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Williams, J. W., active 19th century.

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Treasurer's Office correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065266342]
Identifier: 7-1-m.50
Scope and content Correspondence and records kept by the University Treasurer, J. W. Williams, 1872-1877, includes such varied material as correspondence with Adamantine Brick Press Co., regarding an excaving machine the University wished to purchase; acreage allotments and lease rules for the Cornell University farm; correspondence regarding the St. Louis High School scholarship; letters from Andrew Dickson White regarding the payment of bills and fire control on campus; and numerous pamphlets and...
Dates: 1872-1877.

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Land companies -- Wisconsin. 1
Logging -- Wisconsin. 1
Lumbering -- Wisconsin. 1
Public lands -- Wisconsin. 1
Real property -- Kansas. 1