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Newspaper clippings; manuscript items, 1790 - 1905

 File — Box: 2, Volume: 19

Scope and Contents

Vol. 19 (formerly Harris 5135 G119); Early Reminiscences and Recollections by W. T. Eddy and others (Ithaca Journal columns); "Free whites" data from 1790 Census of Ulster County, NY (New Burgh, Marbletown; Charles Deniston); [Description/ account of] Lansing, NY (Spring 1791); Petition of the towns of Caroline, Danby, and Newfield to become part of Tompkins County (in the N.Y. Senate Journal, 1822); Plan for emigrating to the Territory of Michigan, by John Mulks, Wm. R. Collins, and Ira Tillotson, agents (Ithaca Journal, Dec. 8, 1824); Catskill-Ithaca Turnpike, by editor of the Stamford [Delaware County, NY] Mirror (n.d.); Ithaca Railroad History, early; L. C. Smith Typewriter Factory (story and pictures); Caroline Telegraph Company letterhead (early 1900s); Twelve Valiant Brothers of Trumansburg Masonic Lodge, no. 157, with pictures (following the Morgan Episode); Autographs of inspectors of elections on election returns in Ulysses and Lansing (Apr. 26, 1821) and in Caroline and elsewhere (Nov. 5, 1827); Peleg Ellis's Commission as Captain of the Cayuga County Militia, with seal and signed by Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins; Lt. Col. Henry Bloom, Commandant (Apr. 26, 1813); Postmaster Roswell Beardsley, Lansing (story and pictures); State Street, Ithaca, N.Y. (picture, 1860); Dewitt Family genealogy; Death notices and obituaries: Mary Ackley; Chauncey Mulks, wealthy Syracuse recluse, with picture (1903); E. Asbury Robison, grandson of early Caroline settler, John Robison (Aug. 20, 1903[?]); James F. Latimer, of Delaware, Wisc. (Nov. 11, 1904); Edward Lounsbury, son of early Caroline settler, Peter Lounsbury (ca. 1904); Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell (Oct. 5, 1907); Estate of Peleg Ellis's daughter, Ann H. Smith (d. 1900); Removal of Simeon DeWitt's body (in the Ithaca Democrat, June 4, 1924); County Treasurer Ingersoll Scandal (1900); Benoni Mulks; Rev. Samuel J. Parker (story, Apr. 4, 1899); Tompkins County Agricultural Society meeting (1904); Dewitt Historical Society Officers appointed by Pres. Griffis (Apr. 5, 1900[?]); Leavenworth Mansion, Finest Frame House in the World (Nov. 10, 1904); "Voitlander and I in Pursuit of Shadow Castings," by James F. Ryder, roller boy at the Ithaca Journal, under Nathan Randall, A. E. Baraby, and J. H. Selkreg, ca. 1837; Onondaga County, stories of; Naming of Lake George; Guide to New York City during the Dewey Celebration; Southern California, notes of a traveler; Sam Patch's Jump Over the Genesee Falls, Rochester (Nov. 13, 1899)

Dates

  • 1790 - 1905

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2.8 cubic feet. (2.8 cubic feet.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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