Russian Famine Relief Fund, Bridgeport, Connecticut Records
Includes the Russian Famine Relief Fund, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Records, 1892, 2 in. Correspondence, account book, receipts, bank book (Bridgeport National Bank), and pledge lists cf locally-organized fund to aid starving Russian peasants. Activities were coordinated by Major William B. Hincks, treasurer. Bridgeport citizens raised $1,978.50, sent to Kidder, Peabody & Co., Boston, agents, to be forwarded to the U.S. minister in St. Petersburg.
