1813-1865.

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1813-1865.

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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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Antimasonic Party

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Bank of the United States.

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Green, Oren.

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Stearns, Royal.

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Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862

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Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor and industrialist, was founder of the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company. From the description of Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581278 ...

Ansley, William.

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Skaneateles Antislavery Society.

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Ontario County Antislavery Society.

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Torrey, Augustus.

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Geneva and Rushville Plank Road Company.

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Crittenden, William T.

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Genessee Wesleyan Seminary (Lima, N.Y.)

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O'Connell, Morris.

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Mallory, Meredith

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Green, Fayette.

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Gates, Orpha.

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Loomis, Chester A., 1789-1873

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Merchant; postmaster, Rushville, New York; Associate Judge of Ontario County; New York State Senator, 1835-38. From the description of Chester Loomis papers, 1813-1865. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934431 ...

Loomis, Amanda.

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Gilbert, Richard, PhD

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Epithet: printer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000625.0x000042 ...

Loomis, Charles A.

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Lee, John Rafter

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Epithet: of Add MS 34808 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x00028a Epithet: surveyor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x00029d Epithet: of Alder. . . British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000700.0x000182 Epithet: of London B...

Geneva College (N.Y.)

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Loomis, James

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Chester, Loomis 1789-1873.

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Merchant; postmaster, Rushville, New York; Associate Judge of Ontario County; New York State Senator, 1835-38. From the guide to the, 1813-1865., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Pratt, Nathan.

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