Peoples College records, 1848-1880.
Collection Number: 1138
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Peoples College records, 1848-1880.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1138
Abstract:
Letters, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other material relating to the establishment of
the college in Montour Falls (then Havana), Schuyler County, New York; includes correspondence
of the founder, Harrison Howard. Also records relating to administration, finance,
and construction, 1856-1880, including land transactions, articles of agreement, building
plans, specifications, supplies, labor, costs, and receipts; and educational papers,
1850-1864, including letters, teachers' applications, recommendations, minutes, presidents'
reports, resolutions, and lists of students, faculty, and trustees. Includes a letter
from Horace Greeley dated February 26, 1859 to the Treasurer of People's College.
Also, John Hay, Assistant Private Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. to
Charles Cooke, June 26, 1863, enclosing the Horace Greeley resolution relating to
the People's College Convention. Also copy of the Horace Greeley resolution relating
to The People's College Convention, November 1, 1852. Additional correspondents include
Edward Hitchcock, Mark Hopkins, Theodore D. Woolsey, and the Geneva Medical College.
Creator:
People\'s College (Montour Falls, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Letters, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and other material relating to the establishment of
the college in Montour Falls (then Havana), Schuyler County, New York; includes correspondence
of the founder, Harrison Howard. Also records relating to administration, finance,
and construction, 1856-1880, including land transactions, articles of agreement, building
plans, specifications, supplies, labor, costs, and receipts; and educational papers,
1850-1864, including letters, teachers' applications, recommendations, minutes, presidents'
reports, resolutions, and lists of students, faculty, and trustees. Includes a letter
from Horace Greeley dated February 26, 1859 to the Treasurer of People's College.
Also, John Hay, Assistant Private Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. to
Charles Cooke, June 26, 1863, enclosing the Horace Greeley resolution relating to
the People's College Convention. Also copy of the Horace Greeley resolution relating
to The People's College Convention, November 1, 1852. Additional correspondents include
Edward Hitchcock, Mark Hopkins, Theodore D. Woolsey, and the Geneva Medical College.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
People's College records, #1138. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Howard, Harrison.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Hay, John.
Hopkins, Mark, 1802-1887.
Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889
Geneva Medical College (Geneva, N.Y.)
Cook Academy (Montour Falls, N.Y.)
People\'s College (Montour Falls, N.Y.) -- : Buildings.
Places:
Schuyler County (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- Montour Falls.
Education -- New York (State) -- Montour Falls.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Howard Papers
|
1853 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Plans and Charter
|
1857 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Address by Prof. J.B. Turner
|
1851 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
W.L. Hewitt Correspondence
|
1893-1895 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Misc. Manuscripts
|
1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Misc. W.W. Folwell Papers
|
1921-1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
The Morrill Act
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Harrison Howard's sketch of the establishment of the People's College
|
1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Brewer's History
|
1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Howard Papers
|
Oct.-Dec. 1852 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Howard Papers
|
April-Sept. 1852 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Howard Papers
|
Jan.-March 1852 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
(No Title)
|
Not Dated |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Howard Papers
|
1848-1851 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Howard Papers
|
1858-1859 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
(No Title)
|
1859, 1863, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Howard Papers
|
Jan.-May 1857 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Howard Papers
|
June-Dec. 1857 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Howard Papers
|
Oct.-Dec 1856 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Howard Papers
|
Sept.-Dec. 1855-Jan.-Sept. 1856 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Howard Papers
|
March-Aug. 1855 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Howard Papers
|
Nov.-Dec. 1854-Jan.-Feb. 1855 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Howard Papers
|
June-Oct. 1854 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Howard Papers
|
Jan.-May 1854 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Howard Papers
|
Sept.-Dec. 1853 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Howard Papers
|
July-Aug. 1853 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Howard Papers
|
Aug. 24, 1853 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Howard Papers
|
Jan.-June 1853 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Howard Papers
|
Undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Howard Papers
|
1860-1875 |
| Box 3 |
Harrison Howard Reference Book
|
1856 | |
| Box 3 |
Harrison Howard Scrap book
|
Not Dated | |
| Box 3 |
Papers Relating to People's College
|
Not Dated | |
| Box 3 |
Public Exercises: Mapping of the Corner Stone
|
1958 | |
| Box 3 |
Havana Journal
|
1958 | |
| Box 3 |
The Watkins Republican
|
1958 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
June-Oct.1857 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
1856, before |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Oct.-Dec. 1857 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan.-April 1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
May-Aug. 30, 1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Sept. 1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Oct. 1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Nov. 1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Dec., 1858, n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan.-Aug. 30, 1859 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Sept.-Dec. 1859 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
1860 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan-April 1861 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Nov.-Dec. 1861, n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Sept.-Oct. 1861 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
May-Aug. 1861 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan-April 1862 |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
May-Aug. 1862 |
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Sept.-Dec. 1862 |
| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan-April 1863 |
| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
May-Aug. 1863 |
| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Sept.-Dec. 1863 |
| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Jan.-June 1864 |
| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
July-Dec. 1864 |
| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
1865 |
| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
1867 |
| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Receipts
|
1853-1880 |
| Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Administration, Finance, Construction
|
Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 30 |
Educational Papers
|
1850 |
| Box 4 | Folder 31 |
Educational Papers
|
1857 |
| Box 4 | Folder 32 |
Educational Papers
|
1858 |
| Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Educational Papers
|
June 6-June 14 1859 |
| Box 4 | Folder 34 |
Educational Papers
|
Aug.1-Nov.30 1859 |
| Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Educational Papers
|
1860 |
| Box 4 | Folder 36 |
Educational Papers
|
Jan.-Oct. 1861 |
| Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Educational Papers
|
Jan.-Nov. 1862 |
| Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Educational Papers
|
Jan.-Nov. 1863 |
| Box 4 | Folder 39 |
Educational Papers
|
Feb.-May 1863 |
| Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Educational Papers
|
April-June 1864 |
| Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Educational Papers
|
July-Nov. 1864 |
| Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Educational Papers
|
Undated |