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...

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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.