Guide to the Elias W. Cady Papers,
1801-1857

Collection Number: 2399

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:
Date completed:
EAD encoding:

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Elias W. Cady papers, 1801-1857.
Collection Number:
2399
Creator:
Elias W., Cady b.1792.
Quantity:
54 items.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Letters to Cady relate to sheep raising, wool sales, lumbering, farm machinery, land sales, legislative issues including civil and criminal codes, free common schools, an agricultural college, the Sodus Canal, telegraphy, temperance, and family matters. There are also deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems. Correspondents include Jedediah Barber, Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Henry W. Sage, Josiah B. Williams, and others.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Farmer.
Farmer in Dryden, New York and New York assemblyman, 1850 and 1857.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters to Cady relate to sheep raising, wool sales, lumbering, farm machinery, land sales, legislative issues including civil and criminal codes, free common schools, an agricultural college, the Sodus Canal, telegraphy, temperance, and family matters. There are also deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems. Correspondents include Jedediah Barber, Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Henry W. Sage, Josiah B. Williams, and others.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cady, Elias W.,b.1792.
Barber, Jedediah.
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
McGraw, John, 1815-1877.
Sage, Henry W.(Henry Williams), 1814-1897.
Williams, Josiah B.

Subjects:
Agricultural colleges.
Canals.
Logging.
Lumbering.
Real property, Exchange of.
Sheep.
Telegraph.
Temperance.

Places:
Dryden (N.Y.)
New York (State)--Politics and government.

Form and Genre Terms:
Deeds.
Inventories.
Poems.
Sermons.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Elias W. Cady papers, #2399. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
(online container list not yet available.)