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Book Auburn  New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott W. Anderson
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 0815653301
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Auburn New York written by Scott W. Anderson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to some of the key figures in our nation’s history. Both William Seward and Harriet Tubman lived in Auburn, as did Martha Coffin Wright, a pioneering figure in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Auburn’s significance to American life, however, goes beyond its role in political and social movements. The seeds of American development were sown and bore fruit in small urban centers like Auburn. The town’s early and rapid success secured its place as a cornerstone of the North American industrial core. Anderson chronicles the story of Auburn and its inhabitants, individuals with the skills and ingenuity to nurture and sustain an economy of unprecedented growth. He describes the early settlers who capitalized on the rich geographic advantages of the area: abundant water power and access to transportation routes. The entrepreneurs and capital that Auburn attracted built it into a thriving community, one that became a center of invention, manufacturing, and finance in the mid-nineteenth century. Just as the high profits and rapid accumulation of wealth allowed the community to prosper and grow, these factors also initiated its decline. Anderson traces Auburn’s momentous rise and gradual decline, illustrating American capitalism in its rawest form as it played out in small towns across the nation.

Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Tompkins County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Genesee Country  Western New York

Download or read book History of the Genesee Country Western New York written by Lockwood Richard Doty and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Orange County  New York

Download or read book The History of Orange County New York written by Russel Headley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornell Widow

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Cornell Widow written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Concerning Cornell

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  • Author : Oscar Diedrich Engeln
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Concerning Cornell written by Oscar Diedrich Engeln and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the County of Brant

Download or read book History of the County of Brant written by F. Douglas Reville and published by [Brantford, Ont.? : s.n.], 1920 (Brantford, Ont. : Hurley Printing Company). This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David Cusick s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations

Download or read book David Cusick s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations written by David Cusick and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Listen for a Lonesome Drum

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  • Author : Carl Carmer
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1995-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780815602613
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Listen for a Lonesome Drum written by Carl Carmer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic book, Carl Carmer describes the social life and customs of his native New York. Wandering from Buffalo to the Adirondacks across upstate New York, he heard folk tales, tall tales, stories of religious fervor and scandal. A born storyteller himself, Carmer writes about the beautiful Genesee, the Seneca and Tuscarora, the Cardiff Giant and the Loomis Gang, and the story of the Murdered Bride of Rensselaer County.

Book Early Settlers of New York State

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  • Author : Janet Wethy Foley
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-22
  • ISBN : 9781022891289
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Early Settlers of New York State written by Janet Wethy Foley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This genealogical resource provides a detailed account of the early settlers of New York State, including their ancestors and descendants. Based on extensive research, this book serves as a valuable reference for anyone interested in tracing their family history in the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book History of Otsego County  New York

Download or read book History of Otsego County New York written by Duane Hamilton Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800

Download or read book Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800 written by John Maude and published by London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; Wakefield [England] : R. Nichols. This book was released on 1826 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit to the falls is a diary of his journey from New York city to Albany, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, and Quebec.

Book A History of Cornell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morris Bishop
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 0801455375
  • Pages : 692 pages

Download or read book A History of Cornell written by Morris Bishop and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture—and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public. Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader." The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White." Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely—and alone—from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.