COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, and other papers largely relating to Rogers' interests in banking affairs, the industrial development of central New York, and land and railroad investments. Includes letters and papers of Rogers' son, Charles Butler Rogers, and material relating to the Central Railroad of Iowa, the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, Hamilton College, the Iowa Valley Construction Company, the Oswego River Starch Company, the Patent Cereals Company of Geneva, New York, the Remington Armory at Ilion, New York, the Utica Steam Cotton Mills, and the Utica Steam Woolen Mills. Other topics include merchandizing, dairy farming, travel description, gold mining in Colorado, student life in Germany at the Koniglichen Friedrich-Willelms Universitat, hospitals, charitable institutions, and art; Correspondents include Isaac M. Cate, William W. Crapo, William H. Ferry, George S. Goodale, H. C. Potter, JohnH. Prentiss, F. W. H. Sheffield, Breese Stevens, and Anson J. Upson.
Dates
- 1843-1918.
Creator
- Rogers, Publius Virgilius. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Lawyer and bank president in Utica, New York.
Extent
9.9 cubic feet. (9.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, and other papers largely relating to Rogers' interests in banking affairs, the industrial development of central New York, and land and railroad investments; also, letters and papers concerning his son and family.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Pamphlets Boxes 1-4, 26
Series II. Volumes, Ledgers, and Books Boxes 4-6, 25-27
Series III. Correspondence Boxes 7-22, 26
Series IV. Miscellaneous Boxes 6, 23-24, 26
Physical Description
Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, 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
- Compiled by:
- Tom CulbertsonCharles H. RoteKathleen Jacklin
- Date completed:
- December 1975March 1981
- EAD encoding:
- Ann Hubert, March 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- Account books.
- Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Utica.
- Cate, Isaac M.
- Central Railroad of Iowa
- Charities.
- Crapo, William W.
- Dairy farming -- New York (State)
- Ferry, William H.
- Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad
- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin
- Gold mines and mining -- Colorado.
- Goodale, George S.
- Hamilton College
- Hospitals.
- Industrialization -- New York (State)
- Iowa Valley Construction Company
- Lawyers -- New York (State) -- Utica.
- Nebraska -- Description and travel.
- Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Oswego River Starch Company
- Patent Cereals Company
- Potter, H. C.
- Prentiss, F. W. H.
- Railroads -- Iowa.
- Railroads -- Michigan.
- Real property -- New York (State)
- Remington Armory (Ilion, N.Y.)
- Rogers, Charles Butler.
- Rogers, Publius Virgilius.
- Stevens, Breese.
- Universities and colleges -- Germany.
- Upson, Anson J.
- Utica Steam Cotton Mills (N.Y.)
- Utica Steam Woolen Mills (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Tom Culbertson, Chales H. Rote, Kathleen Jacklin
- 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