5 - Financial Statement and Improvement Ledger for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Roseburg, Oregon

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Financial Statement and Improvement Ledger for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Roseburg, Oregon

1 p.; manuscript

Financial statement of debt and parish improvements for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Roseburg, Oregon, signed by Father Edward Walsh OFM Cap. on 11 April 1919. The ledger tracks a significant reduction in parish debt from $10,602.26 in January 1912 down to $3,339.06 by December 1919, noting a remaining balance of $1,526.40 after money was sent to Ireland. It details incoming financial contributions totalling $4,235.00 sent from Abbottstown by Father Benignus Brennan and Father Brendan O’Callaghan, alongside an itemized list of paid local improvements. These expenditures include sidewalk installations on Lane, Washington, and Chadwick streets, school room renovations and painting for religious sisters, house and cemetery improvements, and the final completion costs for the church building itself.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition