Financial Documents,, 1869-1925, bulk 1869-1894

Summary: Series includes two manuscript ledgers recording personal and business related accounts, and several loose notes on personal taxes and tax-related gifts, and a few personal receipts, including one for a doctor who treated Emily Warren in January 1903, shortly before her death.

The two bound ledgers record cash accounts, stock and personal financial records from the 1870s through the 1890s with some notes referring to 1892 and 1907.

The first ledger (W.A.R. Financial documents #1) records personal, household, real estate and business financial records of W.A. Roebling. It includes extensive references to John A. Roebling's estate and John A. Roebling's Sons Co. It also records payments and other business dealings with brothers Ferdinand W., Charles G. and Edmund; records of investments and dividends; and the personal accounts of Emily Warren Roebling.

The second ledger (W.A.R. Financial documents #2) records accounts ofreceipts and expenses; accounts of checks drawn for family and workers ; and annual inventories of Washington A.'s investments and property (including some of Emily Warren's investments) from 1874-1894. The ledger appears to have been taken over by Emily Warren Roebling beginning circa 1876.