COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies; also, records (1930-1935) relating to Hitchings's tenure as a member and as president of the Board of Education of Onondaga Centralized School District #1, his correspondence with the Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County (ca. 1923-1927), and speeches he gave before farm groups. Hitchings family papers include an autobiographical sketch; an unpublished manuscript by his brother, Harold Ramsdell Hitchings; a diary (1884) of his father, Grant G. Hitchings; genealogical information; and other items relating to the family farm at South Onondaga, New York, including general farm and orchard accounts (41 vols., 1808-1926), labor reports (2 vols., 1910-1911), and records of a sod mulch and cultivated orchard experiment (3 vols., 1904-1914).
Dates
- 1808-1959,-1870-1945 (bulk)
Creator
- Hitchings, Raymond Clark, 1892- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Agricultural consultant.
Extent
4 cubic feet. (4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Accounts, correspondence, and financial and legal records relating to Hitchings's various positions as an officer and employee of the Co-operative Grange League Federation Exchange (ca. 1920-1928) and as a consultant and officer in various agricultural agencies; also, other personal and family papers.
Physical Description
Accounts, correspondence, financial and legal records, speeches, genealogical information, farm records, and other papers.
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
- Date completed:
- June 1969
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, January 2018
- Accounts.
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County
- Autobiographies.
- Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange
- Diaries.
- Farmers.
- Farms.
- Genealogies.
- Hitchings family.
- Hitchings, Grant G.
- Hitchings, Harold Ramsdell.
- Mulching.
- Onondaga Centralized School District #1
- Orchards -- New York (State)
- Speeches.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- May 2004
- 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