COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters to Cady relate to sheep raising, wool sales, lumbering, farm machinery, land sales, legislative issues including civil and criminal codes, free common schools, an agricultural college, the Sodus Canal, telegraphy, temperance, and family matters. There are also deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems. Correspondents include Jedediah Barber, Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Henry W. Sage, Josiah B. Williams, and others.
Dates
- 1801-1857.
Creator
- Cady, Elias W., 1792- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Farmer.
Farmer in Dryden, New York and New York assemblyman, 1850 and 1857.
Extent
54 items. (54 items.)
Abstract
Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.
Physical Description
Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and manuscripts.
- Agricultural colleges.
- Barber, Jedediah, 1787-1876.
- Canals.
- Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
- Deeds.
- Dryden (N.Y.)
- Inventories.
- Logging.
- Lumbering.
- McGraw, John, 1815-1877.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- Poems.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Sage, Henry W. (Henry Williams), 1814-1897.
- Sermons.
- Sheep.
- Telegraph.
- Temperance.
- Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2016
- 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
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