Summary Information

Title: Williams family papers,
Creator:
Inclusive dates: 1809-1952.
102.6 cubic ft.
Correspondence, Legal Documents, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials
Abstract::

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Call number: 1148
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library