Scope and content
Correspondence, financial reports, clippings, and other items relating to the Board of Supervisors, mostly 1939-51; the County Agricultural Society and its fairs, 1953-64; home front activities in World Wars I and II; forest conservation; the Salamanca Red Cross, the Lions Club, and the Little Valley Rod and Gun Club. There are also notes on Dorsey cheese and ice cream manufacturing interests and on Dorsey's local history publications; family records and genealogical data with related correspondence for the Cottrell, Beyerle, and Dorsey families. Other materials are stock certificates, gas leases, record of gas wells in the Leon Pool, and incorporation certificate of Leon Gas Company; and title searches, deeds, and mortgages for property in Cattaraugus County, 1877-1930.
Dates
- 1877-1964.
Creator
- Dorsey, Bert Joseph. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Farmer. Bert Dorsey was a farmer in the town of Leon, Cattaraugus County, New York. He was also chairman of the County Board of Supervisors.
Extent
1.2 cubic feet. (1.2 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
Bibliographic References
- Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Cattaraugus County.
- American Red Cross
- Beyerle family.
- Cattaraugus County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Cattaraugus County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors
- Cattaraugus County Agricultural Society
- Cottrell family.
- Dairying
- Deeds.
- Dorsey family.
- Fairs.
- Forest conservation.
- Gas wells -- New York (State) -- Leon.
- Genealogies.
- Leon (N.Y.) -- History.
- Leon Gas Company
- Lions Club
- Little Valley Rod and Gun Club
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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