Lawyer, district attorney, 1895-1903, and county judge and surrogate of Tompkins County, New York, 1904-1907; Cornell University trustee, 1901-1924; director of local corporations and bank official.
Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, depositions and other legal documents, statements of account, and memoranda, mainly concerning legal matters Blood handled in public office and in private practice, as well as his family and personal business affairs. Included are letters, photographs, and other papers dealing with liquor and gambling law violations; extradition proceedings and other aspects of civil and criminal cases; the settlement of estates, farm mortgage holdings and family properties in Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota and investments in Pitkin County, Colorado, bonds, and litigation over oil property in Titusville, Pennsylvania in which his father had invested; the visit of the Imperial Chinese Commissioners, 1906; his work as director and chairman of the executive committee of the Ithaca, New York, Telephone Company, much of which is concerned with its competition with the Bell System, and with the management of the Caroline Telephone Company and the Trumbull's Corners Telephone Company; his work as attorney for the Ithaca Street Railway, involving in part the choice of a route across the Cornell campus and the promotion of connecting electric lines; his interest in state and local Republican politics and such related matters as appointments and elections to the State Supreme Court and the selection of the site for a new post office building in Ithaca.
Also documented are Blood's activities as a Cornell alumnus, mainly regarding the promotion and financing of Alumni Field and his candidacy for reelection as alumni trustee in 1906, as graduate treasurer of the Cornell Masque, and as an alumnus and supporter of Kappa Alpha fraternity; and his activities as an Ithaca landlord, developer of Cornell Heights and Cayuga Heights, supporter of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music (now Ithaca College), and Presbyterian layman. Includes papers of Charles F. Blood. Correspondents include George W. Bacon, Fred D. Barto, W. D. Barnard, Herman Bergholtz, Romeyn Berry, Charles D. Bostwick, Herman V. Bostwick, Charles D. Coburn, T. F. Crane, Hollis E. Dann, Harry F. Dixie, John Wilbur Dwight, Albert F. Gladding, Samuel Grumbine, Henry Gaines Hawn, Hervey C. Hazen, David N. Heller, Frank H. Hiscock, Bert G. Hubbell, Horace Mack, Burr Mattice, Jared T. Newman, Cuthbert W. Pound, George Priest, George W. Ray, Willard W. Rowlee, Henry W. Sackett, Jacob Gould Schurman, John L. Senior, Edwin C. Stewart, Charles M. Titus, Charles E. Treman, Sr., Robert H. Treman, Henry A. Van Alstyne, Mynderse Van Cleef, Andrew S. White, Ernest I. White, Frederick J. Whiton, Emmons L. Williams, George R. Williams, Roger B. Williams, Clarence F. Wyckoff, and Edward G. Wyckoff.
Charles Hazen Blood Papers, #2263. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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Includes insurance contracts for the various properties that Blood owned and for the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca for which Blood was a trustee
Includes insurance contracts for the various properties that Blood owned and for the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca
Includes insurance contracts for the various properties that Blood owned and for the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca
Includes insurance contracts for the various properties that Blood owned in Ithaca
Includes insurance contracts for the various properties that Blood owned and for the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca; includes a congratulatory letter concerning Blood's election to the command of the 28th Brigade
Includes letters to and from Dr. White addressing Blood's concerns about the lack of a minister at the Presbyterian Church in Ithaca
Includes a letter to Dr. White concerning the search for a new minister in Ithaca; includes insurance contracts for the First Presbyterian Church
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Includes a letter written by Mr. Hawes from the Department of State in Washington regarding a suit of clothes; includes a letter from Willard Fiske written from Berlin thanking Blood for sending the suit he had requested
Includes Blood's business card as a merchant tailor and a dealer in cloths
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Includes a letter (July 1887) from Mr. Marsh informing Blood of his membership in the Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Crime; includes a letter (Sept. 1887) from Mr. Storms informing Blood of his unanimous election to the Ithaca Savings Bank's Board of Trustees; includes a letter (Dec. 1887) from Charles H. to his father regarding business matters
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Includes Cornell President Charles Adams' annual report for the year 1890-91
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Includes pamphlets from Southern California providing information for prospective investors and migrants
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Includes several sheets about the typhoid epidemic in 1903
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Includes letters from various people in different states endorsing Blood's re-election to the Board of Trustees
Includes a pamphlet outlining the nomination of Blood for Cornell Trustee for the election of June 1906
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Includes a pamphlet about the possibility of allowing library books to circulate into homes; includes a statement made by A.D. White about his opinion on circulating books; includes a map (
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Includes various information about the Cornell reunions on
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Includes several letters from various members of the Sphinx Head Society urging Blood to support the society's request for a plot of land on Cornell's campus. Blood was a member of the Quill and Dagger Society.
Includes several letters from various members of the Sphinx Head Society urging Blood to support the society's request for a plot of land on Cornell's campus
Includes Blood's biography for the 1907 edition of