| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Collection of Account Books |
| Title: | Collection of Account Books |
| Dates: | 1770-1920 |
| Extent: | 6.0 linear feet (8 containers and 15 oversize volumes) |
| Abstract: | The collection consists of business and personal account books and other miscellaneous papers of business enterprises and residents of numerous places throughout Ohio and of Easton, Pennsylvania, Lee, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Redding, Connecticut. Includes records of farmers, merchants, shipping companies of the Great Lakes, shoemakers, and wood carvers. |
| MS Number | MS 0565 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English and German |
The Collection of Account Books, 1770-1920, consists of business and personal account books and other miscellaneous papers of business enterprises and residents of numerous places throughout Ohio and of Easton, Pennsylvania, Lee, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Redding, Connecticut. Includes records of farmers,jurists, civil engineers, medical doctors, laborers, tailors, merchants, school teachers, store keepers, steamboats, shipping companies of the Great Lakes, shoemakers, and wood carvers.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying business and entrepreneurship in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Those studying economic issues in farming, tavern keeping, Great Lakes shipping, shoe making, wood carving, and other business and industrial interests will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 565 Collection of Account Books, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gifts of various persons, and combined by WRHS for ease of access in 1949.
Series I: Smaller Sized Account Books 1770-1920 |
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| 1 | 1 | Adams Express Company, Cleveland, Ohio? 1871 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | A. D. Anderson and Company, unknown location 1860 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | D. W. Anderson and Company, location unknown 1861-1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Anonymous, Cleveland merchant 1825-1826 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Anonymous, Jefferson, Ohio 1824-1854 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Anonymous, wool carder and cloth dresser, unknown location 1823-1828 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Anonymous, Mentor and Willoughby, Ohio 1833-1844 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Anonymous, Painesville, Ohio (Gift of Sidney S. Wilson in 1916) 1838-1840 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Baldwin, Edward, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 1824-1843 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Boughton, George, Trumbull County, Ohio (gift of E. P. Tanner) 1823-1848 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Brough, John (tavern keeper), Marietta, Ohio (gift of Mrs. Bailey) 1802-1821 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Bunts, Hermes (wool carder), Madison, Lake County, Ohio (accounts with various woolen companies) 1852-1861 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Codding, G. M. (d. 1849), Summit County, Ohio, day book (gift of G. M. Codding in 1914) 1838-1852 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Clapp, Thomas J. (farmer), Cuyahoga County, Ohio? 1844-1864 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Clapp, Thomas J. (farmer), Cuyahoga County, Ohio? 1859-1871 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Cooper, John (jurist), Easton, Pennsylvania 1821-1857 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Everett, Azariah (doctor), Cleveland, Ohio 1854-1874 | |||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | Farr, Eliel (civil engineer), Rockport, Ohio 1820-1842 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Fenton, John, Bloomfield, Ohio 1845-1857 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Fourth Ward Relief Committee, Cleveland, Ohio (includes memoranda of lots sold on Woodland Hills in Cleveland, Ohio 1863-1895 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Gridley, A., unknown location (gift of W. H. Murray) 1848-1852 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | P. D. Hall and Company, unknown location 1862-1870 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Hayden, M. M., Cleveland, Ohio 1841-1842 | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Head, B., location unknown 1804 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Hogan and Wilson (merchants), Bedford, Ohio (gift of S. S. Wilson in 1916) 1840-1880 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Hunt, William S. (farm laborer), Charlestown, Ohio 1841-1854 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Huntington, Benjamin (1736-1780), Norwich, Connecticut 1770-1772 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Kasota (Steamboat), Great Lakes 1883-1890 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Morris, I. G. (farmer), Steubenville, Ohio 1856-1870 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Nicholson, John (d. 1800), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, primarily accounts with Robert Morris (1734-1806) 1793-1796 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | George B. Ogden and Company (Great Lakes shipping), Cleveland, Ohio (gift of William Fitch in 1907) 1832-1833 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Preston, Moses (farmer), Chester, Ohio 1803-1834 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Renick, George (merchant), Chillicothe, Ohio 1808-1829 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Renick, George Jr. (farmer), Chillicothe, Ohio 1845-1863 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Schnably, Rudolph (d. 1864), West Salem, Ohio, including an inventory of Schnably's estate 1848-1866 | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Shinn, Joshua (school teacher), unknown location 1822-1869 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Smith, C. L. (construction laborer and store keeper), Cleveland, Ohio 1879-1920 | |||||||||
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| 8 | 1 | Spafford, Hiram (farmer), Bedford, Ohio (gift of A. S. Proctor in 1928) 1839-1851 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Turney, Asa (farm laborer), Redding, Connecticut, and the Western Reserve (after 1809) 1786-1832 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Thayer, Almon (shoemaker), Aurora, Ohio (gift of Ihna T. Frary) 1834-1842 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Yonts, George (tailor), Ravenna, Ohio (gift of Alfred Mewett in 1937) 1814-ca. 1850 | |||||||||
Series II: Oversize Account Books 1795-1886 |
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| 1 | Anonymous, Cleveland, Ohio, coal and ore mining 1880-1886 | ||||||||||
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| 2 | Balyard, John (merchant), Seven Mile, Butler County, Ohio (gift of John S. Flanigan in 1961) 1838-1841 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | Bentzel, Balser (b. 1774), unknown location, written in German script (gift of Leo G. Walter, Jr., in 1963) 1807-1850 | ||||||||||
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| 4 | Crosby, Abijah (laborer), Lee, Massachusetts and Euclid, Ohio (after 1811) (gift of Clara Chamberlain McLeary in 1926) 1795-1832 | ||||||||||
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| 5 | Cuyahoga Forge, Cleveland, Ohio 1819-1822 | ||||||||||
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| 6 | Fallis, John (farm laborer), unknown location 1809-1823 | ||||||||||
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| 7-8 | Gordon, Jonathan, unknown location (gift of Adolph Gottaschalk in 1920) 1811-1824 | ||||||||||
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| 9 | Kinsman and Potter (merchants), unknown location 1836-1837 | ||||||||||
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| 10-11 | Merrill, Horace (merchant), Chardon, OHio 1832-1845 | ||||||||||
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| 12 | Thayer, Almon (shoemaker), Aurora, Ohio 1835-1847 | ||||||||||
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| 13 | Washburn and Anderson (merchants), Greenwich, Ohio 1861-1862 | ||||||||||
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| 14-15 | Wright, Sherman (shoemaker), Salem (now Conneaut), Ohio (gift of Mrs. Phillips of Kingsville, Ohio) 1825-1846 | ||||||||||