Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Berry family letters and photographs
Collection — Manuscript box 44 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249694]
Identifier: 2032m
Scope and content
Letters from William (Will) B. Berry and J. Romeyn Berry to their wives, children, and grandchildren, mainly Lizzie Gould, Harriet E. Berry, and Harriet Berry Tyson; and one typewritten letter from "Lid" to the family (January 16, 1960). Also includes two letters to John Stanton Gould, one from Andrew Dickson White and one from Ezra Cornell (1873). Most of the letters are from towns in upstate New York. Photographs are of children in the family: Lizzie and Annie Gould, Harriet B. Tyson, and...
Dates:
1699-1960-(bulk 1873-1890)
Cornell University and Goodkind family scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4043
Scope and content
Scrapbook/stamp album documenting Cornell history begins with envelope addressed to Elijah Cornell, 1856, includes a letter from Ezra Cornell written to Edwin D. Morgan on the back of the announcement for the first annual Commencement of Cornell University, 1869; a variety of Cornell envelopes, all with stamps, 1867, 1869; envelopes sent by Willard Fiske, 1876; envelope sent by Charles Frederick Hartt, ca. 1873; envelopes sent by Waterman Thomas Hewitt, ca. 1890s later Cornell envelopes,...
Dates:
1856-1965.
Cornell University autograph and memorabilia collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093405185]
Identifier: 47-1-3485
Scope and content
Autographed letters and other memorabilia signed by Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, Jacob Gould Schurman, Livingston Farrand, Thomas Frederick Crane, William I. Myers, George H. Sabine, and others. Also 1873 Cornell Navy Regatta program and photograph of Crew coach Charles Courtney.
Dates:
1870-1952.
Cornell University western lands records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7-4-12
Scope and content
Records relating to Ezra Cornell's land business, primarily in Wisconsin, but also in Minnesota and Kansas, and to the financial dealings of the university in its first forty years. Includes account books, day books, cash books, ledgers, plat books, land scrip book, lists of lands, tax registers, survey notes, maps, and atlases. Includes correspondence with Ezra Cornell, W. A. Woodward, and Cornell Treasurers, J. W. Williams and E. L. Williams, and correspondence of Henry C. Putnam,...
Dates:
1859-1932.
Edward L. Eich miscellany
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939501]
Identifier: 2404
Scope and content
Ithaca Calendar Clock Company catalogue and price list, 1880; a description of J.E. Young's patented calendar clock, manufactured by Genoa Calendar Clock Company, 1880; pamphlet on the commencement of construction of the Auburn and Owasco Canal, 1835; pamphlet on the 27th annual reunion of the "Old Bucktails," or First Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (42nd Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War), 1914; patent issued to four Ithaca, New York residents (Eugene M....
Dates:
1835 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1880
Ezra Cornell land grant documents
Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924095257378]
Identifier: 1-1-666
Scope and content
New York State and U.S. legal documents reflecting Ezra Cornell's donation of land for the building of an agricultural college (the future Cornell University) under the Agricultural College Act of July 2, 1862. Included are a U.S. General Land Office document reflecting Mr. Cornell's donation of 990,000 acres of land, dated 1863; a scrip for that land, dated Aug. 4, 1866; a location certificate, dated Aug. 10, 1866; and a Land Office certificate for receipt of scrip from Mr. Cornell, also...
Dates:
1863-1866.
Ezra Cornell letter : to Ben Johnson
Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251260]
Identifier: 2563m
Scope and content
1 page letter to Johnson concerning a proposed exchange, probably of land. Cornell refers to Mr. (A.A.) Mann as contesting the sale of the DeWitt family farm to Cornell.
Dates:
1848 March 7.
Ezra Cornell letter to Henry Brewer
Collection — Manuscript box 25 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244935]
Identifier: 624m
Scope and content
Letter in answer to Brewer's complaint about the Library Association's proposal to charge the Ithaca Farmers Club $100 per year in rent. Cornell defends the library's board of trustees, describes the composition of the board, and refers Brewer to them to address the issue.
Dates:
1874 October 22.
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
Francis Miles Finch letters
Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251237]
Identifier: 2547m
Scope and content
Letters to Finch from Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, and Timothy Dwight. White's letter, and Ezra Cornell's letter of 1868, accompanied friendly gifts of buttons and books that they sent to Finch. Dwight's letter (1905) contains news of classmates who have died recently, and comments on how leading universities such as Yale and Cornell have grown over the past 50 years. Ezra Cornell's letter of 1866 concerns the future of Cascadilla Place and its relation to Cornell University and...
Dates:
1866-1905.
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- Real property -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 3
- Land companies -- Wisconsin. 2
- Logging -- Wisconsin. 2
- Timber -- Wisconsin. 2
- Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
- Auburn and Owasco Canal. 1
- Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
- Coal trade. 1
- Crew. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Firearms -- Patents. 1
- Foot-and-mouth disease. 1
- Georgia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Land grants 1
- Land grants -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Land grants -- Wisconsin. 1
- Lumbering -- Wisconsin. 1
- Maine -- Description and travel. 1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
- New York (State) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Patents. 1
- Photographs 1
- Plows -- Maine. 1
- Plows -- New York (State) 1
- Public lands -- Wisconsin. 1
- Railroads -- New York (State) 1
- Real property -- Kansas. 1
- Real property -- Minnesota. 1
- Real property -- Wisconsin. 1
- Real property, Exchange of -- Wisconsin. 1
- Rowing. 1
- School lands -- United States. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Shorthorn cattle. 1
- Stamp collecting. 1
- Stamp collectors. 1
- Telegraph -- Employees. 1
- Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies. 1
- Telegraph -- History. 1
- Telegraph -- Law and legislation. 1
- Telegraph -- Patents. 1
- Telegraph, Wireless. 1
- Tintypes (prints) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 1
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