Wood, Phebe.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Amzi Wood papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064716313]
Identifier: 3460
Scope and content
Papers consist mainly of letters, some written over a period of time in diary form, from Wood to his wife, Phebe, son Oliver, and daughter Sarah in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York. Letters concern his journey (January-February 1865) by steamer from New York City to Mexico via Havana, his consular duties, his unofficial business drawing up affidavits and other legal documents for private individuals, his living arrangements, the manners and customs of the people of Matamoros, the social...
Dates:
1864-1865.
Ezra Cornell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content
The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates:
1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
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- Coal trade. 1
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- Georgia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Maine -- Description and travel. 1
- Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867. 1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
- Plows -- Maine. 1
- Plows -- New York (State) 1
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- Telegraph -- Employees. 1
- Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies. 1
- Telegraph -- History. 1
- Telegraph -- Law and legislation. 1
- Telegraph, Wireless. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 1
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