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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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, 1813-1865.

Title: 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 thetown 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.

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Shelton, William, 1798-1883. William Shelton letters : Buffalo, to Benjamin Hale and Sir John Seymour, 1849, 1861.

Title: William Shelton letters : Buffalo, to Benjamin Hale and Sir John Seymour, 1849, 1861.

Letter to Rev. Benjamin Hale, president of Geneva College, 17 Aug. 1849, enclosing one hundred dollars toward the Hobart professorship and congratulating Hale on his work, with news of the cholera in Buffalo; and partial letter to Sir John Seymour, 24 Dec. 1861, expressing concern over England's reaction to the capture of envoys James Mason and John Slidell by Capt. Charles Wilkes.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

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Hale, Benjamin, 1797-1863. Notebook of miscellaneous correspondence : letterbooks, 1847-1851 / [assembled by Benjamin Hale].

Title: Notebook of miscellaneous correspondence : letterbooks, 1847-1851 / [assembled by Benjamin Hale].

Letters, etc., pertaining to Geneva College and Hobart Free College, collected and/or copied, including notes added, by the college president, Benjamin Hale.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 20 cm.

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Milledoler, Philip, 1775-1852. Papers, 1785-1857.

Title: Papers, 1785-1857.

Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, sermons, estate papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, and autobiographical and theological writings, 1785-1857, of Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed clergyman and educator Philip Milledoler of New York and New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 linear ft. (6 boxes)

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Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. Letter, 1829.

Title: Letter, 1829.

Collection consists of one business letter from Horace Webster (1794-1871), professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Geneva College (now Hobart College), Geneva, N.Y., to Partridge, discussing the college and Partridge's plan for establishing a military academy in N.C.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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De Zeng family. Papers, 1770-1925 (bulk 1770-1870).

Title: Papers, 1770-1925 (bulk 1770-1870).

The collection documents the affairs and genealogy of this extended family, and provides information on the history of upstate New York, including field notes (by Seth Pease and Mr. Stoddard) surveying land west of the Genesee River (1772-1843). Of special interest: physician's notebook of medical formulae(1729-1734); list of masonic lodges until 1735; diary kept by James Reynolds during 1772 sea voyage aboard the ship, Mary and Elizabeth (James Sparks, captain) with a reference to John Woolman, a passenger; an account of scalpings by Seneca Indians during the Revolutionary War; drawings by Dr. Edward Cutbush (1787) and by his father, a shipyard carver; log kept by Capt. George W. Endicott (1836) aboard his ship, the Eunomus, on a voyage from Boston to Rio de Janeiro. Also, an article by F.L. Pleadwell (Annals of Medical History, 1923) describing the life and writings of Dr. Edward Cutbush (1772-1843). Papers include letters of Aaron Burr, Robert Morris, Thomas Morris and Henry R. Schoolcraft.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

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Platt, G. Lewis (George Lewis), 1819-1900. Diary, 1839-1842, 1846-1847.

Title: Diary, 1839-1842, 1846-1847.

Diary, 1839-1842 and 1846-1847, of Episcopal clergyman George Lewis Platt, kept while a student at Geneva College, an instructor at a Geneva boys school, a tutor in Charleston, South Carolina; and a teacher in a parochial school for boys in Syracuse, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (268 p.)

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Hale, Benjamin. Letters, 1848-1850.

Title: Letters, 1848-1850.

Letters, 1848 July 28 and 1850 July 29. The first is from Protestant Episcopal Bishop N.H. Cobb, in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala., to Hale, at Geneva College in Geneva, N.Y. In it is discussed a recommendation of a young man, unnamed, that Hale made to Cobbs. The second letter is from James H. Fisher, near Selma, Dallas Co., Ala., to Hale, at Geneva College. In this letter Fisher discussed his receipt of the A.M. degree from Geneva College, his new appointment to teach at the church school, unnamed, at Tuscaloosa, his present job of tutoring the sons of the planter C.H. Cleveland, the sickness at the plantation, the presence of cotton worms, and the "sullen gloom" in Ala. caused by the national political crisis over slavery.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Hobart Free College. House of Convocation. Committee on Deceased Members. Deceased alumni of Hobart Free College / [Special Committee, House of Convocation, Hobart Free College ; compiled by Henry Gregory, recording secretary].

Title: Deceased alumni of Hobart Free College / [Special Committee, House of Convocation, Hobart Free College ; compiled by Henry Gregory, recording secretary]. [1858-1876?]

As recording secretary for the House of Convocation of Hobart Free College, Henry Gregory copied by hand the first fifteen entries of deceased alumni from notices received from the Committee. Entries span the history of the college through its various name changes as: Geneva Academy, Geneva College, Hobart Free College, and Hobart College.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (215 p.) ; 21 cm.

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