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Williams family.

 Family

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Christina M. Cantine papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065235933]
Identifier: 1652
Scope and content Letters to members of the Williams and Cantine families of Ithaca, New York, especially Christine M. Cantine, and to members of the Van Buren family of Kinderhook; also a few pieces of poetry, invitations, announcements, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous papers. Letters include two from Martin Van Buren, including one about the life of his brother-in-law Moses I. Cantine (1774-1823), editor of THE ALBANY ARGUS and a political supporter; letters of Moses I. Cantine to his daughter...
Dates: 1819-1887.

Hoffmire family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6871
Scope and content Papers comprise a genealogy chart of thirteen generations starting with John Carman and Florence Fordham through children born in the 1960s and significant correspondence from the 1830s to the 1880s, by which time the family was in upstate New York in Mecklenburg, Bridgewater, Buffalo, and Trumansburg. Members of the family were Quakers and the correspondence includes positions on faith and religion, news about the Civil War, views about slavery, hungar, factory work, and the Mexican War,...
Dates: 1743-1968,-1837-1880 (bulk).

Jared Treman Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2157
Abstract

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

Dates: 1803-1953,-1803-1937 (bulk)

Rider family correspondence

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 1786
Scope and content

Letters of the collector's maternal ancestors, including members of the Alden, Day, Meloy, Perkins, Willard, and Williams families, many of whom migrated from New England to the Cooperstown and Chenango River areas of New York State; correspondence deals with personal and family matters.

Dates: 1784-1856.

Thatcher family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates: 1818-1957.

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Religion. 3
Agriculture. 1
Akron (Ohio) 1
Antislavery movements. 1
Blueprints. 1