Smedley & Clark Prospect Mills Daybook D contains an itemized list of their profits, a list of client names, and expenses and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards and planks. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Signers of Petition: M. Strein, Michael Heisey, Thomas [Winnemore], Richard E. Cochran, Christian Haldeman, John Campbell, C. Breneman, G. Breneman, William C. Cornwell, John Arms, Michael Elder, George Boyd, Peter Haldeman, James Boyd.
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Signers of Petition: Augustus Withers, John Trump, Michael Heisly, Daniel Heisly, Christian Mayer, J. Heise, [unknown signature], Robert Spear, John Campbell, Christian Haldeman, Peter Haldeman, [ ] Bruner Jr.
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Signers of Petition: John Vaughen, H. Breneman, Jacob Gossler, John Ames, John Montgomery, Robert McDowell, John List, Jacob Lichty, John Swartz, Michael Strein, Francis Boggs, George Wike, Andrew Beiter, Peter Haldeman, Joseph W. Cottrell, P. B. Elder, G. W. Johnston, [John R. Beatty, Reuben Mullison, Nathaniel Evans, Daniel Herr.
Additional signatures: Michael Strein, P. B. Elder, J. F. Cottrell, H. H. Owings, John Vaughen, William Evans, Jacob Gossler, [J. Reading Beatty], G. G. Claiborne, John E. Fox, [John] A. Davis, Peter Haldeman.
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Signers of Petition: Michael Heissly, [unknown signature], Andrew Sites, John Campbell, [signature in German], Christian Haldeman, Owen Bruner Jr., William Poist, Richard E. Cochran, Peter Haldeman, Samuel Brown, C. Breneman, Calvin Chamberlein, Ezekiel Cook, Joseph Mosher, Abraham Bitner, George Brush, Daniel Roberts, Christian Herr, Christian Mayer.
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Signers of Petition: Michael Heissly, [unknown signature], J. Heise, Samuel Heise, Richard E. Cochran, Christian Haldeman, Peter Haldeman, Amos H. Slaymaker, Owen [Bruner], John Campbell.
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Signers of the petition: Adam Reigart, John Trissler, George Weitzel, William Kirkpatrick, Jacob Eberman, John Eberman, Peter Gonter, Samuel Humes, John Riddle, Jacob Hatz, Abraham Kilian , George Hoff, James Ross, Christian Trissler, Emanuel Reigart, S. Reigart, Jacob Dickert, Anthony Ginter, Nicklous Stownbach, Christian Sensenich, William McKown, Samuel Clendenin, Henry Dearn and three others.
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