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- Description:
- The records within this collection are primarily focused on the business run by father and son doctors Robert E. and Harold A. Miller, who were active from about 1890 to 1949. There are a significant number of financial documents within this collection. These include several books that track private expenses of the doctors, ledgers detailing amounts charged to patients alongside dates and treatments, and thirty separate books of daily visits with accounting. There are several files of accounting material, including debts owed by patients, notices of bankruptcy, notices to creditors, settled accounts, and correspondence and commission payment receipts from Lansing's Physicians' and Dentists' Accounting Bureau. In addition, there are approximately 100 of Dr. Harold A. Miller's Physician's Birth Memorandum booklets which date from 1917 to 1949. These booklets consist of basic birth information (infant name, date and time of birth, condition at birth, etc.; parents' names, employment, place of birth, etc.), and were kept by Dr. Harold A. Miller. The early births were likely at home; in later records the hospital location was recorded. Dr. Robert Eugene Miller (1869-1939) worked as a physician in Lansing from 1890 until his death in 1939. He was born in northern New York state on February 5, 1869. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1890. Dr. Robert Miller married his first wife on July 1, 1890 and soon moved to Lansing with her to begin practicing medicine. He was a Knight in the Knights of Pythias, among many other fraternal organization involvements, and had received honors from by state and local medical societies. He was also a steward and trustee of the Central Methodist church. He had one child, Harold, who took over his practice after his death. His first wife, Ida, died in 1923. He remarried a year later to a widow, Ethel Starr. Dr. Robert E. Miller died on March 1, 1939 and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing next to his two wives. Dr. Harold A. Miller (1891-1949) worked alongside his father from 1916 to 1939. Like his father, Harold Miller graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1916, where he specialized in obstetrics. Dr. Harold Miller served as a captain in the Medical Corps during World War 1 in 1917 and 1918, and as as secretary of the Ingham County Sanatorium Board of Control from 1924 to 1949. He was a president of the Ingham County Social Welfare Council, a member of the Masonic Order, and a member of the Bethel Shrine, serving as an officer at one point. He married his wife Winifred Burkman in 1917. They had met at the University of Michigan where she attended nursing school. The Millers had one son, Harold Jr., and two daughters, Virginia and Marilyn. Dr. Harold A. Miller passed away March 1, 1949, one decade after his father to the day, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing. This collection appears to have been an estate sale purchase by David Caterino, who then left the collection to the Capital Area District Libraries.
- Date Created:
- [1890 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Drs. R. E. and H. A. Miller Collection
- Description:
- This is a collection of several audits, financial reports, and stock records from four Lansing area businesses: the South Lansing Land Company, the J. W. Bailey Company, the Bailey Real Estate Company, the Dail Steel Products Company.
- Date Created:
- [1916 TO 1966]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Audits and Financial Reports
- Description:
- A memo to W. J. Mead of Detroit with initials "RNM" regarding a financial statement. The memo is on letterhead with the word "Oldsmobile" in front of a cloud. Includes a carbon copy.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- Financial records from the Lansing Salt Manufacturing Company, Michigan. The materials are as follows: Document setting up conditions and regulations for selling stock to finance boring for salt in Lansing, November 19, 1862. Document for additional assessment; includes list of Lansing Salt Manufacturing Company stockholders, July 16, 1864. Receipt made out to John Whitely from Lansing Salt Manufacturing Company, February 17, 1863. Checkbook ledger, Lansing Salt Manufacturing Company, 1863-1865.
- Date Created:
- [1862 TO 1865]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Salt Manufacturing Company
- Description:
- A memo to D. S. Eddins, General Sales Manager, Lansing, to J. H. East, Branch Manager, Washington, D. C., regarding a pay change for a Mr. McGuan of the Washington branch.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- Financial records from the Judson Bros. and Judson, Wiley, and Judson real estate firms of Lansing, Michigan. The materials are as follows: Check stubs, January - March, 1883 Canceled checks, 1882-1883 Check stubs, July - November 1883 Canceled checks, July - November 1883 Check stubs, May - November 1895 Canceled checks, November 1883 - January 1896
- Date Created:
- [1882 TO 1896]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Judson, Wiley, and Judson Collection
27. North Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains two patient account ledgers from the medical practice of Dr. J. S. North of Lansing, Michigan, and one autograph book belonging to Louisa Buck North. The first ledger's records date from 1895 to 1902, and includes an incomplete index of patient names at the beginning. The second ledger's records date from 1896 to 1911 and also contains a name index at front. Generally the records are for a head of household, and each entry may specify which family member or resident was treated. Treatment details are sparse, usually explained as "Visit & med." with the cost of service. Sometimes the entries are for services or products Dr. North obtained, such as threshing or lumber. Louisa Buck North's autograph book mostly records her farewell from New York state in 1841, when she left for "the wilds of Michigan."
- Date Created:
- [1841 TO 1911]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- North Collection
- Description:
- A memo to Mr. E. A. Meyer from a manager of the Michigan Branch of Olds Motor Works regarding payroll for employee Thomas Watkins of Bement Street in Lansing. Includes a payroll rate card and an office release slip for Watkins.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A small collection of correspondence and photographs related to the Whiteley and Zimmerman families. These materials were possibly collected by Nellie M. Whiteley Zimmerman, whose name appears frequently in them. The collection also includes a disbound, oversize volume of what appear to be personal receipts for all kinds of household goods such as paint or contractor services; personal items like clothing and perfume; antiques and other home decorations; insurance; utility bills; membership renewals for fraternal organizations, clubs, etc.; and lots and lots of pigeon seed. Nearly all receipts have Nellie Zimmerman's name on them. The materials from this volume date from 1929 to 1953, and represent many local businesses and organizations in the Lansing area, including their often illustrated letterheads. The Whiteley family home was located at 414 South Washington Street in Lansing around the turn of the century. Photographs of the home are included in this collection, as are several portraits both identified and unidentified. Some may not have been taken in the Lansing area. The correspondence in the collection is mainly of a personal nature, to Nellie (Whiteley) Zimmerman or her mother Elizabeth. Most dates from before 1900.
- Date Created:
- [1850 TO 1953]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Whiteley-Zimmerman Collection
- Description:
- Helen V. Kennard talks about her three years of service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and its successor, the Women's Army Corps and says that she enlisted because she felt that it was her patriotic duty and that she wanted to travel and meet people. Kennard says that she was managing the parts department at Chevrolet dealership before she enlisted in September 1942, that her first duties were in the motor pool and that she became a typist so that she would be sent overseas. Kennard describes serving in New Guinea and the Philippines, sharing housing, and her uniforms and says that her biggest adjustment to military life was learning how to take orders. After the war, Kennard says that she used the G.I. Bill to get a business degree from the University of Denver and worked in accounting until her retirement. Kennard is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project