COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs, and miscellaneous papers of the Abell family of Cazenovia. Papers of Dr. William Abell, a general practitioner (d.1835), include diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and loose notes on medical cases, travel; the status of the medical profession in Louisiana and secret societies in Cazenovia. Other papers include school records, instructions from the Commissioners of Roads of Cazenovia. Also included are genealogical and other correspondence and paper of or about Anna Abell, Aurella Abell, Caroline Jones, George Jones, Thomas Jones, George N. Manchester, Elisha Sanford, Henry Severance, and Ebenezer Whitney.
Dates
- 1797-1936.
Creator
- Abell family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs, and miscellaneous papers of the Abell family of Cazenovia.
Physical Description
Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, receipts, insurance policies, photographs, school records, and miscellaneous 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:
- B. Shepherd
- Date completed:
- October 1967
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Shepherd
- Date
- April 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