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[Identification of item], in the A. G. Davison Account Books #HC0027, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Ceib Phillips in December 2017 (Acc. 2017010).

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Processed by: Dawne Howard Lucas, October 2019

Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, October 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Account books--Pennsylvania.
• Davison, A. G. (Alfred G.), 1844-1922
• Kamerly, E. F. (Edwin Forrest), 1838-1928.
• Luzerne County (Pa.)--History.
• Physicians--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.

A. G. Davison (1844-1922) was a white physician in Cambra, Luzerne County, Pa. Davison received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1871. In the early 1870s, he had a business partnership with white physician and druggist E. F. Kamerly (1838-1928), a graduate of Jefferson Medical College.

This collection contains four account books, 1873-1903, of Luzerne County, Pa., physician A. G. Davison, in which he kept records on his patients. Entries record charges for visits, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. The first volume documents that Davison had an equal partnership with physician and druggist E. F. Kamerly in 1873. In 1874, Kamerly had three-fifths of the partnership and Davison had two-fifths. The remaining volumes do not show an apparent partnership between Davison and Kamerly. Although the first page of the third volume contains information from 1903, the rest of the volume appears to pertain to 1880-1886.