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Ithaca and Owego Rail Road Company

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).

Railroad articles

 Collection — Manuscript box 77 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254140]
Identifier: 85m
Scope and content

7 clippings (mounted on 2 sheets of paper) concerning A. C. Flagg's sale of Ithaca & Owego, Catskill & Canajoharie Railroads at a loss of half a million dollars to the state. The clippings are from Albany, Westchester, Chenango, and Norwich newspapers.

Dates: 1842.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.

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Accounts. 1
Bankers. 1
Banks and banking 1
Bills of lading. 1
Buses -- New York (State) 1