Publius Virgilius Rogers papers, 1843-1918.
Collection Number: 821

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Publius Virgilius Rogers papers, 1843-1918.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

821

Abstract:

Creator:

Rogers, Publius Virgilius.

Quanitities:

9.9 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawyer and bank president in Utica, New York.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, accounts, mortgages, notes, articles, and other papers largely relating to Rogers' interests in banking affairs, the industrial development of central New York, and land and railroad investments. Includes letters and papers of Rogers' son, Charles Butler Rogers, and material relating to the Central Railroad of Iowa, the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, Hamilton College, the Iowa Valley Construction Company, the Oswego River Starch Company, the Patent Cereals Company of Geneva, New York, the Remington Armory at Ilion, New York, the Utica Steam Cotton Mills, and the Utica Steam Woolen Mills. Other topics include merchandizing, dairy farming, travel description, gold mining in Colorado, student life in Germany at the Koniglichen Friedrich-Willelms Universitat, hospitals, charitable institutions, and art; Correspondents include Isaac M. Cate, William W. Crapo, William H. Ferry, George S. Goodale, H. C. Potter, JohnH. Prentiss, F. W. H. Sheffield, Breese Stevens, and Anson J. Upson.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Publius Virgilius Rogers papers, #821. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Rogers, Publius Virgilius.

Rogers, Charles Butler.

Cate, Isaac M.

Crapo, William W.

Ferry, William H.

Goodale, George S.

Potter, H. C.

Prentiss, F. W. H.

Stevens, Breese.

Upson, Anson J.

Central Railroad of Iowa

Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad

Hamilton College

Iowa Valley Construction Company

Oswego River Starch Company

Patent Cereals Company

Remington Armory (Ilion, N.Y.)

Utica Steam Cotton Mills (N.Y.)

Utica Steam Woolen Mills (N.Y.)

Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin

Places:

Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.

Nebraska -- Description and travel.

Subjects:

Lawyers -- New York (State) -- Utica.

Charities.

Universities and colleges -- Germany.

Hospitals.

Gold mines and mining -- Colorado.

Dairy farming -- New York (State)

Railroads -- Michigan.

Railroads -- Iowa.

Industrialization -- New York (State)

Real property -- New York (State)

Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Utica.

Form and Genre Terms:

Account books.

CONTAINER LIST

Container	Description	Date
	Series I. Pamphlets
Box 1	Historical Discourse, Delivered at the Whitestone Centennial Celebration, by Charles Tracy	June 5, 1884
Box 1	Handbook of the New-Public Library in Boston, Compiled by Herbert Small
Box 1	St. Luke's Home, Opening Services, Addresses, Extracts from The Sermon of R. Rev. F.D. Huntington, D.D.	1870
Box 1	Hand-Book on Mormonism	1882
Box 1	The Utica Orphan Asylum	1874-1875
Box 1	An Appeal for the Equipment of the Soldier's Field (Harvard)
Box 1	Ordnung des Umganges
Box 1	W.L. Townsend, Ye Olde Booke Shopps, Catalogue
Box 1	Leben in Thiergeftalt
Box 1	Body and Mind; Their Conservative Influence on Each Other, by Mrs. Clemence S. Lozier, M.D., Professor in the New York Medical College for Women	August 2-4, 1870
Box 1	Health Tract. #3, DRESS, by DR. Clemence S. Lozier	1874
Box 1	Cornell University Announcement of Courses of Instruction for Graduate Undergraduate Students for the Academic Year. With Rules for the Guidance of Students and Revised Courses of Study	1891-1892
Box 1	St. Luke's Hospital, Training School for Nurses in the City of Utica	1899
Box 1	Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association	1901
Box 1	The Water Works Question: Viewed by a citizen who has the welfare of Kansas City at heart, and a mortgage on his home; by T.R. Tinsley	1891
Box 1	Annual Circular and Catalogue of the Utica Female Academy.	1847-1848
Box 1	Catalogue Des Tresours De Mycenes au Musee D'Athenes	1882
Box 1	Hand-Book of the American Economic Association 1896, together with Report of the Eighth Annual Meeting	April 1896
Box 1	Hamilton College, Report of Finance Committee, from Apr. 1, 1850-July 1, 1876, with a Comparative Statement showing the condition of the property and finances of the college	December 30, 1876
Box 1	Value, Price and Distribution by Charles William MacFarlane, Ph.D.; An Historical, Critical, and Constructive Study in Economic Theory Adapted for advanced and Post-Graduate Work
Box 1	Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year	1868
Box 1	Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of St. Luke's Home and Hospital, including the Mathews Collection of Paintings, and many Modern Works of Art, Utica, N.Y.	February 1887
Box 1	The Sigma Phi Club	1889
Box 1	Les Marbres du Museecentral	1888
Box 1	Catalogue of the Sigma Phi, E.P.V. with the Thesaurus	1880
Box 1	English-German Dictionary
Box 1	Standing Committees, with Extract from the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College
Box 1	To the Bondholders of the Central Railroad Company of Iowa	July 15, 1847
Box 1	The Central Railroad Co. of Iowa, Compromise Measure	June 1875
Box 1	Harvard College, Class of 1888, Baccalaureate Hymn, Class Day Oration, Class Day Poem, Class Day Ode, Class Day Song	1888
Box 1	American Economic Association, Economic Studies; Government by Injunction, by William H. Dunbar, A.M., L.L.B.	February 1898
Box 1	A Complete Handbook to the National Museum in Naples according to Its New Arrangement	1875
Box 1	Harvard, Class Dinner	December 2, 1887, 1888
Box 1	A List of Fine Works on Medieval Costumes, Illuminated Ornaments	1889
Box 1	Seventy-Sixth Commencement of Hamilton College	1888
Box 1	First Annual Report of the Women's Christian Association of Utica, N.Y.,	June 1871
Box 1	Utica Academy, Annual Exercises, Class of 1882	June 29, 1882
Box 1	Investors' Supplement of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle	January 27, 1894
Box 1	Extra Census Bulletin	January 24, 1895
Box 1	Description of the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University	1893
Box 1	Deutfche Litteratur and Philologic an ber, Harvard Univerfitat	1893
Box 1	Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Announcement of Courses for Teachers on Methods of Instruction
Box 1	Student's Expenses. A Collection of letters from Undergraduates, Graduates, and Professional School Students describing in Detail Their Necessary Expenses at Harvard University with an Introduction by Frank Bolles	1893
Box 2	Country Banking	1861
Box 2	The Finance Minister, The Currency, and The Public Debt, by Henry C. Carey from the North American U.S. Gazette	1868
Box 2	French Grammar
Box 2	Announcement of Summer Courses of Instruction	1893
Box 2	Harvard University, Seminar of American History	1891-1892
Box 2	Harvard University, Rank-Lists	1887-1888
Box 2	Harvard University, Class of1888, Secretary's Report No. 1	1889
Box 2	The Folsom-Cook Exploration of the Upper Yellowstone in the Year 1869, by David E. Folsom with a preface by Nathaniel P. Langford	1894
Box 2	National Academy of Design, Loan Exhibition	1893
Box 2	Catalogue, Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings	1882
Box 2	Revised Edition, Official Catalogue of Exhibits, Descriptive Catalogue, World's Columbian Exposition	1893
Box 2	Theatre National De L'Opera Comique
Box 2	Harvard University, Account of the Graduate Department	1888-1889
Box 2	Harvard University, The Divinity School
Box 2	Scriber's Magazine	February 1895
Box 2	"A Remarkable Work by a Remarkable Man," The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by Mons. J. James Tissot	1900
Box 2	Antique Glass, from Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Cyprus	1895
Box 2	American Water Color Society, Catalogue of the Twelfth Annual Exhibition	1879
Box 2	Address of Horatio Seymour at the Dairymen's International Exhibition, New York	December 1878
Box 2	Sound Currency, New York	December 1899
Box 2	State of New York, No. 470, In Senate	February 14, 1898
Box 2	U.S. Circuit Court, District of Iowa, The Farmer's Loan and Trust Co. against The Central Railroad Company of Iowa, and others.	1876
Box 2	Sound Currency, New York	February 1900
Box 2	Sound Currency, New York	November 1899
Box 2	Sound Currency, New York	April 1900
Box 2	Sixty-Sixth Commencement of Hamilton College	1878
Box 2	Statement to the Bondholders of the Holly, Wayne, and Monroe Railroad, and of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company, Land Grants
Box 2	Office of Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Co.	February 1876
Box 2	Flint and Pere Railway Co., Statement to Bondholders
Box 2	The Canadian Pacific
Box 2	Ancestors, The Roll of Honor, Volume 1
Box 2	1870-1880, A Sermon preached at the close of his ministry in The Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, N.Y., by the Rev. Anson J, Upson, D.D., L.L.D.	July 11, 1880, 1870-1880
Box 2	St. Luke's Home, Hospital and Mission, Reports for 1870-1871 with Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, and Officers	December 15, 1869
Box 2	Health Tract, No.2, Care of Children by Clemence S. Loizer	1871
Box 2	St. Luke's Home and Hospital in the City of Utica	1886
Box 2	Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of St. Luke's Home and Hospital, including the Mathews Collection of Paintings and many Modern Works of Art	February 1887
Box 2	A Catalogue of a few Recent Purchases, and Announcements of New Publications, by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly,	November 1890
Box 2	A Sermon, preached at the funeral of Miss Henrietta Butler, in the Union Church, Sauquoit, N.Y., by Rev. John Waugh	February 2, 1842
Box 2	Rules and Regulations of Forest Hill Company
Box 2	Malpewood Young Ladies' Institute, Pittsfield, Massachusetts	1865-1866
Box 2	Annual Report of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company of Michigan	December 31, 1878
Box 2	Letter and Authentic Documentary Evidence in relation to the Trinity Church Property, in the City of New York, submitted to the Commissioners of the Land Office, by Rutger B. Miller	June 21, 1855
Box 2	A Sermon preached at the funeral of Miss Henrietta Butler, in the Union Church, Sauquoit, N.Y., by Rev. John Waugh	February 2, 1842
Box 2	The Magazine Art	November 1890
Box 2	Health Tract, Care of Children by Dr. Clemence S. Lozier #2	1871
Box 2	National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition	1874
Box 2	State of Michigan, Report of H.C. Potter, Receiver	January 12, 1881
Box 2	Loan Exhibition in aid of the Society of Decorative Art	1878
Box 2	Annual Address before the Medical Society of the State of N.Y., by Jihn P. Gray, M.D.	Feb.ruary 5, 1868
Box 2	Third Annual Report of the Women's Christian Association of Utica, N.Y.	June 1873
Box 2	Portraits by Otto Ritter Von Krumhaar	February 9-23, 1903
Box 2	Ye Hastie Puddynge Clubbe
Box 2	The Beginning of the "Spoils" System in the National Government	1829-1830
Box 2	Fetes de Jeunes Filles, Scenes at Dialogues par L'Auteur des Festes D'Enfants Paris	1876
Box 2	Scriber's Monthly Illustrated Magazine	November 1880
Box 2	National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition	1871
Box 2	AMERICAN Art Galleries, Special Exhibition
Box 2	Theatre D'Athenee
Box 2	Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition, in aid of Faxton Hospital and Home for Aged Men	1879
Box 2	Comedie Francaise
Box 2	State of New York, Commission in Lunacy	January 2, 1898
Box 2	Peter Henderson and Co., Manual of Everything for the Garden	1898
Box 2	The Chronicle, Commercial and Financial, Hunt's Merchant's Magazine	February 25, 1893
Box 3	Supreme Court of the United States, Opinion of associate Justice Miller upon application to vacate appeal bond
Box 3	Document No. 4 to the First Mortgage Bondholders of the Central R.R. Co., of Iowa
Box 3	Report of L.M. Fisher, Special Master
Box 3	Loan Exhibition, St. Luke's Home and Hospital
Box 3	Comedie Francaise
Box 3	National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition	1878
Box 3	Theatre National De L'Opera, programme
Box 3	Minutes of the Council of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America held in Washington D.C.	April 1896
Box 3	Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives, Home Sanitation
Box 3	Sixty-Sixth Commencement of Hamilton College	1878
Box 3	Standing Committees, with Extract from the minutes of the Board of Trustees, of Hamilton College
Box 3	Supreme Court of the United States, appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama
Box 3	Document No. Six, Central Railroad of Iowa, to the First Mortgage Bondholders, New York	September 7, 1877
Box 3	Abstract of Articles of Incorporation of the Iowa Central Railway Co.
Box 3	The Central Railroad Co. of Iowa, Compromise Measure	September 1877
Box 3	Official Catalogue of Exhibits, Fine Arts	1893
Box 3	Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition	November 1894
Box 3	Handbook of the Pompeia, A Grand Roman House
Box 3	Old Chinese Porcelains, Jades, Agates, Amethysts, etc., Fifth Avenue Art Galleries
Box 3	National Academy of Design, Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
Box 3	Loan Exhibition of Paintings	April 1895
Box 3	The Colonial Dames of the State of New York, Incorporated	1893
Box 3	Munchener Kalen der fur	1889
Box 3	"The Lord's Supper" painted by P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret, Descriptive Note by Rev. F.W. Farrar
Box 3	Catalogue illustre du Salon de 1899	1899
Box 3	Catalogue of a collection of thirty-one Water-Color Drawings	1895
Box 3	Regulations and Law relative to Income tax	December 13, 1894
Box 3	Mademoiselle de La Seigliere, Comedie	1887
Box 3	To the National President and the Members of the National and Executive Committees on the Spanish War Memorial
Box 3	National Academy of Design, New York Centennial Loan Exhibition	1876
Box 3	National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Fiftieth Annual Exhibition	1875
Box 3	Main Picture Gallery Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Ga.	1891
Box 3	Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art	March 1874
Box 3	Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts, by Bernard Quaritch,	January 27, 1890
Box 3	Ellis and Elvey's Catalogue of Recent Purchases of Rare, Curious, and Interesting Books
Box 3	Reports and Organization of Faxton Hospital and Home for Aged Men	1886
Box 3	The Utica Orphan Asylum	1880
Box 3	The Doom of Slavery in the Union, It's Safety	1860
Box 3	THE CALL TO WORK, A Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class of the University of North Carolina, by the Rev. Charles H. Hall, D.D.	June 2, 1886
Box 3	Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Children's Aid Society	November 1885
Box 3	St. Luke's Home and Hospital in the City of Utica	1889
Box 3	In the Supreme Court, The People on rel. the Black River Bank	1853
Box 3	The Tariff Supplement to the Commercial and Financial Chronicle	July 31, 1897
Box 3	Aunt Roger's Legacy
Box 3	Sound Currency	July 15, 1897
Box 3	Sound Currency	August 1, 1897
Box 3	The Canal Railway, Argument of Hon. W.W. Astor	March 9, 1881
Box 3	The Farmer's Loan and Trust Company vs. The Central Railroad Company of Iowa
Box 3	In the matter of the People's Safe Deposit and Savings Institution of The State of New York, a Bankrupt
Box 3	Brief and Points for the Plaintiffs in Error, G. Clarence Churchill et al., vs. The City of Utica
Box 3	The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, Reproduced in Facsimile with Translation, Introduction, A Map, and a Facsimile of a Drawing by Stradanus	1893
Box 3	The Spanish Letter of Columbus, written by him on Feb. 15, 1493, to announce the discovery of America	1893
Box 3	Saving Steps, Cornell Reading Course for Farmer's Wives
Box 3	Tristan und Isolde	1882
Box 3	Catalogue of Imported Books, mainly in elegant bindings including Finely Illustrated and Rare Books
Box 3	Miscellaneous Catalogues
Box 3	Labour and the Hours of Labor, by William Mather, M.P.	1892
Box 3	With the Compliments and Good Wishes of the Season, Morning Herald
Box 3	The Influence of New York on American Jurisprudence, by Horatio Seymour
Box 3	Prospectus of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Co. for the Sale of Its First Mortgage Bonds, payable in gold	1882
Box 3	Security Loan and Trust Company, Debentures
Box 3	Mr. Russell Sage, Vice President Central Iowa Railway Co., printed letter
Box 3	Argument of Herbert B. Turner, Esq., The Farmer's Loan and Trust Co. against The Central Railway Company of Iowa, et al.
Box 3	Central Iowa Railway Company, Report	1882
Box 3	Printed Indenture
Box 3	New York State Department of Agriculture
Box 3	Brief of Platt Smith for Charles Alexander, et al. vs. Central Railroad of Iowa, et al.
Box 3	W.E. Fan Motors , Alternating Current Ceiling Fans	1903
Box 3	Historical Incidents relating to the Whitesboro Cemetery	1879
Box 3	Fiananzwissenschaft, von Adolph Wagner
Box 3	To Oppose the Silver Bill
Box 3	Opinion of Chief Justice Chase and of Associate Justice Wayne and Swayne in the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term	1865
Box 3	The People, on the relation of William B. Storm vs. The Superintendent of the Bank Department of the State of New York, Opinion of Hon. Philo Gridley,	1853
Box 3	The Savings Bank Association: Origin of the Plan	July 24, 1878
Box 4	Thomas Walker, Pres. of the Bank of Utica vs. Chauncey Crain, Appellant's Points and Judge Allen's Opinion	1853
Box 4	Thomas Walker, President of the Bank of Utica vs. Chauncy Crain Case on Appeal	1853
Box 4	A Guide Book for Visitors to Japan	1893
Box 4	Harper's Franklin Suare Library, Ancient American Politics by Hugh J. Hastings
Box 4	Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Indian Currency	1899
Box 4	The Cronomist, Weekly Commercial Times	Dec. 16, 1899
Box 4	20th Century Toilet Hints
Box 4	Specimen Cooper-Plate Portraits from American Illustrated, compiled by W. Dunbar
Box 4	Report of Tax Committees of the N.Y. Boston and Phila, Clearing House Associations	1863
Box 4	Studies of Some Shade Tree and Timber Destroying Fungi, by Geo. F. Atkins; Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station	1901
Box 4	Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year 1877	1877
Box 4	Annual Report of the Treasurer of the United States	1876
Box 4	Report of the Superintendent of the Banking Department relative to Savings Banks	February 19, 1858
Box 4	Treasury Notes a Legal Tender; Argument of John K. Porter, The Metro. Bank et al. vs. Henry H. Van Syck, Superin. of the Bank Department	June 27, 1863
Box 4	Short Road to Specie, Sample
Box 4	A Series of Letters, written for the Roman Citizen on the Currency and Public Debt of the United States by John B. Jervis	1868
Box 4	Convention of National Banks	October 19, 1864
Box 4	Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Peach-tree Borer	1901
Box 4	Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Dwarf Apples
Box 4	Experimental Studies in Higher Education, A Summer School of Art and Science	1891
Box 4	Tenth Annual Report of the Homestead Aid Association of Utica	December 18, 1893
Box 4	Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, The Texture of Soil, by L.H. Bailey	1896
Box 4	Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Tillage Experiments with Potatoes, by J.L. Stone	1901
Box 4	North German Lloyd, Mediterranean Station	1903
Box 4	Prices on a Gold Basis, by Gen. A.J. Warner	January 12, 1894
Box 4	Sound Currency	Feb. 1, 1897
Box 4	North German Lloyd, Rates of First Cabin Passage	1903
Box 4	Cornell Reading-Course for Farmer's Wives, Saving Strength
Box 4	A Bill	March 10, 1902
Box 4	The Control of Trusts, An argument in favor of curbing the power of monopoly by the natural method, by John Bates Clark
Box 4	TO OUR PATRONS AND THE PUBLIC
Box 4	Colonial Dames of the State of New York, prize Historical Essay	June 1896
Box 4	Health Tract, Care of Children, by Dr. Clemence S. Lozier	1871
Box 4	Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition of Paintings, Utica	1878
Box 4	Catalogue of paintings on exhibition by the Utica Art Association	1878
Box 4	Board of Trustees of the Utica Art Association for 1882	1882
Box 4	Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Utica Art Association	1868
Box 4	Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Utica Art Association	1871
Box 4	Catalogue of the Eighth Exhibition of Paintings, Utica Art Association	1882
Box 4	Harvard College, Topics and References in Political Economy IV	1885
Box 4	The Treasury Investigation, The Suppressed Documents; Report on the printing of the public money
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Some Tent-Markers, by Anna Botsford Comstock
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, A Children's Garden, by L.H. Bailey
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, The Life History of the Toad, by Simon Henry Gage
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Hints on Making Collections of Insects, by Anna Botsford Comstock
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets on Nature-Study No. 11
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, How A Candle Burns, by George W. Cavanaugh
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Hints on Making Collections of Insects, by Anna Botsford Comstock
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets; The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, What is Nature-Study? by L.H. Bailey
Box 4	Farmer's Reading Lessons, The College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Texture of Soil and Conservation of Moisture, by Jno. W. Spencer, Conductor
Box 4	Report of the Comptroller of the Currency	November 28, 1863
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets on Nature-Study, No. 3
Box 4	Teacher's Leaflets, College of Agriculture, Cornell University, How A Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed, by L.H. Bailey
Box 4	Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, The Moisture of Soil and Its Conservation, by L.A. Clinton	1897
Box 4	Report of the National Bank Currency Act, its defects and its effects	1863
Box 4	National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, List of Members of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Box 4	Constitution and Eligibility Lists of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Box 4	Constitution and By-Laws of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Box 4	Comedie-francaise
Box 4	An Act to Establish a General System of Banking	February 15, 1851
Box 4	Speech of Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, of N.Y. in the House of Representatives	April 30, 1782
Box 4	Supreme Court of the State of New York; D. Pratt, Justice	1854
Box 4	Auction Sale: Catalogue of Valuable Private Library
Box 4	In the Senate of the U.S., An Act	July 1, 1864
Box 4	How to Get There by the Steamships of the North German Lloyd
Box 4	Report of Gilbert L. Wilson; Special agent appointed by D.B. St. John, Superintendent of the bank department to examine into the affairs of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Oswego	1854
Box 4	Verzeihniss der Vorlesungen
Box 4	Our National and Financial Future, Address of Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury at Fort Wayne, Indiana	October 11, 1865
Box 4	D.C. Pierces Improvements in Rails in Railways	1865
Box 4	Directory of the Offices and Students of Harvard University	October 6, 1887
Box 4	The Kirmess Spectator, Pardon and Kirmess, Utica Opera House	October 20-25, 1890
Box 4	Chicago Relief, First Special Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society	1871
Box 4	Catalogue of Imported Books and Second-hand and scarce books
Box 4	Short List of Rare Books	June 1893
Box 4	Annual Report with the Compliments of the Treasurer of the U.S.	June 30, 1877
Box 4	National Currency Act	1863
Box 5	Illustrated Description of the Ho-o-den (Phoenix Hall) at the World's Columbian Exposition
Box 5	Coronado Beach, "An Unique Corner of the Earth"
Box 5	Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and its leased lines to the Stockholders	June 30, 1897
Box 5	Wines, How to Keep and Use Them
Box 5	Practical Banking
Box 5	The Aneroid Barometer, How to Buy and Use It
Box 5	The Toynbee Record	September 1889
Box 5	Towns and Landscapes of All the World
Box 5	Supreme Court of the U.S., Russell Sage, etc. vs. Central Railroad Co.
Box 26	Various Pamphlets
	Series II. Volumes, Ledgers, and Books
Box 4	Two Letter Books - Class notes of Charles B. Rogers for "Philosophy I," Oct. 1, 1887-May 31, 1888 , approx. 200 pages, and for "Political Economics," 1886-1887. Hamilton College	1886-1888
Box 5	Two Volumes
Box 5	Ledger containing expenses of an unknown person	December 1903-January 1905
Box 5	Scrapbook of Charles B. Rogers, tracing his school career from 1879 , until his graduation from Hamilton College in June 1887? , with notes for debates loose in back	1879-1887
Box 6	Four Manuscript Volumes
Box 6	One recipe book, clippings, handwritten, etc.
Box 6	Two Letter Books	April 10, 1871-November 11, 1887
Box 6	One Check Register of P.V. Rogers	March 31, 1871-October 28, 1875
Box 6	Cancelled Checks of Publius V. and Elizabeth B. Rogers,	1868-1905
Box 25	Account books
Box 25	Two notebooks dealing with Central Railway Company of Iowa Investments	1871-1895
Box 25	Two Notebooks dealing with Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Investments	1871-1879
Box 25	Ten Bank Books (all sizes)
Box 25	Three Notebooks - One of land grants, one of the Republican Committee, and one of miscellaneous securities
Box 25	"Occupation Book"
Box 25	"Personal Recollections of Whittier," by Mary B. Claflin
Box 25	Record of New York State Court of Appeals	1857
Box 25	"Butcher" Book	1898-1902
Box 25	Three Household Account Books of Elizabeth Rogers	1875-1903
Box 26	Eighteen small check books
Box 26	Notebooks
Box 26	Cash books
Box 27	Cancelled Checks	1868-1905
	Series III. Correspondence
Box 7	November 1843-December 1869 (529 Pieces)	November 1843-December 1869
Box 8	1870 (446 Pieces)	1870
	Scope and Contents Correspondence is mainly concerned with stock and bond purchases in railroads. The Central railroad Company of Iowa and Flint and Pere Marquette Railway, Saginaw, Michigan. (H.C. Potter, Secretary-Treasurer)
Box 9	1871 (426 Pieces)	1871
Box 10	1872-1873 (342 Pieces)	1872-1873
Box 11	1873-1874 (491 Pieces)	1873-1874
Box 12	1875 (455 Pieces)	1875
Box 13	1876 (521 Pieces)	1876
Box 14	1877-1878 (c. 500 Pieces)	1877-1878
Box 15	1879-1880 (400-500 Pieces)	1879-1880
Box 16	1880-1881 (400-500 Pieces)	1880-1881
Box 17	June 7, 1882-December 26, 1886 (400-500 Pieces)	June 7, 1882-December 26, 1886
	Scope and Contents Letters are from banks and investment houses primarily, with a few letters from railroads. More personal correspondence and household purchases
Box 18	1887-1890(300-400 Pieces)	1887-1890
	Scope and Contents Letters from son, Charles B. Rogers at Hamilton College. Investment news, mainly from Piers Brothers (The Patent Cereals Co.), N.Y., N.Y.
Box 19	1891-1895 (400-500 Pieces)	1891-1895
Box 20	1896-1903 (400-500 Pieces)	1896-1903
	Scope and Contents Includes receipts
Box 21	Purchase receipts, January 1, 1904-April 1906	1904-1906
Box 21	Series of eighty letters from son Charles Rogers from various cities in Europe; Approx. 200 undated pieces	April 27, 1888-August 18, 1889
Box 22	Letters to Charles B. Rogers mainly concerning his dairy operations near Utica	1909-1918
	Various Letters	Undated
Box 23	Various Letters
Box 24	Various Letters
	Series IV. Miscellaneous
Box 6	Loose Items
	Typed and printed chapters to a book, broadsides, genealogy, contracts, bonds, misc. manuscript material	Undated
Box 23	Typed and printed chapters to a book, broadsides, genealogy, contracts, bonds, misc. manuscript material
Box 24	Typed and printed chapters to a book, broadsides, genealogy, contracts, bonds, misc. manuscript material
Box 26	Newspaper clippings
Box 26	Photographs and postcards (European)

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Publius Virgilius Rogers papers, 1843-1918. Collection Number: 821

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Publius Virgilius Rogers papers, 1843-1918.
Collection Number: 821

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library