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19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana
19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana

19th Century Leather Bound Ledger - E. Desobry & Co. - Plaquemine, Louisiana

$ 1452

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Date of Publication: 1870
  • Region: North America
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Material: Paper
  • Place of Publication: Plaquemine, Louisiana
  • Special Attributes: First Edition
  • Language: English
  • Subject: Louisiana History
  • Author: Edward Desobry
  • Type: Handwritten Manuscript - Account Ledger

    Description

    [LOUISIANA HISTORY]
    E. Desobry & Co.
    Nineteenth century leather-bound ledger measuring 14 x 9 3/8 inches, of E. Desobry & Co., a general merchandise store in Plaquemine, Louisiana. Contains a handwritten partnership agreement dated April 22, 1870, between Edward Desobry and John Dardenne, and about 270 pages of daily transactions beginning in April 1870 through April 1873. This is followed by 41 pages of detailed inventory of the store - over 1500 ledger lines of items, dated March 1874. A veritable who's who of the period, including transactions with various plantations in the region. The Desobry Building, located at 58415 Court Street, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
    "Prominent among the esteemed and prosperous planters of Iberville Parish, La., stands the name of Edward Desobry, Plaquemine, who was born in Plaquemine on the 4th of February, 1838. His father was a very successful planter before the war and was also a merchant in Plaquemine for many years, a public-spirited citizen who held a number of offices in the city of Plaquemine. Edward Desobry received his education at Flushing, Long Island, N.Y., at Flushing Institute, and in 1860 he returned to Louisiana, where he engaged in merchandising in Plaquemine, following this business for eleven years after the war. He enlisted in the Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry, and was in but few active engagements. In 1870 he located on Irion Plantation, consisting of 350 acres, and he is also the owner of Long Point Plantation, on Plaquemine Bayou, both beautiful places. He has sugar houses on both plantations. In 1867, he married Miss Mary Chinn Robertson, daughter of Judge William B. Robertson, of West Baton Rouge Parish."
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    Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana
    , Chicago:
    The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
    1892