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R         Moark Land and Timber Company.

68                    Business records, 1898-1903.

                                    Four volumes.

 

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These are financial records of a timber exploitation and lumber business in the Bootheel sec­tion of Missouri.  Franklin Johnson Cunningham managed the firm and its headquar­ters were at Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri.

 

These records include the standard accounting books of the period: a ledger (1899-1902), a cash book (1900-1903), a daybook (1900-1902), and a journal (1898-1903).  Combined they pre­sent a detailed day-to-day and customer-by-customer view of the company’s opera­tions.  The firm was a venture of Franklin Johnson Cunningham (b. 1867), a noted entrepre­neur in the Bootheel.  His other enterprises included a railroad, mercantile trade, and real es­tate.  Moark’s financial af­fairs appear to have been unorganized until C. F. Bloker was hired as bookkeeper on 9 July 1900.

 

At the conclusion of the journal volume are ticket sales and other financial records of the Caruthersville Lecture Course Association (1906-1907).

 

 

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