Box 48

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.

Recounts the travels of Frances Williams on the boat "Aloha"

Many items are addressed to Charles Hardy or George Williams, as part of the Merchant's and Farmer's bank

Includes Francis Miles Finch and his granddaughter.

Includes photographs of: Harriet N. Williams, Timothy Shaler Williams, Clara Wood, Rebecca Shaler, camp where George Williams served in the Civil War, Elias Hardy plaster cast, Sargeant John Clem, unidentified Williams children (possibly Henry, George, and Louisa Williams)

Note reads "Where Grandpa C.E. Hardy lived when mother M.H.W. was a little girl."

Includes a tribute written by her granddaughter Charlotte Williams.