COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other material relating to the establishment of the college in Montour Falls (then Havana), Schuyler County, New York; includes correspondence of the founder, Harrison Howard. Also records relating to administration, finance, and construction, 1856-1880, including land transactions, articles of agreement, building plans, specifications, supplies, labor, costs, and receipts; and educational papers, 1850-1864, including letters, teachers' applications, recommendations, minutes, presidents' reports, resolutions, and lists of students, faculty, and trustees. Includes a letter from Horace Greeley dated February 26, 1859 to the Treasurer of People's College. Also, John Hay, Assistant Private Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. to Charles Cooke, June 26, 1863, enclosing the Horace Greeley resolution relating to the People's College Convention. Also copy of the Horace Greeley resolution relating to The People's College Convention, November 1, 1852. Additional correspondents include Edward Hitchcock, Mark Hopkins, Theodore D. Woolsey, and the Geneva Medical College.
Dates
- 1848-1880.
Creator
- People\'s College (Montour Falls, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
1.5 cubic feet. (1.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Letters, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other material relating to the establishment of the college in Montour Falls (then Havana), Schuyler County, New York; includes correspondence of the founder, Harrison Howard. Also records relating to administration, finance, and construction, 1856-1880, including land transactions, articles of agreement, building plans, specifications, supplies, labor, costs, and receipts; and educational papers, 1850-1864, including letters, teachers' applications, recommendations, minutes, presidents' reports, resolutions, and lists of students, faculty, and trustees. Includes a letter from Horace Greeley dated February 26, 1859 to the Treasurer of People's College. Also, John Hay, Assistant Private Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. to Charles Cooke, June 26, 1863, enclosing the Horace Greeley resolution relating to the People's College Convention. Also copy of the Horace Greeley resolution relating to The People's College Convention, November 1, 1852. Additional correspondents include Edward Hitchcock, Mark Hopkins, Theodore D. Woolsey, and the Geneva Medical College.
Physical Description
Correspondence, scrapbooks, financial documents, academic 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:
- Eleanor Brown
- Date completed:
- May 2002
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, August 2003
- Cook Academy (Montour Falls, N.Y.)
- Education -- New York (State) -- Montour Falls.
- Geneva Medical College (Geneva, N.Y.)
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
- Hay, John.
- Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
- Hopkins, Mark, 1802-1887.
- Howard, Harrison.
- People\'s College (Montour Falls, N.Y.) -- : Buildings.
- Schuyler County (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Scrapbooks.
- Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- Montour Falls.
- Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Eleanor Brown
- Date
- August 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