Wood family papers, 1926-19891941-1958
Collection Number: 3811

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Wood family papers, 1926-1989 1941-1958

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

3811

Abstract:

Dairy farm records of Mabel and Walter Wood and their sons, Loren and Carl, Horseheads, New York

Creator:

Wood family.

Quanitities:

8.2 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Dairy farm records of Mabel and Walter Wood and their sons, Loren and Carl, Horseheads, New York, contain financial records including farm and household bills and receipts, check stubs, milk check receipts, account books, and income tax records; Farm Security Administration receipts, account statements, correspondence, farm visit reports, and farm family record books; Farmers Home Administration loan records, promissory notes and agreements, mortgages, and farm development plans. Other farm records include inventories of real estate, cattle, and machinery; cattle records for registration, tuberculosis and brucellosis testing and certification, breeding, and milk production; New York State College of Agriculture production and feeding analysis sheets; poultry records; and USDA Agricultural Conservation Program forms for acreage allotments and allowances for lime and superphosphate.

Also, typescript stories and reminiscences.

Also Veterans Administration correspondence, insurance policies and claims, funeral receipts, will of Walter A. and Mabel Wood, and other documents relating to death of Walter A. Wood, Walter's discharge from the army; will of Mabel Wood; oil and gas leases; application for renewal of copyright; documents regarding property ownership and sale; and savings account book.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Wood family papers, #3811. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Wood, Carl.

Wood, Loren.

Wood, Mabel.

Wood, Walter.

Places:

Chemung County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.

Horseheads (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.

Subjects:

Poultry -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.

Milk yield.

Dairy farming -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.

Dairy farmers.

Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Horseheads.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Link to a partial finding aid.
		Scope and Contents Not all the material in the collection is covered by this guide.
Box 1	Folder 1	Receipts and bills	1941-1943
Box 1	Folder 2	Milk checks	1941-1947
Box 1	Folder 3	Income tax - Walter	1941-1961
Box 1	Folder 4	Receipts and bills	1942-1946
Box 1	Folder 5	Milk assignments and receipts - Payment to Farmers Home Administration	1942-1952
Box 1	Folder 6	Loose miscellaneous	1942-1957
Box 1	Folder 7	Bills and receipts	1947
Box 1	Folder 8	Bills and receipts	1948
Box 1	Folder 9	Bills and receipts	1949
Box 1	Folder 10	Bills and receipts	1951-1952
Box 1	Folder 11	Bills and receipts	1951-1952
Box 1	Folder 12	Accounts	1950
Box 1	Folder 13	Tax information	1952
Box 1	Folder 14	Old Doctor records and bills	1952-1960
Box 1	Folder 15	Bills and receipts	1953-1954
Box 1	Folder 16	Cattle listing	1953-1957
Box 1	Folder 17	Bills and receipts	1954-1956
Box 1	Folder 18	Milk assignments and receipts - payment to Farmers Home Administration	1954-1958
Box 1	Folder 19	Bills and receipts	1955
Box 1	Folder 20	Bills and receipts	1955
Box 1	Folder 21	Records and worksheets	1955
Box 2	Folder 1	Bills and receipts	1956-1957
Box 2	Folder 2	Production Feeding and Management Results	1958
Box 2	Folder 3	Mostly household	Date unknown
Box 2	Folder 4	Bills and receipts	1959-1960
Box 2	Folder 5	General merchandise bills, Elisha Narsh	1960
Box 2	Folder 6	Bills and receipts	1961
Box 2	Folder 7	General merchandise bills, Elisha Narsh	1962
Box 2	Folder 8	Bills and receipts	1963
Box 2	Folder 9	Bills and receipts	1963-1968
Box 2	Folder 10	Bills and receipts	1964
Box 2	Folder 11	Bills and receipts	1969-1974
		Scope and Contents 1969, 1974
Box 2	Folder 12	Bills and receipts	1970
Box 2	Folder 13	Bills and receipts	1970-1971
Box 2	Folder 14	Bills and receipts	1972
Box 3	Folder 1	Bills and receipts	1973
Box 3	Folder 2	Bills and receipts	1974-1975
Box 3	Folder 3	Bills and receipts	1976
Box 3	Folder 4	Records and accounts	1977
Box 3	Folder 5	Bills and receipts	1978
Box 3	Folder 6	Income tax - Carl	1941-1959
Box 3	Folder 7	Mostly Carl - bills and receipts	1944-1950
Box 3	Folder 8	Carl - bills and receipts	1947
Box 3	Folder 9	Carl - bills and receipts	1947-1948
Box 3	Folder 10	Carl - bills and receipts	1948-1952
Box 3	Folder 11	Carl - bills and receipts	1949
Box 3	Folder 12	Carl - bills and receipts	1949
Box 3	Folder 13	Carl - bills and receipts	1951
Box 3	Folder 14	Carl - bills and receipts	1951
Box 3	Folder 15	Carl - bills and receipts	1953
Box 3	Folder 16	Carl - bills and receipts	1955
Box 3	Folder 17	Carl - bills and receipts	1956
Box 3	Folder 18	Carl - bills and receipts, checks	1957
Box 3	Folder 19	Carl - bills and receipts, checks	1957
Box 3	Folder 20	Carl - Loren - bills and receipts	1954
Box 3	Folder 21	Loren - bills and receipts	1955
Box 3	Folder 22	Loren Wood - on farm til went in service (had some cattle of own)	1955
Box 3	Folder 23	Miscellaneous - not all by years	Date unknown
Box 4	Folder 1	Hospital insurance	1978
Box 4	Folder 2	Ayrshire Literature and letters FHA	1941-1952
Box 4	Folder 3	How to take a Farm Inventory	1931-1932
Box 4	Folder 4	How to take a Farm Inventory	1951-1952
Box 4	Folder 5-20	Farm Family Record Book	1941-1958
Box 4	Folder 21 -32	Farm Family Record Book - Carl	1942-1953
Box 4	Folder 33	Farm Cash Account Book	1942
Box 4	Folder 34	Farm Cash Account Book	1943
Box 4	Folder 35	Farm Cash Account Book	1943
Box 4	Folder 36	Farm Cash Account Book	1948-1949
Box 4	Folder 37	Farm Inventory for Five Years	1941-1945
Box 4	Folder 38	Farm Inventory for Five Years	1948-1952
Box 4	Folder 39	Account Book	1926-1934
Box 4	Folder 40	Apparently didn't have a record book	1931-1934
Box 4	Folder 41	Household	1940
Box 4	Folder 42	Cattle Record	1954-1958
Box 4	Folder 43	Accounts	1959-1963
Box 4	Folder 44	Records	1964-1976
Box 4	Folder 45	Cows - Carl	1940
Box 4	Folder 46	Cows - Carl	1941
Box 4	Folder 47	Ayrshire Cows - breeding records, production, etc.	1941-1949
Box 4	Folder 48	Cows - breeding records, etc.	1949-1952
Box 4	Folder 49	Catalog for the Dispersal Sale of the Carl and Walter Wood Ayrshire Herd	1952
Box 4	Folder 50	New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative, Inc. Yearbook	1955
Box 4	Folder 51	Farm Cash Account Book - Carl	1941
Box 4	Folder 52	Real estate, cattle, household - 5 year inventory	1954-1958
Box 4	Folder 53	Carl - machinery - 5 year inventory	1954-1958
Box 4	Folder 54	May, June, July Accounts	1939
Box 4	Folder 55	Household	1948
Box 4	Folder 56	Accounts - Carl	1954
Box 4	Folder 57	Accounts	1955
Box 4	Folder 58	Book lists, probably inventory in Wood house	Date unknown
Box 4	Folder 59	History of Catlin Methodist Church	1881-1981
Box 4	Folder 60	Miscellaneous - not all by years	Date unknown
Box 4	Folder 61	Miscellaneous - not all by years	Date unknown
Box 4	Folder 62	Family Financial Summary and Fuel Record	1970-1982
Box 5		Check stubs	Date unknown
Box 6		Check stubs	Date unknown
Box 7		Biographical sketches of Mabel Wood. Miscellaneous newspaper clippings; copies of t.s. poems, short stories, mostly by Mrs. Wood.	Date unknown
Box 8		Original pages to Bottle Book, as used for printing.	Date unknown
Box 9		Miscellaneous items collected by Mabel Wood	Date unknown
Box 13	Folder 1	Discharge and veteran miscellany	1919-1953
		Scope and Contents Walter A. Wood documents
Box 13	Folder 2	Veterans Administration correspondence	1922-1975
		Scope and Contents Walter A. Wood documents
Box 13	Folder 3	Cemetery plot documents and Walter Death Certificate	1972-1985
		Scope and Contents Walter A. Wood documents
Box 13	Folder 4	Real Estate Sales	1930-1988
		Scope and Contents Family Documents
Box 13	Folder 5	Gas leases, miscellaneous receipts	1934-1973
		Scope and Contents Family Documents
Box 13	Folder 6	Receipts for real estate transactions and loans in Walter's name	1924-1951
		Scope and Contents Family Documents - 1924-1929, 1942-1951
Box 13	Folder 7	Insurance	1932-1991
		Scope and Contents Family Documents
Box 13	Folder 8	Copyright forms and correspondence	1946-1973
		Scope and Contents Mabel Wood Documents
Box 13	Folder 9	Wills	1988-1990
		Scope and Contents Mabel Wood Documents
Box 13	Folder 10	Miscellany	1946-1991
		Scope and Contents Mabel Wood Documents

Contents

Wood family papers, 1926-19891941-1958 Collection Number: 3811

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Wood family papers, 1926-19891941-1958
Collection Number: 3811

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library