Name/Title
Village Improvement Society 1919-1935Entry/Object ID
2018.273.019Scope and Content
A ledger book from the Village Improvement Society of Stonington for the years 1919 to 1935. Receipts and expenditures include appropriations from the Boro, proceeds from Fair, care of the parks, lighthouse and trees, rent collected from the Railroad for right of way, tree experts and tree care, cost of labor and dues. It also mentions the events they sponsored; rummage sales, bake sales and lawn fetes. Names mentioned include:
H. A. Dunning
C.M. Williams
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
C.N. Wayland
Louise Trumbull
Laura T. Wood
Lester E. Gavitt
Willie Williams
Thomas Glover
Anne A. Dodge
Eugene Atwood
Mr. Fairbrother
Jean C. Palmer
Anna Culbert
Bonsa Brothers
S. T. MacDowell
Charles Ide
Chesebro Grocery
D. W. Williams
Lagone
James P. Gilmore
John E. Wayland
Mrs. F. Jones
Samuel Nardone
Franklin C. Williams
C.W. Willard
Vargas Brothers
Mrs. Fred Taylor
H. A. Muller
A. L. Mason
Benjamin H. Hewitt
Mrs. Courtland Babcock
Mr. H.R. Palmer
W. Herman
William P. Bindloss
Mrs. F. T. Dodge
T. W. Garrity
Leon Piver
Kupidlowski
Robert Burtch
Miss Sheffield
E. F. Darrell
Constance Holmes
Jerome S. Anderson Jr.
Mrs. Ben Cutler
Miss Hakes
Mrs. Brown
E.E. Bradley
Mrs. Simmons
Mrs. Streeter
Helen O'Dell
Mrs. Robey
Mrs. York
Mrs. Mason
Mrs. Doughty
Mrs. Stiles Stanton
Mrs. O. Pendleton
Miss Maria Trumbull
Louis Leone
Eugene A. Perkins
H.W. Babcock
Margaret D. W. Williams
Elias F. Clay
Gustav Hauschild
Edyth Durgin
Marietta Durgin
Miss Barbara Muller
E.P. Edwards
E. H. Peirce
Fannie D. Pendleton
George H. Robinson
C.H. Simmons
Mrs. Ed Stanton
W.F. Smith
Mrs. Caddo
Mrs. Gales P. Moore
Mr. Kopp
H.B. Barnes
Mrs. Johanna Stanton
Charles O. Ryon
Mrs. Pike
Mrs. B.B. Holmes
Mrs. George Spalding
Emil Schmitz
Pauline Chesebro
R. R. Cooning
Mrs. Ludlow
Mrs. Culbert Palmer
Mrs. Paffard
Winthrop Davis
William S. Johnson
P.W. Back
Mary Lou Williams
S. Jerome Hoxie
Mrs. Winifred O'Dell
Alice Fitch Smith
Walter P. ColeCollection
Manuscript