White family papers, 1795-1922.
Collection Number: 1831
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
White family papers, 1795-1922.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1831
Abstract:
Correspondence and papers of Hugh White, William Pierrepont White, William Mansfield
White, and William Constable Pierrepont.
Creator:
White family.
Quanitities:
17.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence and papers of Hugh White, William Pierrepont White, William Mansfield
White, and William Constable Pierrepont, including extensive business and some personal
correspondence, legal papers and contracts pertaining to property owned by the White
family in Ann Arbor, Michigan and northern New York State, surveys, papers for a dam
in Pulaski, other miscellaneous family papers, and genealogies of the White and Mansfield
families.
William Pierrepont White family papers pertain to affairs in Utica, New York and
Oneida County.
William Mansfield White papers pertain to his legal activities as an executor of
the estates of William Constable Pierrepont and William C. White, his career as a
bank president, and Hamilton College alumni affairs. Also includes a diary (1867)
and White family genealogical data.
Hugh White's papers concern his legal activities as agent, attorney, and executor
for White family interests in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
William Constable Pierrepont papers include leases and other legal papers, his will,
and estate papers for which Gerritt H. Van Wagenen was executor.
Correspondents include Jesse C. Bowen, Mary Hill, Henry Hilton, John Muir, Anna P.
Van Wagenen, Anna M. White, C. Carroll White, DeLancey P. White, Evelyn White, Ruth
White, Benjamin Wright, and many others; also, the Fort Schuyler Club, the New York
State Agricultural Society, and several New York State railroads and utilities.
Includes collections #1831 and #1830.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
White family papers, #. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
White, Hugh.
White, William Pierrepont.
White, William Mansfield.
Pierrepont, William Constable.
Van Wagenen, Gerritt H.
Bowen, Jesse C.
Hill, Mary.
Hilton, Henry.
Muir, John.
Van Wagenen, Anna P.
White, Anna M.
White, C. Carroll.
White, Delancey P.
White, Evelyn.
White, Ruth.
Wright, Benjamin.
White, William C.
Mansfield family.
Hamilton College -- : Alumni.
Fort Schuyler Club (Utica, N.Y.)
New York State Agricultural Society
Places:
New York (State) -- Genealogy.
Subjects:
Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Utica.
Surveys -- New York (State)
Decedents estates -- New York (State)
Dams -- New York (State) -- Pulaski.
Real property -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Families -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Wills.
Leases.
Contracts.
Diaries.
Genealogies.
Legal documents.
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