Collection Scope and Content Note

Includes some original Hotels Statler Company documents; stockholders lists, 1914-1917; two scrapbooks of E. M. Statler obituaries, 1928; photocopy of the Statler's will; two scrapbooks of clippings and letters about Alice (Mrs. E. M.) Statler; Statler Hotels Delaware Corporation documents; and other scrapbooks and documents. Also an album of eight 78 rpm phonograph records.

Also, a four-page hand-written letter dated March 29, 1918 from E. M. Statler to Frank A. McKowne, who was serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Frank McKowne was the assistant to Mr. Statler beginning in 1914 and served as president of the Hotels Statler from 1928 until his retirement in 1945.