Summary Information

Title: Willers family papers,
Creator:
Inclusive dates: 1820-1908.
2.8 cubic ft.; 2 v.; 1 folder.

Abstract::

Letters and other material relating to patronage and machine politics of the Democratic Party in Seneca County; other topics include draft exemptions, laws relating to the hiring of substitutes in the Civil War, pardons, Poor House investigations, canals and canal appointments, letters concerning Governor Tilden's policies, Horatio Seymour's stand on the subject of bounties, and actions taken by the Romulus Convention (1875). Also, papers relating to the German Reformed Church at Bearytown, Seneca County, New York.

Call number: 652
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library