Includes minutes from annual reunions (1911-1951); general membership records and correspondence kept by the secretary; some materials related to veterans of 8th N.Y. Heavy Artillery Regiment; clippings related to the organization's activities; and official documents, including a muster roll (Co. B, 1865) and appointment of Edwin Nichols as Captain, 1864.

The Ashley/Van Alstyne/Fitch/Hull Family Papers contain the records of more than twenty-seven members of seven families connected by marriage over six generations whose lives were centered in Schodack Landing, a village along the Hudson River in Rensselaer County, New York. This collection contains correspondence, personal papers, financial papers, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Erie County Survey Commission for reorganization of county government (Kenefick Commission): hearing transcripts and allied material, 1933-1935; letters and broadsides by Gerrit Smith, 1866-1869; letters of Booker T. Washington from the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1908-1911; and letters and papers, 1932-1933, about the life of Jonas Harrison.

John McConihe (1834-1864) was born in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. After graduating from Union College in 1853, he went on to study law at the University of Albany, earning his law degree in 1855. He began a successful law practice in Troy the same year. In 1857, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he continued practicing law. When the Civil War broke out, he helped raise the 1st Nebraska Regiment and would be involved in several battles. He was killed in action during the battle of Cold Harbor in 1864, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Troy. This collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, and memoirs. Although the collection ranges from 1857-1870, the majority of materials date from the early 1860s, when McConihe served during the War.