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Records of the Office of Finance and Accounting of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CPP 16/001-01
Repository:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Extent:
2.4 linear feet (6 boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1858-1992 (inclusive)
Creator:
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Finance and Accounting
Form:
Financial records, Deeds, Estate records, and Wills
Abstract:

The Office of Finance and Accounting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was created in March 1971 with the hiring of the first Comptroller, Before this time, the duties of the Comptroller's Office were performed by the College's Executive Director and Executive Secretary or Clerk. The title "Comptroller" became "Controller" by 1990. In 1991, the Controller's Office was renamed the Office of Finance and Accounting, and the Controller became the Director of Finance and Accounting, This is currently [1992] an active office.

The Office of Finance and Accounting is responsible for all accounting and financial record keeping, budget preparation, investments, human resources administration, systems management, and receipt and disbursal of all funds. The Director of Finance and Accounting is the staff liaison with the College's Committee on Audit and Committee on Finance.

The collection contains files maintained by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Office of Finance and Accounting and Office of the Treasurer concerning special funds, bequests, and estates, 1858-1992. The files include copies of wills, deeds of trust, and letters of intent; correspondence and memoranda; legal opinions; and accounts of executors and trustees and schedules of distribution, The collection documents the acquisition, intent, and disposition of gifts and funds for the College's general endowment as well as its Library, Mutter Museum, and lectureships and prizes.

Principal correspondents include College officers George E. De Schweinitz, William W. Keen, and S. Weir Mitchell, and lawyers Joseph Carson and Eric A. McCouch, The collection also includes copies of wills or other estate information of Robert Abbe, Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga, Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, Louis A. Duhring, Thomas D. Mutter, Lady Grace Revere Gross Osler, J. C. Wilson, George Bacon Wood, and S. Lewis Ziegler. Also included is summary fund information, 1868-1968, containing copies of wills and instruments of donation and several folders of miscellaneous correspondence of the College treasurers, 1884-1959, concerning contracts, investments, and mortgages.

This collection of records of special funds, bequests, and estates of the. College of Physicians of Philadelphia was transferred to the Historical Collections of the Library by Benjamin R, Pierce of the Office of Finance and Accounting on 20 August 1992; additional material was transferred on 5 January 1994.

The collection was processed and catalogued in 1992 and additions made in 1994.

Publisher
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Access Restrictions

Some records in this collection may be restricted due to the personal and confidential information contained wherein.

Please see the Archivist for more details.

Collection Inventory

1a. Copies of wills, 1931.
Box 1
1b. Typescript copies of letters of donation and relevant extracts of wills (filed alphabetically by legacy name), 1887-1933.
Box 1
2. Library fund records, 1868-1968.
Box 1
3. Fund records, 1933-1941.
Box 1-2

1. Robert Abbe Custodianship Fund, Correspondence, 1921-1964.
Box 2
2. Alvarenga Prize Fund. Correspondence, 1887-1888.
Box 2
3. James M. Anders Fund, Extract from College minutes, 11 January 1924.
Box 2
4. Kenneth E. Appel Memorial Lectureship Fund, 1979-1980.
Box 2
5. Estate of Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, 1933-1936.
Box 2
6. Bequest of John Ashhurst, Jr. Letter, 21 August 1900.
Box 2
7. J. Harold Austin Memorial Fund, Correspondence concerning donations, 1952-1953.
Box 2
8. Theodore Franklin Bach Memorial Fund. Draft statement of intention, 1964.
Box 2
9. Henrietta Rush Fales Baker Library Fund, Agreement, 1899.
Box 2
10. Bequest of Kate D. Balentine. Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box 2
11. Bequest of Moses Behrend, Correspondence, 1970-1971.
Box 2
12. Bent, L. S. (Lewis S.) Letter: Philadelphia, Pa., to William W. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa., 16 May 1900.
Box 2
13. Bequest of Francis Boyer, Correspondence, 1972-1973.
Box 2
14. Susan Doerr Brodsky Memorial Fund, Letters, 1972; 1977.
Box 2
15. Bequest of Albert P. Brubaker, Correspondence, 1943-1944.
Box 2
16. Catalogue Endowment Fund, Letter, 30 September 1912.
Box 2
17. Hira S. Chouke Lectureship Fund. Correspondence, 1954-1955.
Box 2
18. Gerardus Clarkson Library Fund. Letters, 1909; 1910.
Box 2
19. Samuel Clarkson Library Fund, Correspondence concerning estate of Elizabeth C. Swords, 1931.
Box 2
20. Bequest of J. M. Dacosta. Letters, 1900; 1941.
Box 2
21. Bequest of Laura Stedman Gould Seabury Dees. Correspondence, 1939.
Box 2
22. Bequest of George E. DeSchweinitz, Correspondence and copy of will, 1935-1977.
Box 2
23. Estate of Louis A. Duhring, Records, 1913-1991.
Box 2-3
24. Bequest of Walter G. Elmer, Correspondence, 1960.
Box 3
25. Bequest of Marguerite N. Farley, Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box 3
26. Bequest of Eugenie M. Fryer. Correspondence, 1961-1962.
Box 3
27. Bequest of Arthur H. Gerhard, Correspondence, 1949-1950.
Box 3
28. Bequest of John H. Gibbon. Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box 3
29. M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner Memorial Trust declaration and memorandum., 1979; 1992.
Box 3
30. Bequest of J. P. Crozer Griffith, Records, 1938-1956.
Box 3
31. John D, Griscom Book Fund, Letter, 01 May 1894.
Box 3
32. Samuel D. Gross Library, Correspondence, 1885-1928.
Box 3
33. Bequest of T. Passmore Hanbest. Records, 1875.
Box 3
34. Thomas Skelton Harrison Trust. Letters and copy of will, 1919.
Box 3
35. Nathan Lewis Hatfield Prize and Lectureship. Records, 1898-1984.
Box 3
36. Bequest of Josephine R. Howell, Correspondence, 1947-1941.
Box 3
37. Bequest of John E. Hume. Records, 1954-1961.
Box 3
38. Charles T. Hunter Book Fund, Records, 1914-1955.
Box 3
39. Bequest of John W. Hunter, Correspondence and copy of will, 1942-1973.
Box 3
40. Incunabula Translation Fund, Extracts from Council minutes, 1921.
Box 3
41. International Medical Congress Fund, Correspondence, 1877-1881.
Box 3
42. Bequest of Maurice S. Jacobs, Correspondence, 1962-1966.
Box 3
43. William F. Jenks Memorial Prize Fund, Records, 1885-1901.
Box 3
44. Oliver A. Judson Fund, Articles of agreement with Elizabeth B. Judson and draft agreement, 1899 Jan, 11.
Box 3
45. William V. and John M. Keating Fund of Gynecology and Pediatrics. Letters, 1900.
Box 3
46. Bequest of William W. Keen. Records, 1932-1933.
Box 3
47. Bequest of Joseph V. Klauder. Correspondence and schedules of distribution, 1964-1971.
Box 4
48. Bequest of E. B. Krumbhaar. Correspondence, 1966-1969.
Box 4
49. Bequest of Laura A. Lane. Correspondence and copy of will, 1948-1962.
Box 4
50. Bequest of Arthur H. Lea. Correspondence, 1939.
Box 4
51. Henry Leffman Trust. Letters, 1948.
Box 4
52. Estate of Morris Longstreth. Records, 1904-1958.
Box 4
53. Catharine Macfarlane Fund. Correspondence, 1969.
Box 4
54. J. Ewing Mears Library Fund. Letter, 08 November 1912.
Box 4
54a. John F. Meigs Memorial Fund, Correspondence, 1909.
Box 4
55. Charles K. Mills Book Fund, Letters, 1909.
Box 4
66. Charles A. Oliver Memorial Fund, Records, 1910-1925.
Box 5
66a. Estate of Sally Ann Ott. Correspondence and copy of will of Isaac Ott, 1916-1911.
Box 5
67. Bequest of George W. Outerbridge. Correspondence, 1967-1968.
Box 5
61. Bequest of Francis R. Packard, Correspondence, 1950-1951.
Box 5
69. Ralph Pemberton Lectureship, Records, 1946-1973.
Box 5
70, Bequest of Luther Crouse Peter, Correspondence and copy of will, 1942-1941.
Box 5
71. J, Howard Pew Freedom Trust Grant. Correspondence and financial reports, 1977-1985.
Box 5
71. Bequest of George E, Pfahler, Correspondence, 1957-1959.
Box 5
73. George E. Pfahler Library Fund. Letters, 1957.
Box 5
74. Bequest of Damon B, Pfeiffer. Correspondence, 1966-1961.
Box 5
71. Philadelphia Medical Society Fund. Resolutions, 1868.
Box 5
76. Bequest of Horace Phillips. Correspondence and copy of will, 1936-1958.
Box 5
77. Radbill Lecture Fund. Correspondence and deed of trust, 1980-1981.
Box 5
78. Bequest of Rufus S. Reeves. Correspondence, 1956.
Box 5
71. Bequest of Lettie Woods Rehfuss, Correspondence and copies of wills of Lettie Woods Rehfuss and Martin E, Rehfuss, 1963-1961.
Box 5
80. Bequest of E, Paul Reiff. Correspondence, 1964-1966.
Box 5
81. David Riesman Library Fund. Correspondence, 1942-1943.
Box 5
81. Paul Judd Sartain Library Fund, Correspondence, 1957-1958.
Box 5
83. Paul Judd Sartain Library of Ophthalmological Illustration. Correspondence and accounts of trustees, 1948-1986.
Box 5
81. Henry W, Stelwagon Fund. Correspondence, 1919-1981.
Box 5
85. Bequest of Arthur A, Stevens. Records, 1941-1959.
Box 5
86. Estate of Arthur Stille. Letter and resolution, 1901.
Box 5
87. Bequest of Annie E, Taft. Records, 1963-1980.
Box 5
81. James E, Talley Book Fund, Correspondence and memorandum of distribution of estate of Isabella M. Talley, 1959.
Box 5
89. J, Monroe Thorington Library Historical Fund, Correspondence, 1961; 1975.
Box 5
90. Bequest of William Penn Vail, Correspondence, 1957-1958.
Box 5
91. Joseph B. Vander Veer Insurance Policy. Policy and correspondence, 1957-1980.
Box 5
91. Bequest of Charles Harrod Vinton. Records, 1926-1939.
Box 5
93. Bequest of Joseph Walsh. Records, 1947-1961.
Box 6
91. Douglas Stockton Warren Memorial Fund. Letter, 04 April 1912.
Box 6
95. J. William White Library Fund, Copy of will and letter, 1916-1911.
Box 6
96. James C. Wilson Trust. Records, 1925-1971.
Box 6
97. Bequest of Esther F. Wistar. Extract of will, 1900.
Box 6
98. Bequest of George Bacon Wood. Records, 1878-1964.
Box 6
99. Horatio C. Wood Fund. Letter and extract of will, 1917; 1920.
Box 6
100. Herb Garden Memorial for Horatio C. Wood. Copy of donation check, 1979.
Box 6
101. Bequest of William Zentmayer. Records, 1944-1991.
Box 6
102. Bequest of S. Lewis Ziegler, Correspondence, 1926-1947.
Box 6

1. Miscellaneous correspondence concerning contracts, investments, and mortgages, 1884-1959.
Box 6
1. Receipts for securities from the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, 1934-1944.
Box 6

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