Identity elements
Reference code
Thencanic Society Treasurer's report, account book, and checks, September 1899 - June 1900
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
Thencanic Society Treasurer's report, account book, and checks, September 1899 - June 1900
Date(s)
- 1899-1900 (Creation)
Extent
3 items, 5 pages total
Name of creator
(fl. ca. 1890s)
Biographical history
Model School student and Thencanic Club Member, ca. 1898. Thencanic Treasurer in the second half of 1899. No further definitive information. May be the same as "Foster Post" (FamilySearch ID: LK13-8SR), if he dropped the first part of his name.
Name of creator
(1882-1959)
Biographical history
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Brother of Raymond. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156793012/persifor-gybbon-spilsbury
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
These three finance-related documents have been grouped together, as they all date to the same academic year (1899-1900):
- The report of Treasurer J. Foster Post (served Fall 1899), shortly before the end of his term. This item has a full transcription included.
- An account book from the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Co., made out to the Thencanic Society in the name of Persifor Spilsbury, the Treasurer for Spring 1900. Following several withdrawals throughout the term, the Thencanic was left with $56.15; modern "inflation calculator" sites through the U.S. Department of Treasury do not cover the period before 1913, but this was still a few days' wages for the average industrial worker in Trenton. An impressive amount of money for a secondary school club!
- Two checks, from May and June 1900, representing a withdrawal of the $56.15 from the bank.