COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and financial papers pertaining to a case involving the Geneva & Rushville Plank Road Company (1849-50) and other lawsuits, to the settlement of the estates of the Brackett and James families, Orpha Gates, Oren Green, John Lee, Nathan Pratt, and Royal Stearns, and to Loomis's interest in Geneva College (1827-38), now Hobart College; also, a deed (1813) for land in the town of Gorham from Ann Ellice and her children; bills and tuition and board receipts (1832-34) from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston County, New York, for Loomis's daughter, Amanda; thirty-three Civil War letters (162-64) written from various camps by his son, Charles, Morris O'Connell, Fayette Green, and other area men serving in the Union Army. Other correspondents include the Ontario County Antislavery Society, Skaneateles Antislavery Society, William Ansley, Samuel Colt, William T. Crittenden, Richard Gilbert, James Loomis, Congressman Meredith Mallory, and Augustus Torrey.
Dates
- 1813-1865.
Creator
- Loomis, Chester A., 1789-1873. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Merchant; postmaster, Rushville, New York; Associate Judge of Ontario County; New York State Senator, 1835-38.
Extent
3.6 cubic feet. (3.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and financial papers pertaining to a case involving the Geneva & Rushville Plank Road Company (1849-50) and other lawsuits, to the settlement of the estates of the Brackett and James families, Orpha Gates, Oren Green, John Lee, Nathan Pratt, and Royal Stearns, and to Loomis's interest in Geneva College (1827-38), now Hobart College; also, a deed (1813) for land in the town of Gorham from Ann Ellice and her children; bills and tuition and board receipts (1832-34) from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston County, New York, for Loomis's daughter, Amanda; thirty-three Civil War letters (162-64) written from various camps by his son, Charles, Morris O'Connell, Fayette Green, and other area men serving in the Union Army. Other correspondents include the Ontario County Antislavery Society, Skaneateles Antislavery Society, William Ansley, Samuel Colt, William T. Crittenden, Richard Gilbert, James Loomis, Congressman Meredith Mallory, and Augustus Torrey.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Letters and papers regarding land and conditions in Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Midwest
Series II. Letters and papers regarding Oren Green
Series III. Letters and Papers regarding other estates
Series IV. Political papers and letters
Series V. Letters and papers regarding legal matters
Series VI. Letters and papers regarding claims for bounty and pension from veterans of War of 1812
Series VII. Letters and papers regarding Geneva and Rushville Plank Road Company lawsuit
Series VIII. Letters and papers regarding post office
Series IX. Letters and papers regarding education
Series X. Letters from and regarding William Ansley, Fairfax County, Virginia
Series XI. Letters and accounts of Samuel Colt, Geneva (Ontario County)
Series XII. Letters from Richard Gilbert regarding sale of pews in Rushville
Series XIII. Papers regarding Rushville
Series XIV. Miscellaneous
Series XV. Soldiers' Letters Civil War
Physical Description
Correspondence, legal documents, financial records
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Susan Hough
- Date completed:
- Nov. 1962
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, February 2003
- Date Modified:
- Marcie Farwell, May 2018
- Ansley, William.
- Antimasonic Party
- Antislavery movements.
- Bank of the United States
- Businessmen.
- Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862.
- Crittenden, William T.
- Freemasonry.
- Gates, Orpha.
- Genessee Wesleyan Seminary (Lima, N.Y.)
- Geneva College (N.Y.)
- Geneva and Rushville Plank Road Company
- Gilbert, Richard, 1794-1852.
- Green, Fayette.
- Green, Oren.
- Judges.
- Lee, John.
- Loomis, Amanda.
- Loomis, Charles A.
- Loomis, James.
- Mallory, Meredith.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- O\'Connell, Morris.
- Ontario County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Ontario County Antislavery Society
- Politicians.
- Postmasters.
- Pratt, Nathan.
- Real property, Exchange of -- Michigan.
- Real property, Exchange of -- Wisconsin.
- Skaneateles Antislavery Society
- Stearns, Royal.
- Temperance.
- Torrey, Augustus.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Veterans -- United States.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Susan Hough
- Date
- October 27, 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu