HARE PLUMBING
COLLECTION
Ms2003-290
Founded in 1852 by William Hare, the business later known as William Hare's Sons Plumbers operated in Wheeling until about 1988. The collection consists of materials dated from 1866 to 1969, although most of the items date to the 1900-1950 period. The contents include more than 4 dozen bound ledger volumes, state and federal tax returns, and other materials that document the finances of the company as well as a short lived, associated business from the 1920s -- Home Electric Appliance Company. Correspondence in the collection covers three principal topics: business (1902-1905, 1913- 1938, and scattered later years), taxes (1918-1938), and the Master Plumbers Association and wartime issues (1934, 1939-1946). Other items include loose inventories, reports and forms concerning employees and earnings, contracts and agreements, and samples of various business forms for Hare and other companies.
BOX 1
Correspondence - Internal Revenue, 1918-1923Correspondence - Internal Revenue, 1924-1938
Correspondence - State Tax Commission, 1916, 1933-1935; Miscellaneous
Tax Receipts, 1867-1879
Tax Bills/Receipts, 1902-1946 (scattered years)
Tax Returns - WV Excise Tax, 1919-1921
Tax Returns - WV Business-Profession Tax, 1921-1925
Tax Returns - WV Gross Sales Tax, 1925-1937
Tax Returns - WV B&O (Gross Sales) Tax, 1938-1947
Tax Returns - WV Consumer Sales Tax, 1934-1940
Tax Returns - WV License Tax
Tax Returns - US Partnership Tax, 1917-1919 (including attached forms and paperwork)
Tax Returns - US Corporation Tax, 1919-1928 (including attached forms and paperwork)
Tax Returns - US Corporation Tax, 1929-1939 (including attached forms and paperwork)
Tax Returns - US Corporation Tax, 1940-1950 (including attached forms and paperwork)
Work Papers (taxes) - 1949-1950
Tax Returns - US Corporation Tax (Home Electric Appliance Company), 1925-1927
Tax Returns - Individual (Edgar S. Hare), 1917-1939
Tax Returns - Individual (Frank Hare), undated
Tax Returns - Fiduciary (Frank Hare estate), 1925-1935
Tax Returns - Individual (C. Elizabeth Hare), 1917-1933
Tax Returns - Individual (Miscellaneous), 1921, 1926
Tax Returns - OH Sales Tax, 1943-1944
Employer's Social Security Forms SS-1 and SS-2, 1937
Form SS-2a, Employer's Report of Wages Paid, 1937 (copies - SS #s redacted)
Income Tax Withholding Forms, 1943-1949
Tax Returns - Employer's Return under Social Security (most copies - SS #s redacted)
Forms/Correspondence - WV Unemployment Compensation, 1936-1949
Form WVUC-A35A, Quarterly Report of Wages Paid, WV Dept. of Unemployment Compensation, 1937, 1944-1949 (copies - SS #s redacted)
Form WVUC-A35C, Employer's Individual Annual Report of Wages Paid, 1943 (copies - SS #s redacted)
Form WVUC B-11, Low Earnings Report, 1949 (orig/copies - SS #s redacted)
Forms/Correspondence - WV Dept. of Labor, 1933-1949
Monthly Earnings Reports, Workmen's Compensation, 1927-1936
Monthly Earnings Reports, Workmen's Compensation, 1939-1945
Employee Salary Sheets, 1937-1942 (most copies - SS #s redacted)
Employee Salary Sheets, 1943-1949 (copies - SS #s redacted)
Miscellaneous Employee (orig./copies - SS #s redacted)
Annual Return of Taxable Property (Business), 1915-1935
Reports of Real and Personal Property, 1917-1921
BOX 2
Miscellaneous Receipts/Sales Slips, 1866-1901
Sales Slips (Miscellaneous Wheeling businesses), 1891-1893
Sales Slips (Trimble & Lutz), 1891-1893, 1904
Sales Slips (Beltz, Flading & Company), 1891-1893
Correspondence - Business, 1902-1903
Correspondence - Business, 1904-1905
Correspondence - Business (Oil Well Supply Company), 1903-1904
Correspondence - Business (Pittsburg Supply Company), 1902-1904
Correspondence - Business (Easy Washer [Syracuse Washing Machine Company; Brown-Dorrance Electric Co.]), 1921-1926
Correspondence - Business (Kelvinator), 1924-1926
Correspondence - Business, 1913-1926
Correspondence - Business, 1927-1929
Correspondence - Business, 1930-1931
Correspondence - Business, 1932-1934
Correspondence - Business, 1935-1936
Correspondence - Business, 1937-1938
Correspondence - Business, 1945, 1951-1952
Correspondence - Business, undated
Licenses
Lease
Partnership Agreement (copy)
Job Estimate Sheets/Proposals
Job Records (samples)
Wheeling Electric Company plumbing job
Contracts
Indemnity and Bonds
Agreements
Steam Electric Engineering Company/Home Electric Appliance Company legal documents
Estate of William Hare, miscellaneous documents
Credit/Financial Statements
Business Census, 1933, 1939
Insurance
BOX 3
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, 1934, 1939-1941, undated
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, January-August 1942 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, September-December 1942 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, January-June 1943 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, July-December 1943 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, January-June 1944 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, July-December 1944 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, 1945 (including correspondence regarding wartime regulations)
Correspondence - Master Plumbers Association, 1946
National Association of Master Plumbers, Washington News-letter, 1942-1945 (scattered issues)
National Association of Master Plumbers, convention proceedings and programs, 1939-1943
Master Plumbers Association, Miscellaneous
Master Plumbers Association - WV Plumbers name lists and members
West Virginia Master Plumbers Association
Wheeling Masters Plumbers Association
Wartime rules, wages and production
Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local No. 83
Wheeling City Freight Agreement (typescript)
Plumbing Codes (National Association of Master Plumbers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Plumbing Code, City of Wheeling
City of Wheeling, Dept. of Public Works, rules, 1940
Receipts - Dues
Water Bills, City of Wheeling, 1918-1922
Hare vs. Connecticut Mutual Life
Court Cases, miscellaneous papers
Ohio Valley Hospital
Bethany College (re Hester Hare)
BOX 4
William Hare's Sons promotional materials
Invoices, out-of-state companies, 1910s-1920s (samples)
Invoices, in-state companies, 1900s-1920s (samples)
Freight Bills (samples)
Hoover Sales
Steam Electric Engineering Company/Home Electric Appliance Company (samples)
Forms, William Hare's Sons (samples)
Contracts, Electrical Appliances (samples)
Daily Report of Workman (samples)
Miscellaneous
Brochure, Armstrong Automatic Electric Range (Armstrong Manufacturing Co., Huntington)
Booklet, Pittsburgh Group Companies, Columbia Gas, Rules and Regulations for Installation of Lines, etc., May 1952
Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Reichart's Furniture Company Christmas advertising mailer, undated
Miscellaneous companies brochures, price lists, etc, pre-1900
Miscellaneous companies brochures, 1900s
9 Memo Books, Workers' dates and hours of various jobs, ca. late 1930s-1940s
2 Weekly Time Books, 1925
5 Memo Books, Workers' hours and pay by week, 1926-1938
2 Memo Books, Workers' hours, pay rate, and pay by week, 1939-1941
Memo Book, list of companies and amounts, 1926
Plumbing and Heating Business
Originals (use copies)
BOX 5
Accounts (Home Electric Appliance), A-G, 1925-1927
Accounts (Home Electric Appliance), H-P, 1925-1927
Accounts (Home Electric Appliance), Q-Z, 1925-1927
General Ledger Sheets (Home Electric Appliance), to December 1926
Financial Statement (Home Electric Appliance), December 31, 1926
Inventory (Home Electric Appliance - store, radio, appliances), January 1926
Inventory - fixtures, January 1926
Inventory - appliance, 1927?
General Ledger Sheets, 1921-1943
Accounts, miscellaneous years
Miscellaneous Accounting, 1916-1919
Inventory, July 1916?
Inventory, January 1918
Inventory, January 1921
Inventory, January 1939
Inventory, January 1945
Inventory, January 1947
Inventory, January 1948
Ledger Pages, 1917
Account Book
Miscellaneous Financial
Retail and Wholesale Charges, 1934
Cash Disbursement Sheets, January 1952-December 1956 (as labeled on paper wrapping, but sheets indicate check payments)
BOX 6
2 Check or Voucher Registers, 1925-1927
Bank Account Books, 1892-1901, 1928-1943
Check Books (stubs), 1916-1929, 1931-1939, 1942-1944, 1955-1956
Sample checks
Deposit slips (carbon), 1942
BOUND VOLUMES
Book, 1915-19
Book, 1916-20
Book, 1919-25
Book, 1925-33
Book, 1932-35
Book, 1933-48
Book, 1935-38
Book, 1937-40
Book, 1938-41
Book, 1946-50
Book, 1948-50
Ledger Book, 1900
Account Journal, 1881-82 (Retail Sales)
Account Journal, 1913-15
Account Journal, 1915-16
Account Journal, 1916-18
Account Journal, 1918-19
Account Journal, 1919-21
Account Journal, 1921-23
Account Journal, 1923-24
Account Journal, 1924-27
Account Journal, 1927-29
Account Journal, 1929-32
Account Journal, 1932-36
Account Journal, 1936-39
Account Journal, 1934-44
Account Journal, 1945-58
Account Journal, 1949-55
Account Journal, 1955-61
Account Journal, 1961-69
Cash Book, 1913-16
Cash Book, 1916-19
Cash Book, 1919-21
Cash Book, 1922-24
Cash Book, 1924-27
Cash Book, 1927-29
Cash Book, 1929-31
Cash Book, 1931-34
Cash Book, 1934-37
Cash Book, 1937-39
Cash Book, 1940-43
Cash Book, 1942-44
Cash Book, 1943-46
Cash Book, 1948-58
Account Book, 1910-42
Account Book, 1908-16
Inventory Book?, 1902
Inventory Book, 1950
Inventory Book, 1950 - market
Inventory Book, 1951
Inventory Book, 1927
Order Books, 1926 (2)
Stock Book, 1922
Balance Ledger, 1916-20
Easy Washer Ledger, 1925-1930
Sales Book, 1922-1927
Stock Certificate Book, Home Electric Appliance Company
Steam Electric Engine Co. Board of Directors Minutes 1921-24