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Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elias W. Cady papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract

Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.

Dates: 1801-1857.

Williams and Newcomb family items

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246443]
Identifier: 1148m
Scope and content

Two small paintings by Mrs. Newcomb, one of herself and her husband (referred to as Darby and Joan) in honor of their 50th anniversary in 1888, mounted together with a caption and a note to her friend Mrs. Williams. Also, photocopy of an obituary of Wesley Newcomb; and a mounted photograph of Josiah Butler Williams, dated 1840-1850?.

Dates: 1840s-1893?

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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Subject
Canals. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
Real property, Exchange of. 2
Telegraph. 2
Accounts. 1