Van Cleef family papers, 1841-1935.

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Van Cleef family papers, 1841-1935.

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The papers of the Van Cleef family of Ithaca, New York, include a history of Jan Van Cleef and his descendents (1909). Financial records and contracts of Alexander Van Cleef the father of Mynderse Van Cleef are contained within this collection. Most of the Van Cleef family papers contain Mynderse's correspondence, briefs, Supreme Court documents, court case materials, agreements, accounts, memoranda, printed items, and other materials concerning estate settlements of Joseph Esty, Leonard Treman, and others, property transferals, and various business concerns, including the Lyceum Theatre Company, the Ithaca Independent Telephone Company, the Ulysses Light Company of Trumansburg, New York, the Ovid Light Company, the Associated Gas and Electric Company, the Cayuga Power Corporation; the Ithaca Street Railway Company, and the Ithaca Water Works, Cayuga Lake Cement Corporation as well as Van Cleef's relations with Eastern investors and Western land agents, his election to and service on the Cornell University Board of Trustees, and his donation of a bandstand to the village of Seneca Falls (1924) as a memorial to Lawrence Van Cleef; Mynderse Van Cleef's notes on Andrew Dickson White's modern history lectures (1872-73) and photograph albums of Cornell students and faculty (1870s); five scrapbooks (1900-13) of Eugenia and Jeannette Van Cleef containing personal mementoes reflecting social life at Ithaca High School and Cornell, and. And other memorabilia; personal and family papers, including estate papers of Elizabeth Van Cleef; correspondence, letter book, receipts, and estate papers of Frederick Lovejoy; drawings of Kappa Alpha fraternity; and blueprints. Also, vouchers for construction of Van Cleef residence; correspondence can be found from Mynderse Van Cleef to and from Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Dickson White, Charles Blood, C.E. Treman and other important government leaders, representatives and businessmen; letters to M. Van Cleef from Albert Mann, Dean of Cornell Universityns College of Agriculture concerning Cornell University court cases; a 1919 letter between Dean Mann, President J. G. Schurman and Mynderse Van Cleef discussing the proposed separation of the College of Home Economics as a separate school within Cornell; letters from Martha Van Rensselaer can also be found within this collection.

40 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910672

Cornell University Library

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Ovid Light Company.

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Cayuga Power Corp.

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Associated Glass and Electric Company.

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Treman, Leonard.

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Van Cleef family.

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Mynderse Van Cleef was born in Seneca Falls, NY on August 29, 1853. His parents were Alexander and Jane E. Van Cleef. Mynderse's great-grandfather was Lawrence Van Cleef, who was the first white child born in Seneca Falls. Mynderse Van Cleef studied at the Ithaca Academy, in Ithaca, NY and was a proud 1874, graduate of Cornell University. From 1875-1876 he studied law at Columbia University and was admitted to the Bar in 1876. On Dec. 21, 1882 he married Elizabeth Lovejoy Treman. Ar...

Van Cleef, Jan.

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Cornell University

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Van Cleef, Jeannette.

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White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918

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The second International Peace Conference was held at the Hague in 1907. From the description of Hague Peace Conference documents, 1907. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64052217 Ambassador to Russia; first president of Cornell University. From the description of Andrew Dickson White papers, 1901-1902. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155410378 Andrew Dickson White was born at Homer, New York, November 7, 1832. ...

Van Cleef, Elizabeth Lovejoy.

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Lovejoy, Frederick H.

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Physician and genealogist, of Farmington, Me. From the description of Frederick Lovejoy genealogical papers, ca. 1930-1972. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 79461871 ...

Van Cleef, Alexander.

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Ithaca Independent Telephone Company.

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Ithaca Street Railway Company.

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Van Cleef, Eugenia.

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Ithaca High School (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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Cornell University. Board of Trustees

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Frank Woods, Thomas Reed, and J. Dennis Malone, Cornell University alumni and owners of Clos du Bois Wines, donated 1,600 cases of pinot noir wine to the University in 1981. It was first served at a Board of Trustees Council dinner, October 30, 1981. From the description of Council dinner wine bottle, 1978. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073841 ...

Lyceum Theatre Company.

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Esty, Joseph.

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Joseph Esty lived in Ithaca, NY. From the description of Expense book, 1864-1873. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122397591 ...

Ulysses Light Company.

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Kappa Alpha Society. Cornell Chapter

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Ithaca Water Works Co.

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Van Cleef, Mynderse, 1853-1935

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