© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Parkhurst and
McMaster family papers, [ca. 1800-1940]
Collection Number:
2075
Creator:
Quantity:
13.6 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Included are legal files of Bath, New York,
attorneys Guy Humphreys McMaster and his son-in-law, John Foster Parkhurst,
which contain briefs, summonses, court orders, correspondence, memoranda,
accounts, opinions, notebooks, and other papers, ca. 1850-1900. Also, deeds and
related documents concerning land in Steuben County; legal papers of David
McMaster; accounts of Dr. Andrew Baker, ca. 1828; family and personal letters;
a clipping scrapbook; manuscript poetry of the McMaster family; and
photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, maps, and local historical and genealogical
materials.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Included are legal files of Bath, New York, attorneys Guy Humphreys
McMaster and his son-in-law, John Foster Parkhurst, which contain briefs,
summonses, court orders, correspondence, memoranda, accounts, opinions,
notebooks, and other papers, ca. 1850-1900. Also, deeds and related documents
concerning land in Steuben County; legal papers of David McMaster; accounts of
Dr. Andrew Baker, ca. 1828; family and personal letters; a clipping scrapbook;
manuscript poetry of the McMaster family; and photographs, broadsides,
pamphlets, maps, and local historical and genealogical materials.
Papers relating to the practice of Guy M. McMaster (Steuben County
Judge) and his partner, J. F. Parkhurst; contains material pertaining to
history of Steuben and neighboring counties, papers on the organization of the
Urbana Wine Company (1867-1882), the development of the First National Bank of
Bath, the New York Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the Portage Creek and Rich
Valley Railroad, and lumbering intersts in the vicinity.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Parkhurst and McMaster
family.
Baker, Andrew.
McMaster, David,
1804-1888.
McMaster, Guy H.(Guy Humphrey),
1829-1887.
Parkhurst, John Foster,
1843-1906.
First National Bank of Bath.
New York Lackawanna and Western
Railroad.
Rich Valley Railroad.
Urbana Wine Company.
Subjects:
Family--New York (State)--Steuben
County.
Law--New York
(State)--Bath.
Lumber trade--New York
(State)--Steuben County.
Real property, Exchange of--New York
(State)--Steuben County.
Lawyers.
Places:
Steuben County (N.Y.)--History,
Local.
Form and Genre Terms:
Broadsides.
Genealogies.
Maps.
Photographs.
Poems.