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Lumber trade

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Cobb, Cobb& Simpson, Attorneys records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2632
Scope and content Files of this firm and its predecessors consist largely of correspondence, wills, deeds, indentures, petitions, affidavits, citations, depositions, memoranda, tax records, bills, and receipts pertaining to settlement of the estates of Austin B. Cook, Randolph Horton, Daniel E. Marsh, Ella Minturn, Jonathan Underdown, and Harry J. Van Valkenburg. The Horton estate papers also include correspondence concerning family investments in Canadian timber lands, 1913-28, and in Oklahoma and Texas farm...
Dates: 1872-[ca.1941]; -1904-1941 (bulk)

John Munger account book

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239281]
Identifier: 106
Scope and content

Account book belonging to Deacon John Munger, of Wyomin County, N. Y., with accounts of lumber, shoe making, wages, tanning, and farming.

Dates: 1806-1812.

Northeastern Wood Utilization Council records

 Collection
Identifier: 1964
Abstract

Letters and other papers relating to the Council.

Dates: 1942-1959.

Ostrander family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1826
Scope and content Ten letters (1831-47) from John Ostrander, Kennedyville (now Kanona), to his wife, Eveline, giving an account of his travels by stage, packet, foot, or raft in lower New York State, where he was selling lumber and cattle; inventory of John Ostrander's effects (1865); three papers relating to Mrs. Ostrander's suspension (1835) from the Second Presbyterian Church of Bath for embracing the doctrine of Universalism; Civil War papers (1863-65) of Clinton N. and Dwight H. Ostrander, sons of...
Dates: 1827-1865.

Otsego Forest Products Cooperative records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2891
Scope and content

Includes correspondence files, membership files, sales records, cash receipts, vouchers, purchase orders, and related records of the Otsego Forest Products Cooperation.

Dates: [1937-1963?].

William Joseph Griffin oral history interview

 Collection — Manuscript box 43 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249512]
Identifier: 1968
Abstract

Reminiscences concerning Griffin's life as a lumber camp worker, sawmill operator, farmer, and maple syrup cooperative president, and concerning the hardships of his Irish immigrant parents in the 1840s and 1850s. Interview conducted by Charles D. Bonsted.

Dates: 1958.

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.