Item #6922 Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio
Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio
Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio
Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio
Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio
Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio

Two Handwritten Ledgers Kept by the Camp Family of Perry Ohio

Perry, Ashland County, Ohio: 1850s-1930s. Quarter leather ledger binding with tan marbled boards measuring 16.5 x 6.5", containing 156 pages of handwritten entries. The ledger belonged to John Camp Sr., who lived in Chester, Wayne County, Ohio in the 1850s and 60s, and in Perry, Ohio in the 1870s. Census records indicate that he changed his name from Kampf to Camp, and indeed the ledger contains both spellings of the family name. Camp was a wagon maker according to the 1850 census, and a farmer according to later censuses. The accounts corroborate his background in carpentry, as most of them are for building and repairing houses--repairing a front porch, work on the church, building the "Snowberger house," and for manual labor such as cutting and hauling wood. One of the pages contains the 1877 meeting minutes of the Perry Ohio, district election committee, and the last page contains accounts for the construciton of the local school house. Covers detaching and holding on by spine leather, minor toning, occasional soiling and smudging.

Ledger binding of quarter morocco with red marbled boards measuring 12.5 x 8". Pages 1-60 consist of many agricultural accounts for wheat and corn kept by John Camp the younger, mainly in the 1880s and 1890s, as well as a few pages headed "weather record" keeping detailed account of the weather over periods of time, a page of family birth records, and a page listing Red Cross enrollments in 1920. Pages 94-191 contain agricultural accounts for the late 1880s-early 1930s, as well as many other weather records, many pages listing local deaths (along with their ages at time of death), and several pages recounting current events in the early 1900s. Wear to covers, spine chipped with loss, few pieces of tape over spine, hinges cracked with covers detaching, some soiling and toning, few page corners repaired with old tape. Item #6922

Price: $250.00

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