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Size | 11.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8,000 items) |
Abstract | Peter Spence Gilchrist was an English immigrant and pioneer in chemical engineering of Charlotte, N.C. The collection includes business letters, chiefly 1904-1910, received by Gilchrist's firm, Southern Card, Clothing, and Reed Company, relating to the building of fertilizer plants and the installation of works for phosphate processes along the eastern seaboard. |
Creator | Gilchrist, Peter Spence, 1861-1947. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Peter Spence Gilchrist (1861-1947) was an English immigrant and pioneer in chemical engineering of Charlotte, N.C. Gilchrist was born in Manchester, England and emigrated to the United States in 1889. He was for a time manager of a fertilizer plant on Long Island, N.Y.; a chemical engineer at Charlotte and at Baltimore, Md.; and operator of gold mines in Blacksburg, S.C. He settled in Charlotte in 1898.
Gilchrist designed sulphuric acid plants and fertilizer plants and was a pioneer in the development of the phosphate industry and in chemical engineering in the southeast. His company, Southern Card, Clothing, and Reed, built fertilizer plants and installed works for phosphate processes. He was vice president of the Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, established in 1911; and was president of the Chemical Construction Company of Charlotte, which was established in 1914 and sold to American Cyanamid in 1929.
Gilchrist married Ethel Gertrude Porter of Goole in Yorkshire, England. Their children were Stuart, Cecil W., Edith, and Peter S. Junior.
Back to TopThe collection includes business letters, chiefly 1904-1910, received by Peter Spence Gilchrist's firm, Southern Card, Clothing, and Reed Company, relating to the building of fertilizer plants and the installation of works for phosphate processes along the eastern seaboard.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Biography of Peter Spence Gilchrist |
Folder 2 |
1901-1903 |
Folder 3-14
Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14 |
1904 |
Folder 15-28
Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28 |
1905 |
Folder 29-40
Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40 |
1906 |
Folder 41-52
Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52 |
1907 |
Folder 53-64
Folder 53Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64 |
1908 |
Folder 65-76
Folder 65Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76 |
1909 |
Folder 77-89
Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89 |
1910 |
Folder 90 |
1911 |
Folder 91 |
Undated |