Box 21
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Correspondence, 1862-02-25 - 1862-03-05
File — Box: 21, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Topics: Civil War; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents; Forest Park farm; coal oil business; sheep Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wood, W. Irving; Curtiss, George Geography: Albany, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.
Dates:
1862-02-25 - 1862-03-05
Correspondence, 1862-03-06 - 1862-03-13
File — Box: 21, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
March 10, 1862. Ezra Cornell to O.H. Perry Cornell:
"I will receive you and your wife as members of the family and trust to the future to determine the wisdom of my decision. I advise you to prepare to move out to the Danby farm which I have possession of on the 1st of Apl next."
Topics: Sodus Canal; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents; Danby farm; Forest Park farm; coal oil business; Cayuga Inlet; Vassar College; Western Union Telegraph Company: benefits; American...
Dates:
1862-03-06 - 1862-03-13
Correspondence, 1862-03-14 - 1862-03-29
File — Box: 21, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
March 23, 1862. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"I am sorry to hear that Frank maintains ill feelings towards Perry. I want to see this feeling dispated, and see you treat each other like brothers."
March 27, 1862. O.S. Wood to Ezra Cornell, telegram:
"Grandfather died at five this evening. Funeral day after tomorrow at one."
March, 1862. Draft of a speech by Ezra Cornell to New York State Assembly.
Topics: Cayuga Inlet; Forest Park farm; New York Legislature: legislation; telegraph...
Dates:
1862-03-14 - 1862-03-29
Correspondence, 1862-04-01 - 1862-04-30
File — Box: 21, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
April 22, 1862. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"Our appropriations are all right yet, and I think will remain so, but it is something like a band of robbers dividing spoils to get any thing. To see the way new or yearling members are kicked & cuffed about in those scrambles extants vows from many that they will never be caught at Albany again as a Member."
Topics: Death of Elijah Cornell; coal oil business; New York State Legislature: legislation, bills passed for Tompkins County;...
Dates:
1862-04-01 - 1862-04-30
Correspondence, 1862-05-01 - 1862-05-19
File — Box: 21, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation; Sodus Canal; Forest Park farm; telegraph industry; transcontinental telegraph line; International Exhibition (London); European agricultural societies. Personal names: Cobb, Emory; Sibley, Hiram; Cornell, J.W.; Ritso, Frederick. Geography:
Dates:
1862-05-01 - 1862-05-19