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Box 27

 Container

Contains 10 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.

Senatorial papers, Undated

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes draft of act to aid in the establishment of the New York State Agricultural College in Ovid.

Dates: Undated

Cornell Board of Trustees papers

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Includes report of committee for building contractors, Agricultural College correspondence.

Dates: 1778-1952.