Cornell-Bouck family papers, [ca. 1770-1900]
Collection Number: 8502

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell-Bouck family papers, [ca. 1770-1900]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8502
Abstract:
Papers from the family of Alonzo Cornell and his son, Charles Ezra and daughter-in-law, Katherine Bouck.
Creator:
Cornell family.
Bouck family.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers from the family of Alonzo Cornell and his son, Charles Ezra and daughter-in-law, Katherine Bouck.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell-Bouck Family Papers, #8502. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also William C. Bouck papers, #2206, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM02206. Also see William Bouck Cornell scrapbook, #37-5-4441.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell family.
Bouck family.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Series I. Alonzo Cornell Materials
Subseries Ia. Incoming Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
Letters from Ezra Cornell
1845-1847
Box 1 Folder 2
Letters from Ezra Cornell
1848-1849
Box 1 Folder 3
Letters from Ezra Cornell
1853-1862
Box 1 Folder 4
Letters from Ezra Cornell
1862-1872
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence
1848-1849
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from H. Bronson and Margaret
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence
1850-1860
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Otis E. Wood, A. Oakey Hall, DH Craig, and Colonel John C. Fremont
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence
1864-1866
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from G. Schuyler, D. Boardman, Thomas Faile Jr., HB Lord, O. Wood, WC Curran, and Alfred Wells
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence
1867-1869
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from John Meredith Read, Friedrich Schuk, Judge Folger, J. Selkreg, G. Schuyler, D. Boardman, Thomas Strong, GC Caldwell, Wesley Hooker, and Edward Underhill
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence
1871
Scope and Contents
Letter from Horace Greeley
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence
1882-1885
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from William Bogardt and James Blaine,
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence
1888-1889
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from WW Astor, JB Foraker, Stewart Woodford, Albert Shaw, William Bogardt, and B. Lucy
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence
1893-1897
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Crane, Elijah Coffue, and Mayor of NY
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence
1899-1912
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from the President's secretary, Mayor of NY, Charles Hughes, and Jacob Gould Schurman,
Box 1 Folder 14
Republican Party letters and letterheads
1859-1878
Box 1 Folder 15
Letters and notes from Civil War soldiers
1861-1868
Box 1 Folder 16
Letters regarding New York State politics
1856-1862
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from D. Boardman, O. Sawyer, Horace Greeley, Jas. Terwilliger, T. Platt, Charles Cook, and William S. Lincoln
Box 1 Folder 17
Political correspondence
1860-1866
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Jas. Terwilliger
Box 1 Folder 18
Political correspondence
1867-1872
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Oliver Hurd, DS Bennett, OW Chapman, JS Thurston, George Otis, JH Selkreg, GW Schuyler, R. Sidney, Charles K. Graham, and several others
Box 2 Folder 1
Letter from Grover Cleveland
December, 1887
Box 2 Folder 2
Letters from Roscoe Conkling
1866-1889
Box 2 Folder 3
Letters from President-Elect Harrison
1889
Scope and Contents
Discusses possible appointment of Alonzo Cornell to his cabinet
Box 2 Folder 4
Letters from GW Hotchkiss
1865-1868
Box 2 Folder 5
Letters from Thomas C. Platt
1864-1865
Box 2 Folder 6
Letter from CA Scroggs
1861
Scope and Contents
Describes living with Abraham Lincoln and his impressions
Box 2 Folder 7
Letters from Andrew Dickson White
1871, 1893
Box 2 Folder 8-11
Letters regarding early days of the telegraph
1848-1882
Scope and Contents
Includes some outgoing correspondence
Box 7 Folder 1
Letter from Elijah Cornell to Alonzo, with Elijah's will
1857, 1830
Subseries Ib. Outgoing Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 12
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1844-1846
Box 7 Folder 2-4
Outgoing letters, mainly to family members
1845-1847
Box 2 Folder 13
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1847
Box 2 Folder 14-17
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1848
Box 2 Folder 18-19
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1849
Box 3 Folder 1
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1850
Box 3 Folder 2
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1852-1853
Box 3 Folder 3-5
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1854-1856
Box 3 Folder 6-8
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1857-1859
Box 3 Folder 9-11
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1861-1863
Box 3 Folder 12-13
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1864-1865
Scope and Contents
Includes letter about building the library
Box 3 Folder 14
Letters to Mary Ann and Ezra Cornell
1866-1869
Box 7 Folder 5
Outgoing letters
1865
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Gov. Fenton, Charles Cornell, and the bank
Box 7 Folder 6
Letter to Governor Roosevelt
1900
Subseries Ic. Miscellaneous Documents
Box 9 Folder 1
"Life of Ezra Cornell", by Alonzo Cornell, original manuscript
Box 7 Folder 7
"Recognition by the United States of Foreign Powers", by Alonzo Cornell
Box 3 Folder 20
Handwritten biography of Alonzo Cornell
Box 9 Folder 2
Alonzo's telegraph abbreviation notebook with clippings
1846
Box 3 Folder 15
Compositions
1846
Box 7 Folder 8
Fall Creek deed, sketches, and maps
1853
Box 3 Folder 16
Alonzo Cornell references
1859
Box 7 Folder 9
Alonzo Cornell and Lucius Colby contract
1860
Box 3 Folder 19
Railroad tickets
1863
Box 3 Folder 17
Petition from Binghamton to State Senate, regarding stockholders and offices
1866
Box 9 Folder 3
Bank checks
1871-1874
Box 3 Folder 18
Promissory notes, Alonzo and Ezra Cornell
1874-1884
Box 9 Folder 7
Ledgers
1881-1889
Box 7 Folder 10
Alonzo Cornell and Virgil Blauchard contract, and contract with TD Wilcox
1894
Box 3 Folder 21
Letters from AD White to Mrs Alonzo Cornell
1903-1905
Box 3 Folder 22
Letters from Jacob Gould Schurman to Mrs. Alonzo Cornell
1904-1907
Box 9 Folder 4
Silver name plaque from casket
1923
Box 10
Clippings and articles collected in scrapbook by Alonzo Cornell
Box 7 Folder 23
Ledger book
Series II. Ezra Cornell Materials
Subseries IIa. Incoming Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 1
Correspondence
1862-1873
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Jay Gould, Mary Ann Cornell, Goldwin Smith, Stewart Woodford, James Law, and William Russell
Box 4 Folder 2
Letters regarding railroads
1870s
Box 4 Folder 3
Letters from GF Lewis, land warrant broker
1866-1872
Box 4 Folder 4
Letters from John Mcgraw
1870-1874
Box 4 Folder 5
Letters from Hiram Sibley
1870-1872
Box 7 Folder 11
Letters from Henry Sage to Ezra Cornell
1871-1873
Box 4 Folder 6
Letters from AD White, regarding the purchase of the cast collection
1872
Subseries IIb. Outgoing Correspondence
Box 11
Typescripts, with edits and notes, and photostats of letters from Ezra Cornell to his wife Mary Ann Cornell
Box 11
Old folders with descriptions of letters from Ezra to Alonzo and Mary Ann
Box 4 Folder 7
Correspondence
1866, 1874
Box 4 Folder 8
Letters to Mary Ann
1843-1845
Box 4 Folder 9
Letters to Mary Ann
1852-1855
Box 4 Folder 10-11
Letters to Mary Ann
1856-1871
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from March, 1861 describing Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, in folder 11
Box 4 Folder 12
Letters to Mary Ann
1871-1872
Box 7 Folder 13
Letters to Horace Greeley regarding St. Croix land grant
Subseries IIc. Miscellaneous Materials
Box 7 Folder 14
Letter to Governor from OEW, transcribed by EEC
Box 7 Folder 17
Typed story of Cornell and the Telegraph
Box 7 Folder 16
Page from the Cipher book
1822
Box 9 Folder 16
Souvenir coin given to Ezra by the mayor of New York City on the opening of the Erie Canal. In a wooden box made from wood shipped on the first boat to go through the canals
1826
Box 7 Folder 12
Signed petition from Binghamton to Ezra
1867
Box 7 Folder 15
Cornell versus Woodward documents
1870s
Box 4 Folder 13
Appeal book for the settlement of Ezra Cornell's estate
1892
Box 4 Folder 14
Hand-written biography of Ezra Cornell, written on the back of 1892 Ithaca Building Co. printouts
1892
Series III. Cornell Family Documents and Materials
Subseries IIIa. Charles Ezra Cornell
Box 4 Folder 15
Records at Columbia University, graduates
1877-1878
Box 4 Folder 16
Letter from Charles to Frank Cornell
1882
Box 4 Folder 17
Letters and documents to Charles regarding New York State agriculture
1895, 1839
Box 4 Folder 18
Incoming correspondence and papers
1876. 1895-1909
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Alonzo Cornell and Orrin Wood
Box 4 Folder 19
Incoming correspondence
1910-1939
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Cuthbert Pound, Charles Hughes, and Herbert Lehman
Box 4 Folder 20
Letters from George and Inez Fields
1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 21
Theodore Roosevelt autograph, to Charles
Box 4 Folder 21
Map of Africa from Charles's room
Mapcase Folder 1
State of New York Attorney and Counsellor certificate
1880
Mapcase Folder 1
Union University Albany Law School bachelor diploma
1880
Mapcase Folder 1
Columbia bachelor diploma
Mapcase Folder 1
Notary Public certificate
1882-1884
Subseries IIIb. Miscellaneous materials
Box 5 Folder 1
Signatures
Box 5 Folder 2
Copies of engraving of Alonzo Cornell
Box 5 Folder 3
Cornell stationary
Box 5 Folder 4
10 cent fractional currency
Box 5 Folder 5
Marriage service, William B. Cornell and Emily
Box 5 Folder 6
Wedding invitations
Box 5 Folder 7
Inventory books
Box 9 Folder 5
Two daily diaries, one from Charles Cornell, one unknown
Box 9 Folder 8
Ledgers
Box 9 Folder 14
Bible
Box 9 Folder 15
Rocks from Pompeii, sand from where St. Peter was martyred, bullet from Saratoga battlefield, and buttons from a US Uniform
Box 9 Folder 17
Bank pouch and receipts
Box 9 Folder 18-20
Cornell related clippings and articles
Box 7 Folder 18
Timothy Murphy documents
1780s-1800s
Box 5 Folder 8
Elijah Cornell indenture
1791
Box 5 Folder 9
Letter from Elijah Cornell to his wife
1810
Box 7 Folder 19
Miscellaneous correspondence
1818-1940
Box 9 Folder 13
Lottery tickets
1826, 1828
Box 5 Folder 10
DR Wood letter to Mary Ann Cornell
1845
Box 5 Folder 11
Letter to Edwin Cornell
1846
Box 5 Folder 12
Letter to "father", unknown sender
1848
Box 5 Folder 13
Cornell Bills, Notes, etc.
1850-1858
Box 9 Folder 9-11
Cornell related reports and pamphlets
1858-1954
Box 9 Folder 6
Cayuga Lake operatim of boats, passenger fares etc.
1861-1863
Box 7 Folder 20
Real Estate inventory
Box 7 Folder 21
Funeral program for U.S. Grant
Box 7 Folder 22
Deeds and mortgages, James Covert, Katherine and Charles Cornell
1877-1907
Box 9 Folder 12
Governor's message
1881-1882
Box 5 Folder 14
Letter to Franklin Cornell from Thomas Rooker
1881
Box 5 Folder 15
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
1882
Box 5 Folder 16
"History of the Class of Seventy Nine of Columbia College", written by the historian
1882-1883
Box 5 Folder 23
Photograph of clocks possibly made by Ithaca Calendar Clock Co, and article about Alonzo Cornell clock story
1889
Box 5 Folder 17
Calling cards of prominent persons
late 1800s
Box 5 Folder 18
Note regarding the commission of the Ezra Cornell portrait
1893
Box 5 Folder 19
Highway route certification, Town of Fulton
1901
Box 5 Folder 20
Letter to Mary E Cornell
1917
Box 5 Folder 21
William Bouck Cornell letter
1932
Box 6 Folder 1
Letter from the White House to William B, Cornell
1933
Box 6 Folder 2
William B. Cornell biography information
1938
Box 6 Folder 3
William B. Cornell stock information from Yervan Maxudian
1915-1921
Box 5 Folder 22
Inventory of books, including correspondence with book dealers
post-1940
Box 6 Folder 4
Letters to Cornell University regarding gift of William B. Cornell
1960s
Box 6 Folder 5
Katherine B. Cornell shares, application for "Daughters of the Revolution"
1918
Box 6 Folder 6
Cornell genealogy
Box 6 Folder 7
Benjamin Wood genealogy, and miscellaneous genealogies
Box 5 Folder 23
Photograph of the house on the corner of Seneca and Tioga street, Ithaca, where Ezra Cornell died.
Box 5 Folder 23
Velvet pin cushion given by William B. Cornell to his mother
1885
Box 5 Folder 24
Invitations to Boucks and Cornells
Mapcase Folder 2
William B. Cornell American Society of Mechanical Engineers member certificate
1922
Mapcase Folder 2
William B. Cornell The University of the State of New York license to practice engineering
1924
Mapcase Folder 2
William B. Cornell renewal certificate
1925
Mapcase Folder 2
William B. Cornell Institute of Management certificate
1928
Series IV. Bouck Family Materials
Subseries IVa. William C. Bouck
Box 6 Folder 8
Legal receipts
Box 8 Folder 14
Schoharie patents, leases
1786-1833
Box 6 Folder 9
Certification of election to NY State Senate
1802
Box 8 Folder 12-13
Miscellaneous legal documents
1805-1855
Box 8 Folder 8
Certificates of appointments as sheriff, assemblyman, and military positions
1812-1840
Box 8 Folder 1-4
Letters to WC Bouck
1812-1819
Box 8 Folder 15
Notes and receipts
1812-1866
Box 8 Folder 16
Agreement between Peter Hoes and WC Bouck
1813
Box 8 Folder 9-11
Deeds
1814-1850
Box 6 Folder 10
Letters regarding bank practices, from D. Beckman
1820
Box 8 Folder 5-7
Letters to WC Bouck
1838-1857
Box 6 Folder 11
Letter from John Titus
1845
Box 6 Folder 12
Insurance information
1846
Box 6 Folder 13
Letters regarding the California gold rush
1849-1850
Box 6 Folder 14
Treasury documents and correspondence
Box 6 Folder 15
Bouck article in Schoharie Newspaper
1932
Box 6 Folder 16
Part of the card case of William Bouck's wife
Box 6 Folder 16
Perpetual calendar, William Bouck
Box 6 Folder 16
Bouck photo
Box 9 Folder 22
Epaulettes from WC Bouck's jacket
Subseries IVb. Miscellaneous Materials
Box 9 Folder 21
Map of Schoharie Valley showing route traversed by Colonel Sir John Johnson in 1780 raid
Box 6 Folder 17
Camp Wahalla Booklet
Box 8 Folder 20
Bouck clippings
Box 6 Folder 18
Signature of William Pauck, scripture leaves
1740
Box 8 Folder 17
Infantry appointments for Christyan Bauck, Joseph Bouck
1793, 1829
Box 8 Folder 18
Agreement on sale of a slave
1797
Box 6 Folder 19
Certification of V. Danforth as Physician and Surgeon
1836
Box 6 Folder 20
Letter from Charles Bouck to father
1843
Box 8 Folder 19
Transcript of the Account of William Bouck
1849
Box 6 Folder 21
Charles Bouck, made member of the town war committee
1865
Box 6 Folder 22
Statement on condition of banks
1843
Box 6 Folder 23
Letter from Francis Bouck to Mrs. Charles Bouck
1905
Box 6 Folder 24
Bouck family history
1928
Mapcase Folder 2
Genealogy charts