04216cpc  2200649   4500001000800000005001700008008004100025035002600066040002400092100003600116245004200152300001800194545077300212520039800985520044301383520014301826520021001969555001502179524010402194500005702298600004002355600004602395600002002441600002202461600002302483600001702506600005202523600005102575600005002626600004002676600002102716600002202737600002002759600002102779600003902800600003002839600003802869600001902907610003302926610002402959610004102983610004803024610005403072610004403126610005403170610004903224610003703273650003603310650003803346650002903384650004703413650005003460650001303510650001203523650002203535998000903557406777220010924161522.0841016i18391891nyu                 eng d  a(CStRLIN)NYCV84-A1738  aNICcNICeappmdNIC1 aBoardman, Douglass,d1822-1891.00aDouglass Boardman papers,f1839-1891.  a8.3 cubic ft.  aLawyer, judge, professor of law.bDouglass Boardman graduated from Yale in 1842 and then studied law.  He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced law in Ithaca, New York.  From 1848-1851 he served as District Attorney of Tompkins County, New York, and from 1852-1856 was County Judge.  In 1856 he and Judge Francis M. Finch formed a law partnership which continued until 1866 when Boardman was elected a justice of the Supreme Court for the 6th district.  He was a director of the First National Bank of Ithaca from its organization in 1864 and became its president in 1884; became a trustee of Cornell University in 1875; and was appointed Dean when the Cornell Law School was organized.  Judge Boardman retired from the Supreme Court in 1887, and died in 1891.  aLetters concerning the appointment of the original faculty of the Cornell Law School.  Correspondents include Henry Williams Sage, Charles Kendall Adams, Charles Avery Collin, Francis Miles Finch, Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Henry Thurston, Daniel L. Follett, Lucien A. Wait, Herbert Tuttle, Arthur M. Curtis, Alfred C. Coxe, and H. J. Heath.  Also, an Introductory lecture by Boardman, 1890.8 aAlso, legal papers of Boardman and Finch, and of Douglass Boardman of Ithaca; chiefly concerns mortgages, with reference to McGregor and Tenny, and Erastus W. Drury of Milwaukee, the Lewis Investment Company, the Topeka Investment and Loan Company, the Kansas City Investment Company, Rochelle National Bank, the Kansas Loan and Trust Company, the Dwight Farm and Loan Company, the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, and Woodward Brothers.8 aAlso, Boardman family correspondence and deeds, mortgages, and other legal papers,including two letters from Boardman to Dr. Henry Spence.8 aAlso, correspondence, business and legal papers concerning the Jennie McGraw Fiske estate, including correspondence with Boardman pertaining to Andrew Dickson White and Cornell University, and John McGraw.0 aItem list.  aDouglass Boardman Papers.  Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.  aConsists of collections #18/1/2004, #435, and #1622.10aAdams, Charles Kendall,d1835-1902.10aCollin, C. A.q(Charles Avery),db. 1846.10aCoxe, Alfred C.10aCurtis, Arthur M.10aFollett, Daniel L.10aHeath, H. J.10aFinch, Francis M.q(Francis Miles),d1827-1907.10aHutchins, Harry B.q(Harry Burns),d1847-1930.10aSage, Henry W.q(Henry Williams),d1814-1897.10aThurston, Robert Henry,d1839-1903.10aTuttle, Herbert.10aDrury, Erastus W.10aWait, Lucien A.30aBoardman family.10aWhite, Andrew Dickson,d1832-1918.10aMcGraw, John,d1815-1877.10aFiske, Jennie McGraw,d1840-1881.10aSpence, Henry.20aCornell Law SchoolxFaculty.20aCornell Law School.20aMcGregor and Tenny (Milwaukee, Wis.)20aLewis Investment Company (Des Moines, Iowa)20aTopeka Investment and Loan Company (Topeka, Kan.)20aRochelle National Bank (Rochelle, Ill.)20aKansas City Investment Company (Kansas City, Mo.)20aKansas Loan and Trust Company (Topeka, Kan.)20aDwight Brothers (Beatrice, Neb.) 0aReal estate investmentzKansas. 0aReal estate investmentzMissouri. 0aFamilyzNew York (State) 0aLegal documentszNew York (State)zIthaca. 0aDecedent's estateszNew York (State)zIthaca. 0aLawyers. 0aJudges. 0aCollege teachers.  s9554