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Loomis, Charles A. Charles A. Loomis papers, 1806-1898.

Title: Charles A. Loomis papers, 1806-1898.

Diary (1806-1815) and a journal (1825) written by Chester Loomis includes comments on the War of 1812 and other current affairs and describes life in the midwest; copybooks of Benjamin Loomis, brother of Chester; and letters of Charles Loomis, including letters from Ansel J. McCall whom he appointed to handle his business affairs in the Steuben County area.

ArchivalResource: 469 pieces.

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Loomis, Chester A., 1789-1873. Chester Loomis papers, 1813-1865.

Title: Chester Loomis papers, 1813-1865.

Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and financial papers pertaining to a case involving the Geneva & Rushville Plank Road Company (1849-50) and other lawsuits, to the settlement of the estates of the Brackett and James families, Orpha Gates, Oren Green, John Lee, Nathan Pratt, and Royal Stearns, and to Loomis's interest in Geneva College (1827-38), now Hobart College; also, a deed (1813) for land in the town of Gorham from Ann Ellice and her children; bills and tuition and board receipts (1832-34) from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston County, New York, for Loomis's daughter, Amanda; thirty-three Civil War letters (162-64) written from various camps by his son, Charles, Morris O'Connell, Fayette Green, and other area men serving in the Union Army. Other correspondents include the Ontario County Antislavery Society, Skaneateles Antislavery Society, William Ansley, Samuel Colt, William T. Crittenden, Richard Gilbert, James Loomis, Congressman Meredith Mallory, and Augustus Torrey.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 cubic ft.

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McCall family. McCall family papers, 1749-1942.

Title: McCall family papers, 1749-1942.

Family papers include correspondence and diaries of Ansel James McCall (1816-1898), lawyer from Bath, Steuben County, N.Y. Correspondence is for the most part with friends from Hamilton and Union College, including James F. Chamberlain, James S. McLaury, and Charles A. Loomis. Correspondence comments on Hamilton and Union Colleges, Democratic politics, plans for western colonization, the Anti-rent War, and other topics of contemporary interest. Early family documents include deeds and wills, and a diary and account book of Ancel McCall, father of Ansel James (d. 1815) concerning early years near Ovid and Bath, N.Y. Diaries of Ansel James McCall cover his years at college, various summer trips to the midwest and to Washington, a trip to California during the Gold Rush, and a trip to Europe in 1848. Other diaries include those of James McCall (son of Ansel J.) while a student at Cornell University in the 1880s; one of Sophia McCall (daughter of Ansel J.); one of James F. Chamberlain's visit to Lake Superior in 1855. There is also an undated history of the family by James McCall, uncle of Ansel J., written during the latter part of his life. Also, a volume of newspaper clippings from the Civil War period, including many anti-Lincoln articles and the text of speeches and editorials by various public figures, including Horace Greeley and Gerrit Smith. Pages 73-88 consist of manuscript notes and quotations from speeches by Senator Rufus Choate and from an editorial by Horace Greeley. Leather bound with spine title: Cash book.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft.

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