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Collection Number: 05630

Collection Title: Henry Quincy Alexander Medical Ledgers, 1893-1902

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Abstract Henry Quincy Alexander (1863-1929) was a physician working in the rural areas of Providence, N.C., and Matthews, N.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alexander was a member of the North Carolina state legislature for several terms, and one of the founders of the Mecklenburg Medical Society, where he served as the society's first president. This collection consists of Henry Quincy Alexander's medical ledgers, containing the names of patients treated, the remedy prescribed, payments received or not received, and other information. The ledgers include both African American and white patients and a broad spectrum of diseases. The ledger covering the years 1893-1895 also includes remedies and recipes for medicines.
Creator Alexander, Henry Quincy, Dr., 1863-1929.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Henry Quincy Alexander Medical Ledgers #5630, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Donated by Alice Alexander Furr, Quincy Alexander Hodge, Margaret Alexander McArver, and Nancy Alexander Winn in June 2016 (Acc. 102610).
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Processed by: Gergana Abernathy, July 2016

Encoded by: Gergana Abernathy, July 2016

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Henry Quincy Alexander (1863-1929) was a physician working in the rural areas of Providence, N.C., and Matthews, N.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alexander was a member of the North Carolina state legislature for several terms, and one of the founders of the Mecklenburg Medical Society, and one of the founders of the Mecklenburg Medical Society, where he served as the society's first president. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland Medical College and an active elder of Providence Presbyterian Church in Providence, N.C., for many years.

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The collection consists of Henry Quincy Alexander's medical ledgers, containing the names of patients treated, the remedy prescribed, payments received or not received, and other information. The ledgers include both African American and white patients and a broad spectrum of diseases. The ledger covering the years 1893-1895 also includes remedies and recipes for medicines.

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Medical ledger, 1893-1895

Includes patient debts and accounts, and remedies and recipes for medical ailments. Also included are two loose items inside the cover: a "A Final Warning!" notice signed by Henry Quincy Alexander and other area physicians warning patients that they must pay their medical bills on time; and a partial ballot from Mecklenburg County, N.C., 5 July 1902, where S.B. Alexander appears on the ballot as a candidate.

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Medical ledger, 1898-1902

Includes patient debts and accounts.
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