SUBJECTS
Names:
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874
Cornell, Alonzo B.
Cornell, Daniel B.
Cornell, Elijah
Cornell, Mary Ann
Beebe, Jeremiah
Finch, Francis Miles, 1827-1897
Kendall, Amos
Morse, Samuel F. B., 1791-1872
Sibley, Hiram
Speed, J. J.
Tillotson, D. T.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918
Wood, Phebe
Cornell University--History
Cornell University--Presidents
Cornell University--Buildings
Cornell University--Curricula
Cornell University--Students
Cornell Public Library (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Barnaby and Mooers
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
New York State. Senate
Albany Agricultural Works
Geneva & Ithaca Railroad
Erie Railroad
Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad
New York State Agricultural Society
Cascadilla Health Resort (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Western Union
Subjects:
Telegraph--History
Telegraph--Apparatus and supplies
Telegraph--Equipment and supplies
Telegraph, Wireless
Telegraph--Law and legislation
Telegraph--Employees
Railroads--New York (State)
Plows--New York (State)
Plows--Maine
Coal trade
Cattle--Breeding--New York (State)
Family--New York (State)--Ithaca
Agriculture--New York (State)
Places:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Ithaca (N.Y.)--History
New York (State)--Politics and government
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Maine--Description and travel
Georgia--Description and travel
PROMINENT PERSONS
Cornell Family
Elijah Cornell: father
Eunice Cornell: mother
Mary Ann Wood Cornell: wife, married 1831
Elijah B. Cornell: brother (b. 1808), m. Betsy Ann
Benjamin Cornell: brother, (b. 1811, d. 1842)
Lucretia Cornell: sister (b. 1813), m.Thomas Chace
Phebe Cornell: sister (b. 1816), m. Martin B. Wood.
Mary Cornell: sister (b. 1818), m. Hiram Robertson
Deborah Cornell: sister, m. James Wood
Edward S. Cornell: brother, m. Angeline
John H. Cornell: brother, m. Molly Cornell
Jane Cornell: sister, m. James Finch
Daniel B. Cornell: brother, (b. 1830), m. Maria, Delilah Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell: son (b. 1832) m. Ellen
Franklin Cuthbert Cornell: son (b. 1837, m. Sue
Oliver Hazard Perry Cornell: son
Mary Emily Cornell: daughter
Emma P. Cornell: daughter
Miller Chase: uncle (half-brother of Elijah Cornell)
John W. Cornell, Ezra E. Cornell, and Paul J. Cornell were sons of Paul Cornell, who was son of Ezra Cornell, Elijah Cornell's brother in North Carolina. Keturah Cornell was mother of John, Ezra, and Paul.
Wood Family
Benjamin Wood: father-in-law
Martin B. Wood: Mary Ann's uncle
Elmira Wood Bristol: Mary Ann's sister, m. John Bristol
Harriet Wood: Mary Ann's sister, m. John Dunham
Orrin S. Wood: Mary Ann's brother
Otis Eddy Wood: Mary Ann's brother
William Irving Wood: nephew, dies in the Civil War
Ithaca Business
Jeremiah S. Beebe
Telegraph Business
F.O.J. Smith
Samuel F.B. Morse
Alfred Vail
Amos Kendall
Theodore Faxton
J.J. Speed
D.T. Tillotson
E.W. Chester
Emory Cobb
George Curtiss
J. Haviland
P. A. Hopkins
S.W. Hotchkiss
Henry O'Reilly
W.P. Pew
Hiram Sibley
J.H. Wade
Other Business Ventures
Horace L. Emery
Thomas N. Rooker
John H. Millspaugh
Cornell University
Andrew Dickson White
Henry Wells
Willard Fiske
John Stanton Gould
Douglas Boardman
Goldwin Smith
Burt Green Wilder
James Law