Mark Pedrick letter to Adam Harbeson
Scope and Content Note
In this autograph letter (signed) from Mark Pedrick of Wilmington, Delaware, to Adam Harbeson of New Pennsgrove, New Jersey, dated 1850, Pedrick sought advice and financial backing in order to enter the iron business.
The outcome of Pedrick's proposition to his father-in-law is unclear, as this single piece of correspondence includes no reply. However, it is known that as of 1853 Pedrick was operating as an iron merchant with the firm Pedrick, Price, & Co. out of the former Gilpin store on Shipley Street in Wilmington.
Dates
- Creation: 1850
Creator
- Pedrick, Mark, approximately 1817- (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
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Biographical Note
Nineteenth-century Wilmington, Delaware, iron merchant Mark Pedrick was born in New Jersey, in about 1817.
Jones, Theophilus K.Recollections of Wilmington from 1845-1860. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1909. Wilmington Directory. Wilmington, Del: L. Wilson, 1845-1867.
Extent
1 item (1 page)
Abstract
In this autograph letter from Mark Pedrick of Wilmington, Delaware, to Adam Harbeson of New Pennsgrove, New Jersey, dated 1850, Pedrick sought advice and financial backing in order to enter the iron business.
Source
Purchase, 2009.
Shelving Summary
- Box 7, F0183: Shelved in SPEC MSS 098 manuscript boxes
OCLC Number
Processing
Processed and encoded by Lora J. Davis, March 2010. Further encoded by George Apodaca, March 2015.
Subject
- Pedrick, Mark, approximately 1817- --Correspondence (Person)
- Harbeson, Adam, 1766-1853--Correspondence (Person)
- Harbeson, Adam, 1766-1853 (Correspondent, Person)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for Mark Pedrick letter to Adam Harbeson
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2010 March 9
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository