Securities and Investments Files,, 1876-1925

Summary: Records of Washington A. Roebling's financial investments and activities in companies as stockholder or executive administrator. There are also a small number of legislative reports from the Public Utilities Commission in New Jersey which have bearing on his Public Utilities and Street Railway investments. Documents include incoming and outgoing letters, telegrams and memoranda; dividend statements, stock, bond and mortgage certificates; contracts, agreements, and other legal documents.

Documents related to the John A. Roebling's Sons Co. (JARSCO) include, in addition to general letters received from E.L. Alexander and Ferdinand W. Roebling regarding stock dividends, documents relating to a 1898-1899 buyout offer from American Steel and Wire Company, agreements to sell Edmund Roebling's company stock, and the reordering of the company and a review of family stock holdings conducted after the death of Carl W. Roebling in 1921.

The series also includes documents about the Vitrite and Luminoid Co., an electric lighting company in which Washington A. served as vice president, and both he and his brother Ferdinand W. Roebling were key investors. The Vitrite and Luminoid records in this series refer mainly to the mortgage of the company to Washington A. Roebling beginning from 1887, its subsequent failure and foreclosure.

A few items concerning the Vitrite and Luminoid Co. are stored with the oversize items.