Alonzo B. Cornell papers, 1830-1904.
Collection Number: 773
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alonzo B. Cornell papers, 1830-1904.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
773
Abstract:
Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks
relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in
governmental problems and other acitivities.
Creator:
Cornell, Alonzo B., 1832-1904.
Quanitities:
6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Governor of New York.
Correspondence, journal, accounts, clippings, notes, leaflets, blotters, and scrapbooks
relating largely to Cornell's political activities and reflecting his interest in
governmental problems, his attachment for Roscoe Conkling, and his hatred for Thomas
Collier Platt. There is genealogy, correspondence, various obituaries including Ezra
and Alonzo Cornell, items about Cornell University, and items pertaining to Cornell's
work with the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Co. including a journal with
comments on the telegraph line and an account book recording personal expenses and
stock purchased of the Erie & Michigan Telegraph Co. Also includes correspondence
relating to the New York State Committee and State Convention of the Republican Party
(1871) and letters (1880-1882) written during Cornell's administration as Governor,
concerned with appointments, the veto, various reform or political measures, political
treachery, elevated companies, railroad commissions, and other matters. Correspondents
include Francis C. Barlow, L.E. Chittenden, Roscoe Conkling, Austin Corbin, Howard
Crosby, George William Curtis, Theodore L. Cuyler, Noah Davis, William C. DeWitt,
Dorman B. Eaton, Francis M. Finch, Charles J. Folger, Jay Gould, Horace Greeley, Benjamin
Harrison, Frank Hiscock, H.B. Hyde, J(ohn) N. Knapp, Seth Low, J.N. Matthews, Levi
P. Morton, Albert D. North, George W. Parsons, Jackson L. Schultz, Elliott F. Shepard,
Charles E
Also, letters collected for an Ezra Cornell Memorial volume. Alonzo Cornell proposed
publishing these reminiscences with a Founder's Day speech delivered by Francis M.
Finch. Letters and manuscripts include recollections and memorials concerning Ezra
Cornell, solicited by his son, via form letters dated November 30 and December 9,
1887. There is no evidence that these were ever published as a memorial volume. The
only paper known to have been used is the reminiscence by Andrew Dickson White. It
was delivered as a Founder's Day Address in 1890 and published as a pamphlet the same
year. Also a manuscript of Alonzo Cornell's A HISTORY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1865-1900.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Letters for Ezra Cornell Memorial Volume, #773. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888.
Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892.
Acton, Thomas Coxton.
Barlow, Francis C. (Francis Channing), 1834-1896.
Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene), 1824-1900.
Corbin, Austin, 1827-1896.
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
Crosby, Howard, 1826-1891.
Cuyler, Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard), 1822-1909.
Davis, Noah, 1818-1902.
DeWitt, William C.
Eaton, Dorman B. (Dorman Bridgman), 1823-1899.
Finch, Francis M. (Francis Miles), 1827-1907.
Folger, Charles J. (Charles James), 1818-1884.
Gould, Jay, 1836-1892.
Hiscock, Frank, 1834-1914.
Hyde, H. B. (Henry Baldwin), 1834-1899.
Knapp, J. N. (John N.)
Low, Seth, 1850-1916.
Matthews, J. N.
Morton, Levi P. (Levi Parsons), 1824-1920.
North, Albert D.
Parsons, George W.
Schultz, Jackson L.
Shepard, Elliott F. (Elliott Finch), 1833-1893.
Smith, Charles Emory, 1842-1908.
Stewart, William Rhinelander, 1852-1929.
Stevens, Simon.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
New York (State). Governor
Republican Party (N.Y.)
Republican Party (N.Y.). State Committee
New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Company
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company
Cornell University
Places:
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
Subjects:
Railroads -- New York (State).
Telegraph -- New York (State).
Telegraph lines.
Republican Party Campaign 1871.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1830, 1833, 1846 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1847 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
|
1848 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
|
1849 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
|
1850-1851 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
1856-1878 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
1880-1881 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
|
1882-1884 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
1885-1889 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1890-1896, 1902 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous
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1861-1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
A.B. Cornell's Journal kept while he was with the Telegraph Office in New York City
|
1857 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Telegraph Office Personal Cash Receipt Book
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1856-1857 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, promissory notes, calculations re: Steamboat purchase
|
Jan.-June 1862 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Gold Mining Company Shares
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1865-1866 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Ulysses S. Grant for President, Republican Campaign Items
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1872 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Miscellaneous Items
|
1857-1890 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Autobiography of Alonzo B. Cornell - Manuscript copy
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1888 or 1889 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
"Some Beginnings of Westchester County History" by Alonzo B. Cornell (including some
genealogy of the Cornell family beginning with Thomas Cornell)
|
1890 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Engraving of Alonzo B. Cornell
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1890 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Printed pamphlet: "History of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph," a paper presented by
Alonzo B. Cornell at Union College
|
Jan. 19, 1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Political broadside: "Puck's Political Bedfellows and Their Nurse"
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1890 |
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Ezra Cornell Memorial Volume
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Form letter, clipping
|
1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Letters and manuscripts, Adams-Bostwick
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Letters and manuscripts, Brewer-Esty
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Letters and manuscripts, Ferris-Humphry
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Letters and manuscripts, Jordan-Prescott
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Letters and manuscripts, Ramsey-Shaw
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Letters and manuscripts, Torrey-Warner
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1887-1888 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Letters and typescript reminiscence by A.D. White
|
1887 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Letters and manuscripts, Wilder-Wright
|
1887-1888 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Manuscript history of Cornell University by Alonzo B. Cornell, Chapters 1 to 5
|
1868-1899 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Manuscript history of Cornell University by Alonzo B. Cornell, Chapters 6 to 12
|
1868-1899 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Supplement to the Troy Daily Times re: the founding of Cornell University
|
1898 |
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Scrapbooks
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| Box 5 |
Scrapbook No. 1. Newspaper clippings. Poetry, early Ithaca history, statement of Andrew
D. White asserting that Cornell was indeed a Christian oriented university; obituaries
of Ezra Cornell and Susan Linn Sage (Mrs. Henry W. Sage); extensive clippings on the
Willard Fiske-Jennie McGraw case and other items.
|
1866-1882 | |
| Box 6 |
Scrapbook No. 2. Newspaper clippings. Sports events and other Cornell University related
news, several pages of clippings re: the Fiske court and will battle: particularly
concerning the Fiske mansion which Jennie McGraw Fiske had builty in 1879-1881
|
1870-1906 | |
| Box 6 |
Scrapbook No. 3. Newspaper clippings. Clippings re: the Johnstown, Pa. flood of 1899,
The Biography of Ezra Cornell by Alonzo B. Cornell, including a folder of cash receipts from the book's sale, and
various political articles.
|
1895-1904 | |
| Box 7 |
Scrapbook No. 4. Newspaper clippings. Political items, obituary notices for Alonzo
B. Cornell, Henry W. Sage, James Fraser Gluck and others; Cornell University related
news and fields of study; history and government of the University, sports, and former
Cornell presidents.
|
1892-1915 | |
| Box 7 |
Scrapbook No. 5. Obituary notices for Alonzo B. Cornell (he died Oct. 15, 1904), and
a Cornell University Library book receipt notice, signed by George W. Harris.
|
1880-1882 | |
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New York State Legislative Blotters
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| Box 8 | Blotter 1 | Jan. 1-Mar. 16, 1880 | |
| Box 9 | Blotter 1 | Mar. 17-Apr. 1, 1880 | |
| Box 10 | Blotter 1 | Apr. 1-May 17, 1880 | |
| Box 11 | Blotter 2 | May 18-June 24, 1880 | |
| Box 12 | Blotter 2 | June 26-Dec. 31, 1880 | |
| Box 13 | Blotter 3 | Jan. 1-Mar. 14, 1881 | |
| Box 14 | Blotter 3 | Mar. 14-Mar. 25, 1881 | |
| Box 15 | Blotter 3 | Mar. 28-May 2, 1881 | |
| Box 16 | Blotter 3 | May 2-June 29, 1881 | |
| Box 17 | Blotter 4 | June 30-Dec. 31, 1881 | |
| Box 18 | Blotter 4 | Jan. 2-Mar. 9, 1882 | |
| Box 19 | Blotter 4 | Mar. 10-Apr. 19, 1882 | |
| Box 20 | Blotter 4 | Apr. 19-June 2, 1882 | |
| Box 21 | Blotter 5 | June 2-Dec. 29, 1882 | |