Topics: agriculture; sheep; cattle; telegraph business correspondence; death of Ezra E. Cornell; People's College (Havana, New York); Land Grant Act; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents (Captain in Union army requesting Ezra Cornell's assistance in obtaining promotions for Tompkins County officers); Western Union Company Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Smith, F.O.J.; Johnson, B.P.; Sibley, Hiram; Cushman, J.B.; Elwood, I.R.; Randall, H.S.; Cornell, Ezra E.; Wyckoff, W.O.; Riggs, M.C.; Chester, E.W. Geography: