Information Sheet

 

 

R         Bennetsen, Christian C., 1885‑1968.

412                  Ledger, 1906‑1916.

                                    One volume.

 

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This is an account ledger of C. C. Bennetsen, a blacksmith in the High Gate community of Maries County, Missouri.  The entries list the names of customers and the nature and cost of black­smithing work done from May 1906 through May 1916.

 

Christian C. Bennetsen was the son of Christen and Maria I. Skouby Bennetsen.  The par­ents were natives of Denmark who settled in the High Gate neighborhood in the 1850s.  Chris­tian C. Bennetsen was born on the family farm east of High Gate in 1885.  By 1906 he was oper­ating a black­smith shop.  As evidenced by the account ledger, most of Bennetsen’s business in­volved making horse shoes, sharpening plow points, and making repairs to farm equipment and wagons.  The brief entries for each account list the work performed and Ben­netsen’s fee.  Settle­ments of ac­counts are noted.  Most were settled in cash, but there are re­cords of a few pay­ments by labor in lieu of cash.  An alphabetical index of the accounts is in the front of the volume.

 

Biographical information on the Bennetsen family and a photograph of the blacksmith shop may be found in Glenis L. Southard's history of the High Gate community (1990).

 

 

 

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