Box 2

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.

Includes Miss Burr's school, Ithaca (1834); Ithaca Female Seminary (1836); and Ithaca Academy (1837-1841).

Kept by Mary Hardy Williams and daughters.

Includes a letter from the Harriet Tubman home in Auburn, NY (1902); meeting minutes from the Free Kindergarten; and various local churches, hospitals, colleges, and missionary efforts.