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[Identification of item], Elbridge Gerry Walker Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Elbridge Gerry Walker Papers were acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 1959.
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Druggist and court clerk, of Scottsville and Glasgow, Ky.
Chiefly business papers of Elbridge Gerry Walker concerning the drug business, his partnership in the business with J. N. McKendrel, and a lawsuit against Walker brought by McKendrel. There is also correspondence relating to his father, A. S. Walker, Scottsville physician, and the practice of medicine in the antebellum South; letters and official records written by Elbridge Gerry Walker as clerk of the circuit court of Allen County; two deeds; and an essay entitled "Some Reflections on the Practice of Medicine by the System of Patent Receipts, Its Injurious Tendency, and a Method for the Remedy."
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