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Williams family.

 Family

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

John Williams family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065223657]
Identifier: 4353
Scope and content

Deeds, leases, and other legal papers (to 1847); some correspondence of Harriet Martin Williams concerning Presbyterian Church affairs; Williams family history (1895); album of interior views of the Williams (Parker) Mansion, description of the mansion, and a postcard view. Also, two books by Harriet Martin Williams: "The Grey Man" (about John Williams), and "The Woody Hill Meadow," both illustrated with photographs.

Dates: 1785-[ca. 1935]

Williams and Craddock family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916871]
Identifier: 514
Scope and content This set of papers relates largely to the school and teaching activities of the Williams and Craddock families of Weedsport, Cayuga County, New York, and includes letters (1847) from Samuel Craddock describing his experiences at Geneva Medical College, and the attempt to steal a cadaver from the graveyard; a long series of letters of Diana Craddock Williams and her daughters Ida and Alice relating to student, teaching, and social activities at Oswego Normal and Training School (1869-72), Ann...
Dates: 1844-1921.

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.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918141]
Identifier: 582
Scope and content

Primarily letters of the Williams family of Corning, New York, relating to student and teaching activities at Mount Holyoke College and Kalamazoo College, Michigan; school attendance records for Pulteney and Urbana (1845-46); an autograph book of Mary Williams; and Steuben County deeds.

Dates: 1836-1924.

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Accounts. 1
Bankers. 1
Banks and banking 1
Bills of lading. 1