McCall family papers, 1749-1942.

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McCall family papers, 1749-1942.

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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.

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