Box 2
Contains 28 Results:
Horatio Seymour papers
The Horatio Seymour papers are concerned chiefly with land holdings and business dealings of the Seymour family, and the related Bleecker and Tibbits families. The collection is comprised of financial accounts, legal agreements, and commercial correspondence. Topics include the development of business in the city of Utica, milling, banking, and iron manufacturing. Other topics include the Saint Mary's Ship Canal and connecting Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1859
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 34. Includes a printed statement of financial status from the Continental insurance Company in Utica, N.Y.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1859
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 35. Includes October 23, 1859 letter from Daniel Bryan to John F. Seymour about political campaigning for Horatio Seymour. Also includes 1859 letter from J. T. Henry to John F. Seymour regarding the sale of land in Cattaraugus County to the railroad for gravel to be used on roadbed.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1859
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 36. Includes December 23, 1859 letter from Daniel Bryan to John F. Seymour about political campaigning for Horatio Seymour. Also includes 1859 circular from Utica Steam Cotton Mills in regards to a stockholders' meeting.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1860 - 1861
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 37. Includes 1860 letter from Henry Green (agent for John F. and Horatio Seymour) to New York state senator Roscoe Conkling, concerning the estate of Henry Seymour. Also includes an abstract of titles of property in Herkimer County, belonging to the Bleecker and Tibbits families.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1862 - 1871
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 38.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1865-1874, 1878
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 39. Includes papers concerning the estate of Elizabeth Bleecker Tibbits, grandmother of Erastus Corning, Jr. July 3, 1871 edition of The Argus newspaper has been moved from this folder to mapcase folder 1.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1881 - 1887
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 40. Includes three 1886 letters to George M. Weaver from Charles Watson, treasurer of Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, on market value of stock.
Correspondence and Legal Records, 1890 - 1920
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 41.
Receipts, 1821 - 1849
Listed in PDF finding aid as folder 42.