© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Herbert and Dorothy
Metzger, collectors, family papers,
1814-1883.
Collection Number:
1822
Creator:
Herbert,
Metzger
Quantity:
1.2 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Business and personal papers of the North and
related families of Walton and Unadilla, New York; included are correspondence
and accounts of Mary North (1814-66) and her first husband, Roswell Wright
(1816-30); estate and guardianship papers; and personal correspondence
(1833-56). Papers of Dr. Henry E. Bartlett, Mary North's second husband, a
physician and Democratic politician, include letters, resolutions, and reports
concerning his chairmanship of the New York State Senate railroad committee;
correspondence, notices, reports, monthly statements, landing permits,
immigrants' bonds, quarantine instructions, and other papers relating to his
appointment as Health Officer of the Port of New York (1854-55); reminiscences
of Bartlett's early life in Massachusetts and Stanstead, Quebec, and his early
years of medical study; his notes of Dr. Valentine Mott's medical lectures
(1826); papers concerning business ventures in which the Wrights or Bartletts
were interested; and numerous bills, accounts, and related items.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Business and personal papers of the North and related families of
Walton and Unadilla, New York; included are correspondence and accounts of Mary
North (1814-66) and her first husband, Roswell Wright (1816-30); estate and
guardianship papers; and personal correspondence (1833-56). Papers of Dr. Henry
E. Bartlett, Mary North's second husband, a physician and Democratic
politician, include letters, resolutions, and reports concerning his
chairmanship of the New York State Senate railroad committee; correspondence,
notices, reports, monthly statements, landing permits, immigrants' bonds,
quarantine instructions, and other papers relating to his appointment as Health
Officer of the Port of New York (1854-55); reminiscences of Bartlett's early
life in Massachusetts and Stanstead, Quebec, and his early years of medical
study; his notes of Dr. Valentine Mott's medical lectures (1826); papers
concerning business ventures in which the Wrights or Bartletts were interested;
and numerous bills, accounts, and related items.
Also, one volume of farm accounts, inventory, and property appraisal
of the Casper Metzgar (Metzger) estate; correspondence, legal documents,
specifications, and accounts pertaining to the financing , construction, and
subsequent ownership of a bridge built across the Susquehanna by the Sidney
Bridge Company (1823-53); papers concerning the sale of Delaware and Otsego
County butter by Camp and Welles, New York City produce commission merchants;
correspondence, right-of-way contracts, and other legal papers of the New York
and Oswego Midland Railroad (1868-71); and miscellaneous pamphlets, broadsides,
and other printed materials.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Metzger, Herbert,
Bartlett, Henry E.
Metzger family.
Metzger, Casper.
Metzger, Dorothy,
Mott, Valentine,
1785-1865.
North family.
North, Mary.
Wright, Roswell.
Camp and Welles.
New York (State).Senate.Railroad
Committee.
New York and Oswego Midland
Railroad.
Port of New York Authority.
Sidney Bridge Company.
Subjects:
Family--New York
(State)--Walton.
Family--New York
(State)--Unadilla.
Bridges--New York (State)
Butter trade--New York
(State)
Emigration and
immigration.
Medicine--Study and
teaching.
Public health--New York (State)--New
York.
Railroads--New York State.
Physicians.
Politicians.
Places:
New York (State)--Politics and
government.
Form and Genre Terms:
Lecture
notes.