Guide to the Samuel Silver Accounts,
1859-1901

Collection Number: 2269

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
K. Jacklin
Date completed:
February 1970
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, December 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Samuel Silver accounts, 1859-1901.
Collection Number:
2269
Creator:
Samuel Silver.
Quantity:
13 v., 150 items
Forms of Material:
Record books, a treasurer's book, vouchers, genealogical information, a photograph, correspondence, a pamphlet, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Business and personal papers of Samuel Silver, a glass-blower in Clayton N.J., including record books in which he listed accounts received for blowing glass. Also, a treasurer's book, 1890, for the glass bottle workers' union, Local Assembly #406, National Trade Assembly #143 of the Knights of Labor, and payment authorization vouchers; genealogical information on the Silver family; photograph of Samuel Silver, Sr.; and photocopied miscellaneous Silver family letters. Also, "Silver Notes from South Jersey" by Samuel F. Silver, 1992.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Business and personal papers of Samuel Silver, a glass-blower in Clayton N.J., including record books in which he listed accounts received for blowing glass. Also, a treasurer's book, 1890, for the glass bottle workers' union, Local Assembly #406, National Trade Assembly #143 of the Knights of Labor, and payment authorization vouchers; genealogical information on the Silver family; photograph of Samuel Silver, Sr.; and photocopied miscellaneous Silver family letters. Also, "Silver Notes from South Jersey" by Samuel F. Silver, 1992.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Silver, Samuel.
Silver, Samuel F., Silver Notes from South Jersey.
Knights of Labor.
National Trade Assembly.

Subjects:
Glass-blowing.

Places:
Clayton (N.J.)--Commerce.

Form and Genre Terms:
Account books.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Samuel Silver accounts, #2269. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Account books
NOTE: Most of the account books contain two types of entries: expenditures for groceries, household goods and supplies, clothing, drygoods, etc., in front of books; receipts mainly for glass blowing in back of books.
Aug. 1859-May 1861
Glass blowing receipts; firm not named. No expenditures for household, etc. Birth dates of three children noted down; year of daughter's birth not same as on loose item in folder (1860?, 1861?).
Volume 1
Oct. 1862-Apr. 1865
John M. Moore & Company.
 Volume 2
Apr. 1865-Aug. 1867
Moore Brothers. Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware, Boots & Shoes, Provisions, etc., Fislerville [later Clayton], N.J.
Volume 3
Sept. 1867-Mar. 1869
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 4
June 1870-Dec. 1872
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 5
Apr. 1875-June 1877
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 6
July 1877-Oct. 1879
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 7
Oct. 1881-Sept. 1883
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 8
Sept. 1883-Oct. 1886
Fisler & Morgan Company, groceries, etc.; Woodbury Glass Works, glass blowing.
 Volume 9
Nov. 1886-July 1887
Moore Brothers.
 Volume 10
Sept. 1888-Sept. 1891
F.M. Pierce & Company.
 Volume 11
Sept. 1896-Mar. 1901
Woodbury Glass Works. Glass blowing receipts only.
 Volume 12
Other papers
1869-1900
Bills from tax collectors, doctors, dentists, jewelers, undertakers (n.d. May 3, 1882: casket, black merino shroud), confectioners, coal dealers, clothing stores, sewing machine salesman (Singer--$55), papering and painting, lumber, etc. Name DuBois appears on several bills or receipts--perhaps son-in-law.
Folder 1
Recipe for ham cure.
 Folder 1
Remedy for rheumatism.
 Folder 1
Note giving birth day of the three Silver Children (1857, 1861 [?], 1863).
 Folder 1
Feb.-Dec. 1890
Treasurer's book of Local Assembly No. 406; 4 pp. only filled. (This organization was the local of the glass bottle workers' union, National Trade Assembly #143 of the Knights of Labor. Pertinent corres. and Xeroxes from selected pp. of Proceedings on file in this folder.)
Volume 13
Feb. 18, 1890-July 7, 1891
Payment vouchers (61 items, Nos. 25-85) authorizing Silver, as treasurer of the organization, to pay stated sum to a certain person, in most cases, George P. Pierce.
Folder 2
n.d.
4 loose sheets of calculations and notes concerning dues and assessments.
 Folder 2
1890
Receipt.
 Folder 2
ca. 1894-1900
10 bills.