COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers of E.I. White and his family consist largely of correspondence, leases and other legal agreements, accounts, receipts, inventories, surveys, and other items pertaining to the acquisition of property for the Onondaga Golf and Country Club and to such business matters as purchases of additional land, lease renewals, water supply, railroad right-of-way, and insurance (1899-1919); papers pertaining to the management of the White Farm at Fayetteville (1905-1942); correspondence and other items relating to the Memorial Prize in Oratory established at Syracuse University in honor of Horace Keep White (1916); newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed material.
Also records of the White Memorial Building, Syracuse (1917-1960); protograph of Ernest I. White; dedication for Ernest I. White Hall; and genealogical material.
Also, papers of Horace White, Hamilton White, and their descendants, including correspondence, ledgers, journals, daybooks, letterbooks, deeds, wills, broadsides, and other material, pertaining to real estate in Syracuse, Chicago, Toledo, and Akron, and to investments in Iowa lands. Other subjects include railroads, canals, turnpikes, mining, and manufacturing. Also, papers relating to the Onondaga County Bank, the Bank of Syracuse and its successor, the Syracuse National Bank. Family papers relate to the position of the family in Syracuse society, and to their social and civic interests.
Dates
- 1820-1960.
Creator
- White, Ernest Ingersoll, 1869-1957. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Attorney and farmer.
Cornell University Class of 1893.
Extent
14.2 cubic feet.
Abstract
Papers of E.I. White and his family.
Physical Description
Financial records, correspondence, journals, newspaper clippings, printed material, pamphlets, and legal documents.
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:
- RMC Staff
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- Modified:
- Margaret Nichols, May 2016
- Account books.
- Bank of Syracuse (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
- Broadsides.
- Canals.
- Deeds.
- Ernest I. White Hall (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Families -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
- Inventories.
- Ledgers (account books)
- Mineral industries.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Mining engineering.
- Onondaga County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Onondaga County Bank (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Onondaga Golf and Country Club
- Railroads.
- Real estate investment -- Iowa.
- Real property -- Illinois -- Chicago.
- Real property -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
- Real property -- Ohio -- Akron.
- Real property -- Ohio -- Toledo.
- Surveys.
- Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Economic aspects.
- Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Syracuse National Bank (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Syracuse University
- Toll roads.
- White Farm (Fayetteville, N.Y.)
- White Memorial Building (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- White family.
- White, Hamilton.
- White, Horace.
- Wills.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- November 2015
- 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