Papers, c.1849-1925.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, c.1849-1925.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476439785

Papers, correspondence, account books, genealogical material and printed matter of various members of the Lefferts family of New York City and Long Island. In particular, the papers relate to Marshall Lefferts, his wife, Mary Allen Lefferts, their sons, Marshall Clifford and William Henry Lefferts, and William Henry's wife, Edith Crane Lefferts, and their son Barent Lefferts. The papers of Marshall Lefferts contain material relating to his involvement with the telegraph and the English telegrapher, Alexander Bain (1850s); his interest in the Peekskill (N.Y.) Plow Works and in Mount Florence, the Peekskill estate of Daniel H. Craig (1860s-1870s); and papers pertaining to his part in obtaining an British patent for Thomas A. Edison's "Electric Pen and Duplicating Press," including several letters of Edison (1876). There are also papers reflecting Lefferts' interest in the Equitable Gas Light & Construction Co. of N.Y.C. and in umbrella tip fasteners invented by Robert Lublinski of Great Britain. In addition there are letters, 1870s, to William Henry Lefferts from family and business associates in N.Y.C. while he was in China & Japan; papers relating to the estates of William Henry & Edith Crane Lefferts; genealogical material on the Lefferts, Crane and Cozine families ; and papers of the Wetherill family of Pennsylvania, especially material relating to the Civil War service of the Rev. Joseph Wetherill as well as several letters to him from Morgan Dix.

c. 1,000 items and 20 v.

New-York Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7583102

New-York Historical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 19 Entities related to this resource.

Lefferts, Marshall, 1821-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw7f8p (person)

Cozine family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w9ph0 (family)

Dix, Morgan, 1827-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kk9j91 (person)

Episcopal clergyman, theologian, and author; associated with Trinity Church, New York, N.Y., for over 50 years. From the description of Morgan Dix letter to H. H. Boyeson [manuscript], 1882 October 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 469622379 American clergyman. From the description of Clipped signature : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565859 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Rectory [New York], to ...

Peekskill Plow Works.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68409bw (corporateBody)

Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg2gd3 (person)

President of the Celluloid Company, New York; book collector. From the description of TLS : New York, to Francis Rawle, 1910 May 3. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610906 ...

Lefferts family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x15fxx (family)

Crane family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bd36fh (family)

Craig, Daniel H. 1814-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f807jp (person)

Lefferts, Mary Allen, 1826-1883.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p6vzp (person)

Bain, Alexander, 1810-1877

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rv4hkm (person)

Lublinski, Robert.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63j77s4 (person)

Lefferts, William Henry, d. 1919.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh4h3b (person)

Brown, James Barrett, 1899-1971

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j12wmq (person)

James Barrett Brown, plastic surgeon, M.D. Washington University (St. Louis, MO), 1923. Professor of Clinical Surgery, Washington University, Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery, Washington University School of Dentistry. Chief of Plastic Surgery Barnes Hospital, St. Louis Children?s Hospital and Washington University Clinic. Brown was a pioneer in the development of plastic surgery in the United States during the early and mid 20th century. From the description of Papers, 1920-1970. ...

Lefferts, Edith Crane.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt5mnq (person)

Wetherill, Joseph Bloomfield, 1835-1886.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xh3krd (person)

Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66z0150 (person)

Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

Lefferts, Barent.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6255cn4 (person)

Equitable Gas Light & Construction Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx41r0 (corporateBody)

Wetherill family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s84q9z (family)