Scope and content
Dates
- 1778-1952.
Creator
- Williams family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Henry Shaler Williams (1847-1918) was a paleontologist, professor of paleontology and geology at Cornell 1879-1892, 1904-1912, and Yale University, 1892-1904; founder of Sigma Xi Society.
Extent
102.6 cubic feet. (102.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Legal Documents, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials
- Accounts.
- Bankers.
- Banks and banking.
- Bills of lading.
- Canals.
- College teachers
- Cornell University
- Cornell University. Department of Geology
- Cotton manufacture
- Diaries.
- Genealogies.
- Geologists.
- Geology -- Study and teaching.
- Hardy, Charles Elias.
- Hardy, Jane L.
- Hardy, Louisa.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Ithaca Cotton Mills (N.Y.)
- Ithaca and Owego Rail Road Company
- Lecture notes.
- Lumber trade.
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Maps.
- Merchants and Farmers\' Bank
- Miller, William Henry, 1848-1922.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- New York (State) -- Transportation.
- New York and Erie Telegraph Company
- Ovid Academy (N.Y.)
- Paleontology -- Study and teaching.
- Photographs.
- Politicians.
- Politics, Practical.
- Railroads.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
- Sodus Canal (N.Y.)
- Telegraph.
- Williams, Augusta H., 1852-1952.
- Williams, Charlotte.
- Williams, Ella.
- Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918.
- Williams, Jane.
- Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883.
- Williams, Mary Hardy, 1824-1911.
- Williams, Otis, active 1869-1892.
- Women -- Diaries.
- Yale University
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Compiled by Nancy Dean, various.
- Date
- January 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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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