Preface: only those entries quoted are exactly as they appear in the ledger.
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Illinois
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Anderson Preston [63]
1851 May 18 med for Wife .25
July 6 Celery Syrup and Syrup Rhei .80
July 17 By “making ox-yoke” 1.75
Wife.
Medicine: Celery Syrup and Syrup Rhei
Ament [42]
1850 Sep. 25 visit child and med 1.00
Dec. 9 By Cash 1.00
Child
Boughman Jac. [76]
1851 Aug. 18 visit and med for Boy 1.00
Aug. 23 By Cash 1.00
Boy.
Boughman John [77]
1851 Sep. 1 med for self 1.00
Dec. n.d. By Cash 1.00
self.
Bollou H. [60]
1851 June 3 to treat child
Aug. 9 To Syrup Rhei
Oct. 6. to treat self
By 1 cord wood 1.25
Child, self.
Medicine: Syrup Rhei.
Brent [73]
1851 July 2 To treat self and daughter
1852 Mar. 5 By Cash?
Bridgewaters James [28]
1850 Sept 2 To treat (self) 3.00
1851/2 Apr. 2 By cash 3.00
Self.
Brison James [25]
1850 Aug. 27,29 To treat wife
Sep. 4,7
Wife.
Bristow H.G. [66]
1851 July 11
July 26,28
Aug. 13,14
Sep. 5 “By seven lbs muton per. Fowler all paid 28”
H(enry) G(abbert) Bristow is Dr. Bristow’s brother (b. Aug. 21, 1824); he remained in Illinois after Elijah Bristow’s left in 1848. After Dr. Bristow and family departed in 1851, Henry Gabbert B. travelled westward along a more southern route, first to the sothern coast where he boarded a steamer to continue his journey west to the Gold Rush. After leaving behind the Gold Rush in California he headed north towards Portland by steamer and finally came to settle near the rest of the Bristows for several years, but finally returned to Illinois a few years later (in __?___).
Medicines: Syrup Rhei– .35, and .40; “Cholery Syrup”– .35; an emetic– .25; astringent– .25.
Browning E.G. [21]
1850 July 30
(Aug.) 6 “By Quinine (Cr.) 2.25”
Aug. 27,30 To Cash, $1.05, $1.20.
Sep. 9 “To medicine per Broomback”
Oct. 5,7 “To work making window frames 1.00 each”
Nov. 9 “To fifty cents by Hyler”
*Notes Mother’s account and Stinet’s account.
[Boxed Script:]
(1850) Nov. 28 “Borrowed 21 dollars of Waller & one of Mary paid”
Dec. 6 To Cash
Dec. 10 To Cash (Put on this page
Dec. 14 To Cash through mistake)
(Sum) 21.00
1851 Mar 28 To cash paid sometime since 5.00
“To acount (sic) on Lyon 7.00”
To account on Trimble .70
To account on Cuddleback .40
(Sum) 13.10
By wool roles 3 pound @ .40 per lb 1.20
“By Walars acount 13.36
To medic(i)nes 117
To Geo. Brownings act. 75
Apr. 14 By Cash
self/E.G. Browning.
Note: E.G. Browning is mentioned in the accounts of Lyon, Trimble, Cuddleback, Walar/Wallar (Massie), Hyler B, George Browning, Vashti Mrs. Browning, Broomback(?), and David Browney(?).
E.G. Browning is noted as a doctor elsewhere? An apothecary who could settled accounts and provide medicine?
Browning G.M. [57]
1851 Jan. 23 “To Fever tonic & Quinine 1.50”
Mar. 28 “By per Dr. Browning” 1.50
Browning J.W./G.H./J/H.? [24]
1850 Aug. 20 To visit .50
Sep. 9 By Cash .50
Browning John H. [34]
1850 Sep. 12 To Celery and neutral syrup .20
Sep. 18 To bitters for self and wife
Oct. 30 To Lobelia and Comp. .25
Self, wife.
Medicines: Celery and neutral syrup, bitters, Lobelia and Composition.
Browning Vashti Mrs. [44]
1850 Oct. 1 To treat Adaline (.75)
Oct. 7 To treat Adaline (.75)
Nov. 7 Cr. By E.G. Browning 1.50
Adaline.
Creditor E.G. Browning.
Browning Wilson [45]
1850 Oct. 2 To visit self .50
Oct. 11 To visit Diorea 1.00
Oct. 12 To visit child 1.00
Self, Diorea, Child.
Butter Martin [16]
1850 July 14,16 Celery Syrup & Antibilious pills
July 25 Cough Syrup
Nov.
Butler The. [17]
1850 July 18 To treat boy and wife.
Boy and wife.
Callison Gilmore [5]
1850 June 8
July 1
Sep. 2 “To Coff Syrup .20”
Oct. 31 “By marriage cerrimony 2.00”
1851 Jan. 16,17
Jan. 25
Feb. 28 *Paid “By order per Newingham 3.00”
“By 1/2 lbs tallow”
Wife, David, Rufus.
Mentions Creditor Newingham.
Medicines: “Coff Syrup,” Composition & Lobelia ( .30),
The reimbursement “By marriage cerrimony 2.00” refers to Bristow’s marriage (to Josephine Massie) soon after the death of his first wife (Emeline Hatch) death in 1850/1.
*The Newinghams would later accompany Dr. Bristow in a wagon train heading westward in 1852; one of the daughters in this family Absolum Newingham would die along the trail of Asiatic Cholera.
Gilmore Callison: b. Adair Kentucky; Elder, Travelling Missionary.
See Pleasant Hill Cem: 1808-1869.
Capron G.H. [52]
1850 Nov. 30 To visit and medicine of child 1.00
Dec. 5 By Cash 1.00
Child.
Note: T.J. Connor’s Overland Diary mentions George W. Capron.
Comer Pet. [9]
1850 July 5,6,7 To visit wife
Dec. 6 By Cash
Wife.
Coston/u Vol. [70]
1851 July 28. Quinine .25
By cash .25
Medicine: Quinine.
Craig Franklin [47]
1850 Oct. 10 visit and med to mother 4.00
Cuddeback John [32]
1850 Sep. 10 Cough Syrup for Daughter .40
1851 Mar. 28 “By per Dr. Browning (Cr.) 0.40”
Daughter.
Mentions Creditor Dr. Browning.
Medicine: Cough Syrup.
Curtis?
Dean [23]
1850 Aug. 15,17 To treat son, each 4.00
Sep. 4 Ague medicine 1.00
Dec. 10 By Cash
1851 May 5 By Cash
Son.
Medicine: Ague medicine.
Notes this as the Dean Family “of Aadms (Adams) Coun(ty)”
Dean Harrison [29]
1850 Sep. 6,8,10 To treat child, wife, while making his “rounds” each 1.50
Mar. 5 By Log Chain 2.00
Mar. 29 By Cash 1.00
Child, wife.
Dean James [4]
1850 June 30
July 1,2,3 To treat boy
Aug. 9,10,11,12
Sep. 27,28
Nov. 10
1851 Jan. 15 Settled by barter –sheap oats, corn.
Boy, self.
Duncan Tho. [64]
1851 July 9 To visit boy and med 1.00
By wood 1.00
Boy.
Duncan Wash. [72]
1851 June “By roots dug .20″
July 31 To medicine for self .20”
Self.
Medicine: obtained “By roots dug”.
Fields Peter [55]
1850 Dec, 22 To visit and med for child 2.00
Child.
Fields Samuel [54]
1850 Dec 22,23,26,28,30
various visits and med, $2 or $3
1851 Jan. 2 To visit self
Jan. 29 To visit daughter
“By pare gloves 1.00”
Jan. 31
Self, daughter.
Fitzgerald, Edward [46]
1850 Oct. 3 Ague med for child
Oct. 11,12,16 visits, each 1.00
Oct. 26 By Composition
1851 Apr. 26 By Cash
Child, “Fitzgerel” (self).
Fowler B. [59]
1851, May 14
May 31
June 6,10 Paid with mutton and cash.
Aug. 5 Paid by Cash
Sep 2. Credit by cash
(Dr.) “By Henry charged to him”
Wife.
Mentions creditor Henry.
Medicines: “Bitters for wife,” Syrup of Rhei.
Galliher William [37] year? (of Ill.?)
Sept 17
Dec. 31 By cash
Gilfrey H.F. [67]
1851 July 7
July 26 “(To) Help make coffin for Henry”
(no ‘Dr.’ given)
July 28 “(To) Work one day on machine”
Aug. 2 “(To) Help make coffin G. Grigsby.”
Syrup Rhei
“powders for mouthwater .10”
Aug. 17,20
Oct. 6 “To help make 2 coffins” (n.i.)
Oct. 19 “To help make on(e) Coffin Milsap” (n.i.)
Dec. 3 *”the above acount is setled and charged on smal of Bo(k)”
Mentions: G. Grigsby, Henry, (J.T. Gilfrey?).
Medicines: Syrup Rhei, powders for mouthwater.
Meaning?: “(To) Help make coffin for Henry”, “Help make coffin G. Grigsby,” “make on(e) Coffin Milsop…”.
Name?: Coffin Milsop.
NB: “on smal of Bo(k)” is possibly referring to a small pocket book.
Gilfrey Jno. Seign. [65]
1851 July 12 To Celery Syrup .35
July 25 Syrup Rhei 6 oz. .60
By Butter 4 lbs @ .10 .40
Aug. 17 Syrup Rhei “a mistake scratched out”
Medicines: Celery Syrup, Syrup Rhei.
1852 Pioneer.
D.A.R. notes a J.T./John T. Gilfrey, d. Apr 25, 1896, Age 78y,3m,18d. Wife Delilah G.
Gilfrey J.T. [68]
1851, July 18,26 Treats Delilah with “Syr. Rhei”
July 29 By Potatoes
Aug. 17 Syr Rhei
Sep. 6 (Cr.) “By writing Deed .50”
Syr. Rhei and composition
Oct. 7,9 By beef
Delilah/Lila
Medicines: Syr Rhei (Syrup Rhubarb) and composition.
Credited in part by writing of deed.
[116]
1863-1869. See Oregon listing.
Gordin/Gordon Edwin [33]
1850 Sep. 12,18,21,21
Visits to treat wife, or wife and child each 1.00
Oct. 14 Visit to treat wife
Oct. 15 visit and detainure to wife 4.00
Oct. 17 visti to treat wife
Oct. 23 visit and med 3.00
“Feavr tonic 1.00”
Dec. 9 By Cash 10.00
1851 Feb. 10 By Cash 7.00
Wife, child.
Medicines: “Feavr tonic”
Gordon George [48]
1850 Oct. 15 To treat daughter 1.00
Nov. 13 By Cash 1.00
Daughter.
Gould Benjamin [14]
1850 July 10
Aug. 16,28
Sep. 26
Oct. 3,6,11,22
Nov. 13 “Ague med for Olive .50”
Medicines: Celery Syrup, Quinine, fever tonic…
Syrup of Rhubarb .35,
“vial of linmt for Olive .25”
No. 6 & Celery Syrup .15
Bitters for self .10
Pills for wife
Olive (wife?).
Case of Ague.
Graham, Esq. [33]
1850 Dec. 10 Dyspeptic pills .10
Med: Dyspeptic pills.
81 Families
Brian Altonen, MPH, MS 