Scope and content Letters of Mary Hopkinton to Lucetta Abbot (1832-41) mention Universalism in St. Lawrence County, New York, and describe McConnellsville, Ohio (1841); letters from the Olin family of Bloomingdale, Wisconsin (1841-49) describe the conflict of religious sentiment with the realities of land speculation, the weather, prices, and progress of settlement; letters from W. Abbot (1851) from Nevada City and Placerville describe mining conditions; and four account books of the Peck family, Potsdam, St....

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Collection contains correspondence with Frank Olin, Spencer Olin, and others from the Olin Family. Boak weved as the Works Manager for Olin's Winchester facility in New Haven, and a member of the Board of Directors. Also included is a photograph of Boak as a student at Cornell University (class of 1914), and a photograph of the Cornell Board of Trustees (Boak served as a member).