Content Description Correspondence, reports, surveys, clippings, account books, maps, deeds, and other records relating to lands owned, developed, and exchanged by Nicholas Devereux in New York State. These papers include references to to the Erie Railroad, the Rossie Lead Mining Company, the Bank of Ellicottville, James Le Ray de Chaumont, Nicholas Devereux and Company, Devereux Land Office, Ellicottville Land Office, the Holland Land Company, and to the establishment of a shoe factory and other commercial...

Scope and content Letters, an appointment book, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, drawings, certificates, engraved invitations, and a scrapbook concerning the activities of the Kernan family, notably Francis Kernan, John D. Kernan, and Elizabeth Kernan. The collection consists mainly of correspondence and documents concerning law cases and political activities involving Francis Kernan or John D. Kernan; but it also documents the Kernan family's social life and Elizabeth Kernan's experiences as a young woman...