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Scrapbooks and Papers, 1835-1985
(predominantly 1919-1927)

Manuscript Collection 605

• Information about the Collection
• Contents of the Collection

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Scrapbooks, letters, and other items pertaining to the family of Harmon Liveright Remmel, Jr. of Fayetteville, Arkansas were donated to Special Collections by Mr. Remmel March 8, 1986.

Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, broadsides, and other items concerning Harmon Liveright Remmel, Sr., who led the Arkansas State Republican Party from the 1890s until his death October 14, 1927.  The collection also includes a number of items in German.  Among these are letters to the senior Mr. Remmel from various relatives, and a Wanderbuch of Harmon Liveright Remmel, Sr.'s father, Gottlieb Remmel (a Wanderbuch is a work record which individuals training to be master craftsmen were required to maintain.  Gottlieb Remmel trained as a tanner, and his Wanderbuch dates from 1832 - 1835).  Also in German is a printed booklet (Neujahrsbuchlein fur Die Jugend) and two pocket notebooks, one of which contains Gottlieb Remmel's Last Will and Testament handwritten in English.

The scrapbook labeled "Volume 1" contains items concerning the construction of Remmel Dam (Hot Spring County, Arkansas), which was named in honor of the senior Mr. Remmel.  It was the first hydroelectric power dam in Arkansas.  Volumes 2 and 3 are scrapbooks concerning the lives and careers of Harmon L. Remmel, Sr. and Elizabeth Cameron Remmel (Mrs. Harmon L. Remmel, Sr.). Volume 3 was created by Ada E. Remmel Benson (sister of Harmon L. Remmel, Sr.), as a gift for her nephew, Harmon L. Remmel, Jr.

The photographs include individual and group portraits of political figures, scenes of buildings and landscape, and snapshots of Remmel Dam under construction.  Photographs are individually numbered except in the case of identical prints; these are differentiated by a letter suffix.

Individuals repeatedly cited are referred to in the first instance by their full name and thereafter by initials. Location of correspondents is cited once only unless the location changes.  Brackets indicate information which was not certain.

Prepared by Leon C. Miller and Nan Lawler, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February 1987.

Related material in Special Collections includes:

 Harvey Couch Papers
 Clyde Taylor Ellis Papers
 Colter Hamilton Moses Papers
 Harmon Liveright Remmel, Sr. Papers
 William Remmel Papers

Significant correspondents include:

 Charles H. Brough
 Nicholas Murray Butler
 Calvin Coolidge
 Warren G. Harding
 Andrew W. Mellon
 Theodore Roosevelt
 William Howard Taft

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (3 scrapbooks, 2 boxes)
 

Volume 1.  Scrapbook, 1923-1926.
           Newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items
           concerning predominately the construction of Remmel
           Dam.

Volume 2.  Scrapbook, 1900-1927.
           Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence
           and other items concerning Harmon Liveright Remmel,
           Sr. and Elizabeth Cameron Remmel (Mrs. Harmon
           Liveright Remmel, Sr.).

Volume 3.  Scrapbook, 1919-1927.
           Same as above.
 

Box 1
Folder 1.  Correspondence, 1881-1891.

    Item 1.  April/May 1881.        1 ALS, 2 l.
             Carl Bever (Hagen, Germany) to unknown [probably
             Gottlieb and Henrietta Remmel, Stratford, Fulton
             County, New York].  In German.

         2.  [August] 18, 1881.     1 ALS + env.
             Unknown author (Trenton, New Jersey) to Harmon
             Liveright Remmel, Sr., (addressed as "Hermann";
             Newport, Jackson County ).  In German.

         3.  [August] 19, 1881.     1 ALS, 2 l.
             Gottlieb Remmel (Stratford, Fulton County, New
             York) to HLR, Sr.  In German. Found in above
             envelope.

         4.  February 27, 1884.     1 ALS, 3 l, + env.
             Carl Bever to Gottlieb Remmel.  In German.

         5.  [1885].                1 ALS + env.
             Gottlieb Remmel to HLR, Sr.  In German.

         6.  December 25, 1890.     1 ALS + env.
             Gottlieb Remmel to HLR, Sr.  In German.

         7.  December 23, 1891.     1 ALS, 2 l, + 2 env.
             Carl Bever to Gottlieb Remmel.  In German. Folder 2.  Correspondence, 1918-1985.

    Item 1.  July 17, 1918.         1 telegram.
             HLR, Sr. (Little Rock) to Theodore Roosevelt
             (Oyster Bay, New York).

         2.  July 18, 1918.         1 TLS
             Theodore Roosevelt (New York, New York) to HLR,
             Sr.  Signed by secretary.

         3.  July 26, 1918.         1 TLS
             Theodore Roosevelt (Oyster Bay, New York) to HLR,
             Sr.

         4.  September 13, 1918.    1 TLS
             Theodore Roosevelt's secretary (New York, New
             York - signature illegible) to HLR, Sr. (New
             York, New York).

         5.  March 5, 1919.         1 TLS + env.