Guide to the Randolph Horton Papers,
1877-1928

Collection Number: 1799

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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:
N. Dean
Date completed:
August 1964
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Randolph Horton papers, 1877-1928.
Collection Number:
1799
Creator:
Randolph Horton, 1850-1929.
Quantity:
2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Legal papers, correspondence, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Primarily legal papers pertaining to various cases over which Judge Horton presided while Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District or as a private attorney; also, correspondence and papers (1917-1919) relating to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, of which Horton was a trustee, mainly in connection with its going into receivership and with its dissolution.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawyer, judge, mayor of Ithaca, New York.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Primarily legal papers pertaining to various cases over which Judge Horton presided while Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District or as a private attorney. Includes typed charges to the jury, printed appeal books, and a few letters; also, correspondence and papers (1917-1919) relating to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, of which Horton was a trustee, mainly in connection with its going into receivership and with its dissolution.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Horton, Randolph, 1850-1929.
Ithaca Calendar Clock Company.
New York (State). Supreme Court (Sixth District)

Subjects:
Bankruptcy.
Law
Judges.
Lawyers.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Randolph Horton papers, #1799. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Bishop, Anna H., Estate
 Box 1 Folder 1
Broome County - Charges to Jury
 Box 1 Folder 2
Broome County Supreme Court - Hon. Randolph Horton, Ithaca, N.Y. Charges
 Box 1 Folder 3-4
Corbin, Edd W., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 5
Dassance, Mary A., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 6
Davis, Dewitt C., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 7
Fleming, Andrew J., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 8
Fleming, Mary E., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 9
Griffith, Anna F., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 10
Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
 Box 1 Folder 11
Jefferson, Lucy A., Papers: printed appeals and letters
 Box 1 Folder 12
McKinney, James A., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 13
Pierson, A.C., Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 14
Poole, Mary L.
 Box 2 Folder 15
Poyer, Aaron, Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 16
Protts, Roger, Case
 Box 2 Folder 17
Puff, Alice B., Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 18
Quick, Martin A.
 Box 2 Folder 19
Ribble, Libbie, Matter
 Box 2 Folder 20
Rothchild, Daniel, Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 21
Solomon, Mike, Case
 Box 2 Folder 22
Trapp, Earl J. - Bankruptcy matter
 Box 2 Folder 23
Waverly
 Box 2 Folder 24
Waverly Water Case
 Box 2 Folder 25
Westmiller, Warren D., Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 26
Miscellaneous documents (not in folder)
 Box 2 Folder 27
Reprint from Ithaca Journal (undated) re: Horton's running for re-election as Justice, Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District (Democrat)
Box 2
Onetime Mayor of Ithaca 1909-1912(?); born Truxton 1850, lived in Cortland, Ithaca, attended Cornell; City Attorney; practiced law 1877-; circa. 1877-1928
Typed carbon copy of a 9 pp. Report to Randolph Horton, Ithaca Mayor, Apr. 15, 1909
 Box 2
From the Mayor's Committee of Citizens (Jacob Rothschild, Walter McCormick, Robert C. Osborn, Charles C. Howell, Joseph Campbell) who considered and investigated the question of erecting a Hospital for contagious diseases in the City of Ithaca and providing for its operation and maintenance. The Report also includes a summary of early hospital facilities, 1889- .
Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. - bankrupt 1917
Co. Letterhead (samples)
Letters to Randolph Horton - Trustee for bondholders of I.C.C. - co. business (closing out - selling stock) - H.J. Bool Co., Inc. Ithaca, 1818-1819
List of bondholders of co.
Bills
Ithaca Silk Mills - account of mason work done for by D.B. & Co. (?)
Driscoll Bros. & Co., Ithaca - bill to I.C.C.
Summary of inventory 1917 (Oct. 1)
List of machinery formerly belonging to I.C.C.
Statement to bondholders ( 1917 ) re: financial status of Co. and decisions of bondholders regarding financial status
Copies of legal papers
1918 - Letter to Jared T. Newman re: sale of machinery
Lists of equipment for sale
Letters to George W. Miller, President and General Manager
Copy of letter from George W. Miller ( 1917 ) explaining bitterly to a creditor in Boston why the Company went into receivership
Statement by Newman of best method of disposing of I.C.C.
Letter from J.T.N. to R.H.