Case MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Container
Contains 130 Collections and/or Records:
Albany County: Will of John Ostrander, 1810
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 20
Alsen Cement Company of America, Inc., 1908-1920
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 21
Scope and Contents
File contains correspondence between Alsen Cement Co. and the Law Firm of Osborn, Bloodgood, Wilbur, and Fray of Catskill as well as pages from a supreme court case apparently concerning labor strife at one of the Alsen quarries. Names of involved parties include those of James Phelan, Joseph Reilly, Bernard Cummings, Evan Myock and Petor Chotih [Peter Chotich?]. The case centers around a strike at Alsen and two labor organizers present at the quarry.
American Missionary Register; volume four, number ten., 1823
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents
A single issue of the American Missionary Register originally owned by Jacob Van Orden.
Anderson Collection, 1771-1859
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 23
Scope and Contents
File contains a remarkable assortment of original manuscript material related to the Fiero family. Many of the documents are land transactions, and many contain the name of John Fiero of Catskill.Other present names include James Powers, Abraham Salisbury, Sybrant G. Van Shaick, Jacob Haight, Isaac Northrup, Andrew Dexter, Mary Dexter, Charles Abeel, Peter Schutt, William Wynkoop, and numerous others. Of particular note is a hand written notice from 1780 by John Dumond...
Ashland Collegiate Institute, 1858-1862
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 24
Scope and Contents
File contains original documents and photocopies related to the Ashland Collegiate Institute, also known as the Ashland Seminary or Hedding Literary Institute. Also included in file are notes on the history of the institution.
Ashland: Miscellaneous Documents, 1905
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 25
Scope and Contents
File contains two Justice Court Summons - one for Sidney L. Deyo in the case of Matthews and Harrison v. Deyo, the other for Mary Hydecker in the case of Hagadorn v. Hydecker
Ashland: Clark Kuran, 1891
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 26
Scope and Contents
File contains letters from Clark Kuran on behalf of S. A. Barlow, Dealer in General Merchandise, to William Bennett of Catskill.
Henry Ashley [Congressman], 1826
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 27
Scope and Contents
File contains two letters written from Henry Ashley at Washington, D. C. to John L. Bronk of Coxsackie.
Ashland: Real Property, 1857-1965
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 28
Scope and Contents
File contains six original and handwritten transcriptions of deeds for property in Ashland. Four documents concern lands of the Ferris Family, one is a deed between Clinton Lewis and Cornelius Christian and the other is a deed between Harry A. Steele and Henry and Martha Keicher.
Ashland: Dr. William Benham Snow, 1926
File — Case: MSS Vertical File Drawer One
Identifier: Folder 29
Scope and Contents
File contains a commemorative program from a dinner honoring Dr. Snow, as well as ten pages of biographical information on his career and publications.