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Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918.

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Strong White and Claire Howard White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2512
Scope and content Included are manuscripts of 16 essays (ca.1886) written by Mr. White while an undergraduate at Cornell; extracts from lectures on paleontologyand geology given by Professor Henry Shaler Williams, 1886-87; Junior Prize for Oratory medal, 1887; two candlesticks inscribed "Second Prize, Land and Water Contest"; record book pertaining to the Salina and Central Square Plank Road Company of Syracuse, a railroad company of which White was a stockholder and officer, including minutes of Board of...
Dates: 1886-1963.

Cornell University Department of Geology records

 Collection
Identifier: 14-15-728
Abstract

The papers of the Geology Department consist of examination reports, reptints, abstracts of geology lectures, estimates of departmental needs, registers of geology students (1947, 1957), issues of the department newsletter (spelled "news letter"), and other records and correspondence.

Dates: 1875-1957.

Horatio Stevens White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-18-492
Scope and content

Correspondence concerning the Dept. of German and White's professorship and lectures, University policy, student affairs, and personal matters. Correspondents include Tracy Peck, Willard Fiske, Charles Kendall Adams, Henry Shaler Williams, and others.





Dates: 1876-1905.

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.

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Accounts. 2
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