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Private Account Book, 1867-1915

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Scope and Contents Alphabetical index at beginning. Record of accounts with various people, corporations, and organizations, primarily including name, location, date, item, and amount, but sometimes including notes and other records. Also includes inventories of Davis's holdings, household expenses, lots of land, charitable donations, and records of his various railroads, coal companies, banks, and other businesses. Also includes information on wages he paid, including to servants. Other highlights are...
Dates: 1867-1915

Personal Papers and News Clippings, circa 1860s-1915

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Newspaper clippings, correspondence, telegraphs, ephemera, and financial papers (relating to accounts, stocks, house expenses for Graceland, etc.). Also includes estate papers of Mrs. R. M. G. (Katherine) Brown (1903), the Davis Child Shelter, and a program for the Semi-Centennial Celebration in Wheeling (1913 June).

Dates: circa 1860s-1915

Private Account Book, 1896-1915

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Scope and Contents Alphabetical index at beginning. Record of accounts with various people, corporations, and organizations, primarily including name, location, date, item, and amount, but sometimes including notes and other records. Also includes inventories of Davis's holdings, household expenses, lots of land, charitable donations, and records of his various railroads, coal companies, banks, and other businesses. Also includes information on wages he paid. Other highlights include records of a hospital...
Dates: 1896-1915

Letter Book, 1898 December-1916 February

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Copies of letters from Davis about business and political affairs. Mentions several state and national Democratic leaders including Stephen B. Elkins and John T. McGraw. There is information on the congressional election of 1900 and the candidacy of Colonel T.B. Davis. Alphabetical index was not filmed.

Dates: 1898 December-1916 February