Box 14
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Correspondence, 1853-11-01 - 1853-11-16
File — Box: 14, Folder: 11
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November 5, 1853. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"I think it probable that O'R has got [?] & may give us some trouble, in consequence of not carrying out his darling project of a grand consolidated Company, making him Pres't with a salary of five thousand dollars."
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines; Union Telegraph, Speed and O'Reilly Lines.
Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.;...
Dates:
1853-11-01 - 1853-11-16
Correspondence, 1853-11-17 - 1853-12-05
File — Box: 14, Folder: 12
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December 1, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "This is destined to be a great city. Chicago has now a population of over 50 thousand population and this will double and quadruple as rapedly as that of any other city of the union." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Chicago
Dates:
1853-11-17 - 1853-12-05
Correspondence, 1853-12-06 - 1853-12-20
File — Box: 14, Folder: 13
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December 6, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell:
"I have had some tooth ache this P.M. in an old snag that was left some ten years ago, when I went to Ithaca at midnight with Dennis McCoy the Irishman to hold my head. You may recollect the history of that terable night. Dr Miles (I think) pulled on it 3 times with his entire strength, and as offin the irons broke loos. The fourth pull broke the tooth taking the tooth with one prong out, and a piece of the jaw with it."
Topics: Telegraph...
Dates:
1853-12-06 - 1853-12-20