1889 Grocery Store Ledger Book, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio

It contains 525 pages for the year 1889. Each page measures 11x16 inches! Each entry contains the name of the person buying goods and a complete list of what they bought and how much they paid. Some people have many pages showing hundreds of items bought over many months. The ledger book contains the names of hundreds of Findlay and Hancock Counties' early citizens. This book is a great substitute for the missing 1890 census. It is fascinating to get this kind of detailed look into the daily lives of people in the past. Go back to the Index to List of Ledger Books The original scanned ledger pages are also on file; a full page-by-page transcription has not yet been done.