Box 2

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Includes correspondence from the Delaware Department of Public Instruction, the City of Wilmington Department of Public Safety, the State of Delaware Mother's Pension Committee, the Recorder of New Castle County, the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society, the National Get-out-the-Vote Club, and the Coalition of Conservative Democrats and Republicans. This last group sought endorsement from Zebley in their effort to fight against "New Deal radicalism."

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Includes correspondence from the Brandywine Archers; Senator John Townsend of Delaware; the Delaware Safety Council; the State College for Colored Students; and four typed but unsigned letters by Zebley, one of which was addressed to Senator Townsend.

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Includes correspondence from William C. Northrop to Henry M. Canby; H.V. Holloway to the Boards of Education of the City of Wilmington; William Ball to William Kent; C.P. Holcomb to the Hon. Ellwood J. Turner (in which Zebley is mentioned); and N.D. Rand, President of the Brandywine Archers to Leonard K. Yerger, President of the Board of Fish and Game Commission.

Scope and Contents Includes four autographed letters typed by T.L Ewart, son of Samuel F. Ewart. Two of these were addressed to Zebley, and the other two were addressed to the Delaware State Legislature as a whole. These concern a complaint by T.L Ewart against the mismanagement of estate finances by banks and trust companies (particularly the estate of his own father), and the failure of the courts to act on behalf of beneficiaries. Ewart is petitioning the legislature to investigate the...

Scope and Contents Includes an eight-page list of committee members in the Delaware legislature; correspondence regarding House Bill 321; correspondence and charts regarding fiscal appropriations to Delaware public schools for 1939-41; a two-page list of members of the 107th Assembly of the Delaware House of Representatives; a two-page copy of a resolution passed by the State Board of Trustees of the Delaware State Hospital; and a three-page suggested procedure for organization of the Delaware House of...

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Includes a letter from Mary C. Taunt (in Los Angeles, CA); two from Alice I. Watson; two from Emma Rodgers; and one from "A.J.C." All but the last of these were hand-written. Alexander Rodgers had been staying with Mary Taunt before he died, and her letter to Zebley vividly recounts Rodgers' last days.

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For hospital care, ambulance service, train tickets, register of wills, tax receipts, funeral expenses, and deposit to the Security Trust Company.

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Includes a will and letters testamentary of Alexander Rodgers; an inventory list and statement for the Register of Wills and Inheritance Tax Report; a petition by Zebley to the Register of Wills; and releases from Emma C. Rodgers, Robert L. and Elizabeth E. Rodgers, Mary C. Taunt, and Alice Watson, along with accompanying correspondence. The releases certified that Zebley, as executor, paid these individuals the money that Rodgers had bequeathed to them.

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Includes cancelled checks; bank statements; deposit slips; a hardbound checkbook from the Wilmington Trust Co. (with 14 check stubs from March 1949 to April 1950); an estate settlement; tax forms; an estate inventory; a bankbook from the Wilmington Savings Fund Society (1944-1950); miscellaneous calculations; and a letter to Alexander Rodgers from the Social Security Administration regarding his benefits claim.

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Included are several cards on which are written the names and addresses of various individuals; Alexander Rodgers' social security card; an army registration certificate (September 12, 1918); a driver's licence (June 13, 1946); an employee I.D. card with the Wiltex Co.; and a membership card with the Past Sachem's Association of Delaware.