Percy Reese Morgan papers, 1900-1961.
Collection Number: 4449

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Percy Reese Morgan papers, 1900-1961.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4449
Abstract:
Papers of Percy Reese Morgan, a fruit farmer in Lewiston, N.Y. and observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in the Lewiston area.
Creator:
Morgan, Percy Reese.
Quanitities:
2.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Fruit farmer in Lewiston, N.Y. and observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in the Lewiston area. His wife was Mary Dodge Morgan.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence with family, friends, business associates and public officials; farm records; farm animal health and veterinary records; weather reports, 1949-1960; handwritten and typescript diaries, 1921-1961; extension reports; records of the Lewiston-Queenston Rotary Club; items relating to the New York State Horticultural Association; and pamphlets and brochures.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Percy Reese Morgan papers, #4449. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Morgan, Mary Dodge.
United States. Weather Bureau
Cornell University. Cooperative Extension
Lewiston-Queenston Rotary Club
New York State Horticultural Association
Places:
Niagara County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
Subjects:
Rotary clubs -- New York (State) -- Lewiston.
Weather forecasting -- New York (State) -- Lewiston.
Agriculture -- Accounting.
Farms -- New York (State) -- Niagara County.
Animal health.
Fruit-culture -- New York (State) -- Lewiston.
Families -- New York (State) -- Lewiston.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence, etc. "A". (1.)
1937-1941
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence, Bills. "A". (2.)
1948-1950
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence, Extension reports. "A".
1951-1954
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence, job orders, postcards. "A". (4.)
1957-1960
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence, etc. "B". (1.)
1906, 1909, 1949-1950
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence, invoices. "B". (2.)
1951-1952
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence, invoices. "B". (3.)
1953-1954
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence, invoices, and other accounts. "B". (4.)
1957-1958
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence, etc. "B". (5.)
1959-1960
Box 1 Folder 10
Conservation reports, Extension service reports, invoices. "C". (1.)
1938-1950
Box 1 Folder 11
Conservation reports, clippings, invoices. "C". (2.)
1951-1953
Box 1 Folder 12
Conservation reports, correspondence, Extension service reports, invoices. "C". (3.)
1954-1960
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence, brochures, Bills. "D". (1.)
1948-1951
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence, etc. "D". (2.)
1957
Box 1 Folder 15
Correspondence. "D". (3.)
1958
Box 1 Folder 16
Correspondence. "D". (4.)
1959
Box 1 Folder 17
Correspondence. "D". (5.)
1960
Box 1 Folder 18
Extension service reports, correspondence. "E".
1941-1960
Box 1 Folder 19
Correspondence, clippings, etc. "F". (1.)
1905, 1948-1954
Box 1 Folder 20
Correspondence. "F". (2.)
1957-1958
Box 1 Folder 21
Correspondence. "F". (3.)
1959-1960
Box 1 Folder 22
Correspondence, etc. "G".
1942-1960
Box 1 Folder 23
Correspondence, bills. "H". (1.)
1905, 1943, 1949-1951
Box 1 Folder 24
Correspondence, bills, and other invoices. "H". (2.)
1952-1956
Box 1 Folder 25
Correspondence, bills, and other invoices. "H". (3.)
1957
Box 1 Folder 26
Correspondence. "H". (4.)
1958
Box 1 Folder 27
Correspondence. "H". (5.)
1958
Box 1 Folder 28
Correspondence. "H". (6.)
1959
Box 1 Folder 29
Correspondence. "H". (7.)
1960-1961
Box 1 Folder 30
Income Tax and insurance statements. "I".
1949-1960
Box 1 Folder 31
Correspondence, bills. "J".
1949-1959
Box 1 Folder 32
Correspondence, bills, invoices. "K". (1.)
1949-1954
Box 1 Folder 33
Correspondence, invoices. "K". (2.)
1957
Box 1 Folder 34
Correspondence, invoices, bills. "K". (3.)
1958-1959
Box 1 Folder 35
Correspondence, invoices, labor income. "L". (1.)
1949-1952
Box 1 Folder 36
Correspondence, etc. "L". (2.)
1953-1960
Box 1 Folder 37
Correspondence, invoices and orders. "M". (1.)
1900, 1905, 1918, 1944-1950
Box 1 Folder 38
Correspondence
1951-1952
Box 1 Folder 39
Correspondence, bills and invoices. "M". (3.)
1953-1957
Box 1 Folder 40
Postcards, correspondence. "M". (4.)
1958
Box 1 Folder 41
Correspondence. "M". (5.)
1959
Box 1 Folder 42
Correspondence. "M". (6.)
1960
Box 2 Folder 1
Correspondence, map, invoices. "N". (1.)
1905-1906, 1949-1950
Box 2 Folder 2
Correspondence, bills and invoices. "N". (2.)
1951-1952
Box 2 Folder 3
Bills and invoices. "N". (3.)
1953
Box 2 Folder 4
Correspondence, invoices. "N". (4.)
1954
Box 2 Folder 5
Correspondence, invoices. "N". (5.)
1957-1960
Box 2 Folder 6
Correspondence, bills. "O".
1950-1958
Box 2 Folder 7
Correspondence, a play written by PRW, memorials for Mary Dodge Morgen, invoices. "P".
1949-1960
Box 2 Folder 8
Rotary club correspondence, invoices, other correspondence. "R". (1.)
1935-1951
Box 2 Folder 9
Rotary club correspondence, invoices, other correspondence. "R". (2.)
1952-1960
Box 2 Folder 10
Correspondence, etc. "S". (1.)
1905, 1934, 1948-1950
Box 2 Folder 11
Correspondence, invoices and bills. "S". (2.)
1951-1954
Box 2 Folder 12
Correspondence, invoices and bills. "S". (3.)
1957-1959
Box 2 Folder 13
Tax statements, correspondence, etc. "T". (1.)
1907, 1935, 1950-1953
Box 2 Folder 14
Tax statements, correspondence, etc. "T". (2.)
1957-1960
Box 2 Folder 15
Correspondence, bills. "U".
1949
Box 2 Folder 16
Animal health reports, bills and invoices. "V".
1948-1960
Box 2 Folder 17
Estate Appraisal of Felix Woolworth done by PRM, wheat allotment reports, correspondence, bills. "W". (1.)
1939-1955
Box 2 Folder 18
Correspondence, bills.
1956-1961
Box 2 Folder 19
Correspondence, bills.
1949-1960
Box 2 Folder 20
Clipping re: zoning applications.
1953
Box 2 Folder 21
Artificial Breeding Association Receipts.
1943-1957
Box 2 Folder 22
Beekeeping.
1942-1952
Box 2 Folder 23
Bulletins, pamphlets, newsletters.
1937-1955
Box 2 Folder 24
Extension Service Information sheets.
1938
Box 2 Folder 25
Extension Service Information sheets.
1939-1941
Box 2 Folder 26
Extension Service Programs and Information sheets.
1942-1954
Box 2 Folder 27
Dairy Farm Service Letters.
1938-1943
Box 2 Folder 28
Erie County Savings Bank book. (Buffalo, N.Y.)
1887-1905
Box 2 Folder 29
Morgan family history.
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 30
Farm Service Letters and Miscellaneous.
1940-1950
Box 2 Folder 31
Lewiston Meat Market and Frozen Food Locker Service.
1948-1959
Box 2 Folder 32
Miscellaneous - Fruit, Bulbs, other information sheets.
1937-1957
Box 2 Folder 33
New York Telephone Company Service statements.
1940-1960
Box 2 Folder 34
Niagara County Historical Society and local history.
1939, 1950-1951
Box 2 Folder 35
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Electric bills.
1940-1960
Box 2 Folder 36
Obituaries (Mary Dodge Morgan and Percy Reese Morgan).
1957-1961
Box 2 Folder 37
Purchase orders and invoices.
1943-1952
Box 2 Folder 38
Tax Forms for fuel and other farm equipment.
1938-1957
Box 2 Folder 39
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau Certificate of Authority.
Sept. 21, 1957
Box 2 Folder 40
Veterinary records.
1941-1954
Box 2 Folder 41
Water Department Bills, Town of Lewiston, New York.
1950-1960
Box 2 Folder 42
Weather Reports, Correspondence and newspaper clippings.
1949-1960
Box 3 Folder 1
Correspondence with Richard Templeton including court documents re: last will and testament of Hiram Dodge.
1934-1935
Box 3 Folder 2
Personal typescript diary of Percy Reese Morgan. (PRM)
1948-1950
Box 3 Folder 3
Personal cash accounts.
1958
Box 3 Folder 4
Personal typescript diary of PRM.
1958-1961
Box 3 Folder 5
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1923-1924
Box 3 Folder 6
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1930
Box 3 Folder 7
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1921
Box 3 Folder 8
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1947
Box 3 Folder 9
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1923
Box 3 Folder 10
Personal handwritten diary of PRM.
1933
Box 4 Folder 1
Bound typescript diary of Percy Reese Morgan. (PRM)
Jan. 1948-Jan. 1952
Box 5
Photographic negatives
Box 6 Folder 1
Typescript diary of PRM.
Jan. 1952-Dec. 1954
Box 6 Folder 2
Typescript diary of PRM.
Jan. 1955-Jan. 1958
Box 7 Folder 1-2
Miscellaneous correspondence
1937-1953
Box 7 Folder 3-4
Miscellaneous correspondence
1947-1948
Box 7 Folder 5
Miscellaneous documents
1955