Box 24

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 printed circulars and articles.

Includes letter from Ezra Cornell about passage of a law enabling organization of a company for importation and improvement of livestock; material about draining of Cayuga marshes.

Includes broadside advertising real estate sale and properties in Ithaca, New York (February 17, 1860).

Includes letters from the Board of Trustees of the New York State Agriculture College and Ezra Cornell's donation for the building of Cornell University (September, 1864).