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William Park Pew miscellany

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2431

Scope and content

Includes correspondence between Professor Riley and Pew's daughter, Mary A. Pew Emmerich of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, regarding the Pew family that settled around 1800 in what is now Ithaca, N.Y., William Pew's marriage to Caroline Dix of Ithaca, and his work in early telegraphic construction, as principal (1838-c.1852) of a Lancasterian school in Ithaca, and as the operator (1863-c.1869) of a Pennsylvania coal mine; also, reminiscences, other biographical information, a Pew family genealogy, and photographs. Tompkins County.