Information Sheet

 

 

R         Gay & Skinner.

345                  Account books, 1879‑1885.

                                    Nine volumes.

 

MICROFILM

 

 

 

These are standard accounting volumes for the firm of Gay & Skinner, a general mer­chan­dise establishment in Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri.  Included are ledgers, jour­nals, and a combination journal/daybook.  The firm’s principals have not been positively iden­tified, but may have been T. K. Gay and J. M. Skinner.

 

Little is known about this firm.  The principals may have been T. K. Gay and J. M. Skin­ner, whose families were prominent in Lawrence County during this period.  The ledgers are in­dexed at the front of each volume.  The volumes are inter-related according to standard ac­count­ing pro­ce­dures of the time.

 

 

 

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