Families -- New York (State).
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Gage family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4937
Scope and content
Letters of Mary Austin (1851), bill of sale between Anna Botsford Comstock and Simon Henry Gage for a piano, photograph of a sampler, a collection of papers by Susanna Phelps Gage, and family notes by Mary A. Phelps concerning members of the family including Simon Henry Gage. Includes a letter from Daniel Coit Gilman.
Dates:
1851-1945.
Hoffmire family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6871
Scope and content
Papers comprise a genealogy chart of thirteen generations starting with John Carman and Florence Fordham through children born in the 1960s and significant correspondence from the 1830s to the 1880s, by which time the family was in upstate New York in Mecklenburg, Bridgewater, Buffalo, and Trumansburg. Members of the family were Quakers and the correspondence includes positions on faith and religion, news about the Civil War, views about slavery, hungar, factory work, and the Mexican War,...
Dates:
1743-1968,-1837-1880 (bulk).
Van Santvoord and Olcott family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2373
Abstract
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal records of Alfred Van Santvoord, his family (and in-laws), Jacob and Anna Lansing; her father, Absalom Townsend.
Dates:
1802-1954.
Wagner family letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065340196]
Identifier: 6414
Scope and content
Twenty-two family letters from cousins Jemima B. Wagner and Orisse Morgan, Chancey B. Wilbur, and Charles H. Wagner to his wife while he was away at war. The first letters mention subjects of daily life, weather, marriages, health, deaths, local news, and domestic matters. Charles H. Wagner describes his experiences in the army during the Civil War and mentions marching, riding the train and a steamship, conditions at the forts where he was stationed, his position in the company, news of...
Dates:
1854-1865.
Walter Francis Willcox papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-10-504
Abstract
Papers concerning Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell, including extensive material on American social and political issues, as well as Willcox's personal and family papers.
Dates:
1886-1960.