Ledger Book Post # 2

Page 3, April 10, 1830

Above is a scan of a small section of page three of the ledger, some of the text is hard to figure out, also the dollar and cents amounts don't seem to add up all the time at the end of each entry. The first entry comes out right though, Martin Felty was paid 50.00 and John Bohr 5.21 for a total of 55.21, this one adds up the way it should. The second entry is for Geo. Eckert, he received 5.21, which was for Bohr in the first entry. It's hard to figure the 3rd entry out. The bottom entry is not much better either, except, for the last line, Henry Bohr was paid .55 for 5 pounds of butter, the .55 was at the far right side of the ledger and does not show up in the above scan; I did not try and scan the full width of the page, this leaves off the total charges for some of the entry's, scanning the full width of the page would have made the above scan too small to easily read.

From here on I am only going scan sections of the Ledger Book that have notable information in them; I will type out the names of people the first time their names appear in the book, also what their names are associated with, example: selling things to the furnace company, working for the company or buying things from the company store when it is up and running. The names, Paul Brand and Wm. Graeff appear once or twice on almost every page at the beginning of the book, I think they are in charge of what we now call "Buildings and Grounds, no more of those two for the time being. Maybe at the end of three or four months I will note that Mr Martin Felty sold "X" amount of lumber to the company for "X" dollars, or Mr Henry Bohr sold "X" pounds of butter to the company during the last four months. 

Bloggers note: I had mentioned before that I had attended the Outwood Country School and Pine Grove High School on two different occasions; while in 4th grade Carl Bohr was in 6th grade there, Carl was a kind of an "In Charge" guy, he always made sure us little guys got our turn at bat during the noon time baseball games, I think Carl's nickname was :Monkey". I returned to The Outwood School in 1946 to finish out my 6th grade, one of my classmates was Clark Bohr, Molly Bohr was also there, she was a year or two behind  me, Molly rode the school bus with me later when we moved on to school in Pine Grove. I think the Bohrs were probably descendants of the 1830's families, don't know for sure though, This is a question  for a genealogist.

Thats it for this post, more will follow.