Special Collections & Archives
Manuscript Group 315
Jerome James Day, 1876-1941
Papers, 1905-1941
7 cubic feet
The papers of Jerome James Day are part of the records of Day Mines, Inc., donated to the University of Idaho by Henry Day in 1984 and 1985. Initial processing of this manuscript group was done by Clay Williams in November 1987 with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Processing was completed by Judith Nielsen in October 1991.
BIOGRAPHY
Jerome James Day, the youngest son of Henry and Ellen Day, was born in Truckee, California in 1876, and was working as a union miner when his wealth from the Hercules thrust him into business and politics. He studied at Gonzaga College and the University of Idaho, taking an accelerated program in mining when the Hercules began to turn a profit. He married Lucy Mix of Moscow, Idaho, in 1902 and fathered one son, Jerome James, Jr., b. 1911, and one daughter, Bernice Eugenia, b. 1904. He and his wife lived in Moscow for approximately fourteen years, and he became president of the Moscow State Bank, and president and major stockholder of the Idaho National Harvester Company, a venture with his in-laws. He was state senator from Latah County for three terms, 1909-1912.
Although the most socially active of the Days, he never cast off the sorrow of his son's drowning death at seventeen, the result of a boating accident while at prep school in the Seattle area. His daughter was married twice; the first time in 1925 to an Alaskan by the name of John Fuller Malony, the second time to a man named Sharkey about whom little is known.
Jerome remained closely connected with the Day mining companies, and in 1912 became president of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Co. When the Days bought the old Northport smelter Jerome moved from Moscow to be its president, and organized a bank at Northport. He was president of the Idaho Mining Association, 1919-1922, and for twenty years a leading spokesman for the Idaho mining industry.
He was prominent in the Idaho Democratic party and served on the Idaho State Board of Education and as regent of the university from 1933 until his death in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 9, 1941. He established several scholarships at the University of Idaho and his library of English classics and western Americana was donated to the University.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers of Jerome J. Day span the years 1905 to 1941. Included are correspondence, both personal and business, and financial records.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The papers of Jerome J. Day were in no discernible order when received; therefore a series order was imposed during processing.
The first series contains correspondence and two miscellaneous items. At least two alphabetical groups and two loose-leaf note books were found during the initial processing of this group, therefore there are three subseries for the correspondence. The first spans the years 1905 to 1941 and appears to be remnants of several filing systems, probably merged by Henry in an incomplete attempt to create a subject arrangement; these folders were placed in alphabetical order during processing. It contains personal as well as some business correspondence. There are letters from his wife, daughter, and son, with a few of Jerome's letters to them included. There is also correspondence with the head of the Moran School for Boys which Jerome Jr. was attending when he drowned which detail local efforts in the search for the boy's body. Letters to his brothers and sisters comment on family matters and the business of the mining companies. Other letters concern his political life and a wide variety of business interests, including mining properties, mining stocks, the Northport and Pennsylvania smelters, the Tamarack and Custer mine, and other investments.
The second subseries was already in alphabetical order. It spans the years 1928-1933 and is similar to the previous subseries in content.
The third subseries was originally contained in two loose-leaf note books. Notes pasted on the front covers explain that one volume was given by Jerome's widow, Lucy Mix Day, to Henry L.V. Day on September 4, 1962, and the second passed to Henry from Lucy's estate on May 31, 1969. The contents of the first volume are classified as "Miscellaneous," "Labor Conditions," and "Code File." They relate to the economic development of north Idaho, the effect on the mining industry of recent and proposed legislation, the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce, and the North Idaho Press Association, industrial insurance, taxation, the market for mining stock, metal production and prices, appointments of public officials, the drafting of mine employees for military service, activities of labor unions - particularly the I.W.W., and of labor organizers, reports of local gossip about members of the Day family, labor legislation and labor advisory boards, planning for strikes, and arrests of I.W.W. members. The contents of the second volume relate entirely to activities of the Democratic Party in Idaho and actions in the state legislature. Contents of these two notebooks were removed and placed into file folders.
The two miscellaneous items are a carbon typescript titled "Report of Labor Troubles by Operators and McWade, June 1919," which consists of transcripts of meetings held in the office of Jerome Day between Robert M. McWade, U.S. Conciliation Commissioner, and local mine operators on June 25, 27, and 28, 1919, and a printed "Brief of Defendant in Error" in the C. Fred Kratzer vs. Jerome J. Day case in 1926.
The second series consists of personal financial records including 2 ledgers and 15 voucher registers.
SERIES LIST
I. Correspondence, 1905-1941 1-4 A. 1905-1941 B. 1928-1933 C. Note Books, 1917-1921 D. Miscellaneous, 1919-1926 II. Financial Records, 1907-1941 5 + os
JEROME JAMES DAY
INVENTORY
Box Folder Description
I. Correspondence, 1905-1941
A. 1905-1941
1 1 American Smelting and Refining Company, 1921 2 Aurum Mining Company, 1927-1928 3 Aurum Mining Company at Republic, 1934-1939 4 Development, 1938-1939 5 B, 1924-1925 6 Boyce, Eleanor Day, 1924-1939 7 Budge, Alfred, 1934-1939 8 Caledonia Oil Company, 1914 9 Candish property, 1914-1915 10-11 Cardoner Case, 1916-1919 12 Clearwater County timber lands, 1911-1919 13 Clearwater Improvement Company, 1909-1915 14-15 Coeur d'Alene Mine Owners Association, 1927-1930 16 Minutes, 1918-1926 17 Consolidations, 1925-1940 18 D, 1924-1927 19 Day, Agnes Loretta, 1922-1923 20 Day, Bernice, 1923-1925 21 Wedding, 1925 22 Day, Eugene R. 1910-1917 23 Estate of, 1922-1923 24 Day, Harry L., 1924-1927 25 Day, Henry Lawrence, 1919-1928 26 Operations in Burke Canyon, 1933-1940 27 Day, Jerome. Discovered assets, 1958 28 Funeral notice, 1941 29-30 Personal, 1908-1935 31 Wills, 1923-1938 32 Day, Jerome J., Jr., 1915-1929 33 Bank statements, 1925-1928 34 Day, Lucy Mix, 1917-1926 35 Travels, 1938 36 Day Development Company, 1931 37 E, 1918-1936 38 Education, State Board of, 1915 39 Electric Point Mining Company property, 1919 40 Ellis, 1923-1939 41 Ellis, Leslie E., 1929 42 Florence Mining and Milling Company. Stock certificate, 1917 43 French, Permeal J., 1933-1939 44 Garland Company. Industrial stocks, 1930 45 Gladstone Mountain Mining company, 1926 2 46 Hennessy-Burns Mining Company. Stock certificate, 1923 47 Hercules-Tamarack sampling, 1925-1929 48 Idaho, University of. Oil prospects publications, 1923-1927 49 Idaho National Harvester Company. "The Little Idaho," 1916 50 L.F. Parsons file, 1918-1923 51 Operation, 1913-1916 52 Stock, 1910-1921 53 Sundry, 1912-1917 54 Industrial Workers of the World and Unamerican, 1918-1927 55 Jayaness property, Pershing County, Nevada, 1928 56 Jessup, Paul B. Liquidations, 1936-1940 57-58 M, 1917-1939 59 Malony, Bernice Day, 1925 60 Degree information and essays, 1932-1939 61 Malony, John F. 1933-1941 62-63 Marsh, Harry W., 1930-1939 64 McCarthy, James and David Shearer accident, 1914 65 McKenna, Mark, 1929-1937 66 Mica Bay residence, blueprints, 1918-1925 67-68 Construction, 1915 69 Sundry, 1913-1935 70 Mica Rural Electric, 1935-1937 71 Miller River, Washington, property, 1927 72 Mine prospects, 1929-1930 73 Miners & Smelters Bank, Northport, 1917-1923 74 Mining properties, Sundry, 1914-1925 75 Mining stocks, Various, 1910-1922 76 Moran, Frank (Moran School for Boys), 1929-1930 77 Moscow residence, 1933-1941 78 N, 1919-1923 79 Nez Perce County. Sale of agricultural land to Herman C. Lohman, 1935 80 Northport Smelting & Refining Co., 1923-1938 81 Prospects, 1922-1927 82 Smoke, 1936-1937 83 Northwest Mining Company stock certificate, 1923 84 O, 1917-1923 85 Ore contracts, 1919-1920 86 Orofino Portland Cement Co., 1915-1918 87 Orofino Reorganization Co. stock certificate, 1925 88 P, 1917-1923 89 Packer Creek consolidation, 1940 3 90 Pennsylvania Smelting Company, 1917-1926 91 Reorganization, 1922-1923 92 Photographs, n.d. 93-95 Political, 1918-1924 96 Harry L. Day, 1918 97 J.C. Reynolds, 1918-1919 98 Portland Hotel, 1918-1924 99 Press-Times, 1921-1922 100 Powder permits, 1917 101 R, 1917-1940 102 Ramstedt, Axel P., 1933-1936 103 Real estate, 1917-1918 104 Recommendations, 1917-1921 105 Republic Mines Corporation. Report on Lone Pine, 1914-1917 106 Roanoke Mining Co., 1906-1925 107 Ruth, Joseph P., patent, 1932-1933 108 Settlements, 1925-1928 109 Sherman Lead Company, 1919-1930 110 Shoshone Country Club, 1927-1941 111 Snowshoe Mining Co., 1914 112 Social Securities legislation, 1936 113 Star Mine, 1920 114 Statements about properties, 1926-1930 115 Tamarack & Chesapeak Mining Co., 1905-1928 116 Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Co., 1912-1939 117 Excess profits tax, 1921-1925 118 Tamarack Mill feed, 1929 119 Tuscumbia Mining Co. stock certificate, 1923-1937 120 U, n.d. 121 V, 1929-1930 122 W, 1937-1940 123 Wallace Bank & Trust Company, 1918-1937 124 Wallace Meat Company, 1924-1937 125 Wallace Powder Company, 1925 126 Wallace Realty, 1927-1938 127 Wourms, John H., 1933-1940 128 Water analysis, Coeur d'Alene Lake, 1940
B. 1928-1933
129 A, 1932 130 Accident reports, 1931-1932 131 American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1931-1932 132 American Mining Congress, 1932 133-137 American Silver Producers Association, 1928-1932 138 American Smelting and Refining Co., Lead prices, 1931-1932 4 139 Applications, 1931-1932 140 Aurum Mining Company; Automobiles, 1930-1932 141 B, 1932 142 Books, 1932 143 Boyce, Eleanor Day, 1932 144 C, 1931-1933 145 Calispel Duck Club; Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1932 146 Coeur d'Alene Hardware & Foundry Co.; Coeur d'Alene Mine Owners Association, 1932 147 Conoboy, Jessie T.; Consolidated Insurance Agency, 1932 148 D, 1931-1932 149 Day, Harry; Day, Henry Lawrence, 1930-1932 150 Day, Mrs. Jerome, 1932 151 Depletion, 1932 152 E; Employment circulars, 1932 153 F, 1931-1932 154 Federal Mining & Smelting; Freight rates, 1932 155 G; H, 1932 156 Houston, H.B., 1932 157 I; Idaho Mining Association, 1931-1932 158 Insurance, 1932 159 Inventory; Itinerary, 1932 160 J; K; L; Last Chance Mining Co., Lead settlements, 1932 161 M; Maggy, P.J., 1932 162 Malony, John & Bernice; Harry W. Marsh, 1932 163 Mines Employment Office; Mining claims, 1932 164 Mix, Mary; Montana Power Co., 1932 165 N; Newspaper Clippings; New York Produce Exchange, 1914-1933 166 O; P, 1932 167 Park Copper Mining Co.; Pennsylvania Smelting Co.; Plummer School District bonds & warrants, 1933 168 Political, 1932 169 Porter, V.R.; Portland Hotel; President's Report - Tamarack & Custer, 1932 170 Proxies, 1924-1933 171 R; Ramstedt, A.P.; S, 1930-1932 172 Sales tax on stock; San Francisco Mining Exchange, Shoshone County Country Club; Speeches, 1930-1933 173 T; Taxation; Tiger Hotel; Travels, 1931-1932 174 University of Idaho, 1932 175 V-W, 1931-1932 176 Wage schedules; Wallace Bank & Trust Co.; Wallace-Kellogg Gun Club, 1931-1932 177 Wallace Meat Co.; Wallace Relief Association; John H. Wourms, 1932
C. Notebooks, 1917-1921
178 Notebook #1: Miscellaneous, 1917-1921 179 Labor Conditions, 1917-1921; Code file, 1917 180-182 Notebook #2, 1917-1921
D. Miscellaneous, 1919-1926
183 "Report of Labor Troubles", 1919 184 Brief of Defendant in Error: Kratzer vs. Day, 1926
II. Financial Records, 1907-1941
5 185 Transfer binder (Ledger) 1922-1941 186 Property transfers, 1912-1935 187-189 Bank statements, 1916-1931 os 190 Ledger, 1907-1908 191 Distribution of income and expenses, 1917 192-206 Voucher registers, 1915-1941 207 Photostats of tax returns for 1920-1923 for protest, 1926
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