COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers concerned with the interrelated Floyd, Ireland, and Sicard families. The Floyd items include the militia records (1824-1829) of Captain David Floyd, 157th Regiment, Rome, Oneida County, New York. The Ireland items include a plat book of the lands owned in New York City by the John Ireland Estate (1837). The bulk of the collection (1855-1873) relates to the activities of Montgomery Sicard, a U.S. Naval Officer, and includes notes, pamphlets, and other materials on navigation, naval discipline, and the care and use of naval guns; letters relating to the shipwreck of the U.S.S. Saginaw in the Pacific, November 1870; and letters relating to Sicard's duties at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (1870s). Signatures on documents include those of Presidents Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland.
Dates
- 1790 - 1910
- Majority of material found within 1855 - 1873
Creator
- Floyd family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
2.5 cubic feet. (2.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers concerned with the interrelated Floyd, Ireland, and Sicard families.
Physical Description
Maps, correspondence, printed materials, manuscripts.
- Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886.
- Buchanan, James.
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
- Floyd, David.
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
- Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929.
- Ireland family.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1744-1786.
- Naval discipline.
- Navigation.
- Navy-yards and naval stations.
- New York (State). Militia
- Oneida County (N.Y.)
- Pierce, Franklin.
- Plats (maps).
- Rome (N.Y.).
- Saginaw (Ship)
- Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean.
- Sicard family.
- Sicard, Montgomery.
- United States. Navy
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by>
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
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