Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department

KIEFER-STEWART COMPANY
RECORDS, 1965-1975

Collection #
M 0127

Table of Contents

Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Folder Listing
Cataloging Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
24 May 1995

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

1 small manuscript box

COLLECTION DATES:

Inclusive 1965-1975; bulk 1975

PROVENANCE:

Frank C. Springer, Jr, Indianapolis, IN, 25 April 1995

RESTRICTIONS:

None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMATS:

None

OTHER FINDING AIDS:

None

RELATED HOLDINGS:

None

ACCESSION NUMBER:

1995.0442

HISTORICAL SKETCH

The Kiefer-Stewart Company, a wholesale drug firm in Indianapolis, came into being in 1915 with the merger of two seventy-year-old firms, the A. Kiefer Drug Company and the Daniel Stewart Company.

During the next sixty years the company was headed by members of the Stewart and Kiefer families: William Scott (1915-1922); G. Barret Moxley (1922-1955); A. Kiefer Mayer (1955-1960); and B. Scott and David Moxley (1960-1975). For many years the company operated at Capitol and Georgia Streets; about 1965 it moved to 1515 Senate Avenue. It served all of Indiana, about a third of downstate Illinois, and part of Ohio. In addition to its drug business, Kiefer-Stewart also had a separate Liquor and Wine Department.

Though it was doing about $14 million in business yearly, the company stopped paying dividends in 1972, and operated at a loss of almost $500,000 in 1974-1975.

In June-September 1975, Kiefer-Stewart was bought by the Henry B. Gilpin Company of Washington, D. C., a firm with annual sales of about $60 million. It was then merged with Mooney-Mueller-Ward, another Indianapolis firm that Gilpin had bought in 1974.

Source: Materials in collection

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection, filling one small manuscript box, contains corporate papers and agreements, and clippings, mainly from the last months of 1975. It is arranged chronologically.

The corporate papers document the process by which, in June-September 1975, the Kiefer-Stewart Company and its Illinois subsidiary were acquired by the Henry Gilpin Company, and then merged with Mooney-Mueller-Ward.

FOLDER LISTING

FOLDER CONTENTS

1

Historical

2

Audit 9-20-1974

3

Audit 6-25-1975; balance sheet 6-27-1995

4

List of Kiefer-Stewart stockholders 7-31-1975

5

Plan termination 8-27-1975

6

Merger resolutions and plan 8-29-1975

7

Draft of escrow agreement 9-17-1975

8

Merger proposal for stockholders meeting 9-22-1975

9

Shareholders' resolutions on merger 9-22-1975

10

Agreement for sharing income and expense of real estate 10-1-1975

 

CATALOGING INFORMATION

For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:

  1. Go to the Indiana Historical Society's online catalog
  2. Click on the "Local Catalog" icon.
  3. Search for the collection by its call number, using the letter or letters designation and four digits (e.g., M 0715, SC 2234).
  4. When you find the collection, go to the "Holdings" screen for a list of headings that can be searched for related materials.

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