Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1942-1945], Part 6

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Publication date: 1942
Publisher: [1942-1949]
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Holdings


A. Records of the Corneii Library Association, 1863-1932, 50 items, in- ciuding: record of meeting of citi- zens of the village of Ithaca to con- sider Ezra Corneli's offer to buy a iot and erect a building for ag li- brary, Feb. 5, 1863; letters to Ezra. Corneil from, Wiiiiam Hodgins (3), F. M. Finch (4), and J. W. Osborne (7), regarding the Cornell Library building, 1863-68; records of meet- ings, reports and correspondence of special committees and of the Board of Trustees of the Corneil ... Library, Association, 1925, 1927; · appraisals, statements, policies and other papers bearing on insurance of the library building, 1927-28; and extracts , of laws, ietters from William R. Wat- son and Frank L. Tolman, directors of the Library Extension Division of the State Education Department, and other data regarding library, affairs.


B. Genealogical data, 60 % pieces, bearing on Edmund Hawes( notes compiled by Elizabeth M. Hawes.) the Munson family (including John Munson's Cyphering Book and My- on A. Munson's "Key to the Mun- on Genealogy"), the Townley fami- y {notes compiied by Hettey B,


Townley of Ithaca, 1933) and the Walker family.


C. Records of Military . Bounty Grants, 1818-61, 14 items, comprising deeds to land-for service in the War of 1812 and in the .. Seminole, Black, Hawk, and Mexican Wars. Grantees include Richard Deiiing, Moses 'Er-" skine, James H. Handy, Jonathan < McHenry, Jesse Smith, John Stewart, Pearce Woodman and others.


D. Payers relating to the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, 1831- 45, 30 items of income and expendi. tures, certificates of indebtedness bonds, petitions and reports to the State Assembly, correspondence : 01 Daniei L. Bishop, secretary of the company and other data.


E. Documents relating to the Tompkins County Poorhouse, 1829- 12, 150 pieces including indentures of apprenticeship of pauper children (6), invetories of property, bills, cor- respondence, list of paupers who re- ceived assistance'in 'the Poorhouse", (Nov. 14, 1831-Nov. 12, 1832); re- ports of the Superintendent and oth- er papers.


F. Miscellaneous materials, includ- ling: John Holman's "Nautical Jour- nai from River Plate to Pacific Oc- ean on board Brig Laura of Salem," Nov. 29, 1822-Jan. 27, 1824 (1. v.); personal letters and other papers of Ezra Corneil; Coi. Moses I. Cantine's


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ern DISITICL, W MatuIew 1787, of the western allotment of Kingsborough . Patent, ' confiscated property of Sir John Johnson and conveyances involving Mohawk In- dians and early settlers, among them Jeremiah, Frederick and Nich- olas De Graff, Nicholas and Cornelius Van Slyke, Adam Vrooman and Ad- am, Andrew and Isa Frank., Auto- graph materials in the collection in- clude papers involving Syndert Wem- ple, John Fonda, John Quackenbush, John Schermerhorn, Nicholas Fish, Richard Varick, John Cochran, Aaron Burr, Baron Von Steuben and Col. Marinus Willett.


D. Nellis Fonda papers, 2 vo., com- prising accounts from his ledger (1774), bearing signature of William Backhouse and Indian account book (1763), citing miscellaneous accounts of goods sold to Old Brant, Young Aaron, Little Abraham and other prominent Mohawk Indians.


E. Military Records 1763-1889, 67 items, including: orders, reports, and correspondence of the Revolution; letters of Capt. Cornelius Van Horne, of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1825; correspondence of Dr. Albert Van Derveer, Surgeon, 153d Co., Civil- War affairs; record of men mustered into service at Fonda, 1862; military records kept by the Town Clerk - of Amsterdam, 1865 and Civil War muster rolls, company returns . and other data.


F. Church Records 1796-1876, 30 items, consisting mainly of papers relating to the Reformed Dutch Church at Stone Arabia, Westerloo, and Middietown (now Mapletown.) Included is a typewritten record of the marriages performed by Rever- ends Elizah and Calvin Herrick, pas- tors of the Baptist Church at Ry- der's Corners, Town of Charleston, and Rev. John C. Toll of the Reform- ed Dutch Churches of Middletown Westerlaa (Sprakers), and Canajo- harie 1795-1844, 1 v.


G. Miscellaneous materials, in- cluding letters (12) of Congressman Thomas Sammonh of Tryon County, 1803-12 Union; College student bills (2) to Peter Voorhees 1806-7; char- ter of the Daughters of Temperance, Grand Union of New York State, 1848; map of Mayfield Patent 1835 and other data ..


Four volumes and some 250 pieces, unarranged and uncatalogued; ac- cessible upon application to the cus- todian and under supervision. There is no photostat service.


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Sing Sing prison was built by a construction force from Auburn


penitentiary.


The Indian name for Utica was Yah-nun'-da-da-sis (Around the Hill) because their trail circles the hills where the city stands.


PURE FOOD PRODUCT .


Golden grain and savory hops- the cream of the crop-are used in Utica Club, the Beer and Ale mil- lions prefer .- Adv.


Smith, E. S .- The Snell Family Pamphlet $1.00


Greene, Hortense-The Wagner Family .. $2.00


PAMPHLETS


MacWethy, Col. Klock's Regiment 50


MacWethy, Battle of Klock's Field 35c Bell, O. W .- Devendorf Family History .$3.00


Hartley, Robert-Dempster Records of Births and Marriages $1.00


Fort Klock Papers, Old Documents found in the Fort 1762-1845 $2.00


MacWethy-Old Palatine Church :SUC Dailey and White- Sir William Johnson, "The Keeper of the Gateway" .50


The ENTERPRISE & NEWS ST. JOHNSVILLE, N. Y.


omlucy Walker family.


C. Records of Military : Bounty Grants, 1818-61, 14 items, comprising deeds to land-for service in the War of 1812 and in the .. Seminole, Black Hawk, and Mexican Wars. Grantees include Richard Delling,, Moses Er- skine, James H. Handy, Jonathan « McHenry, Jesse Smith, John Stewart, Pearce Woodman and others.


D. Payers relating to the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, 1831- 45, 30 items of income and expendi- tures, certificates of indebtedness bonds, petitions and reports to the State Assembly, correspondence.' of Daniel L. Bishop, secretary of the company and other data.


E. Documents relating to the Tompkins County Poorhouse, 1829- 12, 150 pieces including indentures of apprenticeship of pauper children (6), invetories of property, bills, cor -. respondence, list of paupers who re- ceived assistance 'in'the Poorhouse (Nov. 14, 1831-Nov. ,12, "1832), re- ports of the Superintendent and oth- er papers.


F. Miscellaneous materials, includ- ing: John Holman's "Nautical Jour- nal from River Plate to Pacific, Oc- ean on board Brig Laura of Salem," Nov. 29, 1822-Jan., 27, 1824 . (1. v.); personal letters and other papers, of Ezra Corneil; Col. Moses I. Cantine's certificate of membership in the Al- bany County Agricultural Society, Oct. 8, 1822; report of committee' of Tompkins County on evidence in lit- igation against the village of Ithaca bearing on the great flood of 1857 and watercourses in Ithaca, togeth- er with the statement of Pelig


Chesebrough giving many interesting: facts about the early history of Ith- aca, 1863; records of commitments in Tompkins county jail, 1837-39; Harold W. Zimmerman's article on- "The Early Railroads of Ithaca"; (written for the Ithaca Journal, June 1, 1938), and other data.


There are over 300 items, some 50 percent of which are arranged byl subject, and non catalogued by ac =; cessions or pieces. Materials are ac- cessible without restrictions. There is no photostate service.


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Ithaca. Cornell University Library, Central avenue. Librarian, Dr. Otto Kinkeldey. Hours: 8 a. m .- 10 p. m. Ithaca. Cornell University Library, on instruction days.


Central avenue. Librarian, Dr. Otto Kinkeldey. Hours: 8 a. m .- 10 p. m. on instruction days.


History and Purpose. The library was founded in 1868 to serve the ref- erence and research needs of stu- dents and faculty. Most of the man- uscripts have been acquired by gift, though a few purchases have been made. The present library building, a four story, stone and 'steel struc- ture, was opened in 1891. A special steel vault for the keeping of valua- ble items was added in 1915.


Holdings


A Wordsworth Collection, includ- ing: books of poems; 'drafts of'son- nets; manuscripts of passages from Wordsworth's poems, showing some variations from the published ver- sions; letters of William, Mary, Christopher, Henry, and Rev. John Wordsworth; correspondence of Hen- ry Reed with William Wordsworth, Mrs. Wordsworth, Sarah Coleridge, and others; letters of the Words- worth family to George Huntly Gor- don, protege of Sir Walter Scott, shedding much light on Words- worth's life and fortune; letters to Professor William Angus Knight from J. Dykes Campbell, Gordon G. Wordsworth, Edward Dowden, Er- nest Hartley Coleridge, Mrs. F. G. Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, son of the poet, and others, all per- taining to matters of Wordsworth- ian scholarship; letters and cards from J. R. Tutin to Mrs. Cynthia Morgan St. John and Professor Wil- liam Angus Knight, all pertaining to Wordsworth; letters to Mrs. Cynthia Morgan St. John from various cor- respondents, including Ellis Yarnall, Thomas Knight, and other papers. For specific citations of Wordsworth manuscripts at Cornell University Library in 1931, see The Wordsworth Collection formed by Cynthia Mor- gan St. John and given to Cornell University by Victor Emanuel: A 'catalogue compiled by Leslie Nathan Broughton (Ithaca, 1931) pp. 98- 111. Dr. Broughton is now engaged in the preparation of a catalogue of accessions since 1931.


B. Samuel J. May Collection, in- cluding: over 600, letters addressed: to James Miller McKim (1810-74)} and others relating to anti-slavery societies, John Brown's rald, the un- derground railroad, petitions to Con- gress regarding the Fugitive Slave Law,' the work of various associa- tions for the. improvement ..... of the: colored people and many other mat- ters bearing on the slavery ques- tion; minutes, account books, com- munications and cash books of the: American Freedmen's Aid Commis -- sion; sion; receipts and reports of teachers in colored schools ;and cor- respondence and other records of the United State War Department Bu- reau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands relating to ques- tions of policy in schools for colored


children, reports on schools, ac- counts, transportation orders for teachers, and other matters Names prominent in the collection include Lyman 'Abbot, Susan B. Anthony, William Birney, W. E. Channing, Mrs. Maria W. Chapman, Salmon P. Chase, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, Levi Coffin, Joshua Reed Giddings, Thom- as Wentworth . Higginson, Samuel


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C. Wason Chinese Collection, in- cluding: 36 volumes of manuscripts relating to Lord McCartney's em- bassy to China, 1792-94, 21 of which are made up of material concerning the China trade and the English in China collected for McCartney's in- formation and 10 of which consist


largely of correspondence concerning the embassy; of the original manu- script volumes of the great early fif- teenth century Chinese encyclopedia, Yung-lo ta tien; a collection of 40 manuscripts in Chinese relating to the efforts of Abraham Leslie to col- lect debts due him from Chinese


merchants, 1778-81; an exposition of the disputed claims of the French, Dutch and Danes to exclusive privi- leges in the inland and foreign trade of Benga, prepared in August 1786 by order of the British Commission+ ers for the affairs of India; copies of letters of Sir Humphrey Le Fleming Senhouse on the British naval expe- dition to China, 1840-41; John Gib- son's observations of the manner of trading at Canton, Nov. 13, 1807; Henry Warden's original journals, detailing an account of his shipwreck on a voyage to China, 1807-20;


Frank Groom's letters (26) to rela- tives in Shanghai, England from Nagasaki, Singaport, and Simonos- eki, 1860-67; copy of a journal. dur- ing a 'voyage to China by Arthur


Gostick Sharrock, who was sent there as a missionary under the Bap- tist Missionary Society, London, Oct. 21-Dec. 26, 1887; several journals and'logbooks of ships engaged in the Far Eastern trade; and many other manuscripts in Latin, Russian, Chin- ese, French and English, including letters, memoirs, dictionaries and maps. .


D. Andrew D. White Historical Collection.


For citation of manuscripts, see Cornell University Library, Cata- logue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dixon White, First Presi- dent of Cornell University: Vo. 1, "The Protestant Reformation and its Forerunners (Ithaca, 1889), Vol. II, The French Revolution (Ithaca 1894). 1


E. Andrew D. White personal pa- pers including correspondence con- cerning business, academic matters, civil service reform, scientific re- search and family affairs. Included are letters from Louis Agassiz, Mat- thew Arnold, John Bright, Roscoe Conkling, Ezra Cornell, Justin S. Morrill, Frederick Law Olmstead, Bayard Talyor, Moses Coit Tyler, and many others. Included also are 20 letter boxes of correspondence re- lating to the founding and early his- tory of the Cornell University Li- brary and the Department of His- tory and Political Science of Cornell University and 34 letter boxes con- taining lecture notes and miscei- laneous material.


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Ithaca. Cornell University Library, Central avenue. Librarian, Dr. Otto Kinkeldey. Hours: 8 a. m .- 10 p. m. on instruction days.


F. Willard Fiske papers, including business and financial records, cor- respondence with Charles Dudley Warner, Caroline W. Fiske, Andrew D, White, and George W. Harris, 1,500 pieces of "Scandinavian Cor- respondence," and 1 box of "Egyp- tian Correspondence."


G. Papers of H. C. Putnam, agent for the Cornell lands in Wisconsin, 1866-87, 486 pieces, consisting largely of letters from Ezra Cornell, Jere- miah W. Dwight, Henry W. Sage, W. A. Woodward and J. Williams.


H. Papers of H. S. Allen, one of the first lumbermen on the Chippe- wa river in Wisconsin, 1846-91, 49 V., including: ledgers, 1849-91, 12 v .; daybooks, 1849-76, 19 v .; cashbooks, 1857-75, 2 v .; journals; 1856-76, 10 v .; delivery book, 1875-76; grain book, 1870-74; due bills, 1875-76, 1 v .; church record book, 1855-57 and share transfers and bills of lading, Chippewa Falls Lumbering Comuany 1858-59, 2 v.


I. Ezra Cornell papers, 2,00 piece -! es, comprising correspondence and other documents bearing on the be- ginnings of the telegraph business in the United States. Included are let- ters from Samuel Colt, George Cur- tis, L. C. Draper, Cyrus Field, C. M. Gilchrist, Amos Kendall, O. H. Pal- mer, J. D. Park, W. P. Pew, J. E. Strong, T. Tillotson and many oth- ers


J. George Washington. Mss., in- cluding: early surveying exercises beginning with his 14th year; letters: military plans drawn during the Re- volutionary War; document of his


later years citing the terms under which he was willing to let his farm lands at Mount Vernon; checks pay- able to E. C. Clayton, H. Thompson and Oliver Wolcott (1798, 1799); and a small collection of autograph sig- natures.


K. Papers relating to the Revolu- tionary War, including: maps of the Revolutionary period annotated by George Washington; British head- quarters maps and sketches used by Sir Henry Clinton (photostatic cop- ies of 72 maps in the William' L. Clements Library of American His- tory, University of Michigan); order- ly book of Sullivan's campaign, kept by Thomas Gee, quartermaster ser- geant in Col. John Lamb's New York Regiment of Artillery Aug. 27-Oct. 26, 1779; and Mrs. Charles L. Wai- ker's record . of Revolutionary sol- diers buried in Tompkins county.


L. Simeon Dewitt papers, includ- ing map of the "Military Lands in the Western part of the State of New York" drawn by Dewitt in the closing years of the 18th century; receipts for survey of military lots; and letters (16) and power of attor- ney to Francis A. Bloodgood, dated Albany, 1822-31, relating to Dewitt's property and personal affairs in Ith- aca.


[ M. School Records including papers of Ezra Cornell, 1865-74 relating to the early history of Cornell Univer- sity; diaries of I. N. Knapp (1871- .72, 2 v.) and William Perry Stur- gess (1875, 1 v.) written while they were students at Cornell; & William Channing Russel's "A Brief sketch of the beginning of Cornell University"


Collection formed by Cynuna Mor- gan St. John and given to Gornell University' by Victor Emanuel: A


catalogue compiled by Leslie Nathan


Broughton (Ithaca, 1931) pp. ,98- 111. Dr. Broughton is now engaged in the preparation of a catalogue of accessions since 1931.


B. Samuel J. May Collection, im- cluding: over 600 , letters addressed; to James Miller McKim (1810-74)) and others relating to anti-slavery societies, John Brown's raid, the un- derground rallroad, petitions to Con- gress regarding the Fugitive Slave Law,' the work of various associa- tions for the improvement .... of the: colored people and many other mat- ters bearing on the slavery ques- tion; minutes, account books, com- munications and cash books of the: American Freedmen's Aid Commis- sion; sion; recelpts and reports of teachers in colored schools ;and cor- respondence and other records of the United State War Department Bu- reau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. relating to ques- tions of policy in schools for colored children, reports on schools, ac- counts, transportation orders for teachers, and other matters Names prominent in the collection include Lyman Abbot, "Susan B. Anthony. William Birney, W. E. Channing. Mrs. Maria W. Chapman, Salmon P. Chase, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, Levi Coffin, Joshua Reed Giddings, Thom- as Wentworth . Higginson, Samuel May, Jr., James Mott, Lucretia Mott, Theodore Parker, Wendelli Phillip's, Edmund Buincy, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner,' Lewis Tap- pan, J. P. Thompson, Theodore Til- ton, Theodore D. Weld, John Green- leaf Whittier and others.


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Cornell University Library, Cata- logue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dixon White, First Presl- dent of Cornell University: Vo. 1, "The Protestant Reformation and its Forerunners (Ithaca, 1889), Vol. II, The French Revolution (Ithaca 1894).


E. Andrew D. White personal pa- pers including correspondence con- cerning business, academic matters, civil service reform, scientific re- search and family affairs. Included are letters from Louis Agassiz, Mat- thew Arnold, John Bright, Roscoe Conkling, Ezra Cornell, Justin S. Morrill, Frederick Law Olmstead, Bayard Talyor, Moses Coit Tyler, and many others. Included also are 20 letter boxes of correspondence re- lating to the founding and early his- tory of the Cornell University Li- brary and the Department of His- tory and Political Science of Cornell University and 34 letter boxes con- taining lecture notes and miscel- laneous material.'


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For citation of manuscripts, see a small collection of autograph sig- natures.


K. Papers relating to the Revolu- tionary War, including: maps of the Revolutionary period annotated by George Washington; British head- quarters maps and sketches used by Sir Henry Clinton (photostatic cop- ies of 72 maps in the William' L. Clements Library of American His- tory, University of Michigan); order- ly book of Sullivan's campaign, kept. by Thomas Gee, quartermaster ser- geant in Col. John Lamb's New York Regiment of Artillery Aug. 27-Oct." 26, 1779; and Mrs. Charles L. Wal- ker's record . of Revolutionary sol- diers buried In Tompkins county.


L. Simeon Dewitt papers, includ- ing map of the "Military Lands in the Western part of the State of New York" drawn by Dewitt in the closing years of the 18th century; receipts for survey of military lots; and letters (16) and power of attor- ney to Francis A. Bloodgood, dated Albany, 1822-31, relating to Dewitt's property and personal affairs in Ith- aca.


M. School Records including papers of Ezra Cornell, 1865-74 relating to the early history of Cornell Univer- sity; diaries of I. N. Knapp (1871- 72, 2 v.) and Willlam Perry Stur- gess (1875, 1 v.) written while they were students at Cornell; William Channing Russel's "A Brief sketch of the beginning of Cornell University" (1880); catalogue of the Cornell Un- .versity Museum of American Ach- >ology, 1844-45; L. C. Bement's re- lord of the names and sentiments of ›ld students revisiting Corneil; Nel- son W. Cody's notes on the agricul- :ural lectures of John Stanton Gould, Cornell University, 1874; records of the Grove Literary Society (1869-72, 1 L v.) the Modern Language Club (1910-17), and Sigma Xi Fraternity (2 v. and 13 envelopes), all of Cor- hell University; / letters and docu- ments (364) including a manuscript sketch by H. [Howard of the history of the movement for lhe establish- ment of technical schools in New York State; student's notes of lec- tures on philosophy, physics, ethics and metaphysics at the University of Trier, 1758, probably given by S. on Dr. Biack's lectures on chemistry J. Knepper; Jacob Pattison's notes (Edinburgh, 1780); original mathe- matical treatises by Robert Rodger of Glasgow 1809-10, 3 v .; lectures on :he Calculus of Variations of Profes- sor Karl Theodor Welerstrass, 1888 (in German); and notes on lectures of various professors on midwifery, pathology, systematic anatomy, prac- ice of medicine, surgery, physiology, nental diseases and histology com- olled by S. Simpson while studying at Edinburgh University 1895-99, 78


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(Continued from last week) G. Genealogical Records. Large collection of Bible records and other genealogical data relating to the foi- lowing families: Alexander, Barber, Barker, Bates, Beardsley, Bloodgood, Boardman, Bower (Bauer), Burgess, Burt, Campbell, Cantine, Coddington, Dean Dewitt, Disbrow, Estabrook, Ferris, Goodwin, Hedden, Holt, Hop- kins, Hoston, Hoyt, Humphrey, Hun- gerford, Judson, Keller, Lewis, Lott, Luther, Markham, MicWhorter, Og- den, Paine, Pinckney, Root, Scovell, Seaman, Simpson, Stubbs, Sydney, Thorp, Tilton, Townley, Van Dyke, Van Schaick, Virgil, Weaver (Web- er), Westervelt, Winchell, Wisner, Woodford and many others.


H. Ezra Cornell papers, 1829-75, 1,000 items, including: accounts kept by him at Beebe Mill at Fall Creek, Ithaca, where he was engaged in the construction of a tunnel, 1829-32; letter of Introduction of Ezra Cornell, who proposed to visit the eastern states for purpose of directing the attention of manufacturers to the abundan water power of the village of Ithaca, March 18, 1841; letters agreements, contracts, maps, state- ments of earnings, and expenses, and timetables of various railroad companies in which Cornell was in-


tion' and the early hisory of Inaca; and deeds, conracts, agreements, ab- sracts of title and other data.


I. Miscellaneous materials, includ-


ing: proclamation of the Ithaca Moral Society Jan. 22, 1790; letters


(37) to Douglas Boardman, judge of Tompkins county, concerning educa- tion, law, politics and personal mat- ters; list of Ithaca citizens who con- tributed money for the benefit of the' destitute operatives of the cotton manufacuring districts of England, Dec. 11, 1862; record book of the Harmonia Club, Ithaca 1865-73; ag- ricultural statistics of Tompkins county 1862-63; decord of subscrip- tions for the erection of the Ithaca Medical Institute ("Casadilla Place"), 1864-65; constitution, by laws and list of members of the Ithaca Young Men's Association, 1886; treasurer's books (4) of the Ithaca City Club, 1894-1919; William M. Beauchamp's notes on Indians and Indian sites of Tompkins County; Rev. Edward T. Horn's paper on "The Ancient Book of Abraham Bioom 1788-1810 and The Light it Throws on the Early History of Tompkins County;" notes on the agricultural and horticulture society of Tompkins county; deeds and correspondence of Simeon De- Witt; copies of inscriptions on grave- terested, 1852-73, estimates and county ceme- agreements with rallroad companies stones in Tompkins teries, compiled by Dora Poue Word- regarding the construction of tele- Jen and many essays on town histor- graph lines; letters (642) to Cornell concerning the telegraph system in


jies, clubs, historic sites and land- marks, industries and personalities the United States and Canada, in |of Tompkins county history, written which he owned an interest, 1847- by C. E. Bennett, John G. Brooks, 57; Cornell's notes on telegraphic John Farrington, Ada E. M. Has- brouck, Rev. Edward T. Horn, Edith Horton, Major Orlo Horton, Horace King, Horace Mack, Rev. John Niles,' A. C. Parker Mrs. Elizabeth H. Per- ry, Mrs. J. R. Robinson, Mrs. Nellie T. Smelzer and others. communications! reports of tele- graphic communications; reports of telegraph companies, 1852-56; tele- grams, 1848-64; Cornell's speech be- fore the Committee of the Whole Senate of the State of New York on the question of a ship canal con- There are approximately 250 ' vol- | necting Cayuga Lake with Lake umes and several thousand loose items, entirely arranged by subject and author and catalogued on 1,000 index cards (3x5) citing names of persons, subjects, dates, and places. Ontario, March 14, 1864; letters (43) to Cornell from his wife, Mary Ann, his son, Alonzo B. Cornell, and oth- er members of his family, while he was in the telegraph business in the The custodian has a donor's file and west, 1853-55; letters (60) to Cor- nell from Thomas N. Rooker describ-




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