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The Department of State was established by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was preceeded by the Department of Foreign Affairs (July-Sept. 1789). Its function was to advise the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy; conduct the foreign relations of the United States; preserve the Great Seal of the United States; commission Presidential appointees to various federal offices; publish laws, maintain custody of federal records, and administer the territories.
The Office of the Secretary of War was established by the act creating the War Department, August 7, 1789 (1 Stat. 49). Its functions were to supervise all activities of the War Department; responsibility for naval affairs until 1798 and for military bounty lands, military pensions, and Indian affairs until 1849. It was abolished in September 18, 1947, by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 501), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army, National Military Establishment (1947- 49); Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense (1949- ).
The Department of the Navy was established by an act of April 30, 1798 (1 Stat. 553). It was preceeded by the War Department (1789-98). Its functions were to advise the President on naval matters and administer the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. It was abolished y the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Department of the Navy, National Military Establishment (1947-49); Department of the Navy, Department of Defense (1949- ).

Before 1870 the records that later became the central files of the Department of State were maintained by the bureaus and offices that produced or accumulated them. In 1870 a reorganization of the Department gave the Chief Clerk's Bureau custody of the archives and rolls and the task of indexing the Department's records as they accumulated. The departmental organization was again modified in 1872 (formally accomplished by an act of Mar. 3, 1873; 17 Stat. 485), and the recordkeeping duties of the Chief Clerk's Bureau were transferred to the Bureau of Indexes and Archives.
The three main groupings of the Department's records that had been established by its bureaus and offices before 1870 were Diplomatic Correspondence, Consular Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Correspondence. They were continued as the central files and were maintained by the Bureau of Indexes and Archives until 1906, when an entirely new system of recordkeeping was introduced.

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United Press Photo is a photography studio.

United News Wholesale Ltd. was a printer active in Calgary, AB.

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United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada was a photography studio based in 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto 5.

The United Empire Loyalist Butter and Cheese Company, Limted was founded in Adolphustown, Ontario, in 1897.

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