presentation. Syracuse, N. Y., Syracuse University Press, 1962.
1962-1968
Mixed Materials Law Special Collections photographs cabinet
Strongman, Richard H. Portrait
ca. 1930-1931