Fordyce family papers, 1839-1979.
Collection Number: 3646
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Fordyce family papers, 1839-1979.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3646
Abstract:
Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds,
and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe
County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which
included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.
Creator:
Fordyce family.
Quanitities:
30.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Fordyce Family Papers, #3646. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
This collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs
and deeds of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County,
New York, dating 1839-1979. It includes letters and papers of the Nathaniel Horton
Fordyce family of Monroe County, New York, 1839-1925, 1969. Many of them are letters
to Nathaniel and Henrietta's daughter, Cornelia, a schoolteacher, from sisters Helen,
Frances and Mary, her brother Horton and from Henrietta. Also, courtship letters of
Horton (Nathaniel Horton, Jr.) Fordyce to Julia Heusner of Rochester, New York, and
other letters from Heusner and Fordyce friends and relatives, 1846-1919. Includes
letters to Cornelia Fordyce from family and friends, 1851-1919, some written by cousins
fighting in the Civil War, 1861-1864; letters from Addie Gilson to Cornelia Fordyce,
1877-1907; photocopies of letters, papers and clippings concerning the Ohio branch
of the Fordyce family, 1890-1979; correspondence includes letters from Ernest Thompson
Seton, field notes, glass slides, articles, and clippings, largely concerning ornithology,
by and about George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist. Also,
daguerreotypes, portraits and photographs of family members and friends; photograph
albums, newspaper clippings; wallpaper samples from the Fordyce house; menus, invitations,
postcards and stock certificates; letters, scrapbooks and photographs from the travels
of Oscar F. and Rebecca Fordyce Gayton.
Names:
Coulson, Louise.
Fordyce, Cornelia.
Fordyce, Frances.
Fordyce, George Lincoln.
Fordyce, Helen.
Fordyce, Henrietta.
Fordyce, Horton (Nathaniel Horton)
Fordyce, Mary.
Fordyce, Nathaniel Horton.
Seton, Ernest Thompson.
Gayton, Oscar F.
Gayton, Rebecca Fordyce.
Gilson, Addie.
Heusner, Julia.
Places:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Scipio Center (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Ohio -- Social life and customs.
Monroe County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Naturalists.
Voyages and travels.
Ornithology.
Form and Genre Terms:
Stock certificates.
Scrapbooks.
Postcards.
Photographs.
Menus.
Daguerreotypes.
Albums.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I, 1839-1925, 1969.
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Scope and Contents
Consists of the letters and papers of the Nathaniel Horton Fordyce family of Monroe
County, New York, and of a few friends and relatives. Many of the letters are to Nathaniel
and Henrietta Fordyce's daughter, Cornelia, a schoolteacher, from sisters Helen, Frances,
and Mary, and brother Horton, and from Henrietta.
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1839-1851 | |
Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1853-1856 | |
Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1857-1859 | |
Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1860-1865 | |
Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1866-1869 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1870 | |
Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1871 | |
Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1872, 1873 | |
Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1874 | |
Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1875 | |
Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1876 | |
Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1878, 1879 | |
Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1880 | |
Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1881 | |
Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1882, 1884, 1885 | |
Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1886, 1887 | |
Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1888, 1889 | |
Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1890-1899 | |
Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1901-1922, 1969 | |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
n.d.
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Series II, 1846-1919.
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Scope and Contents
Mostly the courtship letters of Horton (Nathaniel Horton, Jr.) to Julia Heusner of
Rochester, whom he married in 1896. In them he discusses the progress of the rooms
he is adding to the farmhouse at Scipio for their own use. (Julia died in 1898 in
childbirth.) Other letters are from Heusner and Fordyce friends and relatives.
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Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1846, 1871, 1877-1887 | |
Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1888-1892 | |
Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1893-1895 | |
Box 3 | Folder 4 | Jan.-Apr. 1896 | |
Box 3 | Folder 5 | May 1896 | |
Box 3 | Folder 6 | June-July 1896 | |
Box 3 | Folder 7 | Aug.-Sept. 1896 | |
Box 3 | Folder 8 | Oct.-Dec. 1896 | |
Box 3 | Folder 9 | Jan.-June 1897 | |
Box 3 | Folder 10 | July-Dec. 1897 | |
Box 3 | Folder 11 | Jan.-Mar. 1898 | |
Box 3 | Folder 12 | Apr. 1898-1919 | |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
n.d.
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Series III, 1851-1913.
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Scope and Contents
These letters are from more than fifty friends and relatives to Cornelia Fordyce.
A few letters, 1861-1864, are written by cousins at the battlefront. The transcripts
of these letters are alphabetically arranged by sender.
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Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1851-1854 | |
Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1855-1859 | |
Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1860, 1861 | |
Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1862, 1863 | |
Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1864-1866 | |
Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1867-1869 | |
Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1870-1873 | |
Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1874-1879 | |
Box 4 | Folder 9 | 1880-1886 | |
Box 5 | Folder 1 | 1887-1888 | |
Box 5 | Folder 2 | 1889-1899 | |
Box 5 | Folder 3 | 1900-1904 | |
Box 5 | Folder 4 | 1905-1913 | |
Box 5 | Folder 5 | n.d. | |
Series IV, 1877-1907.
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Scope and Contents
Addie Gilson is the author of this extensive correspondnce--she wrote at least weekly
to Cornelia--filled with thoughts on religion, her infirmities, and news of various
family members and friends. Addie apparently was confined to a wheelchair much of
the time. Beside writing many letters, she used her time in bottling and distributing
"Dr. Hammond's Great Remedy."
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Box 5 | Folder 6 | 1877-1878 | |
Box 5 | Folder 7 | 1879 | |
Box 5 | Folder 8 | 1880 | |
Box 6 | Folder 1 | 1881 | |
Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1882-1886 | |
Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1887 | |
Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1888 | |
Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1889 | |
Box 6 | Folder 6 | 1890 | |
Box 6 | Folder 7 | 1891-1892 | |
Box 6 | Folder 8 | 1893-1894, 1898, 1900, 1907 | |
Box 7 |
Daguerreotypes, portraits, photographs of family members and friends.
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Box 8 |
Two paragraph albums, photos, portraits, newspaper clippings of family members and
friends.
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Box 9 |
Letter transcriptions. Five looseleaf notebooks: Part I, Part II, Part III, Parts
IV and V, Appendix.
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Box 10 |
Envelopes, temporarily housed with the collection. (See Accession Sheet)
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Series V, ca. 1890 and later.
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Scope and Contents
Transcriptions only and concerns the "Ohio Fordyces." It includes photocopies of papers
and letters and newsclippings, and narratives by the donor about family members; also
articles by and about George L. Fordyce, businessman and noted Cleveland naturalist.
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Box 11 |
Mr. & Mrs. O.F. Gayton's travel literature and itineraries, c. 1950's.
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Box 12 |
George L. Fordyce's ornithological files: corres. and observations, corres. With Ernest
T. Seton and photographs.
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Box 13 |
O.F.G. travel material, stock certificates, clippings re Fordyce Dept. Store, c. 1930's,
other clippings include L.G. Coulson, wallpaper samples from Fordyce house, file of
David Scollan's on N.Y.S. sugar beet growing.
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Box 14 |
G.L.F.'s ornithological papers include field diary, 1903-1905; corres. Of O.F. and
D.C. Gayton and typescripts (3 paper boxes), c. 1904-1929, include Alvord, Cooper
and Fischer relatives, and travel postcards.
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Box 15 |
Mr. & Mrs. O.F.G's letters and typescripts (Part IV), c. 1895-1959; printed items,
slate blackboard, items of Louise Coulson.
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Box 16 |
G.L.F.'s photographs, glass slides and colored printed pictures of birds.
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Box 17 |
Case of glass slides of birds.
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Box 18 |
G.L.F.'s ornithological corres. And observations, corres. With E.T. Seton, and scrapbook
of sports clippings.
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Box 19 |
Glass slides [foldered, box only partly full]
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Box 20 |
O.F.G. corres. And typescripts, photograph albums. [Box mostly foldered].
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Box 55 |
Black case containing a Bell and Howell Standard Cinemachinery (has plug for use in
an electric outlet).
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Series VI. Additional papers. Louise G. Coulson material.
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Note: Boxes 21-26, 28, and 49 transferred to the Cayuga County Historical Society,
July 2018.
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Box 27 |
Louise Coulson, Cayuga county local history, correspondence
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Box 29 |
Files-House Benjamin Built
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Box 30 |
Family files, genealogy files
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Box 31 |
Genealogy
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Box 32 |
Genealogy, correspondence
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Box 33 |
Louise Coulson correspondence, etc.
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Box 34 |
House Benjamin Built, and other typescripts
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Box 35 |
Fordyce family - all typescripts
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1861-1862 diaries of John H. Fordyce, 1864 diary of Louisa Fordyce. Notebooks: Parts
I, II, V and VI - winter of mss. On Fordyce family, 1839-1888-1938; 2 notebooks #
pp. 1-258, 259-333 [cf. Box 37 for more pp. of mss.]; typescripts of Cayuga Co. church
records ie. Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Owasco Outlet (Sand Beach Clr., Fleming).
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Box 36 |
Gayton Family - letters, 1920's and later; clippings, anniversary cards.
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Box 37 |
Fordyce family
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L. Coulson's typescripts of Benj. A. Fordyce letters in 1 notebook, annotated typescript
of mss. On Fordyce family, pp. 1-1339, in 5 cardboard paper boxes; 1 folder "Notes"
1 folder "Book"
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Box 38 |
Fordyce, Coulson family and personal
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Box 39 |
Fordyce, et al photos
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Box 40 |
Fordyce, et al photos
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Box 41 |
Fordyce, family papers and miscellaneous
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Box 42 |
Photos
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Box 43 |
Fordyce/Gayton
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letters, clippings, deeds, photos, marriage certificate of George L. & Grace Fordyce,
estate of N. Horton Fordyce items, silver teaspoon, small leather change purse.
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Box 44 |
Fordyce, genealogy, miscellaneous
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Box 45 |
Unlabled
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Box 46 |
Fordyce, family, miscellaneous
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Box 47 |
(3"leg.)
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