03896mpc  2200685 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001700066035002400083035002200107040002400129100003300153245002400186300001800210545011500228520146300343561014301806555003401949510006301983524011802046600002102164600003002185600002702215600001802242600002202260600002002282600001702302600001502319600002002334600002302354600001902377600002302396600002302419600001902442600002002461600002202481610002302503610003102526610004502557610002602602610004402628610004002672610003702712650001702749650001702766650004202783650004302825650002702868650001602895650002902911651004702940651005202987651005003039656002303089656001803112656002303130905002103153998000903174948002703183208642520010525142329.0880304i18131865nyu                 eng d  ams 73000346   a(CStRLIN)NYCV88A123  a(NIC)notisAKS4555  aNICcNICeappmdNIC1 aLoomis, Chester,d1789-1873.00kPapers,f1813-1865.  a3.6 cubic ft.  aMerchant; postmaster, Rushville, New York; Associate Judge of Ontario County; New York State Senator, 1835-38.  aPapers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and financial papers pertaining to a case involving the Geneva & Rushville Plank Road Company (1849-50) and other lawsuits, to the settlement of the estates of the Brackett and James families, Orpha Gates, Oren Green, John Lee, Nathan Pratt, and Royal Stearns, and to Loomis's interest in Geneva College (1827-38), now Hobart College; also, a deed (1813) for land in the town of Gorham from Ann Ellice and her children; bills and tuition and board receipts (1832-34) from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston County, New York, for Loomis's daughter, Amanda; thirty-three Civil War letters (162-64) written from various camps by his son, Charles, Morris O'Connell, Fayette Green, and other area men serving in the Union Army.  Other correspondents include the Ontario County Antislavery Society, Skaneateles Antislavery Society, William Ansley, Samuel Colt, William T. Crittenden, Richard Gilbert, James Loomis, Congressman Meredith Mallory, and Augustus Torrey.  aThese papers were formerly a part of the George Walther Historical Collection in the Middlesex Valley Central School, Rushville, New York.0 aBox list; partial item lists.0 aDescribed in REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND ARCHIVIST, 1962-66.  aChester Loomis.  Papers, #2238.  Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cornell University Libraries.10aAnsley, William.10aColt, Samuel,d1814-1862.10aCrittenden, William T.10aGates, Orpha.10aGilbert, Richard.10aGreen, Fayette.10aGreen, Oren.10aLee, John.10aLoomis, Amanda.10aLoomis, Charles A.10aLoomis, James.10aMallory, Meredith.10aO'Connell, Morris.10aPratt, Nathan.10aStearns, Royal.10aTorrey, Augustus.20aAntimasonic Party.20aBank of the United States.20aGeneva and Rushville Plank Road Company.20aGeneva College (N.Y.)20aGenessee Wesleyan Seminary (Lima, N.Y.)20aOntario County Antislavery Society.20aSkaneateles Antislavery Society. 0aFreemasonry. 0aPostmasters. 0aReal property, Exchange ofzMichigan. 0aReal property, Exchange ofzWisconsin. 0aAntislavery movements. 0aTemperance. 0aVeteranszUnited States. 0aNew York (State)xPolitics and government. 0aOntario County (N.Y.)xPolitics and government. 0aUnited StatesxHistoryyCivil War, 1861-1865. 7aBusinessmen.2lcsh 7aJudges.2lcsh 7aPoliticians.2lcsh  a20000111120000.0  s95542 a20010525bmdarc3ects