Box 20
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Correspondence, 1860-03-09 - 1860-04-25
File — Box: 20, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
March 11, 1860. from Washington:
"Last Tuesday being the Presidents reception night?I called up at the White house, shook hands with 'James the Usurper,' circulated through the gaudy apartments and throng until the crowd became too dense to be pleasant when I returned to the hotel."
Description of Washington conditions and political scene.
Topics: telegraph business correspondence; coal oil business; Forest Park farm; Ithaca town elections.
Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Curtiss, George;...
Dates:
1860-03-09 - 1860-04-25
Correspondence, 1860-04-26 - 1860-06-20
File — Box: 20, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence; coal oil business; livestock; wheat. Personal names: Curtiss, George; Faxton, Theodore; Cornell, E.S.; Wood, M.B.; Wood, Arlina. Geography:
Dates:
1860-04-26 - 1860-06-20
Correspondence, 1860-12-10 - 1860-12-31
File — Box: 20, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: proposed California line; agriculture; Tompkins County agricultural surveys; meteorological instruments; Cayuga Inlet Personal names: Cornell, E.S.; Wood, M.B.; Millspaugh, John H.; Sibley, Hiram. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.
Dates:
1860-12-10 - 1860-12-31
Correspondence, 1861-01-01 - 1861-01-18
File — Box: 20, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
January 1861. Letters from Paul J. Cornell to Ezra Cornell discussing Cornell family genealogy and stating the position of the South versus the North regarding slavery and states' rights.
January 8, 1861. Ezra Cornell to Paul J. Cornell discussing Cornell family genealogy and slavery.
Topics: cattle; Tompkins County agricultural surveys; coal oil business; Cornell family genealogy and history
Personal names: Cornell, Paul J.; Cornell, O.H. Perry; Wood, M.B.; Millspaugh, John H.; Wood,...
Dates:
1861-01-01 - 1861-01-18