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Simon Brolasky was a dry-goods merchant who acquired substantial rental properties. Simon's son, Henry Connelly Brolasky, who was also engaged in the dry-goods business, eventually established a real estate office and looked after his father's property. Howell de Coursey Brolasky, Henry&...
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| Collection: | Brolasky Family Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1694 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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Simon Brolasky was a dry-goods merchant who acquired substantial rental properties. Simon's son, Henry Connelly Brolasky, who was also engaged in the dry-goods business, eventually established a real estate office and looked after his father's property. Howell de Coursey Brolasky, Henry's son, was a fabric salesman/representative for Lee Brothers and Company (Philadelphia) then for Brigg, Enty, and Company (New York, N.Y.), as its Philadelphia agent.
Professional and personal account books, financial memoranda, and other papers of three generations of the Brolasky family of Philadelphia make up the bulk of this collection.
Simon Brolasky's records consist of receipt books, 1869-1880, for property and personal payments, and a personal expense book, October, 1880 to January, 1881.
The account books for Henry Connelly Brolasky as a dry-goods merchant are: journals, 1859-1862; ledger, 1859; bills payable and receivable, 1859-1866. There are rental records, 1866-1873, kept as continuations of two account books. As executor of the Simon Brolasky estate there are: cash accounts, 1881, 1887-1894; receipt book, 1881-1910; receipted bills, 1881-1904, which include the Mary Ann Howell estate. There is additional miscellaneous business and personal correspondence, receipted bills, legal documents, and financial memorandum books.
There are sundry memorandum books for Howell de Coursey Brolasky on orders, expenses, and his letterbook, 1885-1887, while with the New York firm. There is also: some correspondence; a European diary, 1875; notebooks as a Captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard; and financial papers.
Among the few items apparently not of the Brolasky family are: Gurney & Co., N.Y., silk manufacturer, account book, 1845-1846, with Benjamin P. Gurney's record of business in Philadelphia, and sales journal, 1857-1858. Henry S. Leech, New York, N.Y., stock ledger, 1871-1873; George J. Scott, Philadelphia glue manufacturer, business and estate receipt book, 1851-1871; mimeograph copies of Pathology. Prof. James Tyson. General Pathological Anatomy, and Theory & Practice of Medicine. Prof. [Alfred] Stille. Nervous Diseases, n.d |