Item 41: Wilkes-Barre Check from A[ndrew] T[odd] McClintock to the Miners’ Savings Bank of Wilkes-Barre, Signed by W[alter] G[reen] Sterling, 1868 June 27
Item — Box: 16, Folder: 41
Dates
- Created: 1868 June 27
Creator
- Sterling, Walter Green, 1821-1889 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Paper currency.
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
8.25 x 3 in.
Description:
A record of Miners’ Savings Bank shares purchased by Andrew T. McClintock. This check is for the amount of twelve hundred and fifty dollars made out to the bank from McClintock. This was the first installment of a series of checks he would pay for his fifty shares with Miners’ Bank. They processed this payment on June 29. 1869 but there is a stamp in the top left hand corner, one from the post office, one from the Bank of Wilkes-Barre dated June 27,1868. Andrew T. McClintock was a Wilkes-Barre attorney who was a corporator of this bank. His home was later donated to Wilkes University and was used as a dorm called McClintock Hall, but has since returned to a private residence. This check was signed by W. G. Sterling.Walter G. Sterling, a local businessman,was a corporator at the bank. His house was donated to Wilkes University in 1949 and converted into dorms.There is a handwritten note on the back of this check giving a description of it.
Location:
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Transcription:
Received, June 29 1868, of A. T McClintock
Twelve hundred fifty Dollars, being the FIrst Installment of
Twenty=Five Dollars per share on FIfty shares of the capital stock of the
Miners’ Savings Bank of Wilkes=Barre, Payable July 1, 1868.
$1,250. W.G. Sterling Treasury
Creator
- Sterling, Walter Green, 1821-1889 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu