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Records of the Treasurer of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York (P&S), 1807-1895, which in 1891 became the medical school of Columbia University.
History and Biography
The Office of the Treasurer was established by the 1811 charter revision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The member of the Board of Trustees who filled the role of Treasurer was usually a layman. A physician, John D. Jacques, was Treasurer from 1811 to 1838, but after this date all P&S Treasurers seem to have been from outside the medical profession. With the merger of P&S into Columbia in 1891, the medical school's finances became the responsibility of the University Treasurer.
Organization
The records are organized in two series:
I. Treasurer's reports
II. Miscellaneous records.
Records of the Treasurer of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York (P&S), which in 1891 became the medical school of Columbia University.
The bulk of the records are Treasurer's reports, 1811-1890. These are usually annual reports but occasionally address a particular subject, such as the financial claims on the College made by the faculty members who resigned in 1826. The reports are made both to the Board of Trustees of the College and to the Regents of the University of the State of New York.
The miscellaneous records include bills (including many for the construction of the 59th Street building in the 1880s), receipts, promissory notes to faculty members for loans they had made to P&S, and records relating to the Alonzo Clark bequest and the Sloane Maternity Hospital.
| Box | Folder | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Series I: Treasurer's reports | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1807-1811 |
| 2 | 1812-1814, 1817-1818 | |
| 3 | 1819-1820, 1822-1823 | |
| 4 | Cumulative Report on the Finances of the College from 1807 to 1825 (dated 1825) | |
| 5 | 1824-1826 | |
| 6 | Report to the Committee on Professors' Claims, 1826 | |
| 7 | 1828, 1830-1832 | |
| 8 | 1833, 1835-1837 | |
| 9-20 | 1839-1858 | |
| 21-23 | 1860-1864 | |
| 2 | 1 | 1866-1868 |
| 2 | 1869-1871 | |
| 3 | 1872, 1874-1875 | |
| 4 | 1876-1878 | |
| 5 | 1885 | |
| 6 | 1888 | |
| 7 | 1889 | |
| 8 | 1890 | |
| Series II: Miscellaneous Records | ||
| 9 | Alcohol, Duty-Free, 1889 | |
| 10 | Alcohol, Duty-Free, 1889 | |
| 11 | Bank Books, 1885-1891 | |
| 12 | Bills, miscellaneous, 1888-1892 | |
| 13 | Building, 23rd St.: notice of auction of an adjacent property, 1880 | |
| 14 | Building, 59th St.: bills and documents, mostly relating to construction, 1884-1888 | |
| 15 | Building & Furnishings: bills and documents, 1811-1813 | |
| 16 | Faculty salaries: cancelled checks, 1886-1889 | |
| 17 | Funds received, 1811-1825 | |
| 18 | Funds disbursed, 1811-1825 | |
| 19-22 | Promissory notes to John W. Francis, David Hosack, William James MacNeven, Samuel Latham Mitchill, 1817-1820 | |
| 23 | Receipts, 1810-1816 | |
| 3 | 1-16 | Receipts, 1817-24, 1827, 1831-32, 1834, 1837 |
| 17 | Securities, 1891 | |
| 18 | Sloane Maternity Hospital Endowment Fund, 1890-1891 | |
| 19 | Miscellaneous records, 1808-1895 and undated | |
| 20-21 | Matriculation fee books, 1888/89-1909/10 |