Williams family papers, 1809-1952.

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Williams family papers, 1809-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074977

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal. Papers of Mary Hardy Williams, wife of Josiah B., contain personal correspondence, a diary, bills of H. S. Williams (1900-1911) social notes, clippings, and family accounts, 1824-1905. Papers of Augusta H. Williams, daughter of Josiah B., contain personal correspondence, accounts, and business papers, 1879-1948. Papers of Henry Shaler Williams, son of Josiah B., geologist, containing lecture and research notes used at Cornell and Yale Universities; professional correspondence and scrapbooks of photographs and clippings; articles and manuscripts for publication; photographs, maps, and plates; and miscellaneous printed matter, ca. 1864-1917. Also includes H. S. Williams' personal and household bills (1900-1911). Subjects include geology and politics. Includes Ithaca to Owego geological observations, July 21, 1885, and miscellaneous H. S. Williams items. The collection also includes miscellaneous papers of Charlotte, Jane, Ella, and Otis Williams and Louisa, Jane, and Charles Elias Hardy, and contains photographs of the Williams family as well as genealogical information. Plans by William Henry Miller for the Williams residence.

102.6 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Yale University.

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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 ...

Williams, Ella.

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Williams, Otis, active 1869-1892

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Hardy, Jane L.

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Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883

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Williams, Augusta H., 1852-1952

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Ithaca Cotton Mills (N.Y.)

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Hardy, Charles Elias.

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Cornell University

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Miller, William Henry, 1848-1922

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The Sigma Chi, Alpha Phi Chapter House at Cornell University is at 106 Cayuga Heights Rd., Ithaca, New York. From the description of William Henry Miller Sigma Chi architectural drawings, ca.1900. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074413 Architect. William Henry Miller was an Ithaca, New York architect. He designed several Cornell University buildings, including Uris Library. He was a member of the Cornell Class of 1872. ...

Williams, Charlotte

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Merchants and Farmers' Bank.

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Williams family.

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Henry Shaler Williams (1847-1918) was a paleontologist, professor of paleontology and geology at Cornell 1879-1892, 1904-1912, and Yale University, 1892-1904; founder of Sigma Xi Society. From the description of Williams family papers, 1809-1952. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074977 ...

Ithaca and Owego Rail Road Company

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Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

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Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, was formed in 1886 at Cornell University as an honor society for science and engineering; the original founders of Sigma Xi were members of the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering at the university. Moving beyond the Society's early intention of fostering companionship, Sigma Xi has since evolved to offer the sciences a strong, unified voice in support of scientific advancement and achievement. From the description of Sigma Xi, The Scie...

Williams, Jane

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New-York and Erie Telegraph Company

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Ovid Academy (N.Y.)

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Cornell University. Dept. of Geology.

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Hardy, Louisa.

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Williams, Mary Hardy, 1824-1911

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