Series 3. Cancelled checks, 1869 - 1872

Series — Box: 1, Folder: 29-31

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This small collection of George B. Wood's personal financial papers documents his interests and activities in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century.

There is a small folder of financial correspondence (18451847) including a letter (dated 15 May 1847) from Joseph Warrington concerning lecture tickets for private pupils and an extract from the minutes of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (dated September 1846) concerning relinquishing loans to the College.

The bulk of the collection is comprised of bills and receipts for personal items such as groceries, books, subscriptions to medical journals, clothes, utilities, and taxes, and contributions to charitable institutions, such as the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, or professional and cultural organizations, such as the Athenaeum and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. There are also orders of pharmaceutical supplies and receipts for rent payments on property which Wood owned in Philadelphia. One small folder of receipts (1846-1847) for construction of a house in Greenwich, New Jersey, is included. The bills and receipts are organized chronologically; the bulk of the collection is from 1846 and 1847 with a few items from 1845 and one folder from 1864 and 1865.

The remainder of the collection is comprised of three folders of cancelled checks drawn on the Western National Bank of Philadelphia in 1869, 1871 and 1872. These checks have been sorted numerically and approximate a chronological arrangement.