COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers consist of business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements; land and title searches with accompanying maps of areas in Tompkins, Allegheny, Broome, Cattaraugus, Schuyler and Wayne Counties. Includes material concerning the acquisition of lands for Allegheny State Park, Adirondack Park and the Connecticut Hill Fish and Game Refuge. Game refuge files contain deeds and papers pertaining to Cornell University.
Dates
- 1890-1932.
Creator
- Howard, Marshall P. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Marshall P. Howard was a Binghamton, New York attorney and title examiner for the state attorney general, ca.1900 through ca.1920.
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers consist of business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements; land and title searches with accompanying maps of areas in Tompkins, Allegheny, Broome, Cattaraugus, Schuyler and Wayne Counties. Includes material concerning the acquisition of lands for Allegheny State Park, Adirondack Park and the Connecticut Hill Fish and Game Refuge. Game refuge files contain deeds and papers pertaining to Cornell University.
Physical Description
Business and personal correspondence; account books; deeds; estate settlements and maps.
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:
- C.H. Rote
- Date completed:
- July 1973
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2003
- Adirondack Park (N.Y.).
- Allegheny County (N.Y.)
- Allegheny State Park (N.Y.).
- Broome County (N.Y.)
- Cattaraugus County (N.Y.)
- Connecticut Hill Fish and Game Refuge (N.Y.).
- Deeds.
- Estates (Law).
- Land titles -- Registration and transfer.
- Land titles.
- Maps.
- Parks -- New York (State).
- Schuyler County (N.Y.)
- Title examinations.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.)
- Wayne County (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by C.H. Rote
- Date
- May 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