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Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Caleb Carr letters

 Collection
Identifier: 2386
Abstract

Letters written to Caleb and Emily Pierce Carr of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, from family members in Genoa, Locke, and Elmira, New York.

Dates: 1856-1867.

Central New York state social invitations

 Collection — Manuscript box 25 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244950]
Identifier: 630m
Scope and content

Printed cards and notes inviting the recipient to balls and parties in Varna, Locke, Genoa, Lansing, Jacksonville, Freeville, Libertyville, Peruville, and Venice, New York. Several of them are invitations to "cotillon" [sic] parties. A few of the events have an admission charge.

Dates: 1847-1850.

Fordyce family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3646
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

Dates: 1839-1979.

Leslie L. Luther, collector and compiler, Moravia area items

 Collection
Identifier: 1934
Abstract

Alphabetized tombstone inscriptions; scrapbook of newspaper clippings, sketches, and notes; genealogical data; and a copy of a journal kept by William Slade.

Dates: 1882-1966.

Moses Lyon papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065196440]
Identifier: 1295
Scope and content Papers, primarily correspondence, of Moses Lyon and his six children, most of which concern his son Lewis' activities at Cortland Academy, Homer, N.Y., and at Auburn, N.Y., where he was a merchant; other letter to William Dada, a Protestant clergyman, and to the religious attitudes of 1850s and 1860s in Cayuga, Cortland, and Tompkins Counties. The collection also contain eleven family photographs, receipts, menues, a funeral discourse by Rev. W.S. Jerome of King Ferry, and family history...
Dates: 1813-1894, 1813-1864 (bulk)

Wood family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065477097]
Identifier: 4941
Scope and content

Correspondence, diaries, account books, notebooks, postcards and other family papers of the Wood and French families of Cayuga and Wayne Counties, New York State. Includes letters home to her mother from Helen L. French when she was a teacher in Puerto Rico.

Dates: 1860-1938.