James K.P. Pine papers, 1884-1963

James K.P. Pine (1841-1919) was a businessman in Troy, New York. He helped with the incorporation of the United Shirt and Collar Company of Troy in 1890, and by 1906, he was president of the company. In 1884, he began purchasing oil stocks from Wyoming Central Association and later from other Wyoming oil companies including Midwest Oil, Royalty Oil and New York Oil. Still later, he held stock in Consolidated Royalty Oil Company of Casper, Wyoming, when it absorbed stock of smaller companies in its incorporation. Pine kept an active correspondence regarding his oil stock with Henry D. Schoonmaker, an officer of the Wyoming National Bank in Casper and of New York Oil Company. These letters and reports between Pine and Schoonmaker document the turn of the century conditions the Casper oil companies faced in their efforts to gain capital investments to finance their field exploration and production.