Box 36
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Contains 15 Results:
Cornell family correspondence, 1778-07-02 - 1819-05-17
File — Box: 36, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell from relatives with notices of births and deaths and local news. Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Barnard, Elizabeth; Macy, Anna; Cornell, Ezra (brother of Elijah); Chace, Phebe. Geography: DeRuyter; Westchester County, N.Y.; North Carolina.
Dates:
1778-07-02 - 1819-05-17
Cornell family correspondence, 1820-08-19 - 1838-08-05
File — Box: 36, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
August 13, 1837. Martin B. Wood to Elijah Cornell:
"As a matter consequent upon human life I have for a course of years studiously regarded the motions and movements of my female acquaintance for the purpose of discovering one among the multitude who possessed the requisite qualities for rendering the married life preferable to any other and of the number of ladies that have fallen within the circle of my acquaintance I feel it my imperitive duty to bestow upon your daughter Phebe, the...
Dates:
1820-08-19 - 1838-08-05
Cornell family correspondence, 1838-09-15 - 1844-02-04
File — Box: 36, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell in DeRuyter from their children and other relatives; letters to Mary Ann Cornell; news of births, deaths, illnesses, local events, and messages of sympathy.
Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Cornell, Mary; Cornell, E.B.; Wood, Phebe; Chace, Lucretia; Chace, Thomas; Chace, Palmer; Macy, Anna; Macy, Robert; Bristol, John S.; Bristol, Elmira; Cornell, Mary Ann
Geography: DeRuyter; Ithaca; Fall River;...
Dates:
1838-09-15 - 1844-02-04
Cornell family correspondence, 1844-02-10 - 1845-08-20
File — Box: 36, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell in Ithaca from their children concerning travel and new homes in Michigan; letters from Thomas Chace telling of Lucretia's illness and death; correspondence among Ezra Cornell's siblings; news of family life, travel, health, deaths, and local events.
Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Cornell, Mary; Wood, Phebe; Cornell, E.S.; Cornell, Deborah; Chace, Lucretia; Chace, Thomas; Cornell, Mary Ann; Wood,...
Dates:
1844-02-10 - 1845-08-20
Cornell family correspondence, 1845-08-25 - 1847-03-08
File — Box: 36, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell in Ithaca from their children in Michigan and from cousin Elizabeth Swain in Nantucket; correspondence between Cornell and Wood siblings; news of family life, health, illnesses, business, children, travel, and religion.
Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Robertson, Mary C.; Robertson, Hiram D.; Cornell, E.S.; Wood, Phebe; Wood, M.B.; Chace, Thomas; Swain, Elizabeth; Cornell, Mary Ann; Wood, O.S.;...
Dates:
1845-08-25 - 1847-03-08
Cornell family correspondence, 1847-03-13 - 1848-10-10
File — Box: 36, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell from their children in Michigan and New York with news of religious conversions, children, illnesses, pottery, and family life; letters to Mary Ann Cornell from E.B. and Betsy Ann Cornell; letter to John Cornell from Elijah concerning Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell's trip to Michigan; M.B. Wood to Phebe Wood while he is away from home building telegraph lines.
Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Elijah;...
Dates:
1847-03-13 - 1848-10-10
Cornell family correspondence, 1848-11-05 - 1850-03-03
File — Box: 36, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
January 14, 1849. Jane Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell:
"I suppose that Father thinks about starting for California in search of Gold, tell him not to do so untill Spring and I will go with him. Mart is very strongly attracted with the Feaver but has not started for there yet?. The people of Albion hold California meetings here two or three times a week, and there is a large company going from here early in the Spring. Do you know where Daniel is at present. I should not wonder if he was in...
Dates:
1848-11-05 - 1850-03-03
Cornell family correspondence, 1850-03-05 - 1852-08-29
File — Box: 36, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell from their children and from siblings in Fall River, Massachusetts; correspondence among Ezra Cornell's siblings; many letters from D.B. Cornell to parents and siblings; news of family life, religion, and schooling.
Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Robertson, Mary C.; Cornell, D.B.; Chace, Thomas; Cornell, Jane; Cornell, John H.; Wood, Phebe; Chace, Miller; Cornell, E.B.; Shepard, S.E.; Chace,...
Dates:
1850-03-05 - 1852-08-29
Cornell family correspondence, 1852-09-01 - 1857-12-27
File — Box: 36, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah and Eunice Cornell from their children and grandchildren; correspondence among Ezra Cornell's siblings; news of health, employment, farming, and life in Michigan.
Personal names: Cornell, Jane; Cornell, D.B.; Wood, Phebe; Chace, Miller; Cornell, Molly; Cornell, E.S.; Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, Eunice; Cornell, E.B.; Chace, Rebecca; Cornell, Mary Ann; Cornell, John H.; Wood, Deborah C.
Geography: Albion; Union Springs; Fall River;...
Dates:
1852-09-01 - 1857-12-27
Cornell family correspondence, 1857-12-28 - 1860-02-10
File — Box: 36, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Topics: Cornell family correspondence: letters to Elijah from his children, grandchildren, and brother; correspondence among Ezra Cornell's siblings; selection of Mary Ann Cornell as Judge of Needlework at the State Fair; news of deaths, women's fashions, family life, health, homes, and crops.
Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, E.S.; Wood, Phebe; Robertson, Hiram D.; Robertson, Mary C.; Cornell, John H.; Rowell, Mary; Cornell, Mary Ann; Cornell, D.B.; Cornell, Molly; Cornell, Jane;...
Dates:
1857-12-28 - 1860-02-10