COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance, a total abstinence society (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a grandson of the first Benjamin, from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and elsewhere in the West (1883-1896), where he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; some correspondence of his brother, Frederic Treman Johnson (1886-1890); cathedral rubbings made while the latter was in England (1907), and bills, accounts and maps for that trip. Included are correspondence and other papers of Elijah B. Cornell, A. Ward Gregory, George Hackney, Mary L. Tait, T. W. Welsh.
Dates
- 1816-1936.
Creator
- Johnson family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This collection contains records by and about Benjamin Johnson (1784-1848), his son Charles D. Johnson and grandsons Benjamin Johnson and Frederic Treman Johnson. Benjamin Johnson came to Ithaca, N.Y. around 1818.
Extent
5 cubic feet. (5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a grandson of the first Benjamin, from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and elsewhere in the West (1883-1896), where he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; some correspondence of his brother, Frederic Treman Johnson (1886-1890); cathedral rubbings made while the latter was in England (1907), and bills, accounts and maps for that trip.
Physical Description
Deeds, bills, accounts, correspondence, membership papers, cathedral rubbings, maps, 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, December 2003
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
- Brickmaking -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
- Clock and watch industry -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Colorado -- Description and travel.
- Cornell, Elijah B.
- England -- Maps.
- Flour-mills -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Gregory, A. Ward.
- Hackney, George.
- Industries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
- Industries -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Industries.
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
- Johnson, Benjamin, 1784-1848.
- Johnson, Benjamin.
- Johnson, Charles D.
- Johnson, Frederic Treman.
- Johnson, Jesse.
- Kansas -- Description and travel.
- Nevada -- Description and travel.
- New Mexico -- Description and travel.
- Photographs.
- Railroads -- Employees
- Royal Templars of Temperance -- : New York (State) -- : Ithaca.
- Rubbings.
- Tait, Mary L.
- Teamsters -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
- Temperance -- Societies, etc.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Tompkins County(N.Y.) -- Industries.
- Tourist maps.
- Welsh, T. W.
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- December 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