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Tompkins County (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Knettles-Shackelton family genealogy

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941531]
Identifier: 3332
Scope and content

Genealogical material on the Knettles and Shackelton families of Danby, Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: [ca.1972].

Krum family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 8647
Scope and content Krum Family material includes bibles, letters to Amelia A. Krum and Landon D. Krum, insurance policies and mortgages, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents pertaining to the Krum family and Krum's Corners in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York. The papers of Landon D. Krum and his daughter Amelia A. Krum are most prominently represented across the collection.Clippings and publications include newspaper articles from The Ithaca Journal...
Dates: 1837-1957

Louise Pier Bement publications

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065184875]
Identifier: 4041
Scope and content

"Ludlowville Memory Book," 1981, and "Cayuga Lake, 1900-1982," 1982. Also "Town of Lansing Its Beginning," 1984.

Dates: 1981-1984.

Lyman H. Gallagher collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239505]
Identifier: 215m
Scope and content

Funeral sermon delivered by S. H. Dean, Caroline, N.Y.; mortgage discharge from Ebenezer Lewis Robison to David Robison assigned by David Robison to John Lack, 1833, Tioga County; Bruyn and Ellis Bills accounts, 1829-1836, Tompkins County; indenture between Charles Mulks, Caroline, N.Y. and Bartholomew Green, Ulysses, N.Y., 1826; school reports, District #2, 1842-1847, Caroline, N.Y.; letter from Jesse J. Cornplanter to Lyman H. Gallagher.

Dates: 1826-1945.

Marshall P. Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3345
Abstract

Papers consist of business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements; land and title searches with accompanying maps of areas in Tompkins, Allegheny, Broome, Cattaraugus, Schuyler and Wayne Counties. Includes material concerning the acquisition of lands for Allegheny State Park, Adirondack Park and the Connecticut Hill Fish and Game Refuge. Game refuge files contain deeds and papers pertaining to Cornell University.

Dates: 1890-1932.

Minutes of the Sunday School Society

 Item — Manuscript box 57 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252649]
Identifier: 3301
Scope and content

Volume contains the complete minutes of the Sunday School Society.

Dates: 1831-1843.

Mitchell and Barnes families papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3785
Abstract

Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York.

Dates: 1791-1999.

New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-33-1485
Abstract

Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.

Dates: 1938-1966.

New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938560]
Identifier: 397
Scope and content Approximately 50 items including Indentures, receipts, letters, a school attendance register, and a membership badge, from various places in New York State. Letters include a circular signed by William Randolph Hearst, eliciting support for his candidacy for Governor (dated 1906), and two letters on House of Representatives letterhead, from Congressman J. W. Dwight to John Kelly, concerning how to obtain an appointment to a position (1880). Indentures include a document selling land in...
Dates: 1804-1921.

Ogden family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065189288]
Identifier: 4198
Scope and content Family papers include deeds, wills, and other legal papers of Jane Goodman, Priscilla Ogden, Isaac B. Ogden, Mary Ann Bennett, Frances Bennett, and Henry Neely Ogden; a speech about the election of Grover Cleveland; and correspondence, including a letter from Hiram Corson to Anna Bennett Ogden, 1891. Henry Neely Ogden papers include correspondence and documents relating to Ithaca sewer construction; the construction of the stone arch bridge over Cascadilla Creek, including letters from...
Dates: 1841-1947.