Anna Elsbree papers, 1788-1953.
Collection Number: 1600
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Anna Elsbree papers, 1788-1953.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1600
Abstract:
Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters
and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the
New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company,
1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company,
No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County;
commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from Tompkins County;
autograph album, account and recipe book, and photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree;
many family and other photographs; broadsides and pamphlets; and much miscellaneous
material on local history and genealogy.
Creator:
Elsbree, Anna
Quanitities:
4.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes genealogical correspondence, 1922-53; mimeographed Elsbree family letters
and other papers; letters and other papers of Jabez and Lewis Beers relating to the
New Jerusalem Church of Danby, 1815-74, and to the Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company,
1810-20; attendance records and other papers of the Tornado Hook and Ladder Company,
No. 3, Ithaca, 1843-1928; notes and clippings on history of Ithaca and Tompkins County;
commencement ball in New Haven; invitations; cemetery records from Tompkins County;
autograph album, account and recipe book, and photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree;
many family and other photographs; broadsides and pamphlets; and much miscellaneous
material on local history and genealogy.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Anna Elsbree papers, #1600. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Beers, Jabez.
Beers, Lewis.
Elsbree, Llewellyn.
Elsbree family.
Ithaca and Owego Turnpike Company
New Jerusalem Church (Danby, N.Y.)
Tornado Hook and Ladder Company No. 3 (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Places:
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Genealogies.
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Danby (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Toll roads -- New York (State)
Fire stations.
Fire departments.
Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
Form and Genre Terms:
Recipes.
Photographs.
Genealogies.
Autographs (manuscripts).
Accounts.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Photograph album of Llewellyn Elsbree - members of Cornell '71-'75 and others
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1871-1875 | |
Box 1 |
Autograph album of Mary Belle Sherman, Galesburg, IIlinois
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Mar. 11, 1873 | |
Box 1 |
Notebook - bibliography, Curtis-Elsbree genealogy A-L
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Box 1 |
Notebook - genealogy Elsbree A-L
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Box 1 |
Notebook - genealogy Elsbree M-Z
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Box 1 |
Notebook - copy of mms. from Lewis Beers papers in Tompkins County Historical Rooms
copied by Anna Elsbree
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Box 1 |
Account book of amounts owed various people for services rendered apparently on farm
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1813 | |
Box 1 |
Notebook - genealogy A-K
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Box 1 |
Notebook - notes on early settlers of Ithaca and miscellaneous genealogies
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Box 1 |
Account book, recipe book
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1833-1846 | |
Box 2 |
Jabez and Lewis Beers: New Jerusalem Society of the County of Tioga Church, Danby
(Tioga County) papers; Ithaca & Owego Turnpike items
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1788-1874 | |
Scope and Contents
1788-1874, n.d.: bills, receipts and IOU's etc.; 1769-1849: Lewis Beers, president
of Ithaca & Owego Turnpike Co.; physician and preacher, 1810-1820; 1788: Jabez Beers
certified by Dr. Joseph Poor as unfit for military duty; 1815: May 30, announcement
of election of trustees (recorded May 31); 1817, March 16, agreement "to associate
in Church Order" signed by Lewis and Jabez Beers, Moses Tyler and others at Danby;
1817, March 23, adoption of 2 articles as "sole bonds of Church Association;" 1819,
May 29, baptismal certificate
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Box 2 |
Jabez and Lewis Beers: New Jerusalem Church papers; Ithaca & Owego Turnpike item
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1788-1874 | |
Scope and Contents
1824, Dec. 20, New Jerusalem Society - announcement of annual meeting, signed by Elbert
Curtis, Sec'y; 1822, April 21, Danby - copy of letter "Dear Sister" on religion and
work of the society, unsigned (Jabez Beers?); 1822, May 21, Danby, copy of letter
sent to Annual Convention, Philadelphia regarding "present unhappy division of sentiments
which prevail respecting the pastoral relation of the Minister to his Society;" 1824,
Jan. 10, record of resolution to build church and to start a subscription; 1825, Jan.
19, list of subscribers to building fund; 1831, July 25, copy of agreement signed
by members to subscribe specified sums of money for erecting a public library "to
consist of book in which the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church are contained and
taught, and also books in which those doctrines are questioned or disputed;" 1843,
Oct. 10, deed, Lewis Beers to the First New Jerusalem Church of the County of Tioga
(now Tompkins) land on which church was erected; undated, list of subscribers to purchase
organ
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Box 2 |
Jabez and Lewis Beers: New Jerusalem Church papers
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n.d. | |
Box 2 |
Newspaper clippings: History of Ithaca and environs
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Box 2 |
Tornado Hook & Ladder Co. #3 papers (probably originally collected by Dr. Coville)
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1843-1928 | |
Scope and Contents
Lists of members and attendance records, menus, announcements of meetings, a few letters
of resignation, etc., record of men in Service, June 1, 1918, annual report for 1928,
broadside (in broadside collection); 1843,Feb. 21, lady's ticket - First Annual Ball
- Fire Co. #3; booklets: Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Rules of Order and Membership,
Ithaca, 1887; photograph of painting of bucket brigade fighting blaze; copies of photographs
of old fire engines
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Box 2 |
Tornado Hook and Ladder Company papers
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n.d. | |
Box 2 |
Elsbree Family papers
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1761-1951 | |
Scope and Contents
Mimeographed family letters (1941-1951); typescript copy of statement of Nov. 15,
1933 regarding Ithaca Trust Co. as Trustee v. Ernest Blaker and Cascadilla School
Association, and resultant payment of $8.04 to Estate of Phebe C. Elsbree, as bondholder;
children's letters: Nathan Elsbree to Mother, July 4, 1887, one signed "Thomas," n.d.
and another Llewelyn, both to their grandmother, n.d.; 2 postcards and letter to Anna
E. from John? (cousin) (1942); typescript copy of will of Ephraim Elsbree, Jan. 3,
1761; 1872-1927 invitations
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Box 2 |
Miscellaneous Papers
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1897-1941, n.d. | |
Scope and Contents
Letter to Miss Curtis, June 7, 1926, from Adelaide Curtis Gunther; 2 undated and unsigned
poems written longhand on fashions; Oct. 18, 1897, card to Prof. E. Hitchcock, Jr.;
letter (March 2, 1932) and 4 postcards (1941) to a Mrs. Harry G. Morgan, Ithaca, from
her daughter; typescript copy of letter of Oct. 1828 from Betsy Curtis to her aunt
(?) describing ball at the (Yale?) commencement exercises, and commenting on family
matters
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Box 2 |
Tornado Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3, Ithaca, New York 1831-1931
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1931 | |
Box 2 |
Tornado Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3, Ithaca, New York
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1887 | |
Box 2 |
Tornado Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3, Ithaca, New York, 1831-1916
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1916 | |
Box 2 |
Outward Bound - A Journal and Note-Book for Ocean Voyages, kept by Elizabeth T. Curtis,
S.S. Barbarossa, June 12, 1902
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1893 | |
Box 2 |
The Prime Ancient Society of Fairfield, Conn. 1639-1889
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1889 | |
Box 2 |
News Boy's Greetings Ithaca Dailly News
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1909 | |
Box 2 |
History of the Ely Re-union, held at Lyme, Conn., July 10th, 1878
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1878 | |
Box 2 |
"Act of Incorporation and Rules & Regulations of the Cornell Library Association,
Ithaca, N.Y."
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1876 | |
Box 2 |
"Sermon on the Occasion of the Last Sunday in the Old (Christ) Church, Towanda, Penna.,
by Rev. Percy J. Robottom, M.A."
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1889 | |
Box 2 |
Reunion of the Descendants of Daniel Shelton, at Birmingham, Conn., June 14th, 1877
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1877 | |
Box 2 |
leaflet: The Little Chapel on the Mount
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1931 | |
Box 2 |
The Congregational Church of Danby, N.Y. Services to Commemorate the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church and the Thirty-eighth Year
of the Pastorate of the Rev. B. F. Tobey, Oct. 2, 1932
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1932 | |
Box 3 |
Genealogical data - printed matter
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - A-B
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - C
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - D-F
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - G-Hall
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - Hawes
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - Hawkins-Hyatt
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - J-K
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - L-M
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - P-S
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - T-Z
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Box 3 |
Genealogical notes - miscellaneous
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Box 3 |
Scrapbook - newspaper clippings, c. 1872-1924; manuscript poems
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