Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alice Percy papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944840]
Identifier: 37-5-933
Scope and content
Includes one letter from Jacob Gould Schurman (1893) denying Miss Percy (later Mrs. Alton Winslow Leighton) permission to leave Sage College at the beginning of the spring term, and letters from Moses Coit Tyler, Samuel Gardner Williams, Oliver Farrer Emerson, Waterman Thomas Hewett, and George Lincoln Burr recommending her for a teaching position; also, photographs, programs, and other Cornelliana.
Dates:
1888-1901.
Burt Green Wilder papers
Collection
Identifier: 14-26-95
Abstract
Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both...
Dates:
1841-1925.
George Lincoln Burr papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates:
1861-1942.
Gertrude Jane and Ruth Augusta Nelson letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065193637]
Identifier: 37-5-717
Scope and content
Approximately 110 letters from Gertrude (later Mrs. Reinhard A. Wetzel) and Ruth Nelson to their parents while living at Sage College colorfully portray university and coed life in the nineties, and include descriptions of life at Sage College, courses and examinations, comments about professors, dating, parties, football games, clubs, Bible classes, activities at Sage Chapel, and prices of clothing in Ithaca. Special observations are made on such outstanding Cornell figures as George...
Dates:
1891-1897.
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