COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers concerned principally with elections in the 25th Congressional District of New York (Cayuga County) in 1850; Morgan's platform included high protectionism, free soil, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law; he was defeated by Thomas Y. How, the Loco-Foco candidate. Includes material on the Whig nominating convention in Homer, details of the campaign, and Morgan's defeat. Also, material relating to Cornell University and to Wells College and Aurora, New York; later papers deal with state and national politics and the 1852 elections. Also includes letters from Horace Greeley, William Seward, Ezra Cornell, Edward Selkreg, Joseph Esty, Henry Morghan, and local politicians.
Dates
- 1840-1888.
Creator
- Morgan, Edwin Barber. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Whig Congressman, elected in 1852.
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers concerned principally with elections in the 25th Congressional District of New York (Cayuga County) in 1850; Morgan's platform included high protectionism, free soil, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law; he was defeated by Thomas Y. How, the Loco-Foco candidate.
Physical Description
Correspondence, tallies, votes, minutes, news clippings, broadsides, 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
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2004
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, October 2018
- Aurora (N.Y.) -- History.
- Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Congressmen.
- Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
- Esty, Joseph.
- Free Soil Party (N.Y.)
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
- How, Thomas Y.
- Morgan, Henry.
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State).
- Protectionism -- United States.
- Selkreg, Edward.
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
- United States (Title of work: Fugitive slave law (1850)..)
- Wells College
- Wells, Henry.
- Whig Party (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- March 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