Henry McWebb Accounts Receivable Records
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Scope and Content Note
17 "day books" and ledgers of Gainesville, Arkansas physician Henry McWebb, recording, by names of patients, dates of his professional visits, fees charged and date and method of payment in cash or in kind, and, in some cases, general kind of illness or injury treated and nature of treatment of medication given. Some volumes have related material laid in and/or school child's undated mathematical calculations and class notes at back.
Dates
- 1886-1908
Creator
- McWebb, Henry, 1851-1908 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Henry McWebb was born October 24, 1851, the child of Theodoric and Elizabeth Watson Webb, in Madison County, Tennessee. Upon graduation from the University of Alabama in 1873, he entered law school at Lebanon, Tennessee, graduating in 1874. From 1874 to 1879, he practiced law in Lexington, Tennessee, and in the latter year he entered Vanderbilt University, where he studied from 1879 to 1880 before resuming his law practice. He entered the medical department at Vanderbilt in 1886 and graduated in the spring of the same year. Moving to Gainesville, Arkansas, he practiced medicine in Greene County, Arkansas, until his death on March 4, 1908. In 1878 he had married Addie E. Smith, who had been born in Henderson County, Tennessee and by whom he had three children. His remains are buried in Gainesville Cemetery.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Acquisition Information
The Henry McWebb Accounts Receivable Records were donated to Special Collections by John W. Vinzant of Fayetteville, Arkansas, in August 1977.
Processing Information
Processed by Samuel Sizer; completed in September 1977.
- Title
- Henry McWebb Accounts Receivable Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Samuel Sizer
- Date
- September 1977
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu