William Park Pew miscellany, 1842-1955.

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William Park Pew miscellany, 1842-1955.

Includes correspondence between Professor Riley and Pew's daughter, Mary A. Pew Emmerich of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, regarding the Pew family that settled around 1800 in what is now Ithaca, N.Y., William Pew's marriage to Caroline Dix of Ithaca, and his work in early telegraphic construction, as principal (1838-c.1852) of a Lancasterian school in Ithaca, and as the operator (1863-c.1869) of a Pennsylvania coal mine; also, reminiscences, other biographical information, a Pew family genealogy, and photographs. Tompkins County.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7887423

Cornell University Library

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Pew, William Park, 1813-1904.

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Emmerich, Mary A. Pew, 1864-1919.

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Riley, H. W. (Howard Wait), 1879-1971

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Professor of Agricultural Engineering; Chairman, New York State Committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agriculture and Rural Electric Line Conference Committee. From the description of Howard Wait Riley papers, 1924-1938. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64742276 ...

Pew family.

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Dix, Caroline Ward, 1802-1869

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