Box 1
Container
Contains 30 Results:
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.
Personal correspondence from family, 1810 - 1844
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Personal correspondence, 1846 - 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Letters to Josiah B. Williams from his children, 1853 - 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Letters from Josiah B. Williams to his children, 1854 - 1877
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Letters from Josiah B. Williams to his brothers, 1832 - 1838
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Church papers, 1850 - 1890
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Business papers relating to Michigan lands, 1855 - 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Henry Darling, Iona, Michigan (1855); articles of agreement with Henry Darling, Elihu Ring (1856); cost and taxes of Michigan lands; four township maps.
Dates:
1855 - 1883
Redemption certificates and taxes, 1856 - 1873
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
List of Michigan acreage, 1867
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2