Douglass Boardman papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 435

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School. Correspondents include Henry Williams Sage, Charles Kendall Adams, Charles Avery Collin, Francis Miles Finch, Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Henry Thurston, Daniel L. Follett, Lucien A. Wait, Herbert Tuttle, Arthur M. Curtis, Alfred C. Coxe, and H. J. Heath. Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890.

Also, legal papers of Boardman and Finch, and of Douglass Boardman of Ithaca; chiefly concerns mortgages, with reference to McGregor and Tenny, and Erastus W. Drury of Milwaukee, the Lewis Investment Company, the Topeka Investment and Loan Company, the Kansas City Investment Company, Rochelle National Bank, the Kansas Loan and Trust Company, the Dwight Farm and Loan Company, the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, and Woodward Brothers.

Also, Boardman family correspondence and deeds, mortgages, and other legal papers,including two letters from Boardman to Dr. Henry Spence.

Also, correspondence, business and legal papers concerning the Jennie McGraw Fiske estate, including correspondence with Boardman pertaining to Andrew Dickson White and Cornell University, and John McGraw.

Dates

1839-1891.

Creator

Boardman, Douglass, 1822-1891. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawyer, judge, professor of law.

Douglass Boardman graduated from Yale in 1842 and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced law in Ithaca, New York. From 1848-1851 he served as District Attorney of Tompkins County, New York, and from 1852-1856 was County Judge. In 1856 he and Judge Francis M. Finch formed a law partnership which continued until 1866 when Boardman was elected a justice of the Supreme Court for the 6th district. He was a director of the First National Bank of Ithaca from its organization in 1864 and became its president in 1884; became a trustee of Cornell University in 1875; and was appointed Dean when the Cornell Law School was organized. Judge Boardman retired from the Supreme Court in 1887, and died in 1891.

Extent

8.3 cubic feet. (8.3 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Letters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School. Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890.

RELATED MATERIALS

Consists of collections #18-1-2004, #435, and #1622.

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Kingsley, Sidney. Men in White. Signed by the author.
The Playground. v.13, no.2,4,9 (1919)
The New Yorker. October 2, 1954.
Hatch, Emily Gilchriest, 1897-. On the road to market. Trivandrum : Keston House, 1938.
The Public Speaking Review. Public Speaking Conference of New England and the North Atlantic States.
The Speech Teacher. v.5, no.3 (september 1956).
World premieres : monthly bulletin of the International Theatre Institute. International Theatre Institute. v.1, no.3-6 (1949-1950).

Physical Description

Correspondence and a lecture.

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:: RMC Staff
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, 2008
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, April 2018