Cortland Academy (Homer, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Lincoln Burr papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates:
1861-1942.
Moses Lyon papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065196440]
Identifier: 1295
Scope and content
Papers, primarily correspondence, of Moses Lyon and his six children, most of which concern his son Lewis' activities at Cortland Academy, Homer, N.Y., and at Auburn, N.Y., where he was a merchant; other letter to William Dada, a Protestant clergyman, and to the religious attitudes of 1850s and 1860s in Cayuga, Cortland, and Tompkins Counties. The collection also contain eleven family photographs, receipts, menues, a funeral discourse by Rev. W.S. Jerome of King Ferry, and family history...
Dates:
1813-1894, 1813-1864 (bulk)
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Auburn (N.Y.) -- Commerce. 1
- Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- College students 1
- College teachers 1
- Cortland County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Diaries 1
- Elba (Italy) -- Pictorial works. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Cayuga County. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Cortland County. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County. 1
- Farmers. 1
- Farms -- New York (State) -- King Ferry. 1
- Guyana -- Boundaries -- Venezuela. 1
- Historians. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Manuscripts for publication. 1
- Newark Valley (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Photographs 1
- Rare book libraries. 1
- Rare books. 1
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Venezuela -- Boundaries -- Guyana. 1 + ∧ less
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