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Ogden family papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 4198

Scope and content

Family papers include deeds, wills, and other legal papers of Jane Goodman, Priscilla Ogden, Isaac B. Ogden, Mary Ann Bennett, Frances Bennett, and Henry Neely Ogden; a speech about the election of Grover Cleveland; and correspondence, including a letter from Hiram Corson to Anna Bennett Ogden, 1891. Henry Neely Ogden papers include correspondence and documents relating to Ithaca sewer construction; the construction of the stone arch bridge over Cascadilla Creek, including letters from William Henry Sage; his appointment as member of the Examining Board of Plumbers and Plumbing, City of Ithaca; faculty appointment letters, 1903, 1908, 1915; TLS from Gov. William Sulzer appointing Ogden NYS Sanitary Engineer; and miscellaneous correspondence. Also photographs; mounted clippings from the Akron, Ohio, press, 1916, about a survey Ogden made of health conditions in that city; publications; loose clippings; and a scrapbook with clippings relating to sanitary engineering and the Ithaca sewer system, family clippings, and cyanotypes of Cornell campus and Collegetown houses. Also, a silver medal awarded to Priscilla C. Ogden (Cornell University Class of 1924) in 1924 by the American Institute of Architecture for "excellence in architecture."

Dates

  • 1841-1947.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

. Henry Neely Ogden was a professor of sanitary engineering, Cornell University.

Extent

.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English