C.H. Jordan & Company funeral home records

  • Creator Names C.H. Jordan & Company (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Title C.H. Jordan & Company funeral home records [manuscript], 1866-1924.
  • Physical description 21.5 linear ft. (31 v.)
  • Collection summary Business record books (daybooks labeled with the first year of the volume) and one ledger (circa 1921- ) of C. H. Jordan, C. H. Jordan & Company, and C. H. Jordan and Company, Inc., Chicago (Ill.) funeral directors. Daybooks detail accounts for funerals and also include an inventory of goods lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (in volume 1).
  • Biographical or Historical Note Related undertakers were Blake-Lamb Funeral Homes (Chicago, Ill.) and John Carroll Sons Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.).
  • Names
    • C.H. Jordan & Company (Chicago, Ill.) Archives.
    • Jordan, C. H.
    • Blake-Lamb Funeral Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
    • John Carroll Sons Funeral Home (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Subjects
    • Fires Illinois Chicago 19th century.
    • Funeral homes Illinois Chicago 19th century.
    • Funeral homes Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Funeral rites and ceremonies Illinois Chicago 19th century.
    • Funeral rites and ceremonies Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
    • Undertakers and undertaking Illinois Chicago 19th century.
    • Undertakers and undertaking Illinois Chicago 20th century.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Commerce 19th century.
    • Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
  • Genre
    • Daybooks. aat
    • Ledgers. aat
    • Lists. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.