Mitchell and Barnes families papers, 1791-1999.
Collection Number: 3785
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Mitchell and Barnes families papers, 1791-1999.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3785
Abstract:
Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks,
photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of
land in central and eastern New York.
Creator:
Mitchell family.
Barnes family.
Quanitities:
3.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks,
photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of
land in central and eastern New York. Much of the correspondence comprises letters
to Harriet (Hattie) Newell Mitchell (1822-1899) and her sister, Charlotte (Lottie)
E. Mitchell (1834-1916), daughters of John (1798-1886) and Phoebe Tichenor Mitchell
(1801-1837), and letters to Emily (Minnie) Ann Mitchell, daughter of William I. (1825-1904)
and Emily Ann Steenberg Mitchell (1826-1847); other major correspondents include Orrin
S. Wood (1817-1909), brother-in-law of Ezra Cornell, Bradford T. Mitchell (1837-1879),
William L. Mitchell (1825-1904), and Amelia Mitchell (Mrs. Henry Preswick, 1829-1912).
Also, autograph book of Minnie Mitchell, including poems by David Starr Jordan and
members of the Grove Literary Society, 1871; and composite photograph of members of
the Winter Course Rice Poultry Club, 1913-1914.
This correspondence concerns the death of Orrin Wood's wife of only ten months (Mary
I. Mitchell, 1821-1842), his trip to Maine with Ezra Cornell and other travels, his
impressions of Washington, D.C., where he went to learn telegraphy, his work in Canada
with the Montreal Telegraph Company and with several New York telegraph posts, including
the Utica telegraph office, and his marriage to Julia Forbes; Bradford T. Mitchell's
work, also in telegraphy, in various places including Ottawa, Illinois, where he married
Mary Miller, speculation in gold, silver, and Treasury notes with the aid of the telegraph,
politics, his partnership in a boot and shoe business, and their move from Illinois
to Utica; Emily (Minnie) Mitchell's visit to Saratoga Co., her marriage to Samuel
Burling Barnes (1852-1908), her feelings regarding living with her in-laws on a farm
in White Plains, N.Y., housekeeping, social life, relatives, and children, especially
her daughter Harriet M. Barnes ("Little Hattie," 1886-1957); and, in letters from
Hattie and Lottie, farming on land east of Ithaca, N.Y., friends and relatives, and
events in the Ithaca area. Additional correspondents include Ella L. Atwater, Samuel
Barnes, M. K. A. Benchley, Esther M. Boughton (Mrs. Henry Landon), Sarah Butts, William
N. Cobb, Carrie J. Dodge, Armitta Drake, Mary J. Edwards, G. C. Hall, M. C. Johnston,
David Starr Jordan, Mary Ann Miller Mitchell, Hiram Morse, E. R. Pinkney, Cornelia
Preswick,
Eugene Henry Preswick (Cornell University Class of 1883), Orrin C. Steenberg, Fred
I. Steenberg, Emily Ann Steenberg, and Hoffman and Catherine Steenberg. Also included
are daybooks (ca.1806-1835) containing financial records and medical remedies; Minnie
Mitchell's diary of 1869, which relates to everyday accounts of work, church, friends,
family, and visits to Saratoga Co.; and class notes, examinations, and laboratory
instructions of Harriet M. Barnes (Cornell University Class of 1912). Material deals
with areas of Allegany, Cayuga, Chemung, Dutchess, Montgomery, Onondaga, Saratoga,
Tioga, Tompkins, Washington, and Westchester Counties.
Also, two "family record" cross-stitch samplers in wicker trays with glass tops;
pressed and mounted botanical specimens; and dressmaking paterns, including the "Rodmure"
by Annie R. Dick, Albany, N.Y.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Mitchell and Barnes families papers, #3785. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Mitchell, Harriet Newell, 1822-1899.
Mitchell, Charlotte E., 1834-1916.
Mitchell, John, 1798-1886.
Mitchell, Phoebe Tichenor, 1801-1837.
Mitchell, Emily Ann.
Mitchell, William I., 1825-1904.
Mitchell, Emily Ann Steenberg, 1826-1847.
Wood, Orrin S., 1817-1909.
Mitchell, Bradford T., 1837-1879.
Mitchell, William L., 1825-1904.
Mitchell, Amelia.
Mitchell, Mary I., 1821-1842.
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
Forbes, Julia.
Barnes, Samuel Burling, 1852-1908.
Barnes, Hattie M.
Atwater, Elia L.
Barnes, Samuel.
Benchley, M. K. A.
Boughton, Esther M.
Butts, Sarah.
Cobb, William N.
Dodge, Carrie J.
Drake, Armitta.
Edwards, Mary J.
Hall, G. C.
Johnston, M. C.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Mitchell, Mary Ann Miller.
Morse, Hiram.
Pinkney, E. R.
Preswick, Cornelia.
Preswick, Eugene Henry.
Steenberg, Orrin C.
Steenberg, Fred I.
Steenberg, Emily Ann.
Steenberg, Hoffman.
Steenberg, Catherine.
Montreal Telegraph Company
Grove Literary Society (Cornell University)
New York State College of Agriculture. Rice Poultry Club
Places:
Washington (D.C.)
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Westchester County (N.Y.)
Washington County (N.Y.)
Tompkins County (N.Y.)
Tioga County (N.Y.)
Saratoga County (N.Y.)
Onondaga County (N.Y.)
Montgomery County (N.Y.)
Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Chemung County (N.Y.)
Cayuga County (N.Y.)
Allegany County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Botanical specimens.
Botany.
Dressmaking -- Patterns.
Land titles -- Registration and transfer.
Telegraph -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Samplers (embroidery).
Photographs.
Diaries.
Daybooks.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
1791-1819
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
1820-1836 , n.d.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
1830-1842
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
1843-1845
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
1846-1849
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
1852, 1855-1856
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
1857-1859
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
1860-1864
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
1865-1869
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
1870-1879
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
1882-1883
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
1884
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
1885-1889
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
n.d.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Newsclipping
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1876 |
Box 1 |
Daybooks of Benjamin F. and Silas Hutchinson, ca.
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1803-1835 | |
Box 1 |
Diary of Minnie Mitchell
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1869 | |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Herbarium sheets
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1905 |
Box 2 | Folder 2-10 |
Home Economics: laboratory instructions, class notes, examinations,
|
1910-1911 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
2 Mitchell Family Reunion Registers (helpful with genealogy)
|
1914-1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Manuscript book of poetry
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1871-1872 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Mitchell family reunions
|
1916-1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Cornell University miscellany
|
1888-1900 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Valentine to Minnie Mitchell
|
[1912?] |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Hattie Barnes correspondence
|
1916-1934 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Genealogy cards
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Letters: Howard D. Weeks
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1872-1881 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Letters to Minnie Mitchell
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1878, 1882-1883 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Letters: to Mr. & Mrs. Samuel B. Barnes, Kensico, N.Y., Westchester County; some from
W. S. Mitchell
|
1880's, 1899 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Wedding invitations
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1882-1908 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Wedding invitations
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1909-1915 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
S. William Barnes misce
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Mitchell family history
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Miscellany from Ithaca Academy
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1863-1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Photos: Barnes, Mitchell, and Hegeman family members
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1914 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Other families: Molan, Avery, Hildebrandt, Nichols, Chase, Burtis, Gardiner, Farling,
Crawford, Demorest
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Unidentified people
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Mitchell family home and farm
|
1800-1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Unidentified people and homes
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Pictures for Don Barnes I: members of Mitchell, Barnes (most images not identified)
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Pictures for Don Barnes II: none identified
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Pictures for Don Barnes III: members of Barnes, Chase, and Stewart families (most
images not identified); miscellaneous colored prints
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Box 5 |
Photo album: members of Barnes, Mitchell, Preswick, Mandiville, Hutchison, Farling,
Morse, Hegeman, Smith, McKinney, and Spencer families
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Box 5 |
Photo album: members of Tyler, Barnes, Preswick, Mitchell, Hegeman, Eelston, Benchley,
Spencer, Augell, Hutchison, Williams, and Eaton families
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Box 5 |
Photo album: members of Mitchell, Wood, Cornell, Hegeman, Preswick, Anderson, Johnston,
Cowdrey, Coddington, Ostrander, Tichenor, Titchenor, Howell, Smith, Brauner, Cunningham,
Shaver, Snyder, Chase, Mead, Voke, Halliday, Bryant, Kimball, Bunoye[?], Curran, Phillips,
Judd, and Mandiville families
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Loose photographs: members of Hutchinson, Diltz, Boakley, Steenberg, Steinberg, Bowman,
Edwards, Bryant, Mitchell, Berry, and Face families; calendar for 1908; negatives
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Barnes and Mitchell families: legal documents
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1833-1942 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Legal documents and relating correspondence, etc.
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1850-1967 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Barnes family legal documents
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1965-1974 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Mitchell/Barnes families: legal documents [many photocopies]
|
1932-1968 |
Box 6 |
Family Bible (includes clippings in both covers
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1873 | |
Box 6 |
History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, & Schuyler Counties, New York with Illustrations
|
1879 | |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Mitchell family: wills [many photocopies]
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1886-1947 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Deed transferring land to Cornell University
|
1936 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
James Mitchell and his descendants genealogy and poem
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Published items: friendship album of Emily Ann Steenbergh
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1840's |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
29 Views of Salem [Massachusetts]
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Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Trim from garment
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Oversize items: clippings re Burger King at East Hill Plaza
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1999 |
Box 8 |
Oversize family photographs
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Box 8 |
Family photographs: CD-354
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Box 9 |
Sampler
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1815 | |
Box 9 |
Sampler
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1834 | |
Box 10 |
Oversize items: 3 maps of New York State/Tompkins County
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1853-1855 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oversize items: zone map of Town of Ithaca
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1954 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oversize items: composite photograph of members of the Winter Course Rice Poultry
Club
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1913-1914 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Dressmaking patterns
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Mapcase Folder 2 |
Botanical specimens
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