COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters and other material relating to patronage and machine politics of the Democratic Party in Seneca County; other topics include draft exemptions, laws relating to the hiring of substitutes in the Civil War, pardons, Poor House investigations, canals and canal appointments, letters concerning Governor Tilden's policies, Horatio Seymour's stand on the subject of bounties, and actions taken by the Romulus Convention (1875). Also, papers relating to the German Reformed Church at Bearytown, Seneca County, New York.
Dates
- 1820-1908.
Creator
- Willers family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Diedrich Willers Sr. was born in Germany and came to the United States after having served with the Hanoverian forces at the Battle of Waterloo. Diedrich Willers Jr. (1833-1908) was secretary of New York State (1878), and a Democratic assemblyman from Seneca County.
Extent
2.8 cubic feet.
1 folders.
Abstract
Letters and other material relating to patronage and machine politics of the Democratic Party in Seneca County.
Physical Description
Correspondence, organizational, legal and financil papers.
- Bounties, Military.
- Canals -- New York (State)
- Democratic Party (N.Y.)
- Draft -- United States.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- Patronage, Political -- New York (State) -- Seneca County.
- Political clubs -- New York (State)
- Political parties -- New York (State)
- Politicians.
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- Seneca County.
- Romulus Convention (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1875)..)
- Seneca County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Seneca County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886.
- Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Recruiting.
- Willers, Diedrich, 1798-1883.
- Willers, Diedrich, 1833-1908.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by
- 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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