Scope and content
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.
Papers of Mary Hardy Williams, wife of Josiah B., contain personal correspondence, a diary, bills of H. S. Williams (1900-1911) social notes, clippings, and family accounts, 1824-1905.
Papers of Augusta H. Williams, daughter of Josiah B., contain personal correspondence, accounts, and business papers, 1879-1948.
Papers of Henry Shaler Williams, son of Josiah B., geologist, containing lecture and research notes used at Cornell and Yale Universities; professional correspondence and scrapbooks of photographs and clippings; articles and manuscripts for publication; photographs, maps, and plates; and miscellaneous printed matter, ca. 1864-1917. Also includes H. S. Williams' personal and household bills (1900-1911). Subjects include geology and politics. Includes Ithaca to Owego geological observations, July 21, 1885, and miscellaneous H. S. Williams items.
The collection also includes miscellaneous papers of Charlotte, Jane, Ella, and Otis Williams and Louisa, Jane, and Charles Elias Hardy, and contains photographs of the Williams family as well as genealogical information. Plans by William Henry Miller for the Williams residence.
Dates
- 1778-1952.
Creator
- Williams family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Henry Shaler Williams (1847-1918) was a paleontologist, professor of paleontology and geology at Cornell 1879-1892, 1904-1912, and Yale University, 1892-1904; founder of Sigma Xi Society.
Extent
102.6 cubic feet. (102.6 cubic feet.)
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.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Legal Documents, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Nancy Dean, various
- Date completed:
- January 2007
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle January 2007
- Accounts.
- Bankers.
- Banks and banking.
- Bills of lading.
- Canals.
- College teachers
- Cornell University
- Cornell University. Department of Geology
- Cotton manufacture
- Diaries.
- Genealogies.
- Geologists.
- Geology -- Study and teaching.
- Hardy, Charles Elias.
- Hardy, Jane L.
- Hardy, Louisa.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Ithaca Cotton Mills (N.Y.)
- Ithaca and Owego Rail Road Company
- Lecture notes.
- Lumber trade.
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Maps.
- Merchants and Farmers\' Bank
- Miller, William Henry, 1848-1922.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- New York (State) -- Transportation.
- New York and Erie Telegraph Company
- Ovid Academy (N.Y.)
- Paleontology -- Study and teaching.
- Photographs.
- Politicians.
- Politics, Practical.
- Railroads.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
- Sodus Canal (N.Y.)
- Telegraph.
- Williams, Augusta H., 1852-1952.
- Williams, Charlotte.
- Williams, Ella.
- Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918.
- Williams, Jane.
- Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883.
- Williams, Mary Hardy, 1824-1911.
- Williams, Otis, active 1869-1892.
- Women -- Diaries.
- Yale University
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Compiled by Nancy Dean, various.
- Date
- January 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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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)
rareref@cornell.edu