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Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.

 Person

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Henry C. Putnam papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947587]
Identifier: 7-4-48
Scope and content Letters from J. W. Williams, Treasurer, Cornell University, 1875-1877; from Henry W. Sage, 1871-1887; from Ezra Cornell, 1866-1874; from W. A. Woodward, 1858-1867; from C. S. Sargent, 1885-1904; and Jeremiah W. Dwight, 1871-1872. Other correspondents include Charles B. Lamborn, Azariah Freeman, N. C. Ransom, E. W. Culver, and J. G. Thrush. Also, Putnam Lumber Business statistics and land books; deeds, contracts, receipts, and cost accounts; and photostat of obituary from the Eau Claire Daily...
Dates: 1858-1912.

John Meredith Read correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070745371]
Identifier: 2-1-3873
Scope and content Copies of letters, primarily from Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White to Read. Also a letter to Charles Kendall Adams and Adams' response discussing History Academies and the American Historical Association, 1887. Two letters from Jacob Gould Schurman discussing the 25th Anniversary of Cornell and the birthday of Henry W. Sage, 1893. A dinner program and request for addresses for the March 31, 1886 reception of the New York Association of Cornell University for President Adams at...
Dates: 1865-1884.

Letters to Samuel Campbell

 Collection — Manuscript box 69 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924078882416]
Identifier: 6370
Scope and content

Letter from Ezra Cornell to Samuel Campbell relating to a shorthorn bull, Dec. 23, 1869; letter from Andrew Dickson White to Campbell describing the veterinary medicine program at Cornell and asking him to help fund a building for it, March 21, 1870; and letter from James Law to Campbell about government regulation to prevent the spread of "foot and mouth disease," May 9, 1871.

Dates: 1869-1871.

United States General Land Office land grants to New York State

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065173316]
Identifier: 7-2-96
Scope and content

Approximately 400 items including land grants giving plots of federal land in Wisconsin to New York State under the provisions of the Morrill Land Grant College Act, with Ezra Cornell acting as the state's assignee. The grants are signed by President Andrew Johnson among others.

Dates: 1867.

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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