COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence of Lewis Selye of Rochester, on Penn Yan business matters, especially purchase of a fire engine, 1838-43; and of Stafford C. Cleveland, 1864-70, on local, state, and national politics. Other items include letters to D.C. Ayres from William H. Samson of Rochester about the will and signature of Jemima Wilkinson (the Publick Universal Friend); letters from Edwin C. Dinturff on local connections of Marcus Whitman and Joseph Smith; 1808 diary of travels of James Parker (1744-1829), early settler of Penn Yan; survey maps of townships in Yates County by Augustus Porter, Peter Loop, Jabez French, and others, 1789-1815; later lot surveys; assessment record, town of Benton, 1817; letters of Bert S. Elliot on Penn Yan in the 1890's and on his career as a printer with U.S. Government Printing Office and other agencies. There are also miscellaneous genealogical data, early deeds, and legal documents, photographs, broadsides, engravings, historical notes and clippings, and letters.
Dates
- 1779-1955.
Creator
- Ayres, Sidney, 1900-1960. (Collector, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
1.2 cubic feet. (1.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence of Lewis Selye of Rochester, on Penn Yan business matters.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Legal Documents, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- November 2, 1989
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, November 2008
- Ayres, D. C.
- Cleveland, Stafford Canning, 1822-1885.
- Deeds.
- Diaries.
- Dinturff, Edwin C.
- Editors.
- Elliot, Bert S.
- French, Jabez.
- Genealogies.
- Land surveys.
- Loop, Peter.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- Parker, James.
- Penn Yan (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Photographs.
- Porter, Augustus.
- Publick Universal Friend.
- Samson, William H.
- Selye, Lewis.
- Smith, Joseph.
- United States. Government Printing Office
- Voyages and travels.
- Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
- Wilkinson, Jemima, 1752-1819.
- Yates County (N.Y.)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- November 2008
- 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