Finah Benevolent Association
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Brief Description: Box 1: Receipt for filing certificate of incorporation, 1946. Constitution and bylaws (typescripts), 1986. Ballots concerning amendment to constitution (regarding surviving spouse benefit), 2002. Bank  resolutions and signature cards (photocopies), 1984-1994. Cemetery deeds, 1937 (original), and 1939, 1948 (photocopies). Cemetery signature forms, 1983-2002. Correspondence with cemeteries, 1986, 1996. Cemetery maps. Membership dues ledger, 1974-2002. Materials related to 55th and 56th anniversary celebrations at Raleigh Hotel (South Fallsburg, NY), 1984-1985. Financial statements, 1987-2002. Check stubs, 1983-2004. Stamp. Box 2: Meeting notices, minutes, letters to membership (includes three texts honoring recently deceased members, under the heading “Portrait of a knight”), 1983-1997. Correspondence with members, 1993-1996, 2002. Membership list (prior to dissolution), 2004. List of members entitled to distribution, ca. 2004. Lists of grave reservations for issuing of deeds prior to dissolution, ca. 2004. Dissolution records, 2001-2004.
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Record Series Number: RG 1881/RG 1881
Created by: Finah Benevolent Association (New York, N.Y.)
Volume: 0.63 Linear Feet
Acquired: 03/31/2009.
Subject Index
Benevolent Societies
Burial Societies
Cemeteries
Charitable Societies
Fraternal Societies
Mutual Aid Societies
United States
Languages of Materials
English
Acquisition Notes: New York State Department of Insurance; ACC 10/09
Finding Aid Revisions: 12/06/2012; VL
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