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
- Ogden family. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
. Henry Neely Ogden was a professor of sanitary engineering, Cornell University.
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Akron (Ohio)
- Bennett, Frances.
- Bennett, Mary Ann.
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University. College of Civil Engineering
- Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911.
- Deeds.
- Goodman, Jane.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Sewerage.
- Ogden, Anna Bennett.
- Ogden, Charles T.
- Ogden, Henry Neely, 1868-1947.
- Ogden, Isaac.
- Ogden, Priscilla C.
- Ogden, Priscilla.
- Photographs
- Sanitary engineering.
- Sewage disposal.
- Tioga County (N.Y.)
- Tompkins County (N.Y.)
- 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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