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Politicians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Christina M. Cantine papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065235933]
Identifier: 1652
Scope and content Letters to members of the Williams and Cantine families of Ithaca, New York, especially Christine M. Cantine, and to members of the Van Buren family of Kinderhook; also a few pieces of poetry, invitations, announcements, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous papers. Letters include two from Martin Van Buren, including one about the life of his brother-in-law Moses I. Cantine (1774-1823), editor of THE ALBANY ARGUS and a political supporter; letters of Moses I. Cantine to his daughter...
Dates: 1819-1887.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.