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Box 23

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Correspondence, 1863-03-26 - 1863-04-06

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

April, 1863: "Received of E. Cornell seventy three dollars for support of families of Colored Volunteers of Albany County." Topics: telegraph business correspondence; Land Grant Act; New York State Legislature: legislation; Cornell Public Library; Family correspondence; Danby farm; Civil War; Montreal Telegraph Company. Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Wood, O.S.; Curtiss, George; Finch, F.M.; Cornell, O.H. Perry; Torrey, William A.; Cornell, Franklin C. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

Dates: 1863-03-26 - 1863-04-06

Correspondence, 1863-04-07 - 1863-04-13

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation; Copperheads; cattle; Sodus Canal; Cornell Public Library; coal oil business; Land Grant Act; Cayuga and Oswego Canal. Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Wood, M.B.; Finch, F.M.; Schuyler, A.; Curtiss, George Geography: New York City

Dates: 1863-04-07 - 1863-04-13

Correspondence, 1863-04-14 - 1863-04-29

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents April 16, 1863. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from encampment in the Union Army. April 17, 1863. M.B. Wood to Ezra Cornell: "We are watching with great anxiety to hear of Charleston being taken by our forces and are preparing for a big jollification on receipt of the news. We have a big national flag ready to raise that cost us $36 in NY city." Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation; Western Union Telegraph Company: dividends; Land Grant Act; People's College (Havana); Wisconsin...
Dates: 1863-04-14 - 1863-04-29

Correspondence, 1863-05-01 - 1863-05-18

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

May 1, 1863. W.O. Wyckoff to Ezra Cornell describing life in the Union Army. Topics: New York State Agricultural College (Ovid); New York State Agricultural survey; New York State Canal Commissioner's Office; Loyal League of Union Citizens; Civil War; agriculture; Western Union Telegraph Company Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Chester, E.W.; Wood, M.W.; Curtiss, George Geography:

Dates: 1863-05-01 - 1863-05-18

Correspondence, 1863-05-19 - 1863-06-28

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

May 24, 1863. W.O. Wyckoff to Ezra Cornell describing life in the Union Army. Topics: agriculture; Cornell Public Library; Civil War; cattle; Cornell family genealogy and history; New York State Bureau of Military Statistics; Western Union Telegraph Company: dividends Personal names: Sibley, Hiram; Wood, O.S.; Wood, M.W.; Wyckoff, W.O.; Barnard, D.R.; Cornell, Paul J.; Pew, W.P.; Carpenter, Eber. Geography: DeRuyter

Dates: 1863-05-19 - 1863-06-28