Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson)

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Collection include meeting minutes (original and microfilm), correspondence, charters and by-laws, committee files, and congressional documents relating to the University.

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The collection consists of two documents related to the history of Corcoran and Riggs a predecessor of Riggs Bank. These documents are dated from 1840-48.

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Columns include discounters, drawers, endorsers, date, no., time, time dis., time due, loan discounted, discount, net proceeds.

Scope and Contents note Contains general accounts including interest accounts, exchange accounts, bank accounts and investors' accounts. See pages 13-73 and 514-552 for entries for many other banks, page 193 for Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, pages 220-223 for William W. Corcoran, page 340 and 512-513 for Amos Kendall, pages 340 and 380 for Francis Scott Key, pages 376-377 and 385 for Peabody Riggs and Company, pages 394-399, 450 and 453 for Elisha Riggs, pages 399-401 for George Riggs, page 470 and 489 for Daniel...

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Includes accounts of stockholders, interest account, profit and loss, bills receivable. Stored with corresponding index. See pages 247 and 249 for Ole Bull.

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Stored with corresponding index.

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Fragments of this ledger were found and combined together. However, some pages are still missing including the letter F. Loose items in folder inside box. Stored with corresponding index.

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See pages 156-157 for Blagden, 190 for Brice, 239 for Bell, 424-429 for Corcoran, and 768-771 for Dahlgren.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Consists of a full run of Riggs & Co. individual deposit ledgers. Many of the ledgers have corresponding indexes. Please note that deposit ledgers without indexes will require significant research time to review for specific patron names because Riggs & Co. did not record patron records alphabetically within each letter. For instance, Brenner is followed by Blake then Boyle, then Barnes, then Berry, then Brown, etc. See flat boxes 58 and 99 for African American depositors identified...

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Stored with corresponding index.

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See pages 161-170 and 191-192 for Corcoran and 616 for Kieckhofer.

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See page 355 for Corcoran, 397 for Falconer, 649-650 for Jones, and 673-677 for Kieckhofer.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Consists of a full run of Riggs & Co. individual deposit ledgers. Many of the ledgers have corresponding indexes. Please note that deposit ledgers without indexes will require significant research time to review for specific patron names because Riggs & Co. did not record patron records alphabetically within each letter. For instance, Brenner is followed by Blake then Boyle, then Barnes, then Berry, then Brown, etc. See flat boxes 58 and 99 for African American depositors identified...

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See pages 98-102 for Bestor, 624 for Grant, 842 for Hyde, 845 for Corcoran.

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Stored with corresponding index.

Scope and Contents note For many of the accounts in this ledger, the deposits and withdrawals have explanations. This ledger also contains the disbursements paid on the bonds which financed the loan to the U.S. government. In some cases, the payee is noted in very light pencil. G.W. Young is one of these. This is Henry Clay's last account as he died in March 1851 -- the date of the last deposit and withdrawal. See pages 108 for deBodisco, 140-147, 352, and 732-740 for Corcoran, 239 for the Department of the...

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See pages 64 for Butler and Brent, 89 for Buchanan, 117-122 for Corcoran, and 368 for Kendall. Loose item in folder inside box.

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Stored with corresponding index. See pages 44 for Chase, 210-218 for Blair, 338-357 for Corcoran, 588 for French, and 950-959 for Kieckhofer.

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This artificial collection was created to manage documents that are too small to be separate collections of their own. Includes individual manuscripts, undated; Elbridge Colby's "The National Guard of the United States", 1903-1945; Book Arts Specimens, 1600 ca- 1850 ca.; Performing Arts Material, 1890-1980; Gay and lesbian publications, 1994-1998; Washingtoniana magazines, journals, and newsletters, 1879-1974; Washington associations, clubs, lodges, and societies, 1845-1948.

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Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (1823-1909) an artist and Episcopal clergyman spend the last eighteen years of his life near Washington, D.C. painting and serving as assistant rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Washington, D.C. He had a studio in the Corcoran Building in Washington. He usually painted religious subjects. Collection contains a diary, newspaper articles, poems, letters, and images. The material dates from 1867-1909.

Abstract Collection consists of the records of Riggs Bank (1896-2005) and its predecessor institutions, Riggs & Co. and Corcoran and Riggs. It also contains records from banks that Riggs acquired or merged with during the early to mid-twentieth century: Central Savings Bank/Hamilton Savings Bank, Northwest Savings Bank, Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, Washington Loan and Trust, Lincoln National Bank, and the National Bank of Washington. The collection includes records of the accounts of...

Abstract This collection contains materials relating to the Riggs family, who founded or were connected to numerous Washington, DC banking institutions beginning in the mid-1800s. The materials in this collection include business ledgers, correspondence, and personal belongings related to various members of the Riggs family. These materials date from the early 1800s to 1950. Specific members of the Riggs family represented in this collection include: Elisha Riggs (New York merchant & Georgetown...

Scope and Contents note This ledger records the transfer of Farmers and Mechanics stock from one stockholder or the bank to a new owner of stock. The ledger contains the signatures of many stockholders (transferrees/sellers) and denotes the specific amount of stock transferred and to whom (purchasers). See 1830 Apr. 8 for F.S. Key, 1833 June 21 for Notley Young, 1833 Dec. 16 for Francis Dodge, 1834 Jan. 8 for John Marbury, 1839 July 9 for W. W. Corcoran, 1844 May 2 for John Marbury, 1849 June 5 for George W. Young...

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Collection includes correspondence, bills, receipts, lottery tickets, proclamations, testimonials, auction catalogue, newspapers, bonds, stock certificates, and checks. The material dates from 1786-1945. All of the material in this collection relates to prominent people and activities in Washington, D.C.