© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
White family papers,
1795-1922.
Collection Number:
Creator:
Quantity:
17.1 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Legal
Documents
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence and papers of Hugh White,
William Pierrepont White, William Mansfield White, and William Constable
Pierrepont.
Language:
Collection material in
English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence and papers of Hugh White, William Pierrepont White,
William Mansfield White, and William Constable Pierrepont, including extensive
business and some personal correspondence, legal papers and contracts
pertaining to property owned by the White family in Ann Arbor, Michigan and
northern New York State, surveys, papers for a dam in Pulaski, other
miscellaneous family papers, and genealogies of the White and Mansfield
families.
William Pierrepont White family papers pertain to affairs in Utica,
New York and Oneida County.
William Mansfield White papers pertain to his legal activities as an
executor of the estates of William Constable Pierrepont and William C. White,
his career as a bank president, and Hamilton College alumni affairs. Also
includes a diary (1867) and White family genealogical data.
Hugh White's papers concern his legal activities as agent, attorney,
and executor for White family interests in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
William Constable Pierrepont papers include leases and other legal
papers, his will, and estate papers for which Gerritt H. Van Wagenen was
executor.
Correspondents include Jesse C. Bowen, Mary Hill, Henry Hilton, John
Muir, Anna P. Van Wagenen, Anna M. White, C. Carroll White, DeLancey P. White,
Evelyn White, Ruth White, Benjamin Wright, and many others; also, the Fort
Schuyler Club, the New York State Agricultural Society, and several New York
State railroads and utilities.
SUBJECTS
Names:
White family.
Bowen, Jesse C.
Hill, Mary.
Hilton, Henry.
Mansfield family.
Muir, John.
Pierrepont, William Constable.
Van Wagenen, Anna P.
Van Wagenen, Gerritt H.
White, Anna M.
White, C. Carroll.
White, Delancey P.
White, Evelyn.
White, Hugh.
White, Ruth.
White, William C.
White, William Mansfield.
White, William Pierrepont.
Wright, Benjamin.
Fort Schuyler Club (Utica,
N.Y.)
Hamilton
College--Alumni.
New York State Agricultural
Society.
Subjects:
Family--New York (State)
Real property--Michigan--Ann
Arbor.
Dams--New York
(State)--Pulaski.
Decedents estates--New York
(State)
Surveys--New York (State)
Banks and banking--New York
(State)--Utica.
Places:
New York
(State)--Genealogy.
Form and Genre Terms:
Legal
documents.
Genealogies.
Diaries.
Contracts.
Leases.
Wills.