Christina M. Cantine papers, 1819-1887.

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Christina M. Cantine papers, 1819-1887.

Letters to members of the Williams and Cantine families of Ithaca, New York, especially Christine M. Cantine, and to members of the Van Buren family of Kinderhook; also a few pieces of poetry, invitations, announcements, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous papers. Letters include two from Martin Van Buren, including one about the life of his brother-in-law Moses I. Cantine (1774-1823), editor of THE ALBANY ARGUS and a political supporter; letters of Moses I. Cantine to his daughter Christina; and letters from Henry Shaler Williams and Roger B. Williams to their mother about life at Yale College and the faculty there, family news, education, and religion.

.3 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910345

Cornell University Library

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Williams, Roger B. (Roger Bennett)

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Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918

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Geologist and paleontologist, who taught at Cornell University from 1879-1892, then at Yale until 1904, and then at Cornell again from 1904-1912. He retired in 1912. From the description of Henry Shaler Williams anatomical drawings, 1912. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 70687042 ...

Van Buren family.

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Williams family.

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Cantine, Christina M.

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Cantine family.

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Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Cantine, Moses I.

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Yale College

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