Guide to the Percy Reese Morgan Papers,
1935-1961.

Collection Number: 4449

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:
A.C. Lipsky
Date completed:
February 1991
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2004

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Percy Reese Morgan papers, 1935-1961.
Collection Number:
4449
Creator:
Percy Reese Morgan.
Quantity:
2.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
{comma separted list of material formats; end with period.}
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers of Percy Reese Morgan, a fruit farmer in Lewiston, N.Y. and observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in the Lewiston area.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Fruit farmer in Lewiston, N.Y. and observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in the Lewiston area. His wife was Mary Dodge Morgan.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence with family, friends, business associates and public officials; farm records; farm animal health and veterinary records; weather reports, 1949-1960; handwritten and typescript diaries, 1921-1961; extension reports; records of the Lewiston-Queenston Rotary Club; items relating to the New York State Horticultural Association; and pamphlets and brochures.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Morgan, Percy Reese.
Morgan, Mary Dodge.
Cornell University. Cooperative Extension.
Lewiston-Queenston Rotary Club.
New York State Horticultural Association.
United States. Weather Bureau.

Subjects:
Family--New York (State)--Lewiston.
Fruit-culture--New York (State)--Lewiston.
Animal health.
Farms--New York (State)--Niagara County.
Agriculture--Accounting.
Weather forecasting--New York (State)--Lewiston.
Rotary clubs--New York (State)--Lewiston.

Places:
Niagara County (N.Y.)--History, Local.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Percy Reese Morgan papers, #4449. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1937-1941
Correspondence, etc. "A". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 1
1948-1950
Correspondence, Bills. "A". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 2
1951-1954
Correspondence, Extension reports. "A".
 Box 1 Folder 3
1957-1960
Correspondence, job orders, postcards. "A". (4.)
 Box 1 Folder 4
1906, 1909, 1949-1950
Correspondence, etc. "B". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 5
1951-1952
Correspondence, invoices. "B". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 6
1953-1954
Correspondence, invoices. "B". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 7
1957-1958
Correspondence, invoices, and other accounts. "B". (4.)
 Box 1 Folder 8
1959-1960
Correspondence, etc. "B". (5.)
 Box 1 Folder 9
1938-1950
Conservation reports, Extension service reports, invoices. "C". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 10
1951-1953
Conservation reports, clippings, invoices. "C". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 11
1954-1960
Conservation reports, correspondence, Extension service reports, invoices. "C". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 12
1948-1951
Correspondence, brochures, Bills. "D". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 13
1957
Correspondence, etc. "D". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 14
1958
Correspondence. "D". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 15
1959
Correspondence. "D". (4.)
 Box 1 Folder 16
1960
Correspondence. "D". (5.)
 Box 1 Folder 17
1941-1960
Extension service reports, correspondence. "E".
 Box 1 Folder 18
1905, 1948-1954
Correspondence, clippings, etc. "F". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 19
1957-1958
Correspondence. "F". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 20
1959-1960
Correspondence. "F". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 21
1942-1960
Correspondence, etc. "G".
 Box 1 Folder 22
1905, 1943, 1949-1951
Correspondence, bills. "H". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 23
1952-1956
Correspondence, bills, and other invoices. "H". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 24
1957
Correspondence, bills, and other invoices. "H". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 25
1958
Correspondence. "H". (4.)
 Box 1 Folder 26
1958
Correspondence. "H". (5.)
 Box 1 Folder 27
1959
Correspondence. "H". (6.)
 Box 1 Folder 28
1960-1961
Correspondence. "H". (7.)
 Box 1 Folder 29
1949-1960
Income Tax and insurance statements. "I".
 Box 1 Folder 30
1949-1959
Correspondence, bills. "J".
 Box 1 Folder 31
1949-1954
Correspondence, bills, invoices. "K". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 32
1957
Correspondence, invoices. "K". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 33
1958-1959
Correspondence, invoices, bills. "K". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 34
1949-1952
Correspondence, invoices, labor income. "L". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 35
1953-1960
Correspondence, etc. "L". (2.)
 Box 1 Folder 36
1900, 1905, 1918, 1944-1950
Correspondence, invoices and orders. "M". (1.)
 Box 1 Folder 37
1951-1952
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 38
1953-1957
Correspondence, bills and invoices. "M". (3.)
 Box 1 Folder 39
1958
Postcards, correspondence. "M". (4.)
 Box 1 Folder 40
1959
Correspondence. "M". (5.)
 Box 1 Folder 41
1960
Correspondence. "M". (6.)
 Box 1 Folder 42
1905-1906, 1949-1950
Correspondence, map, invoices. "N". (1.)
 Box 2 Folder 1
1951-1952
Correspondence, bills and invoices. "N". (2.)
 Box 2 Folder 2
1953
Bills and invoices. "N". (3.)
 Box 2 Folder 3
1954
Correspondence, invoices. "N". (4.)
 Box 2 Folder 4
1957-1960
Correspondence, invoices. "N". (5.)
 Box 2 Folder 5
1950-1958
Correspondence, bills. "O".
 Box 2 Folder 6
1949-1960
Correspondence, a play written by PRW, memorials for Mary Dodge Morgen, invoices. "P".
 Box 2 Folder 7
1935-1951
Rotary club correspondence, invoices, other correspondence. "R". (1.)
 Box 2 Folder 8
1952-1960
Rotary club correspondence, invoices, other correspondence. "R". (2.)
 Box 2 Folder 9
1905, 1934, 1948-1950
Correspondence, etc. "S". (1.)
 Box 2 Folder 10
1951-1954
Correspondence, invoices and bills. "S". (2.)
 Box 2 Folder 11
1957-1959
Correspondence, invoices and bills. "S". (3.)
 Box 2 Folder 12
1907, 1935, 1950-1953
Tax statements, correspondence, etc. "T". (1.)
 Box 2 Folder 13
1957-1960
Tax statements, correspondence, etc. "T". (2.)
 Box 2 Folder 14
1949
Correspondence, bills. "U".
 Box 2 Folder 15
1948-1960
Animal health reports, bills and invoices. "V".
 Box 2 Folder 16
1939-1955
Estate Appraisal of Felix Woolworth done by PRM, wheat allotment reports, correspondence, bills. "W". (1.)
 Box 2 Folder 17
1956-1961
Correspondence, bills.
 Box 2 Folder 18
1949-1960
Correspondence, bills.
 Box 2 Folder 19
1953
Clipping re: zoning applications.
 Box 2 Folder 20
1943-1957
Artificial Breeding Association Receipts.
 Box 2 Folder 21
1942-1952
Beekeeping.
 Box 2 Folder 22
1937-1955
Bulletins, pamphlets, newsletters.
 Box 2 Folder 23
1938
Extension Service Information sheets.
 Box 2 Folder 24
1939-1941
Extension Service Information sheets.
 Box 2 Folder 25
1942-1954
Extension Service Programs and Information sheets.
 Box 2 Folder 26
1938-1943
Dairy Farm Service Letters.
 Box 2 Folder 27
1887-1905
Erie County Savings Bank book. (Buffalo, N.Y.)
 Box 2 Folder 28
n.d.
Morgan family history.
 Box 2 Folder 29
1940-1950
Farm Service Letters and Miscellaneous.
 Box 2 Folder 30
1948-1959
Lewiston Meat Market and Frozen Food Locker Service.
 Box 2 Folder 31
1937-1957
Miscellaneous - Fruit, Bulbs, other information sheets.
 Box 2 Folder 32
1940-1960
New York Telephone Company Service statements.
 Box 2 Folder 33
1939, 1950-1951
Niagara County Historical Society and local history.
 Box 2 Folder 34
1940-1960
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Electric bills.
 Box 2 Folder 35
1957-1961
Obituaries (Mary Dodge Morgan and Percy Reese Morgan).
 Box 2 Folder 36
1943-1952
Purchase orders and invoices.
 Box 2 Folder 37
1938-1957
Tax Forms for fuel and other farm equipment.
 Box 2 Folder 38
Sept. 21, 1957
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau Certificate of Authority.
 Box 2 Folder 39
1941-1954
Veterinary records.
 Box 2 Folder 40
1950-1960
Water Department Bills, Town of Lewiston, New York.
 Box 2 Folder 41
1949-1960
Weather Reports, Correspondence and newspaper clippings.
 Box 2 Folder 42
1934-1935
Correspondence with Richard Templeton including court documents re: last will and testament of Hiram Dodge.
 Box 3 Folder 1
1948-1950
Personal typescript diary of Percy Reese Morgan. (PRM)
 Box 3 Folder 2
1958
Personal cash accounts.
 Box 3 Folder 3
1958-1961
Personal typescript diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 4
ca. 1923-1924
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 5
1930
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 6
1921
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 7
1947
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 8
1923
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 9
1933
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
 Box 3 Folder 10
Jan. 1948-Jan. 1952
Bound typescript diary of Percy Reese Morgan. (PRM)
 Box 4 Folder 1
Photographic negatives
 Box 5