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Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence: transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; coal oil business Personal names: Robertson, H.D. Geography: Coshocton, Ohio

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August 22, 1859. describing his business prospects in coal oil business. Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence: stock transfers, patents; coal oil business Personal names: Wood, M.B.; Chester, E.W.; Curtiss, George; Wood, O.S.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Dryden, N.Y.; Kentucky; Coshocton, Ohio

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Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence: finances, patents; coal oil business; Cornelian Oil Company Personal names: Chace, Miller; Wood, Otis E.; Faxton, Theodore; Smith, F.O.J. Geography: Coshocton, Ohio

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Topics: Forest Park farm; Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock transfers; coal oil business; Cornelian Oil Company; Western Union Telegraph Company; Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company; Breckenridge Coal and Oil Company. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wood, M.B.; Robertson, M.E.; Pew, W.P. Geography: Coshocton, Ohio

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: transfer of leases, finances, litigation; Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail Road; coal oil business; Forest Park farm Personal names: Cornell, E.S.; Smith, F.O.J.; Cornell, Jane; Faxton, Theodore; Sibley, Hiram; Pew, W.P. Geography: Coshocton, Ohio

Scope and Contents February 17, 1860. Hiram Sibley to Ezra Cornell from Washington: "I have been here for three weeks urging a bill through congress in aid of a line to California. By writing at once to any member of Either House with whom you may have influence, you may [?] in measure the value of which to our company." Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence; cattle; Farmers Club (Ithaca); coal oil business Personal names: Sibley, Hiram; Curtiss, George; Minot, Charles; Wood, M.B.;...

Scope and Contents March 11, 1860. from Washington: "Last Tuesday being the Presidents reception night?I called up at the White house, shook hands with 'James the Usurper,' circulated through the gaudy apartments and throng until the crowd became too dense to be pleasant when I returned to the hotel." Description of Washington conditions and political scene. Topics: telegraph business correspondence; coal oil business; Forest Park farm; Ithaca town elections. Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Curtiss, George;...

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Topics: Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence; coal oil business; livestock; wheat. Personal names: Curtiss, George; Faxton, Theodore; Cornell, E.S.; Wood, M.B.; Wood, Arlina. Geography:

Scope and Contents June 26, 1860. Samuel Stone to Ezra Cornell: "Your generous letter of [ ] inst bringing with it your draft of $100 donated for the benefit of the suffers of the terrible tornado of 3rd inst." July 21, 1860. Ezra Cornell to Franklin C. Cornell describing a train and steamer journey from Ithaca to Montreal: "The Thousand Islands however were arranging themselves one after another in raped succession, claiming their tribute of admiration, and we fully enjoyed the freshness of morning vigor, and...

Scope and Contents October 22, 1860. Circular letter from Otis E. Wood: "It is with no little pain that I announce to you my determination to quit the farm?" [in Etna]. October 22, 1860. Ezra Cornell's printed form: "I have had blanks prepared for the purpose of having the Agricultural Statistics of the County of Tompkins taken this Fall, to show the crop of the growth of the year of 1860." October 23, 1860. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell thanking Ezra Cornell for his gifts of books and the Cornells' visit, and...