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Smith, Lewis E., 1812-1904. Letter, from Douglass Boardman, 1869.

Title: Letter, from Douglass Boardman, 1869.

Letter from Douglass Boardman to Lewis E. Smith of Rochester, New York, addressed to "Dear Brother," dated October 30, 1869.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072389 View

Robinson family. Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.

Title: Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.

Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice of James Richards Robinson (1885-1953); letters from constituents and special interest groups, copies of bills and hearings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered letters and pamphlets relating to his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston, Schuyler County. A stock ledger, subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the Danby Telephone Co., ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and photographs from Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr. Robinson's father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County, which include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements and bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts, 1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic Temple in Ithaca.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074501 View

Robertson family papers, 1820-1907.

Title: Robertson family papers, 1820-1907.

Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale University, and while traveling to Washington, D.C.; a painting by F. E. Robertson (brother of Mary "Grandma" Moses). Robertson family genealogy; also material on related families, including Bishop, Brown, Houtz, King, Snyder, Teeter, and Wood.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM00243.xml View

Manuscript collections, 1818-1905, 1818-1887 (bulk)

Title: Manuscript collections, 1818-1905, 1818-1887 (bulk)

Ezra Cornell papers include minutes of a citizens' meeting (February 5, 1863), at which Cornell's proposal for building the Cornell Public Library was considered, and letters to Cornell, 1863-1874, from William Hodgins, the library architect, and John Henry Selkreg, Francis Miles Finch, and others concerning the operation of the library; records of the Ithaca & Owego Railroad, 1834-1845, later the Cayuga Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, include a letter from William Ross Humphrey to his father, Charles Humphrey, discussing some of the problems that were faced in starting the railroad, correspondence, financial statements, vouchers, bonds, and minutes of Board of Directors' meetings; land records include War of 1812, Black Hawk, and Seminole Wars bounty warrants, 1851-1864 and letters patent for lands in Illinois and Dakota Territory, 1818-1887; records concerning the Edward H. Rulloff murder trial and appeal, 1847-1860, include copies of indictments, briefs, notes on the selection of jurors, testimony, writs of error, New York State Supreme Court opinions, and letters from Rulloff to Douglass Boardman and Francis Miles Finch; the "Nautical Journal from River Plate [La Plata] to Pacific Ocean on Board Brig Laura of Salem" (ca. 150 pp.) contains a narrative of John Holman's voyage along the coast of South America, 1822-1824, and includes a sketch of the LAURA laying to off Cape Horn in a tremendous gale.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02594.xml View

Douglass Boardman papers, 1839-1891.

Title: Douglass Boardman papers, 1839-1891.

Letters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School. Correspondents include Henry Williams Sage, Charles Kendall Adams, Charles Avery Collin, Francis Miles Finch, Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Henry Thurston, Daniel L. Follett, Lucien A. Wait, Herbert Tuttle, Arthur M. Curtis, Alfred C. Coxe, and H. J. Heath. Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01622.xml View

Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.

Title: Robinson family papers, 1868-1950.

Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and related papers dealing with the law practice of James Richards Robinson (1885-1953); letters from constituents and special interest groups, copies of bills and hearings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to his service as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1923-1936; scattered letters and pamphlets relating to his early Pesbyterian pastorate at Weston, Schuyler County. A stock ledger, subscribers' list, and advertising cuts of the Danby Telephone Co., ca.1912-1926, and broadsides, trade cards, pamphlets, and photographs from Ithaca, New York and elsewhere. Also papers, 1868-1881, of Mr. Robinson's father, James, Sr., principal of Southold Academy, Suffolk County, which include letters, a roll book, a student petition, school announcements and bills, manuscript orations and essays; personal and household accounts, 1868-1880; a scrapbook and estate settlement papers of Douglass Boardman, a distant relative of James Robinson; and blueprints (1922-1926) of the Masonic Temple in Ithaca.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01960.xml View

McGraw family papers, 1854-1956.

Title: McGraw family papers, 1854-1956.

Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Major correspondents and persons figuring prominently in the collection include Douglass Boardman, J. W. Dwight, Willard Fiske, Mary Celestia McGraw, John Ellis Southworth, and Anna Gauntlett Whitcomb.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02355.xml View

Cornell Public Library (Ithaca, N.Y.),. Cornell Public Library manuscript collections, 1818-1905, 1818-1887 (bulk).

Title: Cornell Public Library manuscript collections, 1818-1905, 1818-1887 (bulk).

Ezra Cornell papers include minutes of a citizens' meeting (February 5, 1863), at which Cornell's proposal for building the Cornell Public Library was considered, and letters to Cornell, 1863-1874, from William Hodgins, the library architect, and John Henry Selkreg, Francis Miles Finch, and others concerning the operation of the library; records of the Ithaca & Owego Railroad, 1834-1845, later the Cayuga Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, include a letter from William Ross Humphrey to his father, Charles Humphrey, discussing some of the problems that were faced in starting the railroad, correspondence, financial statements, vouchers, bonds, and minutes of Board of Directors' meetings; land records include War of 1812, Black Hawk, and Seminole Wars bounty warrants, 1851-1864 and letters patent for lands in Illinois and Dakota Territory, 1818-1887; records concerning the Edward H. Rulloff murder trial and appeal, 1847-1860, include copies of indictments, briefs, notes on the selection of jurors, testimony, writs of error, New York State Supreme Court opinions, and letters from Rulloff to Douglass Boardman and Francis Miles Finch; the "Nautical Journal from River Plate [La Plata] to Pacific Ocean on Board Brig Laura of Salem" (ca. 150 pp.) contains a narrative of John Holman's voyage along the coast of South America, 1822-1824, and includes a sketch of the LAURA laying to off Cape Horn in a tremendous gale. Also, cipher book of John Munson, ca. 1807; two letters from Lyman C. Draper to members of the Cantine family concerning their family history, 1878, and other Cantine items, 1822; thirty pencil drawings by Mary Hibbard; and miscellaneous manuscripts,and newspapers and printed items relating to Ithaca and Tompkins County. 1824 cider mill accounts, and miscellaneous bills, checks, envelopes, insurance policy, pamphlets, etc.

ArchivalResource: 216 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938863 View

Boardman, Douglass, 1822-1891. Douglass Boardman papers, 1839-1891.

Title: Douglass Boardman papers, 1839-1891.

Letters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School. Correspondents include Henry Williams Sage, Charles Kendall Adams, Charles Avery Collin, Francis Miles Finch, Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Henry Thurston, Daniel L. Follett, Lucien A. Wait, Herbert Tuttle, Arthur M. Curtis, Alfred C. Coxe, and H. J. Heath. Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890. Also, legal papers of Boardman and Finch, and of Douglass Boardman of Ithaca; chiefly concerns mortgages, with reference to McGregor and Tenny, and Erastus W. Drury of Milwaukee, the Lewis Investment Company, the Topeka Investment and Loan Company, the Kansas City Investment Company, Rochelle National Bank, the Kansas Loan and Trust Company, the Dwight Farm and Loan Company, the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, and Woodward Brothers. Also, Boardman family correspondence and deeds, mortgages, and other legal papers,including two letters from Boardman to Dr. Henry Spence. Also, correspondence, business and legal papers concerning the Jennie McGraw Fiske estate, including correspondence with Boardman pertaining to Andrew Dickson White and Cornell University, and John McGraw.

ArchivalResource: 8.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64691895 View

McGraw family. McGraw family papers, 1854-1956.

Title: McGraw family papers, 1854-1956.

Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Major correspondents and persons figuring prominently in the collection include Douglass Boardman, J. W. Dwight, Willard Fiske, Mary Celestia McGraw, John Ellis Southworth, and Anna Gauntlett Whitcomb. Also, a Jennie McGraw letter to her uncle, Thomas McGraw, describing the impact of the Civil War on Detroit, and mentioning mutual acquaintances involved in the struggle. Daguerreotype of Jennie McGraw Fiske. John McGraw papers refer to Cornell University lands, lands held by H. W. Sage and Company, and his own personal matters; includes Henry Williams Sage correspondence. McGraw's involvement in the lumber industry is documented by correspondence with William E. Taylor regarding lumber prices in Ontario, Canada, and by exchanges with mill operators and lumbering concerns in Ontario, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Also, prenuptial agreement between John McGraw and Phebe Jane Bates, 1861; letter and receipt to John McGraw from Archimedes Russell about stone for McGraw Hall, 1869-1870; letter from George Sidney Camp to Joseph McGraw, 1887; Christmas card with photographs of the Cornell campus and the Fiske-McGraw mansion; 10 stereoscopic views (exterior and interiors) of the McGraw-Fiske mansion; and published brochure for the executor's sale of the McGraw Fiske Estate, 1891.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft; 4 folders; 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938455 View

Robertson family. Robertson family papers, 1820-1907.

Title: Robertson family papers, 1820-1907.

Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families, dealing mostly with family matters and the migration westward of family members to Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, and California. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale University, and while traveling to Washington, D.C. Chief subjects include education, medicine, travel, and personal affairs. Correspondents include Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, and Douglass Boardman; he also describes meeting John Quincy Adams. Also, a painting by F. E. Robertson (brother of Mary "Grandma" Moses). Robertson family genealogy, including data on George Robertson (born in Scotland and lived in Dryden, New York); Smith Robertson, Hiram Robertson (husband of Mary Cornell); also material on related families, including Bishop, Brown, Houtz, King, Snyder, Teeter, and Wood.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.; 2 reels microfilm; 1 painting.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938461 View

Amdursky, Robert S. The background of and decisions in the Fiske-McGraw will suit, 1959.

Title: The background of and decisions in the Fiske-McGraw will suit, 1959.

History honors thesis written by Amdursky and submitted to Professor Paul Gates, March 1, 1959 (104 pages).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938780 View