John S. and Aldon F. Thompson papers, 1893-1968.

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John S. and Aldon F. Thompson papers, 1893-1968.

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The collection consists of chiefly mercantile records. The Thompson papers cover early automotive, agricultural, and dry goods businesses. There are financial records, some business correspondence, brochures, and advertising ephemera of the Conyers, Georgia area. A few letters of a personal nature are addressed to Miss Katherine Smith of Conyers. The Thompsons developed the ledger record system which became known as the Thompson Ledger. There is also some correspondence and ledger notes for the Chattanooga Medicine Company from the late 1890s.

114 items (1.0 linear feet).

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Thompson, John Smith, 1872-

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Aldon F. Thompson was a C. P. A. in Georgia and was elected to the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants in 1914. In 1879 Chattanooga businessman Zeboim Carter Patten and a group of friends established the Chattanooga Medicine Company. Its first two products, Black-Draught and Wine of Cardui, were so successful that they were sold well into the twentieth century. Patten procured the formula rights to Black-Draught, a senna based laxative, from the grandson of i...

Thompson, Aldon F.

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Smith, Katherine T.

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Chattanooga Medicine Company

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