Joseph L. Weakley account books, 1848. 1854, 1863.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in the Nashville Room of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Housed with Philharmonic Society minute book and Wednesday Morning Musicale secretary's book.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Two account books containing records relating to store accounts, student accounts, and presumably some personal accounts. Both books contain accounts from 1848, 1854 (predominantly store accounts), and 1863 (predominantly students' accounts). The two books may have been used in conjunction with each other, with one serving as a daybook, and the other as a journal. Store accounts include name of individual, items purchased, and their debits and credits. Student accounts include name of student, tuition paid with date and amount. Personal accounts itemize expenses for items such as clothes, fabric, shoes, tobacco, charitable donations, and various other purchases. One book doubles as a scrapbook, containing advertisements, some in color; it also includes two sheets about the American Humane Education Society.

Cite as: Joseph L. Weakley Account Books, Ephemera Collections, Nashville Room, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code)

Unidentified donor. Date of acquisition unknown.,Acc. RT-100.

Joseph L. Weakley was born in Tennessee around 1839. He was principal of Lincoln Hall school in Nashville from 1857 to 1860. In the 1860 Davidson County census, he is shown living in the household of William T. Weakley, operator of a family grocery. His own occupation is given as a teacher of a free school. During the 1866-67 school year, and from 1869 throughout the 1870s, he served on the Board of Education, becoming president in 1877.

In English.

Unknown provenance.