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Accounting Historians Notebook

2000

Accountants -- Boston (Massachusetts) -- Directories; Prosopography

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Nineteenth Century Public Accounting In Boston, Richard G.J. Vangermeersch Apr 2000

Nineteenth Century Public Accounting In Boston, Richard G.J. Vangermeersch

Accounting Historians Notebook

A panel discussion on The Past, Current, and Future of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs will be presented at the Northeast Regional American Accounting Association Meeting of April 20-22, 2000. In preparation and in addition to my work on Harvey S. Chase, an early founder of the Massachusetts Society, I have reviewed the nineteenth century Boston City Directories at the Boston Public Library. The intent of this review was to include Boston into a work done by A. C. Littleton in 1942 on New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia accountants. Professor A. C. Littleton of the University of Illinois is, perhaps, …