WASHINGTON DC MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK Handwritten Ledger/Journal/Diary 1880s

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WASHINGTON DC MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK Handwritten Ledger/Journal/Diary 1880s:
$81.00

FANTASTIC, ORIGINAL 19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK OF WASHINGTON, D.C. OPERATIVE DANIEL BOONE CLARKE. This terrific early volume dates from 1886-1889 and was kept by Dr. D[aniel] B[oone] Clarke (1825-1906), whose name and address (1008 13th Street) appear on front cover. The politically connectedClarke descended from an old Maryland family whose members included Robert Clarke, surveyor-general of Maryland from1639-1648.Manuscript volume pertains exclusively to Dr. Clarke\'s account with Washington, D.C. merchant Geo. E. Kennedy & Sons. The highly accomplished Dr. Clarke, a savvy pharmacist, businessman, physician and D.C.city official, was involved in numerous enterprises and headed a number of businesses including the Franklin Insurance Company and National Bank of the Republic. Volume relates to purchases he made for either his own family or one of the many organizations he was involved with. Handwritten text contains entries for a range of products including sperm candles, tea, lemons, oak meal, cheese, sugar, sardines, flower, crackers, flour, macaroni, cornmeal, flour, starch, figs, salt, pepper, cake, cherries, coffee, vanilla wafers, oranges, ham, jelly, celery seed, etc. Geo. E. Kennedy & Sons letterhead states company sold \"Staple & Fancy Groceries\" along with \"Imported Cigars, Champagne, Fine Wines & Liquors\".\"Daniel Boone Clarke, capitalist and banker, was born in Washington, District of Columbia, March 3, 1825. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of the Hon. Robert Clarke, who came from England in 1636, who represented the Jesuit fathers in the colonial assemblies, who was surveyor-general of Maryland, privy councilor under Lord Baltimore, and who voted in the assembly of 1649 for the celebrated Maryland Federation Act. The Clarkes of Maryland had their large landed estates confiscated in the Revolution of 1689. William Clarke, born March 16, 1750, great-great-grandson of Hon. Robert Clarke, was a second lieutenant in one of the eight companies constituting the Seventh Regiment, Maryland Line of Regulars, of General William Smallwood\'s brigade, in the Revolutionary War. His son, Walter Clarke, born in June, 1777, and married to Rachel Boone September 20, 1814, was the father of Dr. Daniel Boone Clarke.Young Clarke was educated in the private schools of Washington, and in 1841 entered a pharmaceutical establishment in this city. When twenty-one years old, he went into business on his own account in South Washington, and in 1857 graduated from Georgetown University with the degree of M. D. In 1859, he purchased the establishment in which he had learned and practiced pharmacy, and made a gratifying success of his business. Subsequently, he erected on Pennsylvania Avenue a large building, into which he moved, and about a year afterward retired from business.When James G. Berrett was Mayor of Washington, Dr. Clarke was elected a member of the city Council, and he has been for many years a member of the Washington National Monument Association. Since the death of J. B. H. Smith, he has been its treasurer. He is a director in the Franklin Insurance Company, of the Metropolitan Railroad Company, of the United States Electric Light Company, is president of the Franklin Insurance Company, and since 1877 he has been president of the National Bank of the Republic. This institution, under Dr. Clarke\'s management, is one of the solid and most prosperous financial institutions in Washington. Dr. Clarke is a brother of Richard H. Clarke, LL. D., the celebrated lawyer and Catholic historian, and president of the Society of American Authors, and of the late Rev. Father William Francis Clarke, S. J., at one time president of Gonzaga College.Dr. Clarke was married to Anna M. Cripps, only daughter of William McLean Cripps, January 14, 1847, by whom he had three children. The eldest married Thomas E. Waggaman, and, dying in 1889, left three children; the second daughter died at the age of sixteen; the third is the wife of Alexander Porter Morse.\" [see Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C. (Dayton, 1892), p. 391-392].Condition: Rare book remains in good overall condition (see images). Volume bound in original stamped cloth; moderate cover wear with owner\'s name and address written on front cover in white ink, binding loosening from block yet holding firm at rear hinge, mild toning, scattered minor staining and tearing, occasional ink smudging, couple of loosening leaves, etc., generally clean internally. Volume contains about 75 p. bearing manuscript entries with an old letterhead tipped in at rear; and measures approx 7\" tall x 4\" wide x .5\" thick. 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