Farmer.
Farmer in Dryden, New York and New York assemblyman, 1850 and 1857.
Letters to Cady relate to sheep raising, wool sales, lumbering, farm machinery, land sales, legislative issues including civil and criminal codes, free common schools, an agricultural college, the Sodus Canal, telegraphy, temperance, and family matters. There are also deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems. Correspondents include Jedediah Barber, Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Henry W. Sage, Josiah B. Williams, and others.
Elias W. Cady papers, #2399. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.