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Box 42

 Container

Contains 12 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.

Incoming correspondence, 1870 - 1913

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Ellen Brown (wife of Robert Brown) with a picture of their daughter, Nellie (1888).

Dates: 1870 - 1913

Incoming correspondence, 1860 - 1911

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 2-16
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from children

Dates: 1860 - 1911

Estate books and diary, 1879 - 1884

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings and correspondence regarding childrens hospital.

Dates: 1879 - 1884

Incoming correspondence, 1845 - 1890

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Includes articles of partnership between the Williams Brothers (1845.)

Dates: 1845 - 1890