Johnson family papers, 1816-1936.
Collection Number: 1200
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Johnson family papers, 1816-1936.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1200
Abstract:
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds;
bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and
papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca
Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers
of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters
written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a grandson of the first
Benjamin, from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and elsewhere in the West (1883-1896),
where he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; some correspondence
of his brother, Frederic Treman Johnson (1886-1890); cathedral rubbings made while
the latter was in England (1907), and bills, accounts and maps for that trip.
Creator:
Johnson family.
Quanitities:
5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
This collection contains records by and about Benjamin Johnson (1784-1848), his son
Charles D. Johnson and grandsons Benjamin Johnson and Frederic Treman Johnson. Benjamin
Johnson came to Ithaca, N.Y. around 1818.
Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds;
bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and
papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca
Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers
of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance, a total abstinence society
(1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson,
a grandson of the first Benjamin, from Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and elsewhere
in the West (1883-1896), where he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad; some correspondence of his brother, Frederic Treman Johnson (1886-1890);
cathedral rubbings made while the latter was in England (1907), and bills, accounts
and maps for that trip. Included are correspondence and other papers of Elijah B.
Cornell, A. Ward Gregory, George Hackney, Mary L. Tait, T. W. Welsh.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Johnson family papers, #1200. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Cornell, Elijah B.
Gregory, A. Ward.
Hackney, George.
Johnson, Benjamin, 1784-1848.
Johnson, Benjamin.
Johnson, Charles D.
Johnson, Frederic Treman.
Johnson, Jesse.
Tait, Mary L.
Welsh, T. W.
Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Royal Templars of Temperance -- : New York (State) -- : Ithaca.
Places:
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Tompkins County(N.Y.) -- Industries.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Industries.
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
England -- Maps.
New Mexico -- Description and travel.
Nevada -- Description and travel.
Kansas -- Description and travel.
Colorado -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
Industries -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
Industries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Temperance -- Societies, etc.
Teamsters -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
Railroads -- Employees.
Clock and watch industry -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Flour-mills -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Brickmaking -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
Form and Genre Terms:
Tourist maps.
Rubbings.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
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Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
|
1882-1884 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
|
Jan.-Mar. 1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
|
Apr.-May 1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
|
June-Aug. 1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
|
Sept.-Dec. 1885 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
Jan.-Feb. 1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
Mar.-Apr. 1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
|
May-Oct. 1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
Nov.-Dec. 1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
|
Jan.-Apr. 1887 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
|
May 1887-Dec. 1889 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
|
1890 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
|
Apr.-Sept. 1891 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
|
Jan.-May 1892 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
|
June-Aug. 1892 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence
|
Sept.-Dec. 1892 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
|
Feb.-Nov. 1893 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
|
May-Dec. 1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence
|
1895-1896, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
|
1907, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Papers
|
1818-1842 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Papers
|
1858-1880 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Papers
|
1878-1881 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Miscellany
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Great Britain travel notes, brochures
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Great Britain travel, maps
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Episcopal Church - articles, pictures
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